Details
Title Gang of lawless villains throwing Mary C. Rogers, from the Cliff at Hoboken
Alternate title A Gang of lawless villains throwing Mary C. Rogers, from the Cliff at Hoboken into the Hudson River, where she perished, July 25th, 1841.
Publisher [New York? : s.n.]
Date [1842?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 15.7 x 8.9 cm
Description Full-length portrait of the victim struggling to escape the grasp of two men in top hats.
Notes In Tragic almanac 1843 (New York, 1842), p. [21].
According to the accompanying article, Mary C. Rogers left her job in a cigar store on Broadway in New York City after customers started a rumor that she had been seduced. “The Beautiful Segar Girl” returned home to live with her mother. One Sunday, she set out to visit her cousins, but did not arrive. The following Wednesday her body was found floating in the North River, with “a rope tied around her neck in a way which ... created the suspicion that the persons who committed the act must have been seamen.”
The character of Marie Rogêt in Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (the first installment of which appeared in the Ladies companion, v. 18, no. 1 (Nov. 1842)) is based on Mary Cecilia Rogers (1820-1841).
Genre Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Subject Crime scenes.
Violent crimes.
Women employees.
Murder victims.
Women.
Rogers, Mary, 1820-1841 -- Portraits.