Rogers v. McCoach

This is an action brought to recover the reward offered by the board of supervisors of the county of Orange for information resulting in the apprehension and conviction of the murderers of Frederick and Willis Olney and Alice Ingerick.

The three persons named were murdered in the town of Wallkill, Orange county, on the 6th of October, 1905. Investigations shortly thereafter made indicated that the murders were committed by one Charles H. Rogers, who lived in the city of Middletown in that county. He left home on the morning of the day of the homicide and did not return. On the 16th of January,…