Mary Rogers Theories Of Beauty, Black Hair, Gone

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Beauty, Black hair, Gone. Mary Rogers was a beautiful woman who lived in a New York tobacco shop. Rogers brought attention from many famous literary figures to the shop. Unfortunately the beautiful young woman was found dead in the Hudson River in 1841. Although there are many theories behind Mary Rogers’ vanishing and death, the two main theories are that she died during an illegal abortion or she died from a murder suicide. There are few details behind Mary Rogers’ death, so her murder was never solved. Mary Rogers was a “very pretty, tall, black-haired twenty-year-old living with her mother” (Historical Whodunit). On the day that Mary Rogers went missing, she told her fiance, David Payne, that she was going to visit her aunt that lived 15 …show more content…

That same day, the weather got baad so Payne and Rogers’ mother didn't worry when she did not return home (MacGowan). They were not quick to jump to conclusions when she didn't return home, because something similar had happened 3 years earlier. In 1838, Rogers went missing and people thought it was for attention when she returned home after 2 weeks (Meier). Not much happened before Mary’s death that would lead her and her loved ones to think she would be murdered soon; therefore, no one knows what actually happened to Mary Rogers. There is not a lot of evidence supporting that Rogers died during an illegal abortion, yet that is still one of the most believed theories behind her death. Madame Restell did abortions in the early days in New York. Although no one knows for sure, most people do believe that Restell performed an abortion on Rogers while it was illegal and

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