1913 November 09 Atlanta Constitution 80 Pages Georgia

1913 November 09 Atlanta Constitution 80 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1913

PDF PAGE 8, COLUMN 1 A Dead Hero Is the Poorest Sort of a Husband; Boots Rogers, Hero Extraordinary, Learns Lesson Photos by Francis E. Price. Upper picture: Boots Rogers, at extreme right, standing beside automobile with detectives with whom he worked on the Phagan murder mystery. Lower illustrations: Rogers at time of the Frank trial, his daughter, Louise, and his wife, who formerly was Miss Louise Petty. By Britt Craig. The little clock ticked impatiently between the statue of the market girl and the boy with the finishing rod on the mantelpiece. The folding doors were closed, and the shades came plumb down to the sill. W. W. (Boots) Rogers got down on one knee in appropriate attitude of humbleness on the flower-bordered carpet of a north-side parlor not so awfully long ago and said to the maiden, who blushed and fidgeted on the sofa: “How’d you like to get married?” “It wasn’t so eloquent as the proposal in the third act of “Lovers. You and I,” but it amply conveyed its fullest meaning. It was with some difficulty that the blushing maiden stammered this reply: “Sure, ‘Boots,’ just as soon as you quit being a policeman.” She could have told the humble swain at her feet that she