Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-12-10
WOMAN HANGED FOR
NUMBERING HUSBAND
Important Murder Case Of Yer
mont Closed.
CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN 1902

Woman Had Remarkable Career and
essmed 70 Hans Strange influence
on Thoos che Mst-PstltIOnS for
clemeney Were Ot'NO Avail.
Windsor, VI, Dec, S-SGrs. Mary Ma.
bel Rogers was hanged at the Vermont
state prison at Windsor, at 1:1S this
afternoon for tae murder Of her bus
band, Marcus Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was
p1onOunced dead by the prison officials
ct 1:ST p. m.
For q second time Windsor Is crowd.
I'd with strangers who have sought the
vicinity OF the death scene Of Mary
Mabel Rogers, whose execution was
Get Tor the hour between noon and l
o'clock today. Few received permits
20 actually witness the hanging, Hope
Cor the condemned woman was prac-
ideally abandoned today The Sher-
tH's deputy chosen TO spring the trap,
arrived during the night and conluj-
GnG arrangements were promptly made.
Awaiting Governor Bells arrival a. 6
o'clock this morning at White River
Junction, a few miles north Of mere,
were Mrs. Rogers attorneys ready 70
make the inAl legal plea~in her beha
1Irs. Jessie Patton Of Cincinnati,
armed vita = petition for clemency
@signed by thousands of women. had
also come from Rutland and awaited
the executive
RemarkablS career.
The career of Mrs. Rogers mas been
"a remarkable one. A wife at 10 and
"a murderess at 10, ami but q at the
day OF her death, ignorant and de-
spraved, she had a strange influence on
rthose she met and her admirers were
many. In 1902. having won the ai.
Gections Of three men, she encompAssed
the death Of her husband. Marcus X.
Rogers, with the aid OF another ad.
mirer Leon PerIam, to the end that
she might marry a tnird lover, Mau.
rice Knapp. Perham confessed, and
he Is serving a life sentence here.
Mrs Rogers was born IN HOOsick
Falls. N. y, and when married re-
moved 70 Bennington. VT, where the
murder was committed.
story Of the Crime.
The crime for wlica Mrs. Mary Ma.
+. bel Rogers was sentenced to death was
che murder Of her husband ct Benning.
ton. Aug. IS, 1902.
AZ the time the crime was committed
1lrs. Rogers was only 10 years old.
: She had been separated from her bus
band for some time, and was DESTROYS
-Of marrying q young man named Mau.
rice Knapp. On the day Of the muir.
der Marcus Rogers went 20 Bennington
90 visit his wife, and that night she
arranged 20 meet him In the woods
near The WalloomSae Tiver. While CO.
EoGEing hlm sho induced aim 70 aIlOE
her 20 bind hls hands. and while be
was D0TeTioss she ealoroformed him.
@ tbs she vas d1ed By Leoa Per.
han, a haii-Wittsd boy. Who was the
+ eon of the woman With whom sac was
boarding. AnJtheF woman, EsteIle
Aatea. vas present After ehIosoform.
ing Rogers, Perham and MFA Roguru
rolled the body into the river. where
q vas found ne neat DAY. u ordeF
20 divert EuSpisiOn. the woman Wrots
. a0,e % uhieA sac signed her has.
band's uAma. giving the inpresul0n be
had committed sniciia Imma1iateiy &C.
tef ne manesF Mr.. Rogers sndsavoFeS
- collect her lashan6'u tife lnauranee
sm0Hatiug 20 SEQ. AM also mada a..
gangsmeuts 70 purchase furHiturs Zoe
ths house Ehcfp sha eEpected % iira
wasa abe Hlr-ts1 KNAPP
A fsW DAYS afteT ths murdsF ~
RoEers. PtrhAu and tee Batos wonan
WeEN arrested i'eTham male q con
Piets eoafeasioa an1 both ~ and Nh
B1GRrs Wers foasd Eaiity - murteF q
ths arst degree Ppgaam uua ssaisHesd
% imprlsonmeni foF TIE. Whfis the ysf
eiet - NES RoEeFT eas8 Whs death
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