Carefully and thoroughly researched, and told in Geary's gleeful tongue-in-cheek style with all the lurid details, Mary Rogers was a compelling and beautiful woman employed in a cigar store in New York City.
She suddenly disappeared and her body was recovered in the Hudson off the Jersey side. The press had a field day with all the possible shocking possibilities. But the case was never solved. Geary recreates a fascinating picture of the nascent still somewhat anarchical soon-to-be metropolis of.
Provides a collection of comic strip versions of murders in Great Britain during the Victorian era. Apr 21, Adrienne Morris rated it really liked it. The void of fatherhood with its moral-ism and lack of privacy had to be filled. From good New England stock the Mathers and the Rogers of Connecticut fallen on hard times she came with her mother or grandmother to the city and opened a boarding house for sailors, corkcutters and clerks.
Mary, freed from the moorings of the village and the old-fashioned notions about girls working in sales you were always selling more of yourself than you knew took a job selling cigars to the roughs and the Tammany politicians. She disappeared once leaving a suicide note for mother and the news was big enough to make the papers, but she returned a few days later right as rain—it had all been a joke she said. In the city women had freedom but with freedom came danger.
Men thrive on danger so say the studies , but do women? On one balmy Sunday Mary went out for a walk and never came back. Mother worried, as did her present boyfriend, the corkcutter, who was to meet her in the evening to go promenading on Broadway as everyone did.
On Monday the corkcutter searched Manhattan. He searched the rural retreat of Hoboken a paradise on Earth. He worried himself back to drinking. And then Mary was found floating dead on the rocky shores of New Jersey. The beautiful cigar girl murdered! And not just murdered but violated in unspeakable ways! The papers went mad for the story. The outraged public read in horror each gruesome detail of the autopsy leaked to the papers a little each day. No newspaper man in his right mind would ignore the story that tapped into the fears middle class people had about the sexualized city.
And look what had happened to this pretty girl with no protection! A great manhunt began. Many men were wrongfully accused. Why had Mary gone to Hoboken alone? Seems the abortionist had connections to Madame Restell of New York, the notorious abortionist. Despite its growing popularity in the city and lack of enforcement against it, abortion was reviled by most average citizens.
As a thing done on the quiet no one really had to think about it. Ironically rural cultures had better infrastructure when it came to dealing with bastard children and out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Until the procedure made headlines and Madame Restell was all about making headlines the city could uneasily look away, but no longer. Huge crowds of protesters threatened the madame in her home until the cops fought them off.
Mary remained at once a tragic figure and a morality tale. Alone, young and seduced by men Mary was left to fend for herself and murdered at the hands of a woman who flaunted her skills as a killer of babies people thought it was murder after the first quickening when the mother could feel the baby move.
Public and private lines were forever blurred in the papers. Mary was one girl, a girl of mystery still, but beautiful. Everyone said so. Jul 24, A rated it liked it. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective,. Sie ist eine von Poes drei Detektivgeschichten um C. Kein Rabe so schwarz. The Mystery of Mary Rogers. Carefully and thoroughly researched, and told in Geary's gleeful tongue-in-cheek style with all the lurid details, Mary Rogers was a compelling and beautiful woman employed in a cigar store in New York City.
Feb 18, Jessica rated it really liked it Shelves: from-src. The beautiful cigar girl murdered. Finding libraries that hold this item Her story, and an impetus for popular literat.
Some of style and speculation of such reporting bordered on fiction disguised as truth. Request Examination Copy. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey shore. Her story, parlayed into a long celebrated unsolved mystery, became grist for penny presses, social reformers, and politicians alike, and an impetus for popular literature, including Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Mystery of Marie Roget.
Rogers's death, first thought due to a murderous gang of rapists and later tacitly understood to be the result of an ill-performed abortion, quickly became a source of popular entertainment, a topic of political debate, and an inspiration to public policy.
At the age of 20, a horrendous experienced even for the doctors and coroner who viewed her, Mary lived in the boarding house that was run by her mother.
Amy Gilman Srebnick. NYU Press. Xeath, was rejected by Mary and in a gentlemanly way he retreated into the background eventually even changing lodgings to a short distance away, delirious and dressed in shabby second-hand clothes.
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