The Topeka state journal., 1905-08-29
ARE STILL MISSING.
Couple Who Abandoned Their Chill
dren Can't Be Located

Albany, N. Y, Aug. 29.-Evidence
as to the identity of Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Rogers, who went out of the Hotel
Ten Eyck here Friday night leaving
their two little boys4one a baby of 6
months and the other years old, in
the care of a chambermaid, is steadily
accommodating, but their whereabouts
is as much mystery as ever.
The belief that the Rogers went to
New York Thursday and sailed on
the Campania for Europe was dis
posed of when Edwin H. Low, a steam
ship agent with whom they had had
some correspondence about booking
passage telegraphed that nobody an
swering to their description had sailed
on the Campania or any of the other
liners that departed on Saturday. The
police are now working on a theory
that Rogers and his wife are still in
Albany or near at hand. There is
nothing to show why they should wish
| to abandon their children deliberately.
| On the contrary, letters found in their
rooms at the hotel and the behavior
of the oldest boy, Rex, demonstrate
| that, up to this time, the children were
tenderly cared for. One of these let
| tiers, evidently cherished by Mrs. Rog-
ers, was written for the child to his
mother by some grown person. In it
| Rex sends "loads of kisses When
| one of the sympathetic housekeepers
| at the hotel wanted to kiss Rex, he
| declined. 81 never kiss anybody but
my mamma he explained.
Both children are exceptionally at
tractive. Strategy had to be used tc
get Rex to leave his baby brother Rex
was taken to the Albany Orphans asy-
| lum, while the baby went to ST. Mar
garet's Home for Very Young Children
! The older boy shed his first tears when
| he found his brother was to be taken
| from him.
Advices from Washington confirm the
belief drawn from the papers Rogers
| left in his room that he was vice presi-
dent of the Congressional Correspon-
| tion for two months. when it is said
| he had a disagreement with his partner
and left the city. Charles H. Coleman
| of the New York law firm of Quigg
| Bostwick & Coleman, while here, said
that about month ago his firm en-
4 ployed Rogers as an expert stenogra-
pher. He left their employ about a
| week ago.
| The certified check for $25 which the
hotel people cashed for Mr.. Rogers on
the afternoon before his disappearance
has been paid by the Consolidated Ma
tional bank of New York.
Thus far nothing has developed to
indicate that the Rogerses are fleeing
from justice. One theory upon which
the police are working is that, perhaps,
finding themselves, without means
| they have committed suicide.
/ The couple registered as John w.
| Rogers and wife, of San Francisco"
The hotel people kept the disap-
pearance quiet at first hoping that the
couple would return with some expla-
nation. Today the police were no.
tilted.
The effects of the missing couple
were examined. Their trunk con-
tained clothing and letters. inciu ling
some from the New York law firm OF
! Quigg, Bostwick & Coleman. There
were unused railroad passes from
| Asheville N. c., to Washington, and
from Philadelphia to Bound Brook
EOther effects included bank deposit
book from the Consolidated National
bank, Broadway, N. Y.
The, attention Of the police has
/ been drawn to the fact that among
! the abandoned papers are what pur-
ports to be two identical certified
checks for $1,491 ON the Kern Valley
/ bank, of Bakersfield, Cal, signed with
the name of r. H. Mcdonald. In ad-
dition to these are three rubber hanc
stamps, made in separate lines, with
which a check certification of this
bank might be forged.