Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-01
MlJ }DER AND ATTEMPT Al SvICIDE
Albert Rogers 83 Years Old Killed His Wife s5 and Then Shot Hinnsef-At Backus Hospital In Dazed Condition and May Recever-Under $5, 900 Bends-Dispute Pre- ceded the Shooting and Temporary Insanity Indicated Married 60 Years

Albert A. Rogers, nearly 83 years cid, shet and killed his wife, aged 85 years. and then, turning his revolver on him. self, narrowly escaped suicide at their home in Oakdale, in the town of Mont vile. early Thursday merning AL though words of dispute were heard from the aged couple, who had been married and had lived happily and peacefully together fer SC years. just before the sound of five. shots rang cut. MT. Rogers, seriously wounded himself, has been in q dazed condition since the tragedy, unconscious of the dis tressing details of what occurred in those few moments when he is believed to have been in the grip of temporary fit of anger and perhaps insanity. As the first medical man to arrive at the scene of the shooting, Dr. Merton E. Fox, came into the room, Mr. Rogers was sitting in chair rocking back and forth impassively, as his wife lay bleeding to death on the floor in front of him. His only reply to what he had done and why were the words, repeat ed over and over: T don't know; l don't know"
 Arose Earlier Than Usual. MT. Rogers arose rather earlier than usual, about o'clock, on Thursday morning. He lived downstairs while his son Arthur, with his wife and child, occupy the second floor in the house on the Rogers farm, which is on the crossroad between the Oakdale mills and the NorWich-NeW London turn pike about three quarters of a mile from the mills. His son Arthur. who was upstairs in his part of the house building fire. went down and greeted his father and a few minutes later saw his mother. The latter said to her son: He has beaten me this morning." referring to the fact that her husband had gotten up before she. Then Ar thur Rogers went out to the barn.
 Talking Followed by Shots.
 Mrs. Arthur Rogers, from her room above where she was getting up, heard the old people talking downstairs. Then came the sound of a shot and the voice of her mother crying: What are you trying to do?' Four other shots followed in close succession. Mrs. Ar thur Rogers screamed and ran for help to the home of her brother -in-law, Ed mund H. Rogers, about 200 feet dis tant.
 Meanwhile, from the barn Arthur Rogers had heard the. shots and the Gutcry of his wife and rushed into the house. The son found his mother lying unconscious in a heap on the floor with bleed rushing from wounds in her head but still breathing. His father was just coming cut of his wife's bedroom, where he had restored the revolver to Its place in the desk, and had locked 
 his hand. Mrs Rogers was in the sink room, where basin of water had been placed with wash cloth. so that it looked as if she were just going to wash herself,
 First Shot Went Wild.
 The first shot evidently went wild, for after the first report came Mrs. Rogers question to her husband, but the three succeeding bullets all took effect. The fifth shot MT. Rogers turned against himself and he replaced the six cylinder, 92 calibre Smith & Wesson, with an extra long barrel. in the desk with one cylinder still loaded. One shot had hit Mrs. Rogers in the top of the skull, allowing some of the brain to Ooze out; another had passed from cheek to cheek. and a third en- tered near the neck and went through the back of the head. There are two bullet marks in the ceiling and one in the window casing. The shooting took place at 6.20 o'clock and without re- gaining consciousness Mrs. Rogers died at 8.20.