The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
MRS.. WALTERS WED
TO LORLYS ROGERS
Woman Who Killed Her Two
Children Is Married in
Jersey City.
TRIALS NOT AFFECTED

I.orlys Elton Rogers. once an actor.
now a lawyer. and Ida Sniffen Walters.
who last December administered to her
self and their two children a dose OF
btchloride Of mercury which killed the
children and almost. ended her own life,
were married by Police Judge James +.
Dolan yesterday afternoon In Jersey
City. The ceremony was performed ex-
actly tw~enty-four hours after City Clerk
Michael I. Fagen gave them a marriage
license In his private ONCE. Thu we'd
ding 10 not a surprise to their friends or
TO the county officials here concerned
In their tangled romance. but 1t was
hastcned because Mrs. Rogers will
shortly become a mother again.
The couple are out on bail on separate
charges growing out OF Rogers's love
a6airs-he on an indictment under. the
oo-called State white slave statute and
she on a charge of numbering the two
children she bore to Rogers while he was
otill welded to his second wife,. Mrs.
Caroline Giddings Rogers. The latter
obtained a fnal divorce decree only
last Thursday. Rogers was forbidden
BY the court to remarry in this State,
and his bride Of yesterday when she was
freed on bail by Justice Barlow s.
Weeks was warned not to leave the
jurisdiction Of the State. owing TO the
circumstances. however, II is not likely
chat any action win be taken against
her on that score.
Rogers's third bride was scarcely
more than a shadow of her former self.
A nurse. one of the witnesses at the
simple civil marriage ceremony. attends
her constantly. She is highly nervous
n delicate and It is thought that per-
hAn1 thu laDal nnrAyNnne usna nt,fnknnod
IN order to afford her mind the satisfac-
ton OF knowing that her child would
Bear a fathers name.
Rogers sOOthes His Bride.
Rogers on the other hand is the same
polished Southerner. rather ruddy Of
face now, showing all gentleness to the
woman who caused the exposure Of his
former double life. He comforted her
at every point. especially when she sud-
1snly burst into tears ana sobs when
the newspaper photographers snapped
her picture.
They had a long three hour wait In
the office OF I. Faerber Goldenhorn, a
lawyer associate OF Rogers, who helped
them get a license In secret late Friday
afternoon. before Magistrate Dolan
would perform the ceremony. New Jer-
sey marriage law require the expiration
OF twenty-four hours between the is
euance Of the license and the marriage.
Originally they planned to get married
et Q o'clock and leave town without
newspaper notoriety. They reached Mr..
O~oldenhorn's office at Is Exchange place
about 80 o'clock. Mr.. Goldenhorn had
tried first to get Magistrate Charles
OBrien to marry them. but the latter
refused. At his home IL was said that
ne had telephoned his refusal to Dis
trict Attorney Francis Martin of The
Bronx as we'll as to Mr., G~oldenhorn. and
that he had zone to Rockland Lake.
Judge Dolan arrived about ASS and
the ceremony was over ten minutes later.
He used the simple civil marriage pro-
ceedure. Incidentally including the word
"obey.' The witnesses We're Joseph
GreenberS Of Ale Newark street. Ho-
6oken: Goldonharn's clerk. and Mrs.
Rogers's nurse, Miss Theresa Gala ehr.
lew arc extremely happy" Rogers
Aid after the ceremony. "eW are very
grateful that this tage has been reached.
There has never been a time when mt the
moment that l could marry her i would
not have done so. A nd you can say for
me that when these cases (the charges
against both in The Bronx are tried.
II they ever are tried. this marriage will
not interfere with the testimony OF either
" no. wv iai tSbNiAs JuSN 90
~ II there had been no marriage"
Rogers to Practise Again.
sour honeymoon will be spent in New
York State. ! cannot tell you where.
We won't stay In Jersey City. l am
going to practise law again when these
affairs blow over, but / do not think 1t
would be dignifed to take up profess
Uional practice at this time. No. l am
not engaged In any other business or
profession. There is nothing. however,
20 prevent my practising law right
away"
During the marriage ceremony Mrs.
Rogers's nervousness was more appar-
ent than before. When Judge Dolan
put the usual questions to her Rogers
had to lean close to her and repeat them
to her before her whispered answer
reached the Judges ears. The newly
married couple boarded a tube train to
New York. Although both gave. their
address to City Clerk FEan as Suf-
fern, N. Y, 1t is believed they have been
living In this city.
Or. W. G.. Hague. the physician who
attended Mrs. Rogers in the Lebanon
Hospital after she and her two children
swallowed bichloride OF mercury. was
responsible for the opinion that Rogers
and she were married at this time be-
cause Of her nervous state of mind and
the quieting effect the marriage would
have on her mind.
District Attorney Martin, who secured
the Indictment OF both Rogers and the
then Mrs, Walters, said hat the court
had expressly forbidden Mrs. Rogers to
leave the State. He asserted that he
could, II he wished, bring the woman
20 court for contempt and have her
bond set aside or increased. II is
highly probale that he will do neither.
lie Insists though that the marriage of
Rogers at this late date to the mother
OF his two children, whose murder Is
charged to her, will not quash the white
slave charge against him, Mr.. Martin
declared hat the marriage had nothing
70 do with the question Of guilt or
innocence.