Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-27
DO NOT THINK SAILORS
 REsPoNslELE FOR FATALITY
Little Connecting Evidence. Between
 Them and Death of Fred Rogers. :

The probability of James Gleason
 and Albert Bub. sailors on the U. s!
 sub chaser T9, who are now held in
 the New London jail pending pre-
 ssntation in the superior court on a charge of ths theft of Ford auto-s.
 mobile, being served with warrants
 charging thBm with manslaughter in, connection with the. death of Fred Rogers, whose dead body was found in Jefferson avenue last Wednesday morning, is apparently slight.
 l.: Corner Franklin H. Brown of Nor, wieh has completed his investigation
 and he failed to find any connecting evidence which would show that GHea- son and Bub had gone in that direction Tuesday night during their ride. Prosecuting Attorney Daniel M. | Cronin of New London admitted Tues l day that an investigation is being made into the possibility of the two | sailors being responsible for Rogers death, but said that no warrants had 1 been issued.
 1 When Gleason and Bub were ar l raigned before Judge Colt in the po- l lice court Wednesday morning on the l theft charge, they could not state how ] the Ford became damaged. In ex- 1 blaming the route taken by them for 1 their joy ride, they said that they took 1 the automobile from in front of the 1. Mehican hotel, and ran up State street as far as big white house, when they
 turned into Huntington street and l followed that route toward Norwich l In spite of cross examination the sail ors Stick to that story.
 | Their statements are substantiated by the records of the Norwich police
 where a telephone cali was received by Capt. D. J. Twomey from Michael . MeGuire, who reported that Ford touring car was standing near the 1 tuberculosis sanitaTium and two sail
 ors who were driving the automobile were evidently having trouble. One front tire was gone, Mir. Mcclure said and the sailors were acting suspicious. l ly. He said that hs noticed them about e;5o and that they had turned the automobile around and had startef back toward New Lendcn.s Two DO, l ilaaiIen were sent out from Norwich
 to .t1i-5s.y-to osartake the sailors sftei the NAyE 4E4anacn department had bee. notiHed-~.' .....~ ..+-, 1 Patfoln1an Frank Geer and, Georg,
 E. Segraves. the owner of the stoie1
 1 automobile, were iii the New Jondol police station when the. Norwich; DO
 lice notified the New London depart ! U" l toward New London. They went t, ! the Monte Cristo garage where a higl
 powered car was rented. With MI z Segraves at.:the wheel the car wa
 headed toward Quaker Hill.
 ri When Patrofu1an Geer and MT. Sc
 graves reached. Quaker =Iffll they me the Ford, which was stopped in tn f 1 road and the sailors W1rS trying t ; get the motor running. They were i'm 9 mediateiy placed under arrest and talk 5 en to the police station where the $ were locked up. The two sailors wer . in the custody of the police before ! o'clock.
 ;,l Such evidence would seem to inter [ fefe seriously with the theory that tn :. men had gone directly out Broad stree :. 1 to Jefferson avenue, where upcn stfik :. ing Rogers they had turned the For ,. around and continued through Jeffer ,; l son avenue and intersecti1g street : which would bring them to Connect s cut avenue, then to Bread street an g so on to Huntington and the Norwic
 road. This route is apparently tn
 only one they could have taken ha
 they gone in that direction, and : would be next to the impossible t make the trip between the time the
 are. reported to have taken the auto mobile from in front of the Monica
 hotel, and when they were seen nea
 l the tuberculosis sanitariuIn.
 s Patrolman James Cavauaugh an | Special Agent Walsh of the New Ha [ ven railroad are alleged to have SC l cured a statement from Gleason an g Bub, in which they say that a sailc named Goldberg was in the automobi q when they left the hotel, but | . jumped off after riding a. short dis Q tance. The accused state that the n were both intoxicated on the night i C question and admit having hit some thing during their ride, but just wh; q they struck they do not know.