THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, September 13, 1928

 

A coroner's jury inquiring into the causes which lead up to the death of W. R. Rogers, whose body was found Wednesday evening in the woods ten miles south of Hastings, reported that Rogers met death due to strangulation from a belt about the neck placed there by unknown hands.

Rogers, employed by a drug store in St. Augustine, had been missing since Thursday, September 6, when he disappeared, leaving a wife and two children. Later he was seen here where his car was found abandoned.

Officials of the company for which Rogers worked could find no irregularities in his department and could assign no cause for his death.

His wife left last week to join her father in Macon Ga., where she was at a loss to explain his death notified.