The Washington times., 1915-01-09
WIFE ADMITS PACT
/. TO GIVE UP ROGERS
Breaks Long Silence to Tell Of
Struggle to Save Honor Of
laWyer.Husband.

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-A simple,
straightforward statement Of Nrs.
Caroline Giddihgs Rogers struggle to
save tho honor Of her husband, Lorlys
Elton Rogers. tho lawer. even though
she had discovered on three different
occasions his relations with ida Sniff
fen Rogers, his so-calied common law
w1e' was given out by Emory r.
Buckner, her counsel, who has been
instructed to get her a divorce.
The legally welded MIRA Rogers.
VINO Is q sister Of Prof. Franklin Gid
dings. Of Columbia University, did
nave an agreement with her unfaith-
ful husband, as has been rumored. to
give up the struggle II Rogers found
MS aLIections lay permanently else
his two babies.
The end Of the silent f,sht came in
0sr, sSle snsrt wnen they .sblet their fashion
Riverside drive,
she had condoned his inhdelity up to
that time. but II was in vain, ana then
oennite separation became q neccs-
sly. sly. DO they parted. The inexplIcable
hnnH hH soout the parting agreement,
what has been learned. the MRS. Rog-
ers now In Lebanon Hospital went to
tno real Mrs. Rogers to ask her to
give Zip Rogers to his children and their
mother and was refused. The state
ment says:
Met In 1891.
She had known Mr.. Rogers since 1901.
when she met him casually in New
fork city. In 1901 she moved to CHICAGO
Wnere she kept house for an aged uncle
,ha. sne married Rogers In 1909. At
fast his e Time Rosers had been divorced BY
nogers. The wedding took place in 'Oc-
.ooer 70 l9O9. at the home Of her uncle
IN chicago, and the marriage met his
en.,rc .!nrc approval.
to New apa YorH Mr: sR Kosss5' ger mSves a:
tt ment At $50 Riverside Drive. For some
tine their life was very full of happi-
ness. until. like q bolt from q clear
AK; ok H., came s,iis the story Of Rogers inn.
Rogers begged her forgiveness and
she, In q desire to save him and save
their Joint happiness, upon his prom.
isS. lss OF future fidelity. forgave him.
atty and devotion and a struggle Tor
an ideal the like of which have never
witnessed. Not only once. but on three
different occasions. discoveries Of inn
deity were followed by promises Of fu-
ture exemplary conduct and her for.
giveness ensued.
Gave Up Struggle.
1T was during this period of the
struggle to save her husband that Mrs.
Rogers. at her husbands request, final
ly agreed that II after a certain time
he should find his affections perma.
nently elsewhere and should no longer
desire her to be his wife, then she
would give up he struggle.
,,. AT last IN October. 1914. Mrs. Caro-
Ilne Gid6ngs' Rogers realised that her
patient loyalty and long struggle had
been In vain: she gave up the fight.
definitely separated from her husband
vorce. but in q way which would avoid
publicity and injure her husband and
herself as little as possible.
she has instructed that divorce pro-
ceedinGs be begun. feeling that she has
done all that human power can do
to maintain the integrity OF her home
and to save the honor OF her husband
So Caroline Giddings Rogers is prac-
tically out Of Rogers love entanRle-
ments Her brief In the case and the
intended divorce surrender him to the
woman who bore him children out Of
wedlock. Ida Sniffen Walter Rogers
who took bichloride of mercury after
giving 1t to her two children, now dead.
because 1t is Presumed, she Thought
Rogers intended to abandon her.