Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-19
TRIPLE MURDERER
INSANITY
Rogers Must Answer to the
BlOOdieSt Crime of the
Decade.

GOSHEN, N. Y, Oct. 19.-The trial
of Charles Henry Rogers for murder
will begin here Monday. Rogers is
Olney, Willis c. Olney and Alice In
gerick at a farm near Middletown on
October 6. 1905. After a search of a
year and a half Pinkerton detectives
found Rogers in Los Angeles and he
was arrested April last. During the
trip across the continent Rogers is said
to have confessed the crime in all de.
tails to Sheriff A. L. Decker.
Fred Oiney and his brother, Willis,
were old and respected farmers Mrs.
Ingerick was their housekeeper. On
the morning of the murders Fred Oh
ney took the oldest daughter of Mrs.
Ingerick to Pilgrims Corners. He left
the girl with a friend to come home
| on foot in the afternoon. She returned
with the friend and found the house
locked. Becoming frightened she went
| to the home of a neighbor, Dan Davis.
! Davis broke into the house, and at
the foot of the stairs found the younger
Ingerick girl nine years old, with her
skull crushed. Davis summoned the
Middletown police by telephone. The
police arrived and examined the prem
ises. In Willis Olney's room they found
leather trunk opened and the money
and valuables gone. In the cellar was
found a length of gas pipe wrapped II
bloody newspaper.
/ In a stall in the barn Mrs. 1ngericl
was found moaning under pile Of hay
She had evidently been hit over thu
head with the piece of gas pipe. /
was not until the next morning tina
the bodies of the Olney brothers wer'
found. The barking of a pet dog IL
clump of bushes near the house LEI
the officials to the spot. Fred ONE!
had four bullet holes in his body an
Willis two.
Rogers was not suspected of tn
brutal murders at first. He is said L
have been friendly with Mrs IngeriCR
who, after the assault, fingered be
tween life and death for days. Whcl
she recovered in a measure she pro
fessed to have no recollection OF tn
crimes and disc1aimed all knowledg
regarding the identity os the murderer
Soon after the murders Rogers disap
peared from Middletown and it wa
then that suspicion was turned to-
ward him. 1t is thought that he hear'
that the Olney brothers had ir thei
| la,
ab1es.
The Pinkertons searched in vail
for some trace of Rogers until JanuaT,
27 last, when a clue was afforded b!
letters he wrote to persons in Middle
town. They found he had been work
ing as a porter in a hotel at MADEIRA
Cal, under the name of Charles H
Carpenter. Detectives were at one
sent to MADEIRA to arrest him, but whel
they got there Rogers had quit his jol
and departed.
The proprietor of the hotel, however
identified a picture, and from the de
scription given declared that Carpente
was Rogers, the man they sought. TIL
detectives became sure the fugitive wa
hidden in Los Angeles. Believing tina
the man would call in time at the gen
era1 delivery of the postoffice and wish
ing to make the identification complies
letter was sent from Middletown,
Y, addressed to Charles H. Carpenter
Rogers was arrested while receiving
the decoy letter.
His alleged confession is said t.
have since been. completely substan
tiated His defense will be insanity
He was in an emaciated condition whel
placed in Jail several months ago, bu
has since greatly improved in health
/. having gained at least so pounds il
weight.