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06:33, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 14 Mar 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No. 16</center> Page 1, Column 6,7,8 <center>"I PAID $100 TO HAVE MY HUSBAND KILLED" - Reported Confession of Mrs. Werner</center> "How much would you want to put my husband away?" "Oh, it ought to be worth $100" This conversation is alleged to have been held between Mrs. Henry Werner and Frank Piconi, alias Roderigo Rocco, according to a confession said to have been made by the woman sho...")
05:23, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 14 Mar 1914 - Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) (Created page with "<center>31st Year, No 272</center> Page 3, Column 5 <center>PAID $100 TO GET HUSBAND KILLED Widow in Seattle Jail Said to Have Admitted Hiring Assassin ACCUSED MAN ARRESTED Picconi Admits His Identity, but Denies Knowing Anything of the Crime</center> SEATTLE, March 13 - Frank Picconi, who was arrested at Cle Elum today, killed Henry Werner in his barn, near Issaquah, March 2, for a consideration of $100, according to a confession made in t...")
05:07, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 20 May 1914 - Tacoma Daily News (Tacoma, Washington) (Created page with "<center>31st Year, No 199</center> Page 2, Column 1 <center>GOES ON STAND TO REPUDIATE CONFESSION Denies Promissing Pay for Murder of Husband - - - Said She Made Statement Introduced Yesterday When She Was in a Dazed and Irresponsible Condition</center> SEATTLE, May 20 - Mrs. Magdalena Werner, on trial for the murder of her husband, a farmer, near Issaquah, went on the witness stand today and repudiated her alleged...")
04:59, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 19 May 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No 73</center> Page 1, Column 1,2 <center>PLEADS WITH PROSECUTOR FOR HER BABY</center> "I want my little baby girl. Can't I have her with me in the trial?" was the plea Mrs. Magdalena Werner made to State's Attorney J. Edward Wright, before the opening of the second day of the woman's trial today. She stopped the prosecutor in the hallway before going to Judge Mackintosh's court room to again fac...")
04:34, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 4 Mar 1914 - Daily Herald (Everett, Washington) (Created page with "Page 6, Column 3 <center>HER HUSBAND SLAIN, WIFE TRIES SUICIDE Distracted, Wife of Dead Issaquah Racher Attempts to Die</center> ISSAQUAH, March 4 - The murderers of Henry Werner at his ranch home, nine miles northeast of here, early Monday morning, have escaped temporarily, but a thirty-six hour investigation by Deputy Sheriffs John Roberts and Herbert Beebe may establish their identity before the end of the week. In the...")
02:43, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:Werner home.png
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02:33, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 7 May 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No 10</center> Page 1, Column 4,5,6,7 <center>Wife of Murdered Rancher Betrayed by LOVE LETTERS</center> Arrested After Disclosures at Inquest; Prosecutor Says Some Person Stabbed Victim, Then Another Butchered Him with a Mattock Mrs. Magdalene Werner was arrested at Issaquah yesterday afternoon, at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of her husband, Henry Werner, the Beaver Lake...")
01:10, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:Mrs Werner.png
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01:09, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 20 May 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No 74</center> Page 1, Column 6,7,8 <center>MRS. WERNER HEARS MURDER CONFESSION READ IN COURT</center> Sensation seekers struggled for places of vantage today in Judge Mackintosh's court room, when Mrs. Magdalina Werner took the stand in her trial for the murder of her husband at Issaquah. Her three attorneys lost in a vivid legal battle when the court ruled that her alleged confession could be r...")
00:50, 29 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 22 May 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No 76</center> Page 1, Column 6 <center>MRS. WERNER NOT GUILTY OF SLAYING HUSBAND</center> Magdalina Werner, 26, tried for complicity in the murder of her 52-year-old husband, Henry Werner, an Issaquah rancher, on March 2, last, is a free woman today. After two hours and 45 minutes of consideration last night, the jury returned before Judge Kenneth Mackintoch with a verdict of not guilty. Mrs....")
05:54, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:Wilhelm Werner.png
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05:52, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 6 Mar 1914 - Seattle Star (Seattle, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Volume 16, No. 9</center> Page 1, Column 6")
05:48, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 7 Mar 1914 - Tacoma Daily Ledge (Tacoma, Washington) (Created page with "<center>Vol XXXI, No. 335</center> Page 1, Column 6 <center>WIFE OF MAN SLAIN WITH AX ARRESTED Would Not Attend Funeral and Refuses to Answer Ques- tions at Inquest</center> SEATTLE, March 6 - Mrs. Henry Werner, whose husband, a farmer, was killed with an ax near Issaquah last Monday was arrested at the conclusion of the coroner's inquest today and was brought to Seattle, where she is held pending further investig...")
05:39, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page Mary Magdalena Goebel (Created page with "{{Infobox bio | name = Mary Magdalena Goebel | image = | aka1 = Madge Goebel | aka2 = Magdaline Werner | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = Jun 1888 | birth_place = Kansas | death_date = | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = | nationality = | occupation = | father = Wilhelm Gottlieb Goebel | mother = Sophia E. Hug | spouse1 = Hei...")
04:35, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page James Rogers of New London, CT And His Descendants (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers #176 AMOS ROGERS (Ebenezer, William, James, James) - born Nov. 22, 1755, in New London; died Sept 21, 1820; married Sarah Phillips of Lyme, Ct., born --, 1756; died June 10, 1802. He served his time with "Master Orrin," and built the Ryan house, Truman street, New London. He was drowned between Pequonnock and New London, having been upset in a squall, while sailing a yacht brought from Russia by his son, Moses; it was curiously...")
03:33, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 15 Dec 1848 - Evening Post (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol XLVI</center> Page 2, Column 6 [Advertisement] - Also published this day, The Beautiful Cigar Girl, and its sequel, Herman De Ruyter, or the Mystery unsolved, by J. H. Ingraham. Send on your orders to - DEWITT & DAVENPORT, Tribune Buildings, Nassau st.")
03:29, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 28 Nov 1842 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol II, No 198</center> Page 2, Column 4 Ought not our Mayor to offer a reward for the full development of the Mary Rogers mystery? Under our beautiful Police system little is done otherwise.")
03:24, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 22 Nov 1842 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol II, No 193</center> Page 2, Column 3 Our envious neighbors, who cannot endure the knowledge that we gave the first development of the Mary Rogers mystery, may as well forbear their snarling. They only set the public laughing at their ludicrous misery. That our first statement was substantially correct we are confident, and that we made it on good authority, we know. T...")
03:17, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 21 Nov 1842 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center> Page 2, Column 4 The Mary Rogers Mystery With reference to our statement concerning this affair we find the following note in Saturday’s Courier: To Col. Webb: DEATH OF MARY ROGERS - I noticed a statement in the Tribune of his morning, relative to a confession said to have been made before me by the late Mrs. Loss, which is entirely incorrect, as no such examination too...")
03:00, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 21 Nov 1842 - New York Daily Herald (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center> The Mary Rogers’ Mystery - We gave in our paper of yesterday a full report of the Police examination which took place on Saturday at Hoboken, relative to the murder of Mary Rogers, from which it appears that the following story published in the Tribune, is all falsehood, and absolute fabrication:- From the Tribune [see 18 Nov 1842 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York)|Trib...")
00:49, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:Robert Gilchrist.png
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00:47, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page Robert Gilchrist (Created page with "{{Infobox bio | name = Robert Gilchrist | image = | aka1 = | aka2 = | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = c1790 | birth_place = | death_date = 11 Jul 1866 | death_place = Jersey City, NJ | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = | nationality = | occupation = Hudson County Clerk, Mayor of Jersey City | father = | mother = | spouse1 = Frances Vasher |...")
00:38, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:Thomas A. Alexander.png
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00:37, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page Thomas A. Alexander (Created page with "{{Infobox bio | name = Thomas A. Alexander | image = | aka1 = | aka2 = | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = 1799 | birth_place = Pennsylvania | death_date = 29 Mar 1866 | death_place = Bergen, New Jersey | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = | nationality = | occupation = | father = | mother = | spouse1 = | spouse2 = | spouse3 = |...")
00:24, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 20 Nov 1842 - New York Daily Herald (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case Files: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol VIII, No 311</center> Page 2, Column 1 [4th paragraph in first article “The Exciting News of the Day”] - But this is not all. The mysterious murder of Mary Rogers, at Hoboken, is again revived with all its horrors, with the addition of more doubt - more surmises - and more developments in prospect. An examination took place, yesterday, at Hoboken, all the particulars of which will...")
00:00, 28 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 18 Nov 1842 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol II, No 190</center> Page 2, Column 4 The Mary Rogers Mystery Explained The terrible mystery which for more than a year has hung over the fate of Mary Rogers, whose body was found, as our readers will well remember, in the North River, under circumstances such as convinced every one that she was the victim of hellish lust and then of murder, is at...")
23:43, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 5 Feb 1842 - New York Daily Herald (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol VII, No 322</center> Page 1, Column 2 MARY ROGERS AGAIN - Sandell, the man who was arrested in New Jersey, on a charge of supposed knowledge of the death of Mary C. Rogers, has been finally discharged by the Mayor, there not being evidence sufficient to detain him. One singular fact, however, has resulted from this investigation, which is, that he was at Hoboken, on the...")
23:17, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 11 Oct 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No 157</center> Page 3, Column 2 HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, INQUEST ON DANIEL C. PAYNE, THE LATE LOVER AND BETROTHED HUSBAND OF MARY C. ROGERS - On Friday night and Saturday morning Gilbert Merritt, Esq., acting as coroner of Hudson county, held an inquest at Perry’s Hotel, Hoboken, New Jersey, on the body of Daniel C. Payne, a native of England,...")
21:25, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 9 Oct 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No. 156</center> Page 3, Column 1 REPORTED SUICIDE OF THE LATE LOVER OF MISS ROGERS - We were informed last night, by highly respectable authority, that Mr. Daniel C. Payne, the late lover of Miss Mary C. Rogers, yesterday afternoon was found with his throat cut and dead on a bench, at Hoboken, near the place where the body of that ill-fated lady was found. From...")
21:19, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 9 Oct 1841 - Brooklyn Evening Star (Brooklyn, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers SUICIDE OF DANIEL C. PAYNE - This young man, the affianced husband of Mary C. Rogers, was found dead at Hoboken, yesterday, near the place where she is supposed to have been murdered. HIs throat was cut. He had been seen a short time previous at the Hotel, contiguous without his hat, apparently in a frenzied state. It is said, papers have been found upon him, shewing some connection...")
21:17, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 9 Oct 1841 - Evening Post (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Number 12,044</center> Page 2, Column 4 SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF DANIEL PAYNE - The body of Daniel Payne, the lover of Mary C. Rogers, was found yesterday afternoon at Hoboken, near the spot where her body was first seen. A coroner’s inquest was to be held on the body this morning at 11 o’clock. The report is, that Payne had been seen at Hoboken the day...")
20:48, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 2 Oct 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No 150</center> Page 2, Column 2 The statement in some of yesterday’s papers, which will most likely be repeated to-day, that six persons are under arrest in the this city on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Miss Rogers, is utterly untrue. There is not the slightest ground for suspecting any of them of the atrocity in question; they are all detai...")
20:36, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 1 Oct 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No. 149</center> Page 2, Column 2 THE ARREST AT ALBANY - For the information of those who still steadfastly contend that the arrest of James Finnegan in Albany, was for the murder of Mary C. Rogers, we again take the liberty of stating that his arrest was not on that charge. From J. B. La Forge, Esq. the counsel of Finnegan, we derive the information that his client...")
20:27, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 30 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No 148</center> Page 2, Column 3 THE ALBANY ARREST - We mentioned yesterday the arrest at Albany, and arrival in this city, of a young rowdy named James Finnegan, who it is thought may know something of the Mary Rogers affair. We see that most of the papers state that he is detained on suspicion of having been concerned in that tragedy. This is not true. He is char...")
20:18, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 29 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No 147</center> Page 2, Column 2 ARREST FOR A FELONY - On Sunday evening officers Hilliker and Tompkins arrested in the City of Albany, a young man belonging to this City, charged with the commission of a felony here some two months since. He was not arrested for the murder of Mary C. Rogers, as some of the papers have stated, but for a distinct offence, and was comm...")
20:14, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 29 Sep 1841 - Evening Post (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Number 12,035</center> Page 2, Column 2 ARREST of PERSONS SUPPOSED TO BE CONCERNED IN THE MURDER OF MISS ROGERS - Two persons have been arrested in Albany, by officers sent thither by the Mayor of this City, who are suspected to have been concerned in the outrage committed upon Mary C. Rogers. The police have been in search of them for two weeks; but the...")
19:59, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page Johanna Frederica Loss (Created page with "{{Infobox bio | name = Johanna Frederica Loss | image = | aka1 = | aka2 = | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = 5 Aug 1800 | birth_place = | death_date = Nov 1842 | death_place = New Jersey, USA | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = shot by her son | nationality = American | occupation = innkeeper | father = Carl Friedrich Loss | mother = Louisa Agnes | s...")
19:55, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 14 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers THE MARY ROGERS CASE - The Courier states that a Mrs. Loss, who keeps a small tavern on the embarkment near Weehawken, has been examined before the Mayor, and testified that Mary Rogers, with several young men, was at her house on the evening of the 25th of July, and that she drank some lemonade offered by one of them. The clothes found were also identified by Mrs. Loss as those worn by the unfortunate girl....")
19:51, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 6 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers [This was repeated in the same paper on Sep 7 and Sep 10] A PROCLAMATION By [William H. Seward, Governor of the State of New York Whereas Mary C. Rogers, a young woman residing in the city of New York, was lately ravished and murdered in the said city, or in the portion of the state of New Jersey contiguous thereto; and whereas the efforts made by the police of the city of New York, to discov...")
19:44, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 3 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers REWARDS OFFERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE - Gov. Seward has issued a Proclamation offering a reward of Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars to any one who shall give information resulting in the conviction, either in this State or in New Jersey, of any person guilty of the violation and murder of Mary C. Rogers. The Governor likewise offers a reward of Nine Hundred Dollars for the a...")
19:39, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 2 Sep 1841 - Evening Post (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center> Page 2, Column 5 BY WILLIAM H. SEWARD Governor of the State of New York A PROCLAMATION Whereas Mary C. Rogers, a young woman residing in the city of New York, was lately ravished and murdered in the said city, or in the portion of the state of New Jersey contiguous thereto; and whereas the efforts made by the police of the city of New York, to discover th...")
19:29, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page File:William H. Seward.png
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19:28, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page William H. Seward (Created page with "{{Infobox bio | name = William H. Seward | image = | aka1 = | aka2 = | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = | nationality = | occupation = | father = | mother = | spouse1 = | spouse2 = | spouse3 = | spouse4 = | spouse5 = | spouse6...")
19:22, 27 April 2024 DaleSheldon talk contribs created page 1 Sep 1841 - New York Tribune (New York City, New York) (Created page with "Case File: Mary Cecilia Rogers <center>Vol 1, No 123</center> Page 2, Column 1 An anonymous correspondence writes us that he has heard a man boast publicly that he was the first one who discovered the body of Mary C. Rogers at Hoboken, that he dragged it to the shore, and then ran off for fear of the Coroner’s inquest. Why not give the information in some reliable shape personally or by giving in the name at t...")