Allen County IN Archives News.....Confessed A Crime - That He committed Thirty Five Year Ago - John T. Rodgers August 12, 1899
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette August 12, 1899
CONFESSED A CRIME

THAT HE COMMITTED THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO

Marion Ind. - Aug. 11 - John T. Rodgers, who servedin Company A, Eighteenth 
Indiana infantry, in the civil war, came in the soldier's home, last week, and 
stated that he wished to confess a crime that had been a continual strain on 
his mind for thirty-five years.  He stated that he had killed a man named 
Humphreys in Virginia in 1854.  The crime was fastend on an innocent man who 
suffered the death penalty.  The continued strain of the affair has wrecked 
Rodger's mind.  Rodgers was proprietor of a jewelry store at Freentown, Ind.  
He left his place of business open and came to the home and told his story.  
He was in such a pitiable condition that he was taken to the hospital for 
treatment.

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