LOREN ROGERS TAKES LIFE ON SUNDAY MORNING
Fulton Man Had Just Paid Fine for Charge of Assault Preferred By Wife.
FULTON, Nov. 8 β Turning a 30-30 rifle against his body a short time after midnight Saturday, Loren Rogers, 40, of this city and South Hannibel, sent a rifle ball through his heart and died almost instantly. The act took place on the Rogers farm near South Hannibal Corners, The man was found by his wife and mother a few minutes after they heard the report of the shot. Rogers had returned home after appearing in court earlier in the evening where he paid a $10 fine on a charge of assault, third degree, preferred by Mrs. Rogers. Rogers and his wife had returned to their home in company with Leon Harris, a neighbor. The later told District Attorney Harry M. Stacy that as the Rogerβs got out of Harrisβs car on their return from the court of Justice of the Peace Elwyn Gardner of Hannibal, Rogers remarked, βWeβll get a break someday.β Mrs. Rogers said that she was in her room and heard her husband rummaging about somewhere else in the house. A little later she heard the shot, she told Mr. Stacy and with Rogers mother, ran into the yard to find Mr. Rogers laying a short distance from a rear door. When Harris and other neighbors reached the Rogers farm they found the man dead. Rogers mother and a sister who live at the Rogers home corroborated the wife's story. Rogers had lived in Fulton and vicinity nearly all of his life. At the time he was engaged in the dairy business here. He recently had been employed in the local Oswego Falls (sic) right plant and had worked Saturday, returning Home at about 8 p.m. He was a member of the Hannibal Masonic Lodge. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Rogers; three sons, Fred, Clifford and Elwood Rogers; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Rogers; three sisters, Mrs. Bernard Sharp, Fulton; Mrs. Bessie Ingraham, Syracuse, and Miss Nettie Rogers of South Hannibal, and one brother, Almon Rogers, Fulton. The body was removed to Fulton by Ernest Springer, undertaker. Funeral services will be held from the home of his sister. Mrs. Sharp, 209 Rochester street, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John W. W(sic) pastor of State Street Methodist Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Adnah Cemetery.
From: The Oswego Palladium-Times, Oswego, New York, on Monday November 8, 1937, Page 12
Married: Hazel Beatrica Dunton, November 28, 1917, in Fulton, Oswego County, New York
Fulton Man Had Just Paid Fine for Charge of Assault Preferred By Wife.
FULTON, Nov. 8 β Turning a 30-30 rifle against his body a short time after midnight Saturday, Loren Rogers, 40, of this city and South Hannibel, sent a rifle ball through his heart and died almost instantly. The act took place on the Rogers farm near South Hannibal Corners, The man was found by his wife and mother a few minutes after they heard the report of the shot. Rogers had returned home after appearing in court earlier in the evening where he paid a $10 fine on a charge of assault, third degree, preferred by Mrs. Rogers. Rogers and his wife had returned to their home in company with Leon Harris, a neighbor. The later told District Attorney Harry M. Stacy that as the Rogerβs got out of Harrisβs car on their return from the court of Justice of the Peace Elwyn Gardner of Hannibal, Rogers remarked, βWeβll get a break someday.β Mrs. Rogers said that she was in her room and heard her husband rummaging about somewhere else in the house. A little later she heard the shot, she told Mr. Stacy and with Rogers mother, ran into the yard to find Mr. Rogers laying a short distance from a rear door. When Harris and other neighbors reached the Rogers farm they found the man dead. Rogers mother and a sister who live at the Rogers home corroborated the wife's story. Rogers had lived in Fulton and vicinity nearly all of his life. At the time he was engaged in the dairy business here. He recently had been employed in the local Oswego Falls (sic) right plant and had worked Saturday, returning Home at about 8 p.m. He was a member of the Hannibal Masonic Lodge. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Rogers; three sons, Fred, Clifford and Elwood Rogers; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Rogers; three sisters, Mrs. Bernard Sharp, Fulton; Mrs. Bessie Ingraham, Syracuse, and Miss Nettie Rogers of South Hannibal, and one brother, Almon Rogers, Fulton. The body was removed to Fulton by Ernest Springer, undertaker. Funeral services will be held from the home of his sister. Mrs. Sharp, 209 Rochester street, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John W. W(sic) pastor of State Street Methodist Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Adnah Cemetery.
From: The Oswego Palladium-Times, Oswego, New York, on Monday November 8, 1937, Page 12
Married: Hazel Beatrica Dunton, November 28, 1917, in Fulton, Oswego County, New York
LOREN ROGERS TAKES LIFE ON SUNDAY MORNING
Fulton Man Had Just Paid Fine for Charge of Assault Preferred By Wife.
FULTON, Nov. 8 β Turning a 30-30 rifle against his body a short time after midnight Saturday, Loren Rogers, 40, of this city and South Hannibel, sent a rifle ball through his heart and died almost instantly. The act took place on the Rogers farm near South Hannibal Corners, The man was found by his wife and mother a few minutes after they heard the report of the shot. Rogers had returned home after appearing in court earlier in the evening where he paid a $10 fine on a charge of assault, third degree, preferred by Mrs. Rogers. Rogers and his wife had returned to their home in company with Leon Harris, a neighbor. The later told District Attorney Harry M. Stacy that as the Rogerβs got out of Harrisβs car on their return from the court of Justice of the Peace Elwyn Gardner of Hannibal, Rogers remarked, βWeβll get a break someday.β Mrs. Rogers said that she was in her room and heard her husband rummaging about somewhere else in the house. A little later she heard the shot, she told Mr. Stacy and with Rogers mother, ran into the yard to find Mr. Rogers laying a short distance from a rear door. When Harris and other neighbors reached the Rogers farm they found the man dead. Rogers mother and a sister who live at the Rogers home corroborated the wife's story. Rogers had lived in Fulton and vicinity nearly all of his life. At the time he was engaged in the dairy business here. He recently had been employed in the local Oswego Falls (sic) right plant and had worked Saturday, returning Home at about 8 p.m. He was a member of the Hannibal Masonic Lodge. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Rogers; three sons, Fred, Clifford and Elwood Rogers; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Rogers; three sisters, Mrs. Bernard Sharp, Fulton; Mrs. Bessie Ingraham, Syracuse, and Miss Nettie Rogers of South Hannibal, and one brother, Almon Rogers, Fulton. The body was removed to Fulton by Ernest Springer, undertaker. Funeral services will be held from the home of his sister. Mrs. Sharp, 209 Rochester street, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John W. W(sic) pastor of State Street Methodist Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Adnah Cemetery.
From: The Oswego Palladium-Times, Oswego, New York, on Monday November 8, 1937, Page 12
Married: Hazel Beatrica Dunton, November 28, 1917, in Fulton, Oswego County, New York
Fulton Man Had Just Paid Fine for Charge of Assault Preferred By Wife.
FULTON, Nov. 8 β Turning a 30-30 rifle against his body a short time after midnight Saturday, Loren Rogers, 40, of this city and South Hannibel, sent a rifle ball through his heart and died almost instantly. The act took place on the Rogers farm near South Hannibal Corners, The man was found by his wife and mother a few minutes after they heard the report of the shot. Rogers had returned home after appearing in court earlier in the evening where he paid a $10 fine on a charge of assault, third degree, preferred by Mrs. Rogers. Rogers and his wife had returned to their home in company with Leon Harris, a neighbor. The later told District Attorney Harry M. Stacy that as the Rogerβs got out of Harrisβs car on their return from the court of Justice of the Peace Elwyn Gardner of Hannibal, Rogers remarked, βWeβll get a break someday.β Mrs. Rogers said that she was in her room and heard her husband rummaging about somewhere else in the house. A little later she heard the shot, she told Mr. Stacy and with Rogers mother, ran into the yard to find Mr. Rogers laying a short distance from a rear door. When Harris and other neighbors reached the Rogers farm they found the man dead. Rogers mother and a sister who live at the Rogers home corroborated the wife's story. Rogers had lived in Fulton and vicinity nearly all of his life. At the time he was engaged in the dairy business here. He recently had been employed in the local Oswego Falls (sic) right plant and had worked Saturday, returning Home at about 8 p.m. He was a member of the Hannibal Masonic Lodge. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Rogers; three sons, Fred, Clifford and Elwood Rogers; his mother, Mrs. Catherine Rogers; three sisters, Mrs. Bernard Sharp, Fulton; Mrs. Bessie Ingraham, Syracuse, and Miss Nettie Rogers of South Hannibal, and one brother, Almon Rogers, Fulton. The body was removed to Fulton by Ernest Springer, undertaker. Funeral services will be held from the home of his sister. Mrs. Sharp, 209 Rochester street, on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. John W. W(sic) pastor of State Street Methodist Episcopal church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Adnah Cemetery.
From: The Oswego Palladium-Times, Oswego, New York, on Monday November 8, 1937, Page 12
Married: Hazel Beatrica Dunton, November 28, 1917, in Fulton, Oswego County, New York
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