Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-12-17
WILL ROGERS ON STAND.
Prosecution Supposed To Be
Nearly Through Pulling In
is Evidence.

Monday afternoon at 9 O'Clock.
The prisoners mother and sister were
10 the court room.
William II. Rogers was recalled 10
the stand and 10 answer to q question
as to what he had observed of the re-
lations between bis brother and Mrs
Rogers answered that Marcus was com
plete!y under her control. Upon the
obiectionsof the defense, this answer
WAS ordered stricken from the record
The witness was then permitted to
testify that Marcus always agreed with
everything she said, that "if she want
cd anything she got it, or the money
to get it,"
Mr. Rogers testified that the last
time he saw bis brother was on the
morning of Aug II, 1902
A check drawn to Marcus Rogers
by this witness and endorced with the
formers name and several other pa
pers, having specimens of the hand
writing of Marcus we're identified and
introduced in evidence.
William Rogers in his testimony
said that Marcus wife at one time fire.
quently came to his house, but that in
April 1902 was the last she remained
there over night.
The court then found that the en-
dorsement on the check and another
signature we're genuine and they we're
admitted as standards OF comparison.
One OF these which was found in an
autograph album recd as follows:
"Give to friendship friendships due,
Remember me and l will you"
Marcus Rogers.
A K. Richie, who was selectman
in August 1902 testified that he helped
to take the body out OF the water and
to put it into the undertaker's team by
which 1t was taken to the Perham
house.
Perham, Sr came to the door and
presently Mrs Rogers. Mr. Richie
told her that her husband was dead
and they had brought him there.
She said she was just boarder
there and wanted TO know if the town
would bury him. Richie said mo. "
Then she wanted the body taken to
Marcus aunt's, Mrs Phillpott, and
this being refused she thought the
proper place from which to hold the
funeral was William Rogers farm in
Hoosick Corners.
Mrs Rogers was calm and nndis-
turbed.
Mr. Richie identified the watch taken
from Rogers pocket and essentially
corroborrated DR. Potter's account OF
the conversation between himself and
this respondent.
The defense brought out in eross-eX
animation that when the body was
laid on the wall, a small amount o.
water ran out the mouth.
J. T. Remington, another selectmau
testified essentially as Mr. Richie had
He asked Mrs Rogers If she had evel
had trouble with her husband Sh,
replied that she had not
Varnum Stems appeared as wit
ness for the state and testified that b,
had seen Marcus Rogers write th'
quotation in the autograph album
which has been introduced in evidence
Mrs Lydia Storms testified that sh,
saw MIN write in her album. The page
bears date of March lSSj-but Mr.,
Storms said it was in fact written il
1895.
Mrs Emma Salmon, who was th,
next witness, knew Marcus Rogers anC
his wife for eleven years;-she haC
! lived in the same house with them il
SALISBURY for fifteen months. Mr.
Salmon was familiar with Mr.
Rogers handwriting, having seen he
: write various letters, some OF which
we're introduced and having in he
possession an autograph album, il
which Mrs Rogers had written.
J. J. Stakeholder, the States At
torney, went onto the stand to identif.
certain letters which he had founc
among Rogers effects, and which wer
offered in evidence.
The defense objected to the admiss
ion of the specimens of handwriting
for purposes of comparison on tn
} ground that there was nothing in tn
case with which to compare them an,
although there had been some tall
about note, that was not in the case
Judge Watson, however, receive,
several OF the States exhibits, consist
ing of several letters and leaves fror
an autograph album as the handwrit
ing of Mrs Rogers for purposes O
comparison.
A written paper copied by Mrs r G
e Fi0ht win Re BItter