Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-04-18
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 FOUND DEAD
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 x X NSA Judge Jacob Trieber Fotnd Dead Body of Fort Smith& Justice in Hotel <
WAS HOLDING COURT
[ Death Was Due From Natural Causes Body Removed From Hotel
 to Hemingway Home.

Little Rock, Ark, April 17.-John Henry Rogers of Fort Smith. judge of tie United States circuit court for the Western District of Arkansas, was found dead in his bed iI a room at the New Capital HoIel this morning at 10:30 o'clock by Judge Jacob Trie Der of the Eastern District of the United States District court
 Judge Rogers failed to appear in court this morning st 10 o'clock to pass sentence on W. J, Dwyer atE c. M Cross, convicted late saturdaSY,faf- teri oon on a charge of handling sll- k gally oleo-margine, and when ' he failed to respond to telephone calls 5n his room Judge Trieoer, for whom he was holding court, ", ,nt to the hotel to ascertain the cause. The door Of his room was found to be locked and
 
 ger repeated knocks were unanswer- ed.
 in the bed the body of Judge Rog- CTS was found. still ws rm, indicating that death had come only short time before. Coron ,r D. E. Hodges was notified and immediately came to the hotel, and after an examination daoided that death aai resulted from natural causes and that an inquest would not be necessary. Dr. Hodges C so announced that death had oc- cured some three. hours before tue 5cey was found.
 Judge Rogers is survived by a vii 'cow, who is now at Mineral Wells Texas, and three sons.-Abert, John ;;I Jr. and Douglass f;. Rogers-and enc daughter, Mrs. R>5 A. Johnston, CT Fort Smith.
 Douglass Rogers Was notified im- nedlateH by telegraph Of the death 2f Lis father by F. .. Henderson, pr; vate secretary to Ju tse Rogers, and h. will leave today for Little R ;..k to take charge of the " and a"cHnl- ,'aAy it to Fort Smith. MT. Henda so- also notified the widow an'l he nte- CT children of the d. ata of Judge Rogers.
 ,Irdge John Henry Roge $ was born in Bertie County Nor:'. Carolina Oc- to. CT, 1S45, and reno o'ei to Fc"; sin'th in 1869, one yee" .i''- he grad- lsted from the Uniy9 ,y of Hss!s- sitpi Iii lis carly 4ov1onl h's :a.,t. Absalom and
 c.s removed from North Caroiin to Mississipp; .nd ,G that s.ate he en- tered the Confederate army as a pri- vate and served throughout the war. Three years after the close of the war he graduated from tho State Univer- sity and taught school in Mississippi for one year, during which he was admitted to the bar. In 1869 he re- roved to Arkansas and located at Ft. Smith, where he has since resided.
 In 1877 he was elected to the State c'rcuit bench and served until 1882 and the next year he went to the nat ional Congress as representative from the Fourth Arkansas district. Here he remained until 1891. In 1892 he was delegate to the National Dem- ooratic Convention and .n 1896 he was appointed United States judge of the Western district of Arkansas, With his office at Fort Smith.
 Judge Rogers was one of tae most ab msn on the bench and command. ed tte respect and admiration of the entire bar His pr ncipol work on the bench was. of course, in Fit Smith itt oftentimes he exchanged with the presiding judge at Little Rock snd he'd court here when the local judge u-.ie fisrna'if'ed ~nd in this manner he came to be well l,nown as jur'st, as he had before been known s an, attorney of ability an ehar9 cter.
 fudge Rogers came to Little Rock aoout ten days ago to hold court for fudge Trieber and was engaged the latter pert of the week in the case of the government against w. ]. Dwv- er and c. M. Crcss. who wore chs ~g- ed with the illegal handling of cleo margine. On Saturday afternoon tse,