Putnam patriot., 1916-11-10
SUPERIOR COURT
Landlord Rogers of the Ina Granted Di.
 yorce from Nellie (. Rogers
John B. Hsnseom, Former Agent of French River Textile Company,
 Named as Correspondent

Earl Clinton Rogers, landlord of the Putnam Inn, was granted decree of divorce in the superior court at Willi- mantle, last Friday, from his wife, Nellie C. Rogers, on the ground of adultery. John R. Hanseom, formerly agent of the French River Textile Company, Meehanicsville, and uader. stood to be connected with other of the Sayles interests, was nataed as 70. respondent.
 Hanscom Is now fugitive from justice and reward of Sl00 has been offered for hts apprehension on the charge of embezzlement. Mrs. Rogers Is believed 10 be with him and rumor has il that the couple fled to Rrssia. When the couple disappeared from Putnam while Mir, Rogers was on one of his hunting trips to New Brunswick the affair caused considerable of buzz of gossip and conjecture.
 In court. MT. Rogers said that he was married to the defendant, Nellie c.
 
 Myers, on Aug. 5, 1907, and they lived together until Aug. 30, i9i6. Mrs. Rogers, he said, used to go and come from his home as she pleased, and fre- quently be gone day or even week, saying she was visiting relatives. On the occasion of her leaving him he said he had gone on hunting trip and she had promised to meet him in New Brunswick two weeks later. She did ! not show up at the end of that time and he has never seen her since. He | identified pictures of hts wife and of 1 the ,alleged correspondent and also photograph of a hotel register with Hnn scom's signature upon it.
 William J Lewis, clerk in the Gas. tie Square Hotel, in Boston ,also iuen- tified the pictures of Mrs. Rogers and Hanscom and said they came to the hotel frequently. They would usually stay one night but lon one occasion around Labor Day of 1915 they stayed two weeks. Hanscom would always refer to the woman As his wife, he said. On the occasion of their staying | two weeks, Hanscom hsd red road ster automobile bearing Rhode Is- land license which he kept at a near- by garage, directed to him by the wit ness. lie said in all the couple regis tered at the hotel about eight or nine times. Henever saw Hanscom come there with any other woman, he said. Percy G.. Gerald of Dorchester, M ass, said that he was annex clerk in the same hotel. lie remembers the couple in question also and told of their leav- ing their key with him on number Of occasions.
 Chief Daniel T. Callahan, of the International Investigating Agency and formerly associated with the U. 5. secret service in the personal attend ance of ex-President Taft, exhibited page from one of the account books of the Cort Garage on Ferdinand street, Boston, on which Rhode Island car, license number 6256 WAS registered as belonging to "J, B, smith" The Rhode Island register for that year showed the car bearing that number as belonging to J.. K. Hanscom of Providence, R. |. Judge Webb wss at first inclined to continue this case for further evidence, because the bulk of the testimony woald make the de- cision one of conjecture, but after Lewis had resumed the stand and told of having seen hanscom and Mrs. Rogers coming from the elevator In the morning and 'hsd also seen them leave for upstairs at night, the decree was granted on the .compIsint as al- legged. tSsf a4