New-York tribune., 1905-08-29
MISSING COUPLE SOUGHT.
SUICIDE SUSPECTED.
Mystery Surrounds abandonment of
Children at albany Hotel.

albany. Aug 2S.-Evidence regarding the
lssn.ity Of 5dr and Mrs. John w. Rogers, who
r,snt out OF the Hotel Ten Eyck here on Friday
light leaving their two little boys-one baby
= six months and the other six years old-in the
are o. a chambermaid. is steadily accumulating.
-. their Whereabouts is a mystery, which is
,uzzIng the police.
The belief that the KogerseS went TO New
rok On Thursday and sailed on the Campania
sor Europe was disposed OF this afternoon, when
edwin II Low, a steamship agent with whom
lhev had had some correspondence about book
,r massage, telegra phed that nobody answering
n their description had sailed the Campania
a. on 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
n hand There is nothing to show why they
should wish to abandon their children. On the
contrary letters found in their rooms at the
hotel and the behavior of the older boy. Rex.
demonstrate that up TO this time the youngsters
e,ere tenderiy cared for. One of these letters.
evidently cherished by Mrs. Rogers, was written
for the child 10 his mother by some grown per-
to7 In it Rex sends loads Of kisses" To-day
r.ren one Of the sympathetic housekeepers at
Ire hotel wanted to kiss Rex. he declined the
-onor I never kiss anybody but my mamma"
he explained
Both children are attractive. Strategy had to
oe used this afternoon 10 get Rex to leave
sis baby brother. Rex was taken TO the Albany
Orphan Asylum. while the baby went TO st.
Na-Earet's Home for Very Young Children.
The older boy shec his first tears when he
,sund his brother was to be taken from him.
adyices from Washington confirm the belief
s-awr from the papers Rogers left in his room
nat he was vice-president Of the Congress
tonal Correspondence Club. He remained in
hat position for two months, when. it is said.
- had 2 disagreement and left the city
-harles H Coleman. OF the New-York law firm
,f ,Quige. Bostwicl5 & Coleman while here to-
say said that about month ago his firm en-
played Rogers as an expert stenographer. He
eft their employment about week ago.
Thus far nothing has developed 10 indicate
.hat The Rogerses are fleeing from justice One
.lcary on which the police are working is that.
f-d.ng themselves at the end of their resources,
taev have committed suicide.
Tho mystery deepened when the effects Of the
Kissing couple We're examined to-day. Their
:rlnk contained clothing and letters. including
TONE from Quigg, Bostwick & Coleman. There
Fe7e unused railroad passes from Asheville n.
T. to Washington and from Philadelphia TO
Bound Brook.
Among the abandoned papers are what pur-
port 10 be two identical certified checks for
Il .491 on the Kern Valley Bank, of Bakersfield,
al. signed with the name of r. H. Mcdonald.
There are also three rubber hand stamps. with
Ehich a check certihcation of this bank might
be forged
Bakersfield, Cal. A1g- 2S.-Inquiry at the
Kern Valley Bank and at the Office of the Call
for7ia Consolidated Oil Fields Company shows
hat no such person as John w. Rogers is known
81 either place, and that checks were ever
lsglIed IN his favor by the latter company. Ihe
Kern valley Bank to-day received a telegram
f-or the Consolidated National Bank OF New
york. which shows that Rogers had made an
sttsrnut to cash check purporting to have been
issued py the oil company and certified by the
bauk The telegram read as follows:
Is check Of Consolidated Oil Fields Company
3rCcr IF John X. Rodgers for S1,o9l, certihed py
Yos good2 Wire reply.
NJ Mcdonald Immediately inquired at the Of
sce u the oil company as TO whether such
1ne-t had been issued. A reply was telegraphed
30 tie New-York bank that no such check had
ben Issued or certified Nhlle the checKS leIt @
.77'rd gre signed by r. H. McIOohaio lhe
-arliier Of the Kern Valley Bank signs his name
'Ponald McDonald.' and has no middle initial
i was learned yesterday that Rogers brought
his wife and children to this city about month
ego and occupied rooms al No - West 10Th
r. He answered an advertisement by the law
frrn Of Quigg Bostwick & Coleman for a ste
rographer and obtained a position trial. For
three weeks he worked in The law office, to the
rrtire satisfaction of his employers. Then he
suddenly disappeared. the firm receiving tele-
phone message that ne had gone home sick.
Police detectives in this city were making in
ouiries at tbe hotels last night in an effort TO
find Rogers and his wife but they expressed be-
lief that the couple had not returned TO this
city, Rogers probably fearing arrest on charge
q attempting 10 cash forged check Fear OF
arrest, the detectives said, probably caused the
couple 10 make their hasty fight from Albany
ana abandon their children