Seventeen days after the shooting Dr. Markley, of Kimball, dressed the wound, but it was too late. Rogers died January 16, 1887, or just thirty days after the fight. A younger brother came from Belgrade, Maine, and the body was taken there for burial. The body had been laid out at Joe Menard's place, and he, with Sherm. Bookwalter, and Melt. Hill, and Bogardus Blade, kept watch while T. D. Deutsch went to Kimball to meet young Rogers. They were somewhat confused in a snowstorm, and when they saw the Menard light, and drove up to the very door, the place did not look natural.

When the body reached Kimball, Doctor Field, and County Attorney Rielly were on hand, and inquest was held in Ham Lilly's barn. Mrs. Yost and her son and Thompson were arrested and lodged in the Sidney jail.

The father of young Yost, and the former husband of the widow, came out to look after the defense for the boy. As he was the one who did the shooting, he was the one against whom the prosecution directed its energy. Mrs. Yost and Thompson both testified as to young Rogers conduct, and as to what he had said. The boy was justified, according to the judgment of the time, and the others were likewise released in June of that year.

All parties faded out of the ken of Banner county, and the claims were later entered by the MisKimmons family ; thus the land first involved in tragedy, became devoted to the arts of peace and dedicated to the altar of home.