Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 44
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 23, 1907
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MURDERER PLEADS INSANITY.
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Famous Case in Courts of New York
Next Week.
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Goshen, New York, Oct. 19.--The trial of Charles Henry Rogers for murder will
begin here Monday. Rogers is charged with having murdered F. R. Olney, W.
C. Olney and Alice Ingerick at a farm near Middletown on Oct. 6, 1905.
After a search of a year and a half Pinkerton detectives found Rogers in Los
Angeles and he was arrested April 9 last. During the trip across the
continent Rogers is said to have confessed this crime in all details to Sheriff
A. L. Decker.
Fred Olney and his brother, Willis, were
old and respected farmers. Mrs. Ingerick was their houpekeeper (sic).
On the morning of the murders Fred Olney took the oldest daughter of Mrs.
Interick (spelling is different here-lsc) to Pilgrim's Corners. He left
the girl with a friend to come on foot in the afternoon. She returned with
the friend and found the house locked. Becoming frightened she went to the of a
neighbor, Dan Davis.
Davis broke into the house and at the foot
of the stairs he found the younger Ingerick girl, 9 years old with her skull
crushed. Davis summoned the Middletown police by telephone. The
police arrived and examined the premises. In Willis Olney's room they
found a leather trunk opened and the money and valuables gone. In the
cellar was found a length of gas pipe wrapped in a bloody newspaper.
In a stall in the barn Mrs. Ingerick was
found moaning under a pile of hay. She had evidently been hit over the
head with the piece of gas pipe. It was not until the next morning that
the bodies of the Olney brothers were found. The barking of a pet dog in a
clump of bushes near the (missing) led the officials to the spot. Fred
Olney had four bullets in his body and Willis two.
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