New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-19
MRS. WALTERS,
WORN BY WAIT,
FREED IN BAIL
Rogers Gets $500 Bond
After Anxious Day and
Many Rebuffs.
WOMAN SEEKS REST
IN FRIENDS HOME.
Courts Act Will Allow Pair to
Wed in Another State-prisoner
Calm as She Quits Jail.

From the windows in the chapel in
tho Bronx County jail yesterday Mrs
Ida Snifen Walters looked down
through the dragging hours at the pass
ing trains on the Third Avenue eie-
waited railway, waiting for the word
which was to free her from prison re-
straint until after her child is horn.
Downtown, Lorlys Elton Rogers, father
Of tho expected child and Of the two
for whose murder she is indicted. was
working fcverishly 20 get the bail bond.
The Casually Company OF America had
agreed 20 furnish the amount, $1,000,
and Abraham Levy, Mrs. Walters s
lawyer. gave his personal guarantee,
bat the surety company required 5l50
DOM. and Mr.. Rogers didn't have that
sum at hand.
From ono friend 10 another he went
Until he got it, but 1t was almost time
for court 10 adjourn when, accompanied
By his former Law partner, VI. l..
Jacobs, and a member Of the surety
company, he dashed into the bail room
at the courthouse. A few minutes
later he hurried to the jail to tell Mrs.
Walters that he could take hcr away.
She had expected 20 60 In the morn
ing. and was soon ready. One of the
jail hangers-on carried battered suit
case holding her belongings and Their
Mrs. Walters, wearing the same black
dress and heavy veil that she had on
when she was transferred from Leba-
non Hospital and when she appeared
in court, was brought down BY Sheriff
O'Brien.
From the bail room she went to the
Surrogate's Court, where Justice Bar
tow s. Weeks is sitting. The case OF
Mary Precikiewicz, accused of staying
her husband with an axe, was in prog
ress there, but Justice Weeks sus-
pended il while he attended TO the bail
of Mrs. Walters. II vas he who fixed
the amount al $1,000.
One clause in the bail bond Justice
Weeks ordered stricken out when he
examined il. This was clause forbid
ding Mrs. Walters to leave this state.
II had been inserted because the JUS
tice himself had said that she must
remain In the state pending her trial
in October, but he held that it was
Illegal TO have it in the bond. He
warned her, however, not 10 "fy in
the face OF the order of the Supreme
Court"
II it weren't for this order. or il she
chose 10 disobey it. Mrs. Walters could
become Mr.. Rogers's wife before their
child is born, for the divorce from his
former wife. Mrs. Caroline Giddings
Rogers, becomes final in late August,
only he cannot marry in this state.
While the formalities in Justice
Weeks's court were going on Mr..
Jacobs was trying 20 settle By tele-
phone where Mrs. Walters was to go.
At last il was decided that she was TO
stay with friend in the city for a
few days and after that go TO the coun-
try.
The Sheriff, who Is an ardent parti-
san Of Mrs. Walters. wasn't in evil
dence when she came, a tall, silent
figure, down in the elevator With Mr.
Rogers on one side and Mr.. Jacobs on
the other, watched by knot OF the
curious. she went to a waiting taXicab
and was driven away with the two
men. Her face under the veil was as
calm and fixed as il she were statue
Of Despair cut out OF marble.