The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-01-06
Try to Learn Relation of Ar.
thur Walters to Woman
Dying in Hospital After
Killing Children.
VISITS HERE IN FALL
Former Citizen known Dur
ing School Days in City a:
Bud-Is Woman His First
Wife.

Arthur M Walters, AZ, who left
Richmond in 1897, and the New YORK
woman who claims to have been his
first wife, who is dying in New YORK
hospital from the effects OF mercury
poisoning, are the centers OF a mys-
terry which is commanding attention
throughout the east.
The former Mrs. Walters, who is
said by New York newspaper inform
ants to have entered into a common
law marriage with an attorney named
Lorlys Elton Rogers, poisoned her
two children, both of whom died yes
terday, and on her death bed called
for Dad" her pet name for Mr.. Wal
ters.
Mr. Walters visited his mother, Mrs.
Adella Walters, widow of Charles
Walters, formerly superintendent OF
the Richmond Mill Works, last Sep
tember, and called on some of the
older families with whom he is ac-
quainted. He was then enroute to
Zinc, Ariz., where he invested his
money in the lola Mining company.
Known Here as Bud.
The Walters family was formerly
we'll known here Arthur, who attend
ed school here, was known as Bud.
He worked as bookkeeper and stem
ographer at the mill works and at
other wholesale concerns until he left
at the age of twenty-four. Mrs. Wal
ters rooms at 80 South Tenth street.
She is now visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Vincent Thompson, 6430 Kenwood ave-
nue., Chicago. Another daughter Is In
San Francisco. James Clarence Wal
ters and Clyde Walters are the re-
naming members of the family. The
former is an attorney in Utah and the
latter lives in St. Louis.
In New York an effort is being made
to locate Arthur Walters who IS tenn
porarily away from the Arkansas
mines, and esta blish the connection
between the woman in the hospital
who says she is his first wife and Ida
Sniffen, daughter of a famous horse
man and member Of a wealthy and
prominent New York family.
Marries Miss Sniffen.
Walters history from the time he
came to New York is closely traced
| by the New York newspapers. He
was representing the mill works until
the time of the death of his father in
1902. After that he became report
er for New York newspaper but quit
this after year. He met the wealthy
Ida Sniffen, who had studied art
abroad, then study ing are in New
York in 1904, and they We're married
in Elizabeth, n. j., April II, 1905.
This is a point of some mystery tC
Richmond friends and friends of the
family. No one in Richmond who
knows the family was aware of this
marriage. Rumors were circulated /
few years ago that he was living will
a woman and common law marriage
was limited. His friends say this was
improba BILE.
For about two years Walters anf
his wife lived happily together in New
Jersey. In May, 1907, they moved t,
New York andA1ecame members of
players and art club. At that tim,
Rogers, who is described as "mal
Of intoxicating personality, a voice il
which was the melody of Mozart AM
an expression in which was the be
witching song of Burns" came int
the lives of the two young people
and Rogers fell in love with the beau
tiful wife of the former Richmon,
man.
1t Is said Walters wife made NJ
, pretense Of concealing her love bu
, went to Rogers home where he wa
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