Victim in The Death of Mary Rogers
New York tobacco shop clerk known as the beautiful cigar girl; born c. 1820 in Lyme, Connecticut. Disappeared July 25, 1841; body found July 28.
1841–1842 · New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey · Unsolved
In 1841 New York's 'beautiful cigar girl' was found dead in the Hudson. Her death was never solved, and it gave Edgar Allan Poe a detective story. Read the case.
Dated events
The Sun reports Mary Rogers missing; she returns within days, and some call it a stunt.
Rogers leaves home on a Sunday morning, telling her fiancé she is visiting relatives.
The New York Tribune reports a statement attributed to Frederica Loss that Rogers died during an abortion.
New York replaces its watch system with a municipal police force, a reform the Rogers case had helped to press.