Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1913 — Evelyn Rogers Escapes From the Martha Home. [ARTICLE]

Evelyn Rogers Escapes From the Martha Home.

Evelyn Rogers, the woman who lived in one of thj shaeks on Main street north of the Babcock & Hopkins’ elevator, and who has been the cause of considerable excitement at Lafayette recently, is again is the limelight. She is supposed to have left with “Bill” Martin, after separating Martin and his wife, and the next heard from her she had caused'the arrest at Lafayette of Tucker Nash, a cab driver, charging him with criminal assault. She played, the “innocent” quite well and was the cause of much solicitation among the sympathetic at the Martha home at Lafayette until Mrs. Martin appeared and “read her pedigree.” Evelyn then confessed and tried to end her life by drinking wood alcohol, but was rescued by the doctors and a stomach pump. She was taken back to the Martha home from the hospital and an effort was being made to reform her, but Saturday night she and another girl named Loveless, the home of both having formerly been Monon, escaped by climbing out of a window of the Martha home and they have not yet been located. * .