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Actress Shot, H. H. Rogers In CustodyMusical Comedy Star Is Found Dead at Rogers Pennsylvania HomeDrinking Is Charged Late Millionaire’s Son Held on Suspicion of MurderMusical Comedy Star Slain(Continued frimi 1) Coatcsville. He said a sir) Dad committed suicide. He was alrald a man Iras going In do the seme thing.I Immediately got in touch with Deputy Coroner Harvey Co*, who started directly lor the farm. In the meantime Dr. Thomas Richmond called me and sal SI he chauffeur had been at his house and wanted me to go over.“Dr. Richmond snld his wile was afraid to let him go because ot Rogers' reputation and known pencil cm t for firearms. He left Immediately for the farm. •When X arrived two men were steadying Rogers, holding him up on the front jawn outsidu the house. The only people In the house Bt the ti of the shooting were the dwd girl. Georue Yam ad a, the Japanese cook Clyde- Battln. a farmer, who was employed by Rogers and who had called to collect acme money, and Wllllom J. Kelly, a photographer, who lives in Union City, N. J.Rogers and the girl went to New York the day before yesterday and picked Kelly up. They returned to the farm yeeteHa. All ot them said they were downstairs when lh:y heai« Die shot.When I got In the room I found the girl lying parLly mi her back and partly on her sifliJ The bullet had entered just over the left eye and came out the beck of her head. Imbedding itself in the wall about nine feet above the floor.“he was wearing a green suit, light stockings. a lace waist and black shoes. None of her belongings was In the room where she was found. 11 was a bedroom with a single bed ana the room was In disarray. Her pocbetSook was found in another room. It appeared es if she might have stumbled against the furniture.“In other words it looked like any room after a drunken party.When 1 got there Rogers was Blending outlde wearing a light lap coat over habby clothes. He had oil no hat. He couldn’t talk Intelligently.”The farmer, Claude Battln, 51 years old, told the following story of the scene at the farm house:I arrived at the house about d o'mclock last night. Rogers and Miss Ifoey were there, and we spent about *n hour talking about some dogs that l.id been killed at the direction of Bob Wright, the foteman of his farm.“Then he and Miss Hocy began to erguc. He wanted to call a lawyer, a man named Clark. Bnd wanted him to come right over and take a statement from me. Miss Hoey didn't want him to do so. They had some worda.I went Into the Ktichcn and then to the bathroom, and I heard Mr. Rogers and Miss lloey talking. Miss Hoey said she was going back to New York, or was going to coll Sew York*, or something.“Rogers did not went her to coll or go, eo he went to the wall and pulled the telephone wire* away.EVELYN HOEY, Broadway torch sinper and star o! “Fifty ililJion Frenchmen,” was found shot to death in a bedroom of the farm home ot’ Henry H. Hosiers, Jr., son of ihc late eil millionaire, near Downiiigtnwn, Pn. Miss Hoey is shown as she appeared in “Fifty Million French men.'’ _'Then I went back to the kitchen.J stood for a moment In the doorway of the pantry looking Into the llrlng room through a window.I could see Mr. Rogers, hi* friend (Kelly) and Miss Hoey sitting on the couch. Mr. Rogers was waving • his arms In the air but I could not hear what he said. Then Miss Hoey got up and went out of the room.■‘Mr. Rogers and Mr. Kelly kept talking. and suddenly—bango!—I heard ashot.Mr. Rogers Jumped off the sofa and ran out of the room. He came back n minute later like a wild mao. and Mr. _Kelly went out with him. And then j y I went In and followed them upstairs j and finally separation snd learned the Indy was shot. i Hollywood called, and he pot a »1 Battln fired the time of the shoot- J n-year Job as cameraman with Para leg at about 8:« PM. (Eastern Stan- j mount News. Because he lacked a dnrd Time]. Questioned again about j union card he ran Into difficulties the whereabouts of Rogers and Kelly hhe Astoria. I,. I., studios when he when the shot was heard, he said: | undertook to make some abort suo-'There la absolutely no question i jeets, and. when he attempted to about it. They were on the sofa.” j take crowd shots at Madison Square As far a* Baltin observed, Rogers ■ Garden, he took ’•only two drink*.The fanners story was considered •hong substantiation of the storiesK0-er3 “sol »1l*htlv B ' ' Will married, but It was understooddispute last night, Cateno said, wa* fhev had not lived together for severalthe sequel to uiese —shins.Located on a 65acre esl?.le known as Indian Run, the house Is two and a half stories high, of stone construction and thoroughly modernized.Rogers has owned it for five or six years. The home is not particularly pretentious.Young Rogers, who was cut off with the modest annual Income from a $500,000 trust fund under the will of his father lost July, recently returned from Europe, his chauffeur said. He was married In 192B to Miss Virginia Lincoln of Cleveland.Reports that Rogers and his wife have been estranged have been heard frequently, but a business acquaintance ot Rogers In Cleveland said today there had been no rift In the domestic relations of the couple. Mrs. Rogers was shopping when news of the tragedy reached Cleveland.Rogers has been In and out of the public prints for many years, both by reason of the great wealth of his father, who died recently, and because ot his own adventurous bent.He quit the luxuries of his father’s home before he was 20 and went to work In a Cleveland. O.. machine shop for 25 cents an hour. Ho wanted to be an engineer, he said, and intended to finish hi* education atCleveland physician, but before the i year was over there was talk of riftsunceremoniouslytold both by Rogers and Kelly that the girl hud committed suicide.Following the questioning of Battln and the others. Deputy Coroner Harrcy Cox »id Roger* and Kelly would be released under *1.000 ball pending the coroner's inquest, set for next Thursday night at 1:39 P-M.Stid George Yatnada. the cook:“I only work In this house one week. J *ee right away It is no kind ta m bouse. 21 *» drink, drink, drink •U the time. H is untidy. I say J am going to quit. The lady she say ahe give me wore money.•The lad? I* my boss. I Sell her I don’t want any more money. East night I know nothng. I hear no Midi, Tin In kitchen cooking. Then 1 hvsr ptople yell, yell, yell. I run in, and that 1* alt I know, only they say indy u shot. 3 nor her Ijlns Uieie.Osteno. the chauffeur, was in hack *f the bonre pelting the ear. he saw. jfe bcud the shooting.According Jo Cttftao. Ml's Hoc? bad crprctsei ihc desire on several oe»-*lotu dtnfr.g her week’* stay at the farm to refills fo Xcw Y«k. snfl lhatMJWNEVER SUSPECT CAUSE OF BACKACHESTMa OU Tra.t—at Often aria«* Harpy Of Pa m■» **fferw* «51r*e nsiy'bir byrkatki warn tbtr discover IhH tht twfl m *f IWf tremble tnsy be tired kidney*. Itt kidneys are «M Nature’* cblrt i «Hf taking the adds andr.^wt 1 * miles of iiflfcty tnln*Tf wsVerVtM/sWe *-Kk freqwtrt Madder ■ • -7th sail) taxmil WMrlh often burn. the 3S soUre erf krdtuy w* flialMnc otrt- TMa flaoterlie the of Tuwgiuithat Rogers went so Hollywood to give serious study to camera technique. In partnership ,.lth llnrold McCracken he undertook to produce picture.', and hit first venture was a comedy concerning nudism. ...On another occasion, with his camera, he went to the South Sea Islands.Miss Hocy had been a su”1 « ™c farm house for * week. Present there also were Rogers, Kelly, a bullet and the chauffeur.Her body was removed this morning to a morgue Here. Lsltr the body rs taken to the county hospital at West Chester for *a autopsy.Young Borers fared none too well under the vdlS of his father, who died In July. The provision made for him under the will Of Cel. Mcmj Huddleston Ro-er* was the income from a 1590.000 trust fund, under ibe terms of the Rocere will filed Ivlj SO at River hold. L. I.Under the will virtually lb* tn-Ure rlVjle was bequeathed to hi* wide*. Mrs. Pauline Rorem hi* only lt;*U(h1tr, Mrs. Mar? MiUlocnt Ramos, and to the v-m of her first manner: aing Peter Alfred Const*niln MtrJ* Balm.Tiir rcridusiy eat.ate -we* planed In Jruit for the widow, daughtw and grandson lo Quite •equally.The will war. carefully phrased, lawyers noted, so as to exclude young now*. nam'wake -of the mao who (with Ibe iNirtrTellmi wade mlllltmt In oil, from afldlilonal participation in fhr hue* cstsie. “I have m»fle wbtt 1 wwJflcr adequate prwlsKifi Hrt- my mar Colonel Rogers atld fa Die win.The jnw/me Trctn the IDWiWO fruit land is 1o go lo young Rt*rr» durine his lifetime, but awn bit -death it f* to revert to the vctaf*.At the tune it* 1«iw ■nf The will were made public much tuipj ia* was etpttajied at the lavish nuinwr in which CcAom Roper* lied yirorlOofl tnr hi* mndem, tllheaigh those clw* to tb* Jamil* were awxm tm he cu ixieaingiy Iwd vt the deafer of his danrhter and her first ht»-hanfl. count Dadwlg Salm, formerly widely known Etor«pe*n Nrnntt Star It was wot know* htre whtther young Rogers end the woman he inefl in Cievtltnd six yc*r« * wvrt
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Thu, Sep 12, 1935
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