Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
TWO CHILDREN ARE DESERTED
Albany Hotel Manager Looking for
Couple who Left Children
Mt House.

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-The resources
Of the Albany police were focused this af-
ternoOn, upon the apparently inexplicable
abandonment Of a 5-year-Old boy and a O.
months-old baby at the Ten Eyck hotel by
a couple who registered there as John w,
Rogers and wife of San Francisco. What
at first appeared a simple case of child
desertlon has grown today to the proper
tions Of a police mystery, possibly of snis-
tor import
The hotel people kept the matter quiet
at first, hoping that the couple would re-
turn with some explanation. Today the
police were notified and the children were
committed to local institutions.
There are suggestions, but no evidence,
that the couple have met with accident or
foul play or have committed suicide Pa
pers found among their effects indicate in
stead that the couple may have sailed
Saturday on the steamer Campania from
New York.
The mystery deepened when the effects
of the missing couple were examined to-
day. Their trunk contained clothing and
letters, including some from the New
York law firm of Quigg, Bostwick & Cole
man There were unused railroad passes
from Asheville, N. c., to Washington, and
from Philadelphia to Bound Brook. Other
effects included a bank deposit book from
the Consolidated National bank, Broadway,
New York.
That the couple sailed on the Cunard
liner Campania last Saturday is suggested
from a letter from the steamship agency
of New York regarding passage on the
Campania and asking for the cash deposit
required to hold the room.
other papers indicate that Rogers was
vice president Of the Congressional Cor
responding company, 1896 New York ave-
nue., Washington, and was connected with
the California OIL Fields company Of
Bakersfield Cal
The attention of the police has been
drawn to the fact that among the aban-
doned papers are what purport to be two
Identical certified checks for 81, ,49l on the
Kern Valley bank of Bakersfield, CAL,
signed with the name OF r. II. Mcdonald
In addition TO these are three rubber
hand stamps made in separate lines with
which a check certihcatlon Of this bank
might be forged.
I NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-John w. Rogers
| formerly was employed as a stenographer
! by the law firm of Quigg, Bostwick &
! Coleman in this city. At the firms Office
today it was said that nothing is known
| there of Rogers whereabouts.
He came to them through a newspaper
advertisement and they knew nothing
regarding his past
| BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Aug. 2s-Inquiry at
the Kern Valley bank and at the ONCE of
! the California Consolidated Oil Fields com
pany discloses the fact that no such per-
son as John w. Rodgers is known at either
place and that no checks were ever issued
in his favor by the latter company, The
Kern Valley bank today received tele-
gram from the Consolidated National bank
of New York which shows that Rodgers
! had made an attempt to cash a check pur-
porting to have been issued by the oil COM
pany and certified by the bank. A reply was
wired to the New York bank that no check
had been issued or certified.
A notable feature of the checks left be
hind is that they are signed by ''R. H. Nc
Donald" while the cashier OF the Kerr
Valley bank signs his name Ronald Nc
Donald" and has no middle initial.
Mr.. Mcdonald is of the opinion that the
forger, whoever he may be, may at somC
time or other have been in Kern county
probably long enough to be acquainted II
a general way with the bank and its on
cials, but not intimately enough to get I'll,
names correctly