The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-12-08
WOMAN HANGED FOR
NUMBERING HUSBAND.

Important Murder Case of Yer
mont Closed.
CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN 1902
ANoman Had Remarkable Career and
Seemed to Have Strange Influence
on Those She Met-Petitions for
CIemeney Were of No Avail.
Windsor, VT, Dec. s-Mrs. Mary Ma
bel Rogers was hanged at the Vermont
state prison at Windsor at lib this
afternoon for the murder of her hus-
band, Marcus Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was
pronounced dead by the prison officials
ut 1:H p. m.
For . second time Windsor is crowd
ID with strangers who have sought the
vicinity Of the death scene of Mary
Mabel Rogers, whose execution was
oet for the hour between noon and ]
o'clock today. Few received permits
10 actually witness the hanging. Hope
Tor tie condemned woman Wa prac-
Ideally abandoned today The ahor-
t6s deputy chosen to spring the trap,
AJ1tved during the n16At and conlusd-
Ing arrangements were promptly made.
Awaiting Governor BslI's arrival At 6
O'Clock this morning at White River
junction. few miles north of mere,
were Mrs Rogers attorneys ready to
make the final legal plea in her behal
q MRS. Jessie Patton, of Cincinnati,
Armed vita 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 aas been
a remarkable one. A wife at Is and
a murderess At 10, and but % at the
day of her death. 1gn6fxnt and de-
praved, she had a strange influence On
those she met and her admirers were
many. In 1902, having won the af-
4ectiOns 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 a third lover. Maui
rice Knapp Perham confessed, and
he is serving a life sentence here.
Mrs. Rogers was born in Hoosick
Falls. N. Y, and wnen 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. Is, 1902.
At the time the crime was committed
Mrs. Rogers was only - years old.
She had been separated from her fus
band for some time, and was DESTROYS
0f marrying young man named Mau.
rice Knapp. On the day of the MUIR
der Marcus Rogers went to Bennington
70 visit his wife, and that night she
near the Walloomsac river. While ca
1essing him she induced him to allow
her to. bind his hands, and while he
Was powerless she cllorOfOrmed him.
In this she was aided by Leon Per
ham. q half-witted boy. who was the
son of the woman with whom she was
boarding. Another woman. Estelle
Bates, was present. After chloroform-
ing Rogers, Pernam and Mrs. Rogers
rolled the body into the river. where
It was found the next day. In order
t. divert suspicion, the woman wrote
. note TO whica she signed her hus.
bands name. giving the impression he
mad committed suicide. Immediately af.
tor the murder Mr. Rogers endeavored
to collect her husbands life insurance.
amounting to $500. and also made ar
engagements to purchase furniture for
the house where sac expected to live
Waen she married Knapp.
A few days after the murder -
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 IL
the first degree. Pernam was sentenced
to imprisonment for life, while the yer.
dict in Mrs. Rogers case was death
Nm the sallows
OPEN CRATE CAUSE OF DEATH
Life Of Young Girl Is Taken by tn.
Flames.
Covington. Ga. Dec 9Mfss Biddie
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