The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-08-29
FALSE STORY SAYS nARpiN:


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NsFnoh Rogers ~ aal other Hiaa had
sopsss "a MARI hossIs' oil is = bio. "
Harold iiaFPln SAID iaal 10 nsgsI
sas employed u lhs par ~ i.s pFisaH
siisTs MFs Rogers sas oohhhsd pFioI
h. lias nrsl date 90 Zoe bee ekrcaiioa
ahish vas lass slater snd llai hs nol
snly lad 40 Communication sllA hsE
bai ihai DO had 40 opportunity ~ con
uiaaleasins sta hsF
Rpsasins ga his phase 81 no mallsF
be said "MsFy Rogers dsaih sslci,
sas EsmoFsd shea shs got hsF stay
Last slater b1i sts was noi laksn from
iise sssl sing. sas quart ~ Nc
pFisoa tllsh bai over he H.sH eoh.icis,
Amer lhs death watch sss izksa on
Mfs iloErrs pas aiiosed no raa 81
10 ssst slhs corridor daring ihs day
bai AZ hlghi sas locked ia nc corner
coll so ofiosr yes kept Ia ii,s vest
sins 10 tho day bai vsrson Rogers.
sho il = ''srasiy." uoFksd ahgaaried
aroahd Iba svsi slhg coll bloos bot
sas shst oai from Mrs Rogers hy dou.
bio soodsa doors In tao places oa ne
nofth snd on Tho south ends
These doabls doors ueFs heavy
soodsa ones ~lih ordinary locke. The
ksys ~ vhioh sets carried BY Mis-
naFkes, the mairon, -ho took Nrs
Ragsrs meals 10 her Mas DaFkse
had " uaiocs lhs outer door and opsa
u before shs could uhiocs Tho innrr
door 10 50 10 The condemned woman.
"Ny father and nay ihAye stldsbcs
rhich ~ can produce AZ ans time thal,
~hlls vsrnoa Rogers ala gvl 10 sbsrc
Mrs Rogers sas, 10 never did 20 unsll
fali -eek afsr both my father aud I
had been discharged ssd 90 can prove
cSaeily hos u cane about
hT'he say 10 hAppehed ~As lhls: Mrs
hoss'a he'd q pair q scissors ullh
shleh sas sofksd II The iocs 90 ose
~ the inside doors uniil she vas able |
20 uaiasies 4 and lbVa che opened tia,
door And shen shs heard Vernon Rog.
tfs uorklng around 10 tho hallsay !
outside she raped 90 Tho door until
h. cane 81 Il 10 Sc shat vas tie mat /
t,r aud shc talked - him through The /
kcy hole and told him u he could make /
a kcy that would unlock the outside
door she rould like 10 have him come !
In ahd Sc her.
vernon Rogers said at frsi he did.
nj think he could gcl key and Mary |
cgn!a.acd ~ him hos she had been
able 70 ~, her lock open by the use Of |
q pair Of scissors hnd told him TO twist
up a heavy piece Of wirc and he could
work The lock.
vernon Rogers got the wire and
made crude key, but Que which work.
cd, and at a time Of day when he knew
Miss Durkee wouldn't be around he
got his door open, Mary Rogers open.
ed the door on her side and the trusty
aud the condemned womaa we're to-
gether. THIS lasted about two weeks,
and then, being discovered. Mrs Rog-
ers was removed 70 safer quarters IN
the central building and Vernon Rog.
ers was locked up.
"vernon Rogers was accused ofhav.
Ing been helped by some one TO make
his wire key and was urged TO tell who
Il was, but he stuck strictly 10 his
original story that he made the key
himself aud that no one 10 the world
but be and Mary Rogers knew he had
Il until he was caught, and they never
have got any other story out OF him
and they wont because that Is the truth.
they kept Vernon Rogers in cell
about four weeks and finding he would
ut implicate any one else, because be
they put him back at his
work around the halls, as lie had been
loing before he was caught 10 Mrs
Rogers company.
"You must remember that the first
lime Vernon Rogers ever got into the
vest wing where Mary Rogers was,
vas week or more after my father and
myself had left the prison, and neither
If us we're ever Inside the prison after
hat SO could by no possibility have
lad anything to do with it.
Living in Windsor and having
riends still among the employees in
he prison, as we have, my father and
heard the story Of the meeting in Mrs
Rogers quarters as soon as they were
discovered and we got them right and
AN prove tina, / never knew the first
hing about the matter until after the
xposure came and it became known
Iround the prison. Mrs Rogers lies
md without cause, when she saysI had
my knowledge of the keys"
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