Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-12-09
WOMAN HANGED FOR
NUMBERING HUSBAND
Important Murder Case of Yer
mont Closed.
CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN 1902
Woman Had Remarkable Career and
Seemed to Have Strange influence
on Those She Met-Petitions for
Clemency Were of No Avail.

0H uVSS SlS MSt-TSCtIlOHS Tor
clemency Were of No Avail.
Windsor, VT, Dec. 8.-Mrs. Mary Ma
bel Rogers was hanged at the Vermont
state prison at Windsor at 1:13 this
afternoon for the murder of her hus-
band, Marcus Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was
pronounced dead by the prison officials
at 1:N p. m.
For second time Windsor is crowd
ed with strangers who have sought the
vicinity of the death scene of Mary
Mabel Rogers, whose execution was
set for the hour between noon and /
O'Clock today. Few received permits
to actually witness the hanging. Hope
for the condemned woman was prac-
tically abandoned today The sher-
ifs deputy chosen to spring the trap,
arrived during the night and conlud-
Ing arrangements were promptly made
Awaiting Governor Bells arrival at 6
o'clock this morning at White River
Junction, few miles north of here,
were Mrs Rogers attorneys ready to
make the final legal plea in her behal
Mrs. Jessie Patton, Of Cincinnati,
armed with a petition for clemency
signed by thousands OF women, had
also come from Rutland and awaited
the executive.
Remarkable Career.
The career Of Mrs Rogers mas been
remarkable one. A wife at l6 and
a murderess at 10, and but 22 at the
day of her death. ignorant and de-
praved, sne had strange influence on
those she met and her admirers were
many. In 1902, having won the af-
fecttons of three men, she encompassed
the death of her husband, Marcus H.
Rogers, with the aid of another ad-
mirer, Leon Perlam, to the end that
she might marry third lover, Mau-
rice Knapp. Perham confessed, and
he is serving a life sentence here.
Mrs. Rogers was born in Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, and when married re-
moved to Bennington, VT, where the
murder was committed
Story of the Crime.
The crime for wlicn Mrs. Mary Ma
bel Rogers was sentenced to death was
the murder of her husband at Benning-
ton, Aug 13, 1902.
At the time the crime was committed
Mrs. Rogers was only 19 years old.
She had been separated from her hus
hand foy coma tip,o ap5 MO, loo;ua,,o
of marrying young man named Mau-
rice Knapp. On the day of the muir
der Marcus Rogers went to BENNINGTON
to visit his wife, and that night she
arranged to meet him in the woods
near the Walloomsac river While ca
ressing him she induced him to allow
her to bind mis- hands, and while he
was poWerless she clloroformed him.
In this she was aided by Leon Per
nam, half-witted boy, who was the
son of the woman with whom sne was
boarding. Another woman. Estelle
Bates, was present. After chloroform-
ing Rogers, Pernam and Mrs. Rogers
rolled the body into the river, where
1t was found the next day. In order
to divert suspicion, the woman wrote
note to which she signed her hus-
bands name, giving the impression he
had committed suicide. Immediately af-
ter the murder Mr.. Rogers endeavored
to collect her husbands life insurance,
amounting to $500, and also made ar
rangements to purchase furniture for
the house where sne expected to live
wnen she married Knapp.
A few days after the murder us.
Rogers, Perham and the Bates woman
were arrested. Perham made a com
plete confession and both he and Mrs.
Rogers were found guilty of murder in
the first degree. Pernam was sentenced
to imprisonment for life, while the YER
diet in Mrs. Rogers case was death
on the gallOWS