The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-11-20
Minnie Palmer, the Actress,
Has a Tale OF Woe Which
She Unfolds.
She Alleges Her Husband Made q
Murderous Attempt to Take
Her Life.
A Stockton Minister Whose Thoughts
Had Not Been Pure
General News.

NEW York, Nov. 1e.--MinnIe Palmer
pretty face Il In bandages to-day. slight
cut dlshgures one side OF her nose, an ugly
scratch marks her neither lip and the skin
Is torn from the palm Of her left hand.
These marks OF violence were inflicted on
the actress between t2 and l o'clock last
Saturday night by her husband, John H.
Rogers, In what Miss Palmer alleges was q
murderuns attempt 20 take her life. Miss
Palmer said to-day that for long time
Mr.. Rogers had made her life miserable by
bis irritabllity and by his unreasonable, IL
not insane, demands that she should have
nothing 10 do with her mother. For o cause
she could never understand ha hated her
mother. aud his greatest satisfaction
seemed TO be Ina separating her not
only from her mother but from all the
friends she had. On Saturday evening
be went 10 the horse show with her mother
and stepfather. On her return 'Johnnie''
stood before the mirror with large cary-
Ing knife In his hand Tie proceeded with
out ceremony to grasp her by the chin,
forced her head back and raised the weapon
30 strike. She got away from him after a
struggle and escaped 20 the room of her
maid. "The cuts on my nose and lips, = she
said, were made by the point Of the knife
during the struggle The scratch Ia nay
hand was made by the handle of the knife
In my attempt 20 wrest II from my husband
l have not the slightest doubt that Mr..
Rogers Intended To murder me. and I
believe that he would have succeeded Ii IL
bad not been for the accident OF my
catching glimpse Of the weapon as it was
reflected In the swinging mirror Even
this could hardly have saved me had Il not
been for the additional circumstances that
my husband was sitting In twisted aud
awkward position on the bed. I can ac-
count for bis murderous assault only on the
ground that he II Insane. have always
been good aud faithful wife to him and
the world knows that nay name has never
been connected with scandal OF any kind.
Dir Rogers intense and deadly hatred Of
my mother Il as groundless aud uniustifled
a. his attempt % take my life. She has
stever inierfered In any why With
car aonestis iifc ar our professional
business, and her only offense
was the natural desire 10 SEQ
her child occasionally. have separated
from MIR. Rogers permanently. shall
never 60 back 20 him, and shall never see
him again IL can avoid IL. ! feel that 20
return To him Il TO take my life In my
hahAAs Ctait dHucFstAhu now man In a
mad and nngovernable rage might take a
human life. but | cannot understand 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 caress
her with one hand while he held the instru-
Inent of her destruction In the other"
Miss Palmer then told how Mr. Rogers
had driven all her friends from her by
writing abusive and insulting letters to
them The latest instance OF Rogers
abusive letter-wrlting Is furnished In his
treatment Of Miss Bertha Ricci, the actress,
who supported Miss Palmer In ''suzette' at
Hermann's theater. Although Miss Ricci |
was not under Rogers management when
she refused 60 go ON the stage unless the |
moneys due her by Locke aud Davis were |
paid, Rogers went 10 her dressing room and |
abused her 40 outrageously that Miss |
Palmer was forced 90 interfere and protect /
her. Since that time Rogers has so perse-
suted Miss Ricci with abusive letters that /
she was compelled To employ lawyers /
service to have tine persecution stopped
Minnie May Take Her Choice.
AEs~ 4t-ssff, Nrv. 7aftrrrr Partner, rfTu !
actress, IL Is said, has been given the al
.ernative by her husband to live with him
~ 20 leave his home aud live with her
mother. lie cannot endure the latter