Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-05
GHOST OF A MISSING GIRL.
Pretty Mary Rogers, Murdered Foul
~, HauntS John Anderson TO
His Death.
People Who Have Been Lost to Earth
Nor Seen Again.

Mysterious disappearance always excite
the deepest interest, and the Ierre Haute
mystery reviyes and justifes a recall of the
most noteworthy ones of history, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer One OF the most re-
markable cases that ever happened was that
Of Mary Rogers, the pretty cigar girl of
New York When a few years since in New
York there was a contest over the will Of
millionaire tobacco manufacturer John An
derson, then interest in the uusolyed mys-
terry was revived 1t has never been solved
Upon the story Edgar Alien Poe wrote his
celebrated, The Mystery of Marie Roget
The unfortunate girl was employed by John
Anderson IN the days when he kept a little
tobacco shop in Broadway, and in the last
days of Millionaire Anderson he was
haunted by the delusion that he was
constantly in communication with the
spirit of the girl. At the time of her dis
appearance and murder suspicion attached
TO many prominent people, among them
Mr. Anderson. In the days when Edgar
Allen Poe was q young man, the mother
Of Mary Rogers kept a BOARDING house in
Nassau street. Mary's father had long
been dead and Mrs. Rogers only fortune
was her tact and ability to make both ends
meet. Mary had a beauty of form and
feature that made her well known in the
city. and when John Anderson engaged
her services in his store his sales naturally
increased 1t was considered the proper
thing for all young men OF fashion to buy
their cigars and tobacco from and be on
friendly terms with the pretty Mary.
There was no breath of suspicion against
her character There was wild grief and
surprise when one day She disappeared
from behind the counter Conlectures
were INDUCED in, but when in a short
time she reappeared, and in answer to
questions as to her absence replied that
She had been on a visit to an aunt in the
country, nothing was thought Of it. The
young blo0ds, with rutfied shirt fronts and
broad collars continued to chat with pref
ty Mary. But look Of sadness and pre-
occupation had taken possession of her
since her visit to the country aunt.
One Sunday she left her mothers house.
saying she was going to visit friend in
another part Of the city. There was a
young man named Payne, who boarded
with her mother and who was Mary ac-
cepted sutton and when she went out she
told him to call for her at her friend
b1,tga IN tba avauiDr II r4ipaI tbgt ri,ht
anS La IA rot 70 sn,,,oein,, M, ,yo3Id
remain aII nigbf wifi the friend .Tba
ae,ad mother bad rrasa,t;rcnt of an
n5,oacbioo, ayil and said.
II faar 7 sball neva,. saa Mar, ao~ain y
She never did The NEXT dav Mary did
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xii traca NJ hor v,as Iost mill fonr days
iatar her hodv was fonnd aoating IN +6a
gnJson r;yer naar Waabayyl[aen Tho
,,1arl,s ., tbo boJ1 showed tEat eLe bad
Neon murdered e,ra5+ sensation was
ca,,sal ana tba detectives follov,ad mr.. ava,,y
cIuo IN b tbicl.at M tba Iara.y sh6ra the
nnrsa narasol and cloves If the murdered
S,irl yars f9nnd 81 rlose insparfion Il
Was evident fbat thav had baan nlaeed
tb.ra
BEFORE tbis time There had boan mvstori-
ags baats seem ou the Hpd.on. I,n- 81
Them was manned bv rou0hs who COM
miftad nh SORTS Of datradations An
rorrnous letters nonrad into tbe daih,
5,a1ers nointing IL tbesa [rangs as ill.,
- & ,F tba hrae,sdv II ,17,s 5iyaovarad
tbat Mar, bad bee, IN t6a b9bit ~ meet.
ing seeraflv q man with d3rl, hoard and
that sEa bsd baan seem wifi i vo,1ne, naval
otf.ar oftar sba had loft bar motbar,y
house i rndderlass boat was n,cI,ed mn
peqr whore Ala Lod, VA. eoi,nd Tho
young naval officer accounted for n.
y,baroabcnt. fr,p, tho +ina Nfa,y, disan-
nearpd until her body wa, found and tba
,s,.ste,, ~ bar daatb became Jaener tban
ever FIR . lon% time detsctiyes worried il,,
an the ease ANA tbe mystery would have