Although she was known as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl", the 20-year-old Mary Rogers murder incident in 1841 is one of the most embarrassed unresolved killers in the history of New York City .
Rogers was a clerk at a luxury John Anderson tobacco shop in downtown Manhattan. She was an amazingly beautiful girl. Famous writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving became her regulars. The poet Fitz Green Halek was surprised by her. He is Rogers & # 39; honor. Many of the top newspaper editors and reporters also frequently visited Anderson's customers. Rogers & # 39; beauty.
In a dormitory at Nassau Street owned by her mother, on Sunday morning of 25th July 1841, Rogers went to her fiancée Daniel Payne to visit her sister, Mrs Downing I told him he was out in the afternoon. That night, New York was hit by a serious thunderstorm, Rogers did not return to the dormitory. Her mother and Pain thought that because of Arashi, Rogers was having a night in his sister's house. However, the next day, Rogers & # 39; sister said that Rogers never came out, and did not expect to visit. Roger 's former fiancé, joining Alfred Chrome Mellin, they searched for the city, but no traces of Rogers were found. Unfortunately, this is not the first time Rogers disappeared. October 1838, Rogers & # 39; Where it was not known for several days. When she came back, she said she visited a Brooklyn friend. She did not convey her intention to her mother or employer.
This time my mother posted an advertisement asking if I knew where she last saw the twenty-year-old young woman at the age of 25 when she was wearing a white dress, a black shawl and a blue scarf on the New York Sun daily newspaper. I got a leg horn hat, bright colored shoes, light colored parasol. Nobody reacted to the advertisement.
On Wednesday, July 28th, three men found something ups and downs on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River in the cave of Sibir of Hoboken, New Jersey. They jumped on the rowing rack and ran up quickly to the place where things were placed. When they got there, they found a young lady's body. They got tired of pulling the body to a rowing boat, but when several attempts did not go well it was headed to the beach with the ropes tied under the chin of the dead woman.
When the coroner examined the body, there was a red mark in the shape of a man's thumb on the right side of the neck and several marks on the left side of the neck, indicating that the finger was clogged and her body was thrown into the river It is. After reading the account with body news found in the Hudson River, Chrome Melin went to Hoboken and identified the body as the body of Mary Rogers.
Because of her popularity, Rogers' # 39 was deeply the first news in every newspaper in New York City. Members of the press cast a suspicion on her fiancée Daniel Payne who visited his brother on Roger's disappearance day and told the police that he had sent bounce to several bars and restaurants. To prove his innocence, Payne created an affidavit from a witness and he actually disappeared as he actually Rogers &.
Rogers & # 39; mystery Death quickly disappeared from the newspaper. The police in New York City decided not to investigate because the night observer and daytime round main was not found in New Jersey who was not trained and was an ordinary people with low wages without incentive to resolve the crime did. New Jersey police said that Rogers was most likely killed in New York City and felt that the murder investigation was not a problem.
Frederica Ross owned a tavern called Nick Moore House near Hoboken, New Jersey. Of the sons discovered on August 25, 1841, the two sons who were playing in the forest found women's clothing. This new discovery started a police investigation in New Jersey because he judged that Rogers was actually killed in New Jersey. However, it was not investigated anything, it ended immediately.
Over the years, several criminologists have tried to explain who killed Mary Rogers, why. However, credible evidence has not been materialized so far and no one has been accused of a crime. Rogers & # 39; Edgar Allen Poe revealed sorrow for the tragedy of "The Beautiful Cigar Girl" and wrote a famous novel "The Mystery of Marie Roget". This novel is held in Paris, Rogers & # 39; Death. In this novel, Poe's famous detective Austin Dupin concluded that the murderer was a naval officer of dark complexity who was trying to challenge Mary (Rogers) who was disappearing for the first time in 1838 . In 1841 she refused to marry a second time.
Poe 's novel closely reflects Mary Rogers' most reliable explanation. Death of author Raymond Paul in the early 1970s. Paul's theory is that Daniel Payne killed Rogers but not Sunday she was extinguished, Peyne had an alibi, but it was the next Tuesday. Mary 's body was still in a severe fatal condition as it was found, so she has not died more than 24 hours. The death of a ventilator starts slightly after the death of a person, but generally it will dissipate after 24 hours.
Paul concluded that he was pregnant by Roger from the evidence edited more than 130 years ago and ordered abortion by taking him to Hoboken on July 7, 1841. While her mother and former fiancee were looking for Rogers, Rogers was recovering from abortion at Hoboken's inn. Pain returned to Hoboken on Tuesday 27th July, picked Rogers and returned to New York. Paulo strangled her and dropped her body to the Hudson River when Rogers told Pain that he had cut off their relationship. Paul also fell short for a similar reason in 1838 for Rogers & # 39; for the same reason. To have an abortion.
Rogers & # 39; Death, Pain began to drink hard. On 7th October 1841, Pain purchased a poison after finishing rounds of some bars in New York. He took the ferry back to Hoboken, went to Nick Moore's house, where he got drunk. Soused, he held a bottle of brandy, Rogers & # 39; clothes found. He writes on a piece of paper. "Here I am in the world here God forgive me for my life He put a note in his pocket, drank cheerfully and washed it with brandy, then he I lay down and died.
As the love of his life was killed, newspapers and New York City police who believed that Rogers was killed on Sunday when Payne had an airtight alibi, and New York City police thought Payne committed suicide. However, the fact that the police investigation was very incomplete, incomplete, overall inefficient and her body was still in a severe moribund state, the fact that Rogers was killed four days before discovery It was never considered.
The murder case of Mary Rogers has never been officially resolved, but her death was not a waste. Together with the total incompetence of the New York City police and the pressure from New York City media and people who fueled anger, the city urged the police procedures to be completely revised. Since 1845, New York City eventually made a police officer consisting of men trained specially to prevent and investigate crime, policemen and Maruzen became eloquent.
