St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-25
An Elopement With a Sixteen.
Year-OId Girl Ends Dis
astrously.
Youthful Piekpoekets Who
Played Tag and Robbed
Lady Pedestrians.
The Usual Result in Which a
Revolver Was Being
Examined.

"He seems to be a very attractive
man to women" was the comment OF
E. II. Park, an employe of the North
ern Pacific Railway company, last even
ing, as he discussed the bigamouS pro-
pensities of William FL. Rogers. Il
have in my pocket" continued the
speaker, 1.-TWO marriage certificates in
which Rogers figured as groom at both
ceremonies. His first recorded mar
rage that L could find was
at Saltwater, MIMI, July 10,
1883, when he welded Mrs.
Mary e. Haney, and the 27th of last
b. Str eff, to Hudson, Wis, and married
her. am also informed that Rogers
married woman in Missouri several
years ago, and that he has child five
or six years of age as re-
suit of that union. There is no
question as to his being bigamist,
for his wife, whom he married, at
Saltwater. is in st. Paul, and up to a
week ago she was employed at reStau-
rant in the GLOBE building. When he
first came to our house to visit my step
daughter, who is but sixteen years Of
age, told her that his
REPUTATION WAS sHAKY
but she persisted in meeting him clam
destinely despite the efforts of her
mother and myself. [ had heard that
Rogers was married, but did not have
proofs sufficient to justify mo in resort
ing to legal measures, and he continued
his courtship of Jessie. She could not
be made to believe that he was other
than what he represented himself to
H. ,h0 lDx-n Gnr
and wanted to marry her. During
the month of December [ was called
to Mandan, OAK, to attend to my rail-
road duties, and Rogers pressed his suit
vigorously, going so far as to ask my
wife's consent to his marriage with
Jessie. Mrs. Parks answer was that if
he was an unmarried man there was no
! use in refusing his request, and espec-
tally since her daughter had made up
her mind to marry him. The situation
| of affairs was communicated to me and
l Immediately ,telegraphed a brother of
the girl to prevent cOnSummatlOn of
| the ceremony until I could investigate
| Rogers anticedents. But my warning
came to late, and December "
| 1885, Rogers hurried my stepdaughter
over to Hudson, Wis, procured Ii
| cense, and the twain were united by
Rev. MIR. Leslie. AS soon as possible [
proceeded to Saltwater and found the
record of Rogers marriage to Mrs. Har-
ney last summer, and fortified with a
transcript of the document, | went to
st. Croix county, Wisconsin, and stated
my case to him. A question of jurisdie-
| ton arose between the Ramsey county,
Minnesota, authorities and those of st.
CroiX county, Wisconsin, and it looked
for -tiynn tbOuuh tba bird would
SLIP THRoUG@ MY HANDS.
| But have obtained warrant for his
| arrest on the charge OF bigamy and pro-
| pose to prosecute the case to the bitter
| end. Since her marriage to Rogers my
stepdaughter has been living with him
at 444 Exchange street, in this city, and
| taking her meals at my house, corner
Sixth and Exchange streets. We have
not enlightened her as to the proceed
| ing already instituted for fear that she
might warn Rogers and give him an OPP
portunity to leave this part of the
country unmolested. +
The hero of the dual marriage cere-
mony is prepOsSessing looking young
| fellow about twenty-five years old and
was born at Columbus, o. He has al
WAYS boasted of his conquests among
| the fair sex, and when he first met
| Jessie SGfl6u, WHO WdS WdlGIeSS dt tfle
Clifton hotel, she readily succumbed to
his Establishments and parental Inter
| ference only served to strengthen her
affection for the object of her alteration.
When he was prohibited from meeting
| her at home the girl would steal away
| for counting spell until climax was
| reached and the ceremony at Hudson
! was the result. Since his second mar
riage Rogers has been employed in the
| New England Kitchen at 107 East Sew
! enth street. and has esehewed his voca-
ton of painter or blacksmith. for he is
| represented as sort of Jaek-of-all-
| trades, but master of the art of matri-
! mony. and seemed to be regardless OF
| the consequences of his effort to prove
| that marriage is not failure,