New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-06
SHIELDING ROGERS,
TELLS OF POISONING
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want TO see the little children suffer so.
She came, and she sent her boy Jackie
for DR.. Hague, our regular PHYSICIAN
who hurried right around"
Mrs. Walters "Rogers" had been
talking quickly. She threw her arms
down by her side and with sign
rested for a minute.
Glad Her Children Give"
DO you know, doctor" she began
again, 81 was afraid it wasn't going to
turn out this way-both babies getting
better? ] thought Lorida would get
over il. for | hadn't given her mucn'
But | feared for Jackie That was
pretty big dose he got"
Rogers stood at the window, tapping
his fingers abstractedly on the pane.
How do you feel? ?" DR.. Radin asked
her.
ooh, very much better, doctor, thank
you" she answered.
"Lorlys."
As Rogers turned from the window
/ DR.. Radin stepped out of the room.
The house physician went to the
Office. A few minutes later Francis
Martin, District Attorney of Bronx
County, came in to interview the wom-
an. When he got 10 her room Rogers
stepped TO the doorway.
you'll have 20 get out Of here,
Rogers" said the District Attorney.
+ Rogers assumed an air of indigna-
ton.
Prosecutor Gusts Rogers.
give a rigkt to be in here, sir, while
YOU are questioning her." he exclaimed.
"Right?" said Mr. Martin, sternly.
what right? Why, you're not even
her husband"
4 lie pushed the hesitating Rogers
over the doorsill and closed the door.
you've come 10 tell me something
about my babies? % the woman asked
expectantly.
ave come to ask you few ques
| tions," said Mr.. Martin, identifying
himself.
About him ?" and she pointed toward
the closed door.
When the District Attorney nodded
/ the woman exclaimed angrily:
mol MOI I'm to blame for this-for
all his trouble. | brought it on him.
He isn't to blame for anything"
Her eyes lighted with affection, and
when Mr.. Martin said Rogers built up
tn, situation confronting both the
poison victim protested:
"If you will not accept what | have
just said" she retorted, you must ac
/ cept that he alone could not have done
I it. 1t takes two persons"
Woman Bares Many Woes.
/ She drifted, answering questions,
/ into the heart of her story, revealing
/ for the first time why she eliminated
/ herself and her children from a life
/ that was showing its most seamy side.
She had thought for years that, though
he was legally the husband of Mrs.
Caroline Giddings Rogers, that union
was loye-dry and meaningless. Rogers
was alone hers. No doubt could rest
long in her mind for the children made
him more strongly than the law her
husband.
81 was always as sure Of that" she
said, "as | was that some day Lorlys
and | would be legally made man and
]
| did what brought me here.
ale had always been the ideal man
to me, thinking rot only of me but for
me. The change that came in his treat
ment Of me was not gradual. 1t came
| abruptly. In the months before this
had he by degrees shown his declining
affection ! could have read it. The
eyes of affection are keen, you know,
| when one is long in love
"Not one thing things-told
me | was losing him. He quarrelled
over tribes that he used to dismiss
with an indulgent smile and a remark
like, Don't let that trouble you. It's
all right | could see, day by day,
what was coming.
Rogers Ready to Quit
"He had hinted to me, most guard
eddy, at times, as If apologizing for
bringing her name into our talks, that
his wife, Mrs. Giddngs Rogers, was
going to Chicago to visit her aged
uncle, o. +. Fuller, the rich drug mer-
chant. ! didn't realize what that was
leading TO.
"He told me the big thing the day
before-before this happened. He told
me he was going to Chicago her.
ain the worry of that month ! had
imagined many things, and my mag
nation developed fearful thoughts
the future-of my elf and my babies
our babies. | didn't want him to go.
Yo- must realize | couldn't have him
90 away from me.
1--WE quarrelied, nd he left me.
"That night have never had any
other night like that one. Mr.. Martin,
| thought he was gone from me fer
ever. He and his wife, it flashed into
my mind, had really fallen in love
with each other, leaving me alone with
two children who did not know W.
they were different from other chill
dren, and why they would Away; be
different from other children.
II guess that is all, Mr.. Martin"
She was asked another question.
Mrs. Giddings Rogers" she said,
"had promised to deliver Mr.. Rogers
to me. She was going TO divorce him,
she promised. But she didn't keep
faith. | wanted him, she knew, but
she wouldn't give him up. | went TO
her 70 plead with her. / needed him
so much more than she did. But she
wouldn't help me.
Now, that isn't his fault, Is il?
Mr.. Martin, | feel so sorry for him"
Rogers had been pacing the hallway
outside the room for the hour CON
sumed by the interview He was very
angry when the District Attorney
stepped out.
you've talked TO her too long" he