The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-12-13
HUNG At LAST.
Mrs. Rogers Dies on the Gallows
for Her Crime.
MURDERED HUSBAND.
Vhom She ChlorHcrmed at VI letting iD
the Woods While She Was Caress.
ing Him. Great Efforts Wer=
Male to Save the Woman.
Rut The, Failed.
But The, Failed.

Male to Save the Woman.
But The, Failed.
a dispatch from Windsor, VT, say
Mrs. Mary Rogers was hanged at th
Vermont State prison at lib o'clocl
Friday afternoon for the murder o
her husband, Marcus Rogers at Ben
nington, on August l3, 1902. Mrs
Rogers was pronounced dead by tn
prison officials at l:27 1-2.
The execution took place after tn
woman had twice been reprieved o.
account Of appeals made by her coun
sci and after the United States Su
preme Court refused t0 take action ii
the case.
Oaly comparatively few person!
witnessed the hanging, the number
being restricted to those permitted tx
attend by the laws Of Vermont.
Mrs. Rogers maintained her com
posure to the last and % ountsd the
galloWs with steady step. Although
a deathly pallor o7erspread her coun
tenance, hardly muscle qaivered as
Deputy Sheriff Shs # )rd pronounced
the fatal words, II nov proceed tc
execute the sentence OF the law and
may God have mercy On your soul. .
When the words we're pronounced
Deputy Sheriff Angus McAuley sprung
the trap and the drop fell.
The crime for which Mrs. Mary
Rogers was sentenced to death was
the murder OF her husband, Marcus
Rogers, at Bennington, on August 13.
1902. At the time the crime was com
mltted Mrs. R1gers was cnly nine.
teen. She had been separated from
her husband for some time and was
desirous OF marrying young man
named Maurice Knapp.
Ga the DAY OF the murder Marcus
Rogers went to Bennington to visit
his wife and that nigat she arranged
to meet him In The woods near the
Walloomsack river. While caresslng
hin she induced him to allow her t.
blDd his hands, and while he was po1
erless she c1lorotormed him. In this
SIZE was aidsd by Lson Perham, a
nalfW!lted by who was rne son Of
tee woman with whom she uoarded.
Another woman, Estella Bates: was
present.
A few days after the murder Mrs.
Rogers, Pernam and the Bates woman
we're arrested. Pcrham made co:a
plste confession and Goth he and Mrs
Rogers were found guilty OF murder
N the first degree, Perhan was sen
fenced to mpris9nmsnt for life and
Mrs. Rogers was sentenced to. the
death galloHS.
Various attempts were mace to
commute Mrs Rogers sentence but ali
failed The date set for the execution
vas February 3, 1905. Gov. Bell grant.
ed two reprleves for the presentation
Of new evidence, but the court denied
the petition for new trial each time,
and the United States Supreme Court
refused to consider the case.
Certain disclosures regarding scan.
dals in the Vermont State prison at
Windsor, where Mrs. Rogers has been
corfned, have, it is claimed, affected
public sentiment. According to testi
mony before the prison investigation
committee Of the Legislature one OF
the conv:cts at Windsor had access
to Mrs. Rogers cell some time after
the first reprieve was granted. It was
alleged that this was part Of con-
spiracg on the part Of certain prison
officials to bring about such condl
tion IS would further postpone the e1.
cution.
Mrs. Rogers was the first person
sentenced to death In Vermont with
in the past thirteen years who was re.
fused clemency. The last woman to be
executed was Mrs. Emeline Meeker,
at Windsor, on March 30, 1883.
On the march to the galloWs MIS-
Rogers declined the assistance OF dep.
uties. Her step was firm. She mount.
ed the scs If I'D unaided and stopped
exactly upon the center OF the trap.
Sac sat down in the chair for q me-
ment aud, when asked If she had any
final stntement to make she shook bel
head negatively.
Mrs, Rogers body has been claimed
by her mother and sister, and will be
buried by them at Ho:sick Falls, n.
Y, where the mother, Mrs. Josie Cal.
Iahan, resides.