2 Aug 1841 - Brooklyn Evening Star (Brooklyn, New York)

Year of Publication XXXII - No. 181, Page 2, Column 4

POLICE VIGILANCE - DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE - On Sunday morning last a young lady, residing at 126 Nassau street, named Mary C. Rogers, left her home as was supposed for the purpose of attending church with a friend in the upper part of the city. She was about 18 or 20 years of age, of the most unexceptionable character, and was on the eve of marriage with a young gentleman of the highest respectability. She did not return on Sunday night and the circumstances excited of course the greatest alarm with her friends. Search was on Monday morning instituted, but nothing was elicited relative to her, till Wednesday evening when her body was found floating in the North River off the Sybil’s cave, at Hoboken. Mr. Coroner Merritt, summoned a jury for the purpose of holding an inquest. Upon examining the body, sufficient evidence was adduced to prove that her person had been most brutally violated. Marks of a rope were found round her neck and wrists.

The jury found a verdict of “Murdered by some person or persons unknown”.

The friends of the deceased have fixed their suspicions upon a young man, who, since the dreadful occurrence has absented himself from the city. The services of our vigilant police have been for several days kept in requisition, but nothing has as yet been elicited tending to a discovery of the murderer. - Sunday News