Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-18
TOUGH ON JOHNNY.
The Story Narrated BIZ Pretty
Minnie Palmer.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN REAL LIFE.

A Tale of Woe Unfoided Cory Enough to
Make Ones Ambro,ial Locks Erect
Themselves Like Quilts Upon the Fretfui
Porcupine-Desper rate struggle Against
Frenzied Husbsnd's Thirst for Blood
Three Wounds That Tell OF Fright
full Peril.
NEW YORK, Nov. lS--Minnie Palmer's
pretty face WAS in bandages yesterday. A
slight cut disfigured one side OF her nose.
an ugly scratch marked her neither lip
and the skin was torn from the palm OF
her left hand. These marks of violence
and O'Clock last Saturday night by her
husband, John r. Rogers, in what Miss
Palmer alleges was murderous attempt
to take her life. Miss Palmer said yes
terday that for a long time Mr.. Rogers
had made her life miserable by his irrita-
bility and by his unreasonable, il not in
sane, demands that she should have moth
ing to do with her mother
johnny" Had His Knife.
For cause she could never understand
he hated her mother, and his greatest sat
isfaction seemed to be in separating her
not only from her mother but from all
the friends she had On Saturday even
ing she went TO the horse show with her
mother and stepfather. On her return
@Johnnie' stood before tho mirror with a
large carving knife in his hand. He pro-
ceeded without ceremony To grasp her by
the chin, forced her head back, and raised
his weapon to strike She got away from
him after a struggle, aud escaped to the
room of her maid
A Tale of woefuI Woe.
THE cuts on my nose and lips" she
said. "were made by the point of the
knife during the struggle. The scratch
in my hand was made by the hand le of
knife in my attempt to wrest it from my
husband. have not the slightest doubt
that Mr.. Rogers intended to murder me,
aud believe that he would have sue
ceeded if it had not been for the accident
of my catching glimpse OF the weapon
rs it was reflected in the swinging mirror.
Even this could hardly have saved me had
IL not been for the additional circum-
stance that my husband was sitting in q
twisted and awkward position on the
bed.
An Ideal Mother-in-Lsw.
only on the ground that he is insane 1
have always been good and faithful wife
to him and the world knows that my name
has never been connected with a scandal
of any kind Mr. Rogers intense and
deadly hatred of my mother is as ground
less and unjustified as his attempt to
take my life. She has never interfered in
any way with our domestic life or profes-
sional business and her only offense was
the natural desire to see her child occa-
sionally. have separated from Mr.. Rog-
ers permanently.
VIII Never, Never Go Back.
~ shall never go back to him. aud shall
never see him again il | can avoid it.
feel that to return to him is take my life
in my hands can understand how q
man in a mad and ungovernable rage
might take human life, but cannot un :
derstand how a husband could come to
his wife's bedside and protest his great
love for her with murder in his heart, or
how he could csress her with one hand
while he held the instrument of her de-
struction in the other"
How Rogers Treated Ricci.
Miss Palmer then told how Mr.. Rogers
had driven all her friends from her py
writing abusive and insulting letters TO
them. The latest instance of Rogers
abusive letter writing is furnished in his
treatment of Miss Bertha R:cci, the ac-
tress who Supported Miss Palmer in -Su-
zetter at Herrman's theatre Al
though Miss Ricci was not under Rog-
eTs' management when she refused TO
go on the stage unless the moneys due her
by Locke and Davis were paid. Rogers
went to her dressing room and abused her
so outrageously that Miss Palmer was
forced TO interfere and protect her Since
J that time Rogers has so prosecuted Miss
Ricci with abusive letters that she was
compelled TO employ lawyers services
to have the persecution stopped