The Washington times., 1906-06-14
MILLIONAIRE SON
BECOMES TROOPER
Joins Army Because He
Couldn't Marry Actress.
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED
Gave Up Every Luxury for Thirteen
Dollars a Month and Is
Sorry.

NEW YORK, June 14.-Once a man
OF ease with plenty of money and
every luxury Then cast off by his
rich father because he became en-
gagged to a handsome blonde actress,
and now a trooper in the United States
Cavalry. is the romance of Charles
Rogers. whose recent disappearance has
just been cleared up.
Miss May Leslie. the actress fancee.
now announces that the engage
ment has been broken off. and the rich
Rogerses are in receipt of letters which
clear up the young mans mysterious
disappearance.
The missives received state that
young Rogers had enlisted in the army
and was serving as a trooper in the
Fifteenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort
Ethan Allen. Vermont. The d sappear-
ance of Rogers, who Is a son of the
millionaire president Of the Borden Con-
densed MIX Company, caused much un-
easiness 10 his family and friends.
That Rogers is serving as a private in
the army, living on the SIS a month
which the Government gives the troop
ers, came as a shock TO his relatives.
He Didn't Marry Her.
How young Rogers came to enlist Is
not known. but it is believed he was, i'm
PEELED to DO so because of the breaking
UP Of his romance by his father The
young man was desperately in love with
Miss Leslie, and when his father told
him II he married the young woman he
would be disowned by the family he
replied that he would wed the actress
in spite Of threats
For some reason. however. the mar
riage did not take place, and young
Rogers disappeared.
1t was almost as if a bomb had been
dropped in the midst of the Rogers
family when they received a letter from
the son. saying that ne was a private in
the army. For years the young man
had received big allowance from his
father, and he became one of the best
known men about town. lie owned two
big automobiles and spent money reck-
lessly- Life to him was a rosy dream
OF gay supper parties, and il seemed
almost Incredible 70 his relatives that
he could endure the discipline of a
soldiers life.
Although, Rogers father Gid not OBJ
Ject 10 the son having entered the army
he felt that with the wealth Of his
parent at his command the young man
might have been appointed TO the SER
vice as an officer.
May Return Home.
she received a letter from Rogers, tell
ing where he was. He said he was pre-
vented from seeing her because he had
enlisted for three years, but neither to
his parents nor 10 the young woman
did he tel! how he came to enter the
army. Apparently Rogers now is sorry
for hayjng given up his easy-going life
for uRat of the trooper, for he inti-
mated TO Miss Leslie he would not be
sorry If he could return to New York
Miss Leslie, who is a handsome blonde
and the daughter Of a wealthy builder.
had given up a home Of IuxGry for the
stage. When only seventeen yeSIs old
she was married to Mortimer w.
Thompson, a wealthy society man. She
heard, however, the call of the stage. %
and Joined a theatrical company This
did not meet with the approval of her
husband and his family, and the result
was that the couple separated. Then
she obtained a divorce from Thompson,
and she was a member of the Won
derland' company, then playing in the
Majestic Theater, when she met Rog-
ers, who fell in love with her.