Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-21

RETURNED TO HER HoME.-Miss Lii
lie Rodgers, the young lady who was
taken in charge by the police yester-
Gay aud held under orders from her re-
latiyes in Fredericksburg, left this city
early this morning for her home Her
brother came here st 1882 last night on
the Richmond train, and proceeded to
the station house and took charge OF
the Young woman. The meeting be-
tween the brother and sister was affect
ing, and caused much sympathy to he
Expressed for both The affair is the
fsubject of much comment, the men
who deliberately threw the young wo-
man into the company in which she
was found coming III for a large share
of condemnation. The Washingtonian
iwho Miss Rodgers asserts intro
duced her to Kate Smith al River
sNiew is said to be related 10 her,
and his action is incomprehensible, as
he must have been aware Of the wo-
5man's reputation as . proprletress OF a
,sesort known not only in this city,
but in Washington also The young
men who met her in this clty
"Wednesday are regarded as equally
sculpable, especially the one who,
Miss Rodgers alleges, took her to
sthe bagnio. When it was remarked
in Miss Rodgers's presence last night
that these parties should be prosecuted
she spoke very excitedly and was em-
phatic in declaring she wanted nothing
done with them. 1t is said, however
that the Young woman's friends will in
stitute legal proceedings against all
concerned in the matter-aga!nst the
men who plotted the girls down.eli
aud the woman who hGrbored her. Miss
Rodgers said that while aG inmate OF
Kate Smiths house she roomed with a
girl whose first name was Lille, ahd
that during forty-eight hours OF her
stay there she saw nothing to excite
suspicion. but Friday morning she
.awoke to the fact that she was keeping
company with dissolute woman and
made up her mind to leave the house.
But Qudi alteram partem. Kate Smith
has letters in her possession from Miss
Rodgers which seriously compromise
that Young woman. All are dated IN
September, 1898, from which it would
seem she had not met her hostess up to
that time, although Miss Rodgers aver
red Yesterday she had beeG introduced
to her by young man named DRYER,
of Washington, at River View last SUM-
mer. 1t seems that Miss Rodgers be-
came acquainted in Fredericksburg
with female known rs Madame Hlrsh,
who had at one time lived here, and
began to correspond with Kate Smith,
of whom she had heard through the
madame. Some of the young woman
sentences are pregnant with meaning,
and q sad confession is made. Her op-
lect, from her letters, appears to have
been to come to this city, put up at
Kate Smiths and allow her people to
suppose she was learning the millinery
business here The Hirsh woman was
probably her preceptress, and Miss
Rodgers was given the name of mill,
neg who formerly lived here for whom
she was to pretend she was working.
Miss Rodgers in her letters desired Kate
Smith TO sign the milliner's name III
her answers in order to deceive hel
Deople. Kate Smith says she never
saw her until last Wednesday, when
she came 10 her house alone. She also
positively denies having been intro
duced to her at River View, and says
the young woman received no company
while at her house. There seems TO be
no doubt that Miss Rodgers, upon her
arrival in this city, telegraphed to he'
parents that she had been married TO
man named Smith from Chicago.