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Rum Blamed in New York Hanging

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 8.

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Rum Blamed in New York Hanging

Two weeks since, Henry Rogers was hung in New York for murder. Rum did it. While the gallows was being loaded in the yard of the Tombs for removal to Brooklyn, there to be erected for his execution, his mother lay in the Tombs, intoxicated. —Congregationalist.