New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-14
ROCERS'S LOVE HAS
COOLED, IS REPORT
Wife Accuses Rich Della
ware Man, According to
Various Hints.
BUT DIVORCE ACTION
STORY is DENIED
Another Woman Mentioned ana
Father Is Said to Demand
Custody of Child.

pesuite reports from Wilmington, Del
Yesterday that suit for divorce had been
a,cd in this city by Mrs. Josephine Pyle
Rogers AGAINST her husband. Theodore
pcarclerc ROGERS. both OF well known
Delaware families. Mrs. Rogers's lawyer
clarence s. Houghton. OF II Broadway
denied that she had brought such an ae-
ton. II is intmated, however, that the
Rogers matrimonial ship was not sailing
OF smooth waters.
The marriage Of Rogers and Miss Pyle
az New Castle in 1903 followed an elope-
uert on a trolley car from wilmington
Soon aftorward Rogers's mother SURPRISED
thcir relatives and friends by marrying
Charles Stockley. lawyer and trlehd OIL
hcy son and many years her junior MIS-.
ROGERS and Stockley went 10 MISSISSIPPI
on "a business trip. and when ihev re-
turned they were man and wife. she has
since oiod.
According 10 the reports the bringing
Of the orce action in New York was 10
prevent publicity.
Rogers. who is twenty-siX years old, IS
the son OF the late Theodore Beaucierc
Rogers. of Beauclerc Manor, near Ne"
Castle. Del. His father was the nephew
OF the late Jacob 5. Rogers, president q
the Rogers Locomotive Works, at Pater-
son. y. j.. who let 100000 20 the Met
ropouan Museum Of Art. Mrs. Rogers Is
the daughter Of the late Willard >. rye
She was one Of six sisters who all mar
ried well. one Of Mrs. RoSers's sisters
Is the wife Of Willard Salisbury. United
States Senator from Delaware.
About a month ago Mrs. Rogers came
10 this city. leaving word in New castle
that she was coming here to find employ
ment. that she might earn her own living
II was then that she was said to nave
alod the divorce suit. An effort was
made to have Rogers come TO New York
and accept service. the reports had IT, but
ne declined TO come until Mr.. Houghton'
Mrs. Rogers's counsel, promised not 10
serve him. lie came and consulted win
George Gordon Battle. his lawyer, ana
agreed TO allow his wife a liberal amount
Of. alimony and not defend the suit, IT
was said, If she would consent to let nm
have their -year-old son. Rogers is
said to have expressed his willingness TO
hermit his wife to see the boy while IN
the care of a third person, and that event
ually it might be arranged that Mrs.
Rogers could have the custody of the
son part of the time.
At present Rogers has the custody OF
their son, Theodore Beauclerc Rogers, I'd,
and Mrs Rogers is said not to know ,hc
present whereabouts of the boy. Rogers
obtained the custody Of the child from
his Wife's sister, Mrs. Arthur de Bert
Robins. Of Philadelphia, where Mrs
Rogers had placed the boy. The father
went from New Castle and demanded mis-
son. and Mrs Robins surrendered the boy
- 10 his father, who had him placed with q
Caretaker.
At the death OF Jacob Rogers, the loco
motive builder. his son became one of the
executors of his estate, and his already
large fortune was increased. The re-
ported defendant in the divorce suit re
ceived the large estate left by his father
Rogers is living at the Hotel Louise, In
New Castle When seen there he re
fused 10 discuss the case. Mrs. Roger.
Is reported TO name an unknown woman
as correspondent in the divorce action an,
mentions the place and date OF her hus
bands alleged transgression as the Hoe
Navarro, on May 6.