“For Quaenie’s Sake.”

Manawatu Herald, 7 June 1904, Page 2

“For Quaenie’s Sake.”

Pitiful indeed is the story of the tragedy which stirred the little Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth in April. Mrs Georgina Rodgers, the wife of a London solicitor, had been living for some time at an oldfashioned residence with her son Frank, a bright lad of fifteen, and her two daughters, Winifred, aged eighteen, and “ Queenie,” a little girl not yet in her teens. One Tuesday evening the family had supper, and after the meal the girls repaired to the drawing room to sing and play. Ten minutes after the boy Frank stalked into the room with a smoking revolver still in his hand, {tad coldly announced that he had

shot his mother. He y a 3 calm, and when his horrified ©Melt sister demanded to know why he had committed such a fearful crime, he said : “ I’ve done it for the best, ana for the Qaoenie’s sake. She could not be brought up to the life we have led for the past few years.” Then, calmly as possible, and without any sign of passion or ill-temper, he tooi£ charge of Qneenie, and escorted her to a neighbour’s house, asking tha people there to take charge of hia little sister. Meanwhile his elder sister had gone for the doctor, but when medical assistance arrived at the house. Mrs Rogers was dead, with two bufiet wounds in her neck. The boy Frank, when questioned by the doctor, repeated his statement to his sister, handed over the fatal revolver, and went calmly to the police station with the local constable. At the inquest on the dead woman it transpired that Mrs Rodgers tucl given way to drink, and in consequence the home life of the children had been the reverse of happy. The husband was absent at the time ol the tragedy, as also was the eldest son, to whom the revolver belonged. The coroner’s jury found a verdict of wilful murder against Frank Rogers, who, so far as outward appearance went, was the calmest person in the rfloill during the inquest. He showed no more feeling during the proceedings than be might be expected to do if charged w,Th shooting some protected bird,

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