The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-13
First Clue to Disappearance
of Mrs. Burt Rogers, Near
Centerville, in a Note
Found on Monday.
THOROUGH SEARCH
NOW IN PROGRESS
Husband Believes Illness
Has Affected His Wife's
Mind - He Scouts At the
Elopement Theory.
palladium Special)

CENTERVILLE, Ind, May 13.-The
disappearance of Mrs. Burt Rogers,
wife of the manager of the famous
Jackson farm, west of Centerville, who
disappeared last Saturday, was found
yesterday afternoon in a coffee can by
her mother, Mrs. ]. o. McClerney, who
resides on a farm one mile east of the
Jackson farm. This clue was the fol-
lowing note:
''To Mother, Father, Husband and All:
"a note to you all. ! feel so bad
today I want to die. 1 know some
thing you all do not know, and I am
very unhappy and do not care to live.
am in everybody's way; 1 can't do
anything to help make the living, and
I am going to doctor or hospital, and
if die it is all o. K, and If get we'll
will come home. So if you never
see me again, l hope to meet you all
in heaven, so don't worry over me, for
I can't live and do nothing"
Then followed a postscript in which
the woman asked that her 5-year-old
son, James, be given all her personal
belongings. and appealing to her hus-
band not to overwork or worry over
her leaving. She stated that she was
going out of Indiana"
Coincident with the disappearance
of Mrs Rogers was the reported de
parture of Ward Eckert, former farm
hand employed by Rogers, presumably
for Chicago However, Mr.. Rogers is
positive that Mrs. Rogers is not in
company with Eckert, for, he says,
she has never been on good terms with
| him
| She Was in. Ill Health.
| Rogers says that his wife has been
| in i'll health, and he believes that she
may have become mentally. deranged
| The fact that when the woman left
home she took revolver with her has
caused the young husband the great
| est apprehension. There never has
been any trouble between the young
couple
| Rogers states that he has learned
|
;, terurban car at the farm Saturday
morning at $3.50. She took with hel
nearly all her clothing, about $50 she
had on deposit in bank at Centerville
and a small sum of money Rogers hao
in the house. Before leaving she cut
! the telephone wires. Mrs. Rogers arose
at the usual hour Saturday morning
and prepared her husbands breakfast
remarking that she did not feel as wei
as usual, and that she would place his
dinner on the table and spend the day
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. o
McClerney Her husband aSsented tt
this arrangement as he knew his wife
had been in bad health for the pas
two months, and he was also anxious
for her to spend the day with theil
five-year old son, James, who ha:
lived with his grandparents for the
past two months, since his mother be
came ill.
Search Is Still On.
On Rogers return home Saturda!
moan he ate the meal his wife had pre-
pared for him then attempted to tele
phone to her at her parents but coulC
not do so because she had cut tn,
wires, which fact he did not ascertain
until Monday. He went to his father
in-law's home late in the afternoon ant
discovered that his wife had not beel
there. He and Mr. McClerney then be
gan an investigation and from SOM
traction employees learned that Mrs
Rogers had left on a car Saturda,
morning and had stated she was goini
to visit relatives at Connersville.
Sunday the two men motored t
: Connersville but were unable to fin
any trace of her and her whereabout
today are as much of a mystery a
J they were Saturday. The case has no
i yet been placed in the hands of tn
authorities but Rogers and McClerne
are still conducting thorough search