The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-12-12
MRS. ROGERS.
LOOKS FIN"
Such is Comment On the
MurdeTeSS' Condition.
PLANS FOR EXECUTION
At Windsor Prison Are Well Under
Way Sheriff Peck Does
Not Fancy
Job.
PLANS FOR EXECUTION

Windsor, Dee. l0.-No one can see
Mrs. Mary Rogers, condemned to death
by hanging Feb. 3, 1908. She is in her
solitary cell in the state prison here and
has been since Nov 1. All published
reports If interviews with her since hat
time are untrue.
Mrs. Rogers has not suffered mental
| " to such degree that it has under
mined her health or aged her looks. On
the contrary, from the freely expressed
opinions 81 tile members Of the legisla.
tive committee which iourneyed from
Montpelier to Windsor the other day to
make the biennial inspection Of the in.
stitution, she is doing little worrying.
lie members saw her on their rounds
Of the prison, and the remark made By
one of the later on that she looked
inc' was concurred in by the Others.
Other information trickling out from
the guards who have had charge of her
denotes that her mental attitude to.
ward the terrible nature of her crime or
her present situation is of a hgllt.mind-
ed nature.
She expects that the governor will
order stay Of proceedings, which will
throw the onus of her execution upon
another legislature, two years hence,
when her chances are again good for
having her sentence committed to ife
imprisonment.
Size does not fret under the prison
/ discipline and indeed, now that she is
ia solitary confinement, the hours Of
rising and compulsory work are not as
rigid as when she formed in line and
went forth to daily labor about the in.
stitution.
The matron gives her such occupation
as can be taken up in her cell and sees
to her meals and other requirements.
She can see any Of the town clcrgymen
She chooses, but up to now Chaplain
Fuller OF the prison has been her spir-
itual advisers, Her mother viii be adj
mitted whenever she can come, but it
is quite a journey from Hoosick Falls
for Mrs. Calligan in her present state
of health and finances. TO all others
ladmittanee is refused.
sheriff Henry II. Peck of Windsor
county, who is to be the hangmsn, took
Office Dec. !, after 10 years service as
deputy sheriff. He il not looking for.
ward to his job with any relish. He is
veteran Of the civil war and native
Of Weston. After the civil war he en-
gagged in the chair manufacturing bust
ness in Hartford, where his residence
now is. Since being deputy sheriff bis
office has been in White River Junction.
He is widower, having lost his wife
this fall
| The cards Of admission to be issued
for the hanging win All come from
Sheriff Peck. The law allows no more
than 100 spectators at an affair Of this
kind and it has been the custom Of
conservative Vermonters to limit the
number to rs, including the medical
men, the clcrgymen, relatives of the
prisoner and the superintendent of the
prison. Mr. Peck has already promised
some OF the tickets
The gallows to be used are the same
used % years ago, when the last Il ar
derer to be hanged in this state was
taken to pieces and put away. It is
not because there has been NJ murder
done in Vermont for % years that il
has not been used since Emeline Meaker
was hung.
Murders have, if anything, been
rather frequent, bot the powers Of the
legislature to commute sentence or to
approve Of sending to the asylum for
the insane have been worked to the ut
most. and there are at present three
murderers under COMMITTED sentence in
the state prison and couple IN the hos
pital for the insane.