New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-01

chances for recovery, physicians said
that nothing definite may be known
for fifteen days.
A woman believed to have been the
real Mrs. Rogers called yesterday, and
II is said that she will return on daily
visits. Rogers, heart-broken and m
consolable, never left the hospital ne
was visited by Professor Giddings, MS
brother.in-law, but refused to answer
any questions, even those asked by the
When told of the statements OF the
diving woman, regarding compact DE-
tween Rogers and his VIE. fr0lessor
Giddipes remarked, Nonsense! Inc
woman. il is understood, salc that neI
affair with the lawyer was known nos
only to his wife, but TO members VI
his wife's family as well.
Professor Giddings, when ne con-
fyonted the lawyer in the hospital, said;
81 have come 10 you LOT d" 'NP'"'
ton OF this affair" IL,
81 am very nervous" Rogers replied.
"I can't think. | will explain TO Mrs
Rogers when | am myself. Please 90
not press me-" 49,.
"But will you not say something tnat
will right myself and my sister pc
fore the public?" the professor asked.
81 alter | shall make an explanation
that will be satisfactory TO eVeryDooy'
I assure you," he replied. .;.
az want an answer to this question:
7. Il true that my sister agreed TO dl-
vorce Won so that you could marry TINS
woman and give the children your
When Rogers again refused to an
swer his brother-in-law departed
Previously Professor Giddings nad
admitted 20 reporters that ne hao oeen
aware of the existence of trouble IN MS
sisters household. ,,,o
"Mrs. Rogers was sure TWO YEAR ~
that something was wrong, ana l I.
sure that something was mahlns n ne
unhappy. l questioned her' Ou' '
said little. $50, It. .t.o did
saw. however I became suspicious oi
Po1ers In to that time l had oeen
friendlv with him, and even AFTER that'
for tho sake of my sister, kept up
an annearance of friendliness.
"Tbe tragedy of the affair IS tnai
,,v sister loves Rogers. She asked
no 70 saw for her to any one VINO
m ma inquiry: Whatever Mr., Rogers
wavs believed and always Will oeiis'e
80 ba is essentially a good man.
District Attorney Martin OF broh4
Comfy declared positively last nighe
tbot Rogers will not be prosecuted lo'
b,gamv. He was convinced, ne saiu'
tbst the LAWYER was not married u
the -econd woman.
Her Identity an Enigma
number of theories were al
yanced in the attempt to clear the
mystery that clings to the past OF Wis
IA Pooers. She speaks with the &C
cent and voice of Southernet:
cording TO District Attorney Martin Oh
Tho Bronx. but insists that sne mas
aIwavs lived in New York and its ven ilr
;tv She gave her name as Ida SniIeh
on the hospital record, but yestergay
firmly asserted that she was not luz
Sniffen. ,si.+iry
theories about her was advanced ~
BROOKLYN newspaper man named us ms
He visited the patient at Lebanon ros
nital Yesterday, and said that ne re-
oqnized her as the same ida on,nen
that he had known in Brooklyn nI.een
Years ago, that she was then eign'ee cen
or nineteen years old and lived at -fo
Cumberland St aho closolv
When Mills told her tnat she S.oSe
resembled the Ida Sniffen that ne nau
known she said that ne was ! ms m
.r,u sorry but don't know yoL.
III bovc one of those face. so formed
.ha, one is bound to find in IT some
et hrocteristic of otae. people. | never
S;,.aJ IN Rro 1klyn, and | am sure that
never knew any of the people you
speak Of. -, 80 forr,.r res;-
- in Rrooklyn and her rejection OF
tbe name which she had gwen herseIi
VIC H. birth and death certificates OF
~ infant daughter, the theory Is
ne nta,s;hIe one when coupled with the
Element of her family physician hat
~, rad know. Rogers since childhood,
ond the discovery yesterday that Rog-
e ors had lived in Brooklyn during his
'0 Snother elew 10 her identity was
+raced without avail, yesterday by
poI;ce Chief Thomas Curran, OF Nyack-
when the woman moved into the franc
house on 18TH ST., under the name oil
Ida Rogers she received a trunk Ia
beIled ida Waters, Nyack, n. 1.
This information was conveyed 10
Chief Curran, who was advised that
nossibly the mysterious woman's name
Vas Waters and that she might have
been divorced, but he was unable TO
find anyone that recalled an Ida Waters
living in the village. He did learn,
however, that a family named Snitfen
mad lived there until about a year ago,
when they moved to the outskirts OF
White Plains.
Wife Sorrowed in Secret.
Mrs. Caroline Giddings- Rogers, the
second wife Of Lorlys Elton Rogers,
has three brothers: Professor Frank
lin H. Giddings, Of Columbia Univer-
sity; Edward Giddings, a newspaper
editor, Of Rochester, and Charles Gid
dings. who lives in Great harrington,
Mass.
Professor Giddings said that al
though he had not known that there
was a skeleton in the closet OF his sis
ter's family, he had noticed, presum-
ably about the time that John Rogers,
the elder of the two poisoned children,
was born, that his sister was grievlng.
He observed in his conversation with
her afterward that there were times