LOOKS LIKE MARY ROGERS WAS PUNISHED FOR HER BEAUTY (AND SOME UPDATES)

Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · Apr 22, 2026 · 40m

New York in the 1840's was a wild and fascinating burgeoning metropolis with many opportunities, not all good. Mary Rogers was known as "The Beautiful Cigar Girl,' working at a local smoke shop as the owner said her beauty brough in many customers. Mary's mother had opened up her house to boarding after Mary's father died in a tragic steamboat accident. It was mother and daughter trying to get along doing what they needed to do.

Mary's beauty was so renowned at the time that James Fennimore Cooper wrote a poem about her that was published in the New York Herald.

In 1841 Mary told her mother…