New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-12
MYSTERY In HER DEATH
KNOWN BY THREE NAMES.
Lascyers Son Who Boarded Scith
Dead Uon1an Detained.

A Young man who appeared % be greatly fright
ened called a policeman from the street 20 the
fourth floor OF No. ia West s4th-st, yesterday
morning 20 look At the body OF woman lying IN
The private hall OF an apartment into which she
had moved only a Few days ago The woman had
been dead several hours. There was a splash OF
blood or the wall Of the hall and more blood on
the hoor A revolver lay near the wonan's head
IA which a bullet from the weapon had torn
ragged hole
Investigation by the police led 10 the conclusion
that the woman had committed suicide The young
man. who said he was John T. Williams tod me
police that the woman was Mrs.. Ruth Rogers VINO
had been known also Mrs. Bradley and Mrs,
Kirby. her husband. Williams said, was Howard
Rogers who was IN the Presbyterian Hospital
where ne had undergone an operation for appeh-
dicitis under the name OF Kirby. The woman her-
self had engaged cot al the Roosevelt 1ospltai 70
undergo an operation for cancer
Williams sad he boarded with Mrs Rogers al NO
80 West eth street before Rogers went TO the nos
ritaI and moved with her 70 the apartment N west
Slth street where the furniture was stu IN clsoroer
after the moving. The police found doll under
chair IN one OF the rooms. and williams explained
its presence there By saying Mrs. Rogers had
daughter about FIVE years Old living WIN soii'9
people IN Mount Vernon.
Going home late Saturday night Williams saia'
he found Mrs. Rogers 81 the apartment She
seemed TO be IN low spirits and said she had been
70 see her husband IN the hospital. and had quar-
relied with him. re heard her moving about IN a
front room OF the Eat after he went 10 bed he said
hut he went 20 sleep and did not hear the shot
When he got I'D yesterday morning he found Mrs.
Rogers's body "a the private hall He called some
inmates OF the house and went in search OF police
The pouce found in the wonan's pocketbook
check torn IN pieces. a small sum Of money and
pass 20 visit Kirby IN the Presbyterian Hospital
williams said he did not know much about the
womans husband, except that he wore evening
clothes almost every night and went 10 places Of
he
house IN 9th street. Williams said. there was an
other tenant named Rogers and Mrs. Rogers called
herself Mrs Bradley keep her letters from going
20 the other tenant He understood her maiden
AS 20 Himself Williams said he had weIl-to-do
parents living in Orange, n. j. and he was en-
Columbus Circle. He arrested for speeding an
euomoble IN the street recently, ne said. ana bis
said be feared the effect his father of informa-
Of ON the s deas i of Mrs. Rogers Rsos 'S
Williams was detained at the police station in
West 6Sth street. lie declined TO send for any of
ms friends saying ne hoped his Innocence In The
6zth street. the police found derringer. which was
The police learned that williams's father was
Joseph NJ Williams, lawyer. Of No. 20S Broad
way living at Glen Ridge. n. J. The lawyer Wis.
said he would represent him to-day in the police
reflective Devanney was allowed 10 have a talk
with Kirby at the Presbyterian Hospital last night
teller OF the Hanover National Bank ne had
never married Mrs Rogers he said although he
as a boarder I'm the woman's fiat Kirby said he did
not remember having seen revolver in the wom-
ans fat and he knew Of no reason why she should
Devanney learned that Mrs Rogers had asked,
over the telephone, about Kirby every day while
h 5nS been SCI IN h hospital 9 oo sae s
him a few minutes, in company with another
Kirby's mother Who is living at No. SCI LeEins E
ton-ave, has visited her son daily.
vue morgue last evening