The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-01-14
Tells Chaplain How She
Killed Her Husband
BUT FEW VARIATIONS
From the Story Shown by the
Evidence at Her Trial
for Murder.

windsor, Jan. lZ.-By the irony OF
fate, since the high sheriff of Windsor
county is, by statute, decreed to be the
hangman for the whole of Vermont,
although executions are state aft airs
performed within the prison of Yer.
mont, the taking of of Mary NJ. Rog-
ers devolves upon as good natured
man as can be found in New England.
1t would be hard to find more gen
ial high sheriff anywhere, and that is
what makes his prospective task the
more difficult for a man of his temper
ament to execute. Yet there is no rea-
son to doubt the nerve of Henry II
Peck, who went TO the front in the old
I'd Vermont when but IS years old,
miller's boy from Hartford; who was
three times wounded-in the first ba,
tie Of Fredericksburg, Dec. lib, 1862
and again with the 9Th corps under
Sedgwick at the storming of Marye's
Heights, a segment of the Chancel-
louisville battle of May 2.3, 1868; the
third time in the Battle of the Wilder
ness, after Grant crossed the Rapidan
Ia "a.
Sheriff Peck was born in Hartford,
VT. in 1874 After the civil war he
came home to enter upon the making
of chairs and for five years he was
superintendent of the chair factory and
for - years deputy sheriff of Windsor
county until elevated by the votes of
his fellow-citizens to the position of
high sheriff, taking office last Septem
Der. Kind-hearted as he is there con.
fronts him task OF which his prede-
cessors in office were relieved by the
same legislature which has refused to
commute the supreme penalty imposed
upon Mrs Rogers.
MRS ROGERS CoNFESSES.
Mary Rogers has acknowledged her
guilt to the chaplain Of the state pris
on. According to the Rev Mr. Fuller,
she has freely admitted that in the
guise of Delilah she lured herhusband
Marcus Rogers to his death down
there by the rive: In Bennington. She
was a girl of Is in Hoosick Falls, N.
Y, as she tells it to her spiritual ad
wiser, when Marcus Rogers, nearly 40
years old, twice her age, sought her
in marriage.
After persistent counting by Rogers
who held out the $500 or 5000 insurance
he held upon his life as an inducement
of possible riches, the girl yielded and
married him. He took her to Ben
nington and installed her in factory
boarding house. There the surround.
ings became very loose. After a
while husband and wife separated for
time, until there came across Mary
Rogers horoscope new facination,
in man who is out of the case and
understood to be now in parts un-
known. She wanted to marry him. II
she had the $500 or 5000 on Rogers
life she might do so.
She entered into connivance with Le-
on Perham, who, to save his own neck,
ruthlessly cast the entire blame upon
her and is now industriously lacking
on for the lasting machine in the pris-
on shoe shop. This girl, then but 10
years old, sought out her husband.
She acknowledged her fault and re-
turned TO his bed and board.
Then she took him down by the riv-
er side. Her manner was very affec-
tionate. She threw her arms around
his neck. She produced rope and
suggested that she could tie him so
that he couldn't get away He let her
try it and easily burst the bonds. Then
she submitted tobe tied and got away,
and then Mary Rogers suggested that
Perham was a man who could tie Rog-
ers so that he could not disentangle
himself. The dupe readily submitted
until he found himself tied for "keeps'
hard and fast, and then the open noz-
| h, II