Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-02
OESEREF EVENING NEWS
wednesday, Iury 2. 1890
MYSTERIOUS CASES.
MANY PEOPLE WHO JUST WALKED
OUT or LIFE, NEVER TO BE
HEARD OF AGAIN.

Mysterious disappearanees always
excite the deepest interest and the
Tsrre Haute mystery reviyes and
juslifies II recall Of the more note
worthy ones Of history. One of the
most remarkable cases that ever
happened was that Of Mary Rogers,
the pretty cigar girl OF New York.
When few years since in New
York there was 4 contest over the
will Of millionaire tobacco manu-
facturer John Anderson, then inter
81 I'm the unsolved mystery was
revived. II has never been solved.
Urou the story Edgar Allen Poe
wrote his celebrated .'The Mystery
Of Marie Roget" The I'M
fortunate girl was employed
by John Anderson in the days
when he kept a little tobacco
shop in BIOadway, and in the last
DAYS Of Millionaire Anderson he
was haunted 10y the delusiOn that he
Was constantly in communication
with the spirit Of the girl. At the
time Of her disappearance and muir
der suspiciOn attached To- many
prominent people, among them Mr..
Anderson. In the days when Edgar
Allen Poe was 4 young man the
mother of Mary Rogers kept
boarding house in Nassau Street.
Mary's father had long been dead
and Mrs. Rogers only fortune was
her tact ami ability to male both
ends meFl. Mary had a beauty OF
form and feature that maize her
well known IN the city, and when
John Anderson engaged herservices
in his tobacco store his sales
naturally Increased. Ii was con-
sidereI the proper thing for all
young men Of fashion 10 buy their
cigars and tobacco from anu lie on
friendly terms with pretty Mary.
There was no breath Of suspicion
against her character. There were
wild grief and surprise when one
day She disappeared from behind
the counter. COnjectures were ill.,
dulged In, but when in short
time she reappeared, and in answer
to questions AS &c her absence re-
piled that she had been on a visit
to an aunt in the country, nothing
was thought of it. The young
bloods with rufiied shirt-fronis and
broad collars continued to chat with
the pretty Mary. But 3 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
u friend in another part OF the city.
! There was young man named
Payne, who boarded with her
mother and who was Iary's ac-
cepte,i sutton, and when she went
! ,ut she told him 10 call for her at
ner friends house in the evening.
! Il rained that night and he did not
20. surprising Mary would remain
all night with the friend. The aged
mother had a preseRtiment Of APP
preaching evil, and said:
Il fear shall never STE Mary
again."
She never did. The next day
Mary did not return, and on inquiry
il WAS learned that she had not been
/ AZ her friends mouse. All trace Of
her was lost until four days later her
body was found floating In the Hud-
son River near weehawken. The
marks on the body showed that she
had been murdered. \ great sensa-
ton vas caused and the detectives
! followed zap every clue. In a thicket
On the jersey shore the purse, para
sol and gloves Of the murdered girl
were found. On close inspection il
was evident that they had been
placed there.
Before this time there had been
mysterious boats seen ON the Eud-
son. One o: them was manned by
roughs. who committed all sorts OF
tiepredatiOns. Anonymous ietttrs
poured into the daily papers point
ing 10 these gangs as the cause Of
the Tragedy. Ii was discovered that
Mary had been in the habit OF meet
ing secretly q man with "A dark
beard, and that she had been seen
with a young naval officer after she
nad left her mothers house. A
rudderless boat was picked up near
where the body was found. The
young naval officer accounted for
his whereabouts from the time
Mary disappeared uEti! her body
was found, aud the mystery OF her
death became deeper thanever. Tor
a long time the detectives worked
on the case. and the mystery would
have shared the fate OF thousands
VI others u 4 great city had not Poe
written lis story Of ''Marie Roget"
The mystery y - never solved, Yet
her spirit haunted iEe dcc!juing
years Of millionaire Andei-0n's
life.