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Show thinking: that hV was asleep, answered the nurse's beck and stepped to the door, abont fifteen feet from the cot. lie torned as soon as be reached the door and saw the delirious man climbing through an open window. j The attendant sprang to the roof below, be-low, and. aa he did so Rogers ran toward j the eaves and Jumped, landing on his head in a hed?e fifty feet below. He died three minutes later. - Rogers was well liked at the hospital, and his death caused great distress to the sisters. A, statement of the case wat sent to the' Daly West Mining company, com-pany, and to the Coroner. Rogers' brothers In Butte were also advised as to the circumstances surrounding bis death. . - -P. T,r. Ucers, VIiilc at Holy Cress Hospital, Spra:j From He of Fifty ; Feet IlijiL : P. "W. Rogers 'of Park City was brought to the city about two weeks ago Buerlng from pneumonia, and was taken ta-ken to the Holy Cross hospital for treatment. treat-ment. Rogers was buried last Wednesday Wednes-day and the 'cause of death, waa given aa concussion of the- brain. Few of the friend of Rogers knew1 the real cause of his death, and the circumstances cir-cumstances did not gain wtd circulation circula-tion until last night. ' Rogera waa tn the ward at the hospital hospi-tal and became delirious. He waa watched night and day by a nurse and . an attendant. His cot was on the third floor. Occasionally'" Rogera became so ' violent that he could scarcely , be r- strained in his cot. At 5 o'clock on the morning of May 23rd a nurse cam to the door of the , ward and, wished, to apeak to the attendant at-tendant concerning , Rogers' condition, but did not vl&h to enter the ward. Thought Kogeri Asleep. The attendant looked at Rogers, and |