The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-20
TRIAL OFC. H. ROGERS
ACCUSED OF SHAVING GIRL ANn
 TWO MEN.
Defendant is Said to Have Confessed Terrible Crime to Pfnkerton Detective while Travelling
 fO East. ect

Goshen, N. Y.,, Oct. l9s--The trial o' Charles Henry Rogers. for murder. will begin here Monday. Rogers is charged with having murdered Fred R. Olney Willis c. Olney, and Alice Ingerick al farm near MiddletowA osn Oct 6, 1905 After a search of ; ear and half Pinkerton detectives found Rogers ir Los Angeles and he was arrested Apri g, last.
 During the trip across the continent Rogers Is said to have confessed the crime in all details to Sheriff A. + Decker. {.
 Fred olney and his brother. willis were old and respected farmers. Mrs Ingerick was their housekeeper. On the morning of the murders. Fred Ol- ney took the oldest daughter of Mrs. Ingerick to Pilgrims Corners. He iefs the girl with friend to come home or foot in the afternoon. She returned with the friend and found the honse locked. Becoming frightened. she went to the home of a neighbor, Dan Davis. :.
 Davis broke into the house, and al the foot of the stairs foung the young' CT Ingerick girl, g years old, with her skull crushed, Davis summoned the Middletown police by telephone. The police arrived and examined the prem : fses. In Willis Olney's room they found a leather trunk opened and the msrney and vaiuables gone. In the cellar was fouhd2a length of gas pipe wrapped In a bloody newspaper.
 In a stall in the barn Mrs. Ingerick was found moaning under pile of hay. She had evidently been hit over the head with the piece of gas pipe. It was not until the next morning that the bodies of the olney brothers were found The barking of a pet dog in a clump of bushes near the house led the officials to the spot. Fred Olney had four bullet holes in his body and VII lis two.
 Rogers was not suspected of the bru- tai murders at first He Is said 10 have been friendly with Mrs. Ingerlck who. after the assault. fingered ra- tween life and death for days. Whom she recovered in a measure she pro- fessed to have no recollection of ttie crimes and discIaimed all knowledge regarding the identity of the murderer. Soon after the murders Rogers disap- peared from Middletown. and 1t was then that suspicion was turned toward him. It is thought that he heard ths the Olney brothers had in their ], sses- sion s5,000 cash and some valuables.
 The Pinkertons searched In vain fol some traces of Rogers until Januar, 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 hotel at Madeira Cal, under the name of Charles Fl Carpenter Detectives were at onc' sent to Madeira to arrest him, but wheI they got there Rogers had quit his jot and departed. The proprietor of th' hotel, hoewver, identified a picture. ant from the description given declared that Carpenter was Rogers. the mar they sought. The detectives became sure the fugitive was hidder in Loi Angeles. Believing that the mar would call in time at the general de livery of the postoffice and wishing t. make the Identification complete let ter was sent from Middletown, N. r. addressed to Charles H. Carpenter Rogers was arrested while receiving the decoy letter.
 His alleged confession is sad to hav' since been completely substantiiated Ills defense win be insanity. He wa in an emaciated condition when, place, in jail several months ago, bat ha