St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-23
A GENEROUS REWARD
Five Hundred Dollars offered
for Recovery Of Charles
S. Rogers Body.
Searehers Fail to Raise or
Locate 1t Even With This
Incentive.
Strong Probability That It
Has Been Carried Along
by the Current.
Desperate Attempt to Sever
His Jugular by an Inebri-
ated Man.

The search for the body of Charles S.
Rogers was somewhat retarded yester-
day by the strong wind, which prevented
the crews of men In boats from remain
ing on the river. The search along the
shore on both sides of the river was
kept up, the men engaged in this cover
ing the territory from the Robert street
bridge to Burlington heights. Search
ing parties were more numerous yeSter-
day afternoon, owing to the distribution
of large printed placards as follows:
$500 Reward-A reward OF five hundred
dollars $500 will be paid 10 the persons who
recover the body of Charles y. Rogers, who
jumped from the high bridge. in ST. Paul,
Friday May 10, 1898. H. Il. DRAKE,
A. M. DRAKE.
w. ii. LIGHTNBR.
Copies Of the reward card were sent
to all the towns on the river and 1t is
thought from the strong wind and rapid
current that the body will be found
some distance down the river.
JohnDuford, living at 2lSWater street,
who has had some experience In the
work of recovering drowned bodies,
said yesterday afternoon that the use OF
dynamite would be of no particular
effect Just at this time In bringing the
body to the surface. The water, he eX-
planned, was so cold that the body
would keep in an almost perfect state
for eight or ten days. Had the water
been warm the body would have light
ened, AMI the discharge OF heavy eX-
plosives would have brought it to the
top of the water.
Was 1t Rogers Bodyf
Three of the emDloyeS in the MilWau-
kee freight house reported to the police
that what they thought was the body of
| Rogers had f1oated down 1.-THE river be-
tween the piers of the Broadway bridge
about 80 o'clock. When seen later in
the day only one of the men, Thomas
Roach, was positive that the object
| they had seen was body. While the
others expressed some doubts, Roach
was sure the object was human body.
as he insisted he plainly saw the hand
| and arm projecting from the water.
| Today Duford and another diver from
Minneapolis will go to work diving for
the body. Duford's opinion is that
the body will be found not far
from the point where the fatal
leap was taken. He says the river
near there is full of holes and that the
body is at the bottom of one of these.
| A relative of the deceased stated yes
terday afternoon that Rogers carried no
| insurance on his life. Some two years
ago each OF the partners in the firm of
which Rogers was a member had taken
out insurance on the life of the other.
but the idea was so gruesome that only
one payment was made on the policies,
and they then were allowed to drop.
Spoken to about the rumOrs that were
in circulation as to Rogers not having
suicided, the gentleman said the family
had heard CT such talk and only wished
such was the case, but unfortunately
there was no doubt but that the rash
deed had been done. The letter writ
ten by Rogers to his wife, while not
given to the public, is said to have
stated that he was laboring under an
awful strain, and intImated that he i'll
tended to make away with himself.