Show DEATH SENTENCE CARRIED OUT mrs rogers D e on scaffold for mur der of her husband despite all the desperate appeals made for a further respite mrs mary mabel bogers was hanged at windsor vt dec 8 for the murder of her bus band the woman condemned for a cold blooded crime that shocked the entire state made no confession on the gal lows she had previously told her spiritual advisers it was no use to tell people about others shortcomings story of the woman s crime the crime for which mrs mary mabel rogers was sentenced to death was the murder of her husband mar cus rogers at bennington atta 13 1902 at the time the crime was corn bitted mrs rogers was only 19 years old she had been separated from her husband for some time and was desir ous of marrying a young man named maurice knapp on the day of the murder marcus rogers went to ben hington to visit his wife and that night she arranged to meet him in the woods near the walloomsac river while caressing him she induced him to allow her to bind his hands and while he was powerless she chloro formed him in this she was aided by leon perham a half witted boy who was the on of the woman with whom she boarded another woman estella bates was present after chloroforming rogers perham and mrs rogers rolled the body into the river where it was found the next day in order to divert suspicion the woman wrote a note to which she signed her husband s name giving the impression that he had committed s immediately after the murder mrs rogers endeavored to collect her hus band s life insurance amounting to and also made arrangements to purchase furniture for the house where she expected to live when she had married knapp A few days after the murder mrs rogers perham and the bates woman a ere arrested perham made a corn confession and both he and mrs rogers were found guilty of murder MES assy in the first degree perham was sen fenced to imprisonment tor life while the sentence in mrs rogers case was death on the gallows the date set for the execution waa feb 3 1905 on feb 2 after mrs rogers had received the last rites of the catholic church gov charles J bell granted her a reprieve until june 2 in order that the claim of her at torness to newly discovered evidence might be heard before the vermont supreme court in an attempt to secure for the woman a new trial on may 17 last the f 1 bench of the vermont supreme chui coui heard the evi dence on which the petition tor a new trial was based and a 11 tie more than a week later denied the on june 1 a second reprieve by gov bell removed the doomed boman from under the shadow of the scaffold this reprieve ep was granted in order that the united states supreme court might pass upon the constitutionality and legality of the proceedings governing the sentence the united states supreme court was then petitioned for a writ of error in order that the case might go before the highest tribunal but this was denied on june 19 habeas corpus pro seedlings were instituted further legal on the part of the con damned woman s attorneys resulted in the case being carried before the su preme court of the united states on an appeal from the rulings of the ver mont court on nov 27 last the unit ed states supreme court refused to stay the sentence of the vermont court rogers was the first person sentenced to death in vermont within the las thirteen years who was refused the last murderer executed la the state was sylvester bell who vs hanged in 1892 tor wife murder the last woman to be executed was M s emelene meeker who paid the death penalty at wind sor on march 30 in vermont all executions are held at 11 P state prison and by a peculiarity of abe vermont law the duty of hanging led murderers devolves upon the si ariff of windsor compty regardless of the section of the state in which the crime was committed |