The times., 1898-01-09
HER LIFE WRECKED BY LOVE
Posthumous Statement Of Mrs.
Sandbrink.
CALLS HIM A DRUNKEN FIEND
She Gave Him All Her Money and
,IewelIy Until Finally She Had
to Take in Sewing to Buy Under.
clothing-CouId Not Begin Life
Anew-Dr, Rogers Dead.

Memphis, Jan. s. y Mrs. Mary C..
sandbrink, who sssteiaiay fatally shot
Dr. S. A. Rogers. (andsthen killed her
self, has spoken flbmsh dead through
statement found fshong her effects
and explained the fragsdy.
DR.. Rogers died thisaAorning. He be-
longed to one of the most prominent
families in hesSouth, ana was rela-
tive of United STATES Senator Turley.
Mrs. SandbrinEs statement was
written Thursday before the tragedy
1t recites the warm friendship that
sprung up between her and the doctor
after the death of her husband and
| child. He was in financial straits and
several times she loaned him money.
Then his wife died, and his visits be
came so frequent that Mrs. Sandbrink
| told him they must cease in order TO
avoid criticism.
Later they became engaged and she
went to California. he promising to
follow. Soon he failed to write and she
heard that he had been leading noto-
rious life. She then returned to Mem
phis and asked him to pay her the
sums he had borrowed as she wished
to have nothing more TO do with him.
.
statement continues:
But, returning to the time of my re-
turn from San Francisco. how l found
him implicated in several escapades
with different women. Thus / found
him, a drunken morphine fiend and
prohgate. Broken in health, q critical
operation necessary no money to go
to New Orleans, he pleaded on his
knees for me not to abandon him now
L. - 4 III
other chance.
"Oh, world, you ask why did / cling
to him? II was too late. / loved him
as only a woman can love. l had suf-
fered too much already for him, and |
always retained hope that perhaps /
could yet cure him. Then only those
who knew how he could plead, and if
they would have heard him denounce
all the world said Of him as lies, that
he was never untrue to me; that he
cared for no other woman.
The humiliations | bore for him
were terrible. Stumbling me on every
occasion, l went to his office frequent
ly, but it was because / was
compelled to go. | had not a
penny of my osvn. My gold
watch. little diamond loc4iet and
many gold articles OF value / gave to
him when bills poured in on him from
all SlQeS. SeWRu r 1Or- my sister TO
make enough money TO buy my nees-
saIy underclothiug for the winter. So.
when l went to his office / was drawn
there in desperation from the humilia-
tion that was subjected TO, for / was
compelled to buy on credit and could
not meet my bills.
Last winter, or, rather, that spring,
! again persuaded him To take another
morphine treatment and then We
would leave Memphis. ! left, expect
ing him to follow But his oatns were
lies. l returned again and demanded
a settlement. He told me ii was inn
possible to raise the money. but would
pay me 5si9e and sffen so nI.@if every
month. He paid nsesin all about sl09.
all of which / used TO pay my debts He
viii not give me my money. He has
ruined my life. Committing his in
trigues before my very eyes, 1T is more
than l an endure.
Shall I now. broken in body and
spirit. wrecked and ruined, penniless,
begin life anew, slave for my existence,
and let this fiend live to laugh over
the poor little fool that / have been
and gloat over his skill in winning
women?
Il ask the world, all the men with
whom | have had business dealings
and all my former friends was L not
an honest. upright woman? Can one
word be said against me? Only after 1 /
fell in his clutches and gave up my
friends. I became a cranky woman.