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Oil Heir and Torch Singer for Whose Death He Is HeldHENET H. EOGEEB, JE., leftT Tras M5 at Downiiigtoivn, Pn., Thursday on a technical charge of suspicion of murder after the fihding of'the'b'ody of Evelyii Hocy; Broadway musical comedy-star, right, in his farm Lome near Downingtown. The actress had,been shot through the head. Bogers is the son of the late oil millionaire. Miss Hoey starred in Fifty Million Frenchmen/1Evelyn Hoey Shot at Party, H. H. Rogers In CustodyMusical Comedy Star Is Found Dead at Rogers Pennsylvania HomeDrinking Is ChargedSuicide a Possibility but Rogers Is Held on Murder SuspicionDowningtown, Pa., Sept 12 (AP, Copyright, 1935).—-The honey-haired, blue-eyed little Evelyn Hoey, singer of torch songs to Broadway, Paris and London, was found shot to death early today on the floor of a bedroom ox the country place of Henry Huddleston Bogers, Jr.At her feet lay a pistol. On the bed was another. And in a corner of the room, leaning against the wall, was a sawed-off shotgun.Rogers, 23-yeer-old sen and name-sake of lbs latu SUndnfd OU multi-millionaire, who tiled lest July, we* brought to jail here tor questioning and was held on a technical charge of suspicion of murder. With him, end held as a material witness, was William 3. Kelly of Union City, K. J.3oth 2ngers and Kelly said the girl had killed herself after a violent quarrel with Kogers. She had been a house guest for about a week.Lending weight to the suicide theory was the statement of Clyde Battle, a farmer employed by Rogers, who was In the house. He said that .Rogers and Kelly never left the couch la the living room until alter they heard the shot upstairs.On the other head the authorities considered the following remark of the chauffeur. Rank Catano, made In answer to a question:I don’t see how she could have shot hcrseU, Still I can't express any opinion, because i don’t know,Both Cantina and the neighborhood farmer, Baitln, said Miss Hoey was right-handed—-an Important matter in consideration of how the girl met death.The story of whet happened at the fern house, located at Lyndell, a tiny community on Brandywine Creek about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, was pieced together today by police after they had questioned Roger3, Kelly and servants at the place.There had been a drinking p«ty at the firm, they were told, last | night. unfinished glasses or Uqucr, bottles of sodi, ginger ale and liquor, and howls of melting Ice were stffi standing about when police reached the place about midnight.Miss Koey, who popularized tho seng. Whit la This Thing Called Lore? In New York night dubs and who acre recently Introduced “April •a Paris.” became angered and threatened to leave the place.Bogers, angered and under the Influence of drinking which had been gulag on, ordered his chauffeur* Frink Catano, to get til car and drive her eway.The actress, who has appeared in principal roltj With Leon Errol and was featured with Betty Compton (now the wife of former Kew York mayor, James J. Wilier) In ’Tilt? Million Frenchmen.” mahed upstair* to her bedroom, latemhag. the two men thought, to pad.Roger* and Xelly. drinking aad talking, heard a hot, When they reached tea room they found her tying on the floor.The acme at the farm bou*» was described this morning by Chief of Polios Chester 7. ailsson. who waa ibe first cdflwr to reach the place after being called by the Roger* csauBeur. He Mid:”1 vts called on the telephone try the ChauSmr about 1] d'dock 3 tat night. The chauffeur, who called ra». aalfl he waa at a farm bouae half way between the Rogers' iiro «M f Concluded on Pag* fc Cot dm «
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1935
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