The Cairo bulletin., 1905-12-09
SHE SUFFERED NO PAIN
THERE WERE no SENSATIONAL
INCIDENTS IN CONNECTION
WITH HANGING.
DEPUTIES RAISED THE ROPE
After the Drop the Woman's Feet
Barely Touching the Floor
History of the Womans
Crime.


Windsor, Vermont. Dec, S.-Withou
tremor and without word, Mrs
Marty Mable Rogers today marched
to her death on the gallows and paiC
the penalty of numbering her husband
Marcus Rogers, at Bennington, Au-
gust 13, 1902. To all appearances Mrs.
Rogers was the calmest person in the
chamber of death She faced her end
with the same stoical Indifference that
had marked her demeanor ever since
her arrest, more than, three years
ago.
The last hour was remarkably free
from narrowing incidents. It had been
feared the woman's wonderful nerve
would desert her at the final moment
and that she would be carried to the
scaffold in state of collapse. Instead.
however, Mrs. Rogers met death
bravely
There were no sensational incidents
in connection with the hanging.
Although the woman was not cffi-
cially pronounced dead until fourteen
minutes and thirty seconds after the
trap was sprung, she evidently suf
fered no pain. Her neck was broken
at the second cervical vertebra and
she lost consciousness instantly the
drop fell. A few feeble convulsive
movements of her pinioned hands
were tho only evidences that vitality
had survived the first shock.
The drop fell at .13 and Mrs. Rogers
was pronounced dead at 1.271a The
woman's feet barely touched the floor
for an instant, but deputies on the
platform of the scaffold Immediately
tightened the rope and raised the un-
conscious form a couple OF inches.
Up to within three hours of her
death the woman consoled herself with
the hope she would not be executed
IT was shortly after ten this morning
when she was informed that Govern
or Bell had denied her a third re.
prieve BY 1890 the deputies, wit.
lowed to witness the hanging were at
the Jail. Soon after | o'clock, two
deputies were dispatched to Mrs.
Rogers cell 10 Escort her to the death
chamber The guards found Mrs.
Rogers receiving spiritual consolation
from Father Delaney, her confessor,
who the day before had administered
the sacrament of holy communion to
her.
At LOG the death march was begun.
Down three flights of stairs from Mrs
Rogers cell the procession wended its
way. Through the guard room and
into the west wing where the gallows
had been erected, down another flight
of steps, across a short space of
brick floor and the foot of the scaf
fold was reached. Holding her head
high Mrs. Rogers never faltered for an
instant as her eyes rested on the
scaffold. Unaided she mounted the |
steps walked onto the trap and seated |
hercelf in a chair A moment later she |
arose. having declined an offer by the |
to make statement |
Straps and moose were arranged, and /
the trap was sprung. The rope was a
trile too long and the woman's toes |
barely touched the floor beneath. She
was beyond suffering. however, her
neck having been broken at the drop
and she had instantly lost conscious
ness.
A little more than fourteen minutes
later, physicians pronounced all signs
Of life vanished and soon after the
body was cut down and placed In a
coffin.
AT 2:25 p. m. the body was taken
from the prison to the railroad sta
ion and the coffin was placed ON
BOARD train and sent to Hoosick
Falls. n. Y, where Mrs. Rogers moth
r lives.
The interment will be at St. Mary's
cemetery in that town.