Year: 1879

and thought she was dying slow death he told her
the spell of poisoning who could break up my going
with other women and make me love her. EN-
begged him to get TINS woman 10 40 40 IL, ne then
ing the plan by which the medicine must be made
aud taken. and SO part Of this schedule was
jealous half crazy, without education or counsel.
she yielded step by step until at last she gone
These letters viii show You how he worked Icans


THE HISTORY OF THE LETTERS.


Interrupting the narrative OF Mr. Rogers to intro
duce these letters must premise by saying that they
absolutely avouched. When Rogers confronted his
wife and she confessed. she went to the stove and
he handed to sheriff Mays just before the
shooting occurred. While theJ were In Mays hands,
and within half io hour no s after they had been put
two Rogers open enemies. They have testified
that the letters were what they had read within
in Mays hands by Rogers The details of the letters
too horrible to put in print give extracts from
they hedged the woman about. III


Emma Rogers had doubtless been promised that
she would be cured by the last of May. A letter
under date OF May says


Tell the lady treating that did wrong in naming
the zine would her, or am allowed to name


time As broke she spell rs could I'd promise May bus sh .
AZ what lime She !. doing better than


And here is threat or two. induced apparently by
determination on the part OF Emma to break from
the lustful thraldom:-


viii die aidns think could her was badly
friend she would be under ground If she quits she
'ss' sa


that lady yop wrote about aan
fpd % ss suS 70 aSs DC msn ssn ss getting tired and


Tell that last lady il she win quit gradually.
T. she quits sadasa viii M III her She S can divide the
4
won't good II she don't do what tell her must
ieved Emma wanted to him to tell him about it.
and that she sent for him. He thinks Ed Jackson
her before he came and dssuaded her. One Of
the letters says:-


Tell the lady IL she talks anybody things will
happen that she don't want She must tell nothing


Here are some letters that appear to be to
questions asked by Emma Of Ed. and Of course die
tated by him. The first one says:-


The lady has asked questions. Tell her will


That lady need be mortified There plenty in
fix than her There is she would suspect
come over. 1 will be there whom the moon changes


Here answers to question to why the
charm was not put on her husband to break up his
gallantry:-


we'll That Is true enough and is best She viii Be we'll
To that lady she win soon getting fat and
feshy and pretty. This will help the other thing


Here she seems to be unable to bear the suffering.
letter says:-


Tell that lady she will not have any spells bad
the last She will have some more spells but none 50 bad
easy and ask questions She has had her worse spells
The white biisers They for the best She
will get better fast, after this spell.


Here she seems to have lost hope. letter says,-
know will Tor have never failed If doant cure her
WIN give her snythngs she asks She won't have
Here is q demand for money


Tell the lady am Christian and think IT my duty to
cure her. but Icoudnt come as hadn't no money


The hint seems to have been sufficient letter Of
later date says:-


Tell the lady thank her for her present will
her certain and fix the other thing too Thank her.


The succeeding letters acknowledge frequent pres


These extracts might be continued indefinitely and
to show hundred different phases of evasion or an
swer. most pitiable record they make! No one
can conceive OF what they are except by careful
study OF them.


Little wonder that Rogers said, ''After had read
these letters knew why she ran to get them when
attacked her. She knew they were the cause Of the
thing and she thought they would excuse it,


ROGERS RESUMES HIS TALK.


After the letters had been laid aside Rogers
sumed:-


of living with my wife again. took her down the
valley and lett her with her father. then secured
were strange that determined to talk to my
wife about them. / went and did So The
long and the short Of it is l made up my mind
to take her back to my bosom. OF course am moro
interested in being right about 1t than the world
can be. and am just rs sure"-here he rose
was irresponsible and unbalanced when she
did this thing. and that she is at heart
and purpose a pure woman. as I am that God Al
mighty rcgns in heaven. know it. sir; know it.
have had her ever since she was child, and
know her bents and dispositions better than any
body can know them Besides, l am man enough to
acknowledge to myself that whatever she may have
done am to blame for it. She was as good wife
ever lived until l went astray. I unbalanced
her life and broke down her happiness. and
almost destroyed her reason As question Of naked
justice between me and her and our God sinned
against her just much she could have sinned
against me. and stnned first. or course society
don't think OF 1t this way In the eyes OF society her
sin is much more horrible than mine. l am not
dealing with society. am dealing with the woman
Ilove-wth my wife. And Ipropose to protect her.
II the world don't associate with her it shall never
will never dare to throw anything up to me, and
hope no stranger win try it. I'm fully determined
live. l can't say that my life is full happy.
This thing rises up nearly all the time. but manage
cram it back into my heart when she's about. see
the cloud is gradually being lifted off her face.
and that is comfort to me. She is getting
ton or money long live-nor for love
either love her, sir. love her just as much as
ever did I have never had but two people 10 ask
me to go back to her; of them was my mother.
That's very strange. amt It? Well. my own mother.
who knows me better than almost an nybody. came TO
me and begged me to take her back. There amt
many women could have got that appeal from their
husbands mother. Tho other person Billy Cay
wood, Ems uncle He has always been my friend,
and he came and asked me to take her back He said
he had watched her, and he Was satisfied she would
kill herself II deserted her. Threaten me? Well.
believe IL you knew inc you wouldn't ask that.
There amt enough nen on this earth TO have forced
jess Rogers 20 live with woman he didn't believe to
be puro and that his love didn't load him
to. Threaten me! No. sir; the pressure with
me has all been on the other side. took
my wife because I believed she had not
wrongod me wantonly. and because believed was
about as much TO blame a. she was If not more so;
because 1 loved her, and know she loves me.
There's cause enough for II It don't suit the
world why then can't help IL. Tho world amt in
tercsted."


WILL NEVER BE ARREsrED


IL should lko to have you toll me about your n
rcst?'


''Arresti never was arrested, and never will be.
I should like to anybody take me and the Cay
woods out Of this valley II we didn't want to go.
There was nobody wanted to try it. believe ono
party of Kentuckians did come down here to look