Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-11
An HANGED FOR
NUMBERING HUSBAND
Important Murder Case Of Yer
mont Closed.
-cRlaE wAs coMMITTED IN sea

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omsn Had Remarkable Career and
sssmsd 70 Have 'strsa6o Influence
- Thoos she Mst--PstltIOHs Ger
clsmeney Wsrs Of No Avail.
/. windsor, VT, Dec. s-tMrs. Mary Ma
Eel R0gers was hanged at the Vermont
state PRISON at Windsor ct 1:IS this
aFtePcO0u for tdo murder Of her hus-
band, Marcus Rogers. Mrs, Rogers vas
Df6aOuaCsd dead By the prison officials
rst 1871 p. m.
EoF q second time Windsor Is crowd
ed with strangers who have sought the
vicinity Of ne death scene Of Mary
Mabel Rogers, whose execution was
Get Tor the hour between noon and 4
,o'oloek today. TOw received permits
90 actually witness the hanging, Hope
Cor TIE Condemned woman was prae-
-eically abandoned to-day. Tue shsr-
lFs deputy chosen to sDTiAg the trap,
eFsiyed during the pigAt and coRlNi.
eng arrangements we're promptly made
Awaiting Governor Balls arrival Ct 8
o'clock this morning ct waite River
Junction, q few miles north Of here,
were Mrs Rogers attorneys ready 70
make the final legal plea in her beha
ATFs. Jessie Patton, Of Cincinnati,
armed vita q petition for Clemency
aligned by thousands Of women, had
also come from Rutland and awaited
rthe executive,
RomsFbnhls Career.
The career Z Mrs. Rogers has been
81 remarkable be- A wife at 16 and
"a murdereRs at 10, ami but % at the
sday OF her death, Ignorant and de-
praved, she had a strange influences on
those she met and her admirers were
mahy In 1909, having won the af
Goctions Of three men, she enoompassed
the death OF her husband, Marcus H.
ofbrs, With the aid Of another ad.
Eiror. Leon PerLam, TO the end that
abe might marry q taird lover. Mau-
rice Knapp. Perham confessed, and
he 10 serving q life sentence here.
Mrs. Rogers Was born in HOOsick
Ealls, n. ", and when married re-
moved 10 BerU'ugtOn, VT, where the
murder was G ,mrJittsd,
stony ~ the Crime.
TIE crime for waich Mrs. Mary Ia
bel Rogers was sentenced 10 death was
che murder Of her husband ~ Bennins.
4on. AHg. Is, 1907.
AZ the time toe crime was committed
IRA Rogers was only 10 years old
.Ghe had been separated from her hug
Aand Tor some time, and was DESTROYS
- marrying q young man named Mau.
ice Knapp. on the day % the MUIR
DER EIarrHa Rogers went b BennlRgtOu
90 visit HIS wife, and that night che
arranged % meet him IN the woods
near the Walio0msae river. While e.
Asoasing him she induced him 10 allow
haF 70 bind biz hands. and Wills be
Was poWeFless she eaiOTOfOTmed him.
In this she Was aided By Leon Per
Ran, = half-Wftted boz. Who Ras TIE
son Of the woman VITA whom she was
1oardlng. An0thef wOmAn. EsteIie
Rataa. was present Altar ch1oFoEorm-
inE Rogsfs. Peraam and ma Ragors
rolled tie body into tie river. WbsFa
4 uas foand TIE naxt dag. On oT1aF
20 divert suspicion. the Womaa WEois
q BUlE % wkich 0ls signed her hns.
han6'a aHms. giving thR imprusaioa -
anA committed suieide. fmmsSiatslg e.
Ger TIE murder Ne. n0gsrn endeavofaa
d collect her auaband's Me inoufhnea.
amouatiaE q s5ee. ena also ma1e aF-
ranrtuaats - purchase faFnitufe Or
she hose abcsp nhs eEPocied % I've
waua Az tnafsiod Knapp.
A feW Gzyr sftE tha muf1eF ~.
Rorsru. PeFhan end tae Ba1os woman
woTe Effsrset Psfaam mads q con
nlais oonfr.s1ua nn1 hoth ~ an9 MrH-
Nnngs were fyunt Guilty 81 @urteF b
az arss aasFee. fegaam Waa senieacef
inrrifnnrrni isf ne whBa ths Ess.
80 a M. GaEsTs esne was eezth
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