Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — AMERICAN BANDIT IS SLAIN [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN BANDIT IS SLAIN

British Soldiers Kill James Ward Rogers, Illicit Ivory Trader, in African Jungle.

London, Aug. 20. —Followed for six weeks through the all but impenetrable jungles of equatorial Africa, James Ward Rogers, an American ivory trader, was shot to death three months ago by British troops sent out with orders to bring him in alive or dead. Rogers was an Illicit ivory trader and elephant poacher. He had lived for years among the natives of the heart of the Dark Continent, and in a way became their king. News of his death was cabled to the British colonial office here by Capt. C. V. Fox, inspector of Mongalla province.