New Britain herald., 1924-12-02
Miss Schneider Order- ed To Appear To Give Testimony Thursday As Probe Of North Haven Tragedy Is Resumed.
She Denies Recalling Hay. ing Said She Pushed Man and "Thought She Had Killed Him. "-State Po- lice Are Called in.

New Haven, Dec. 2.-Formal in- vestigation of the death Of Charles c. G. Rogers, bond salesman, found fatally injured in an automobile on the North Haven road. November 1 |, while. riding toward this city with Miss Marjorie Schneider, will be re- opened at session of the grand jurors of the town of North Haven, Thursday at ten a. m., Ward Church, one of the towns grand jurors and town prosecutor, announced today.
 Miss Schneider, who was driving the car in which Rogers was fatally hurt, has been subpoenaed to be Lresent at the grand jurors session.
 Other Witnesses Called
 Other witnesses summoned, ac- cordtng to MT. Church are Dr. Mar Win M. Scarborough, medical exam- irer of this city; Mir. and Mrs. Chauncey Hulse, who were guests at the Long Hill inn on the night that Rogers met his death, after dining at the inn with Miss Schneider: Ber- hard Wilhelm, brother of Mrs. Hulse, and Mir. and Mrs. Walter Pierce of Merlden, also guests at the inn. Mir. and Mrs. Robert Ohl of New York city whose car took Rogers to the hospital in this city after he was found injured have been asked to appear, Mir. Church indicated
 The grand jurors besides Mir. Church, who will sit as q court of inquiry into the circumstances ct Rogers death are Vim. H. Todd and Wilson Goodsell.
 The state police, who are said to have been investigating the death Of Rogers, will be represented at the inquiry by Supt. Robert Hurley ana Captain Nichols, Mir. Church indl- Cated.
 County Coroner Mix. after an in quest into the death of Rogers, de- clared in a finding, issued soon after the death, that Rogers was fatally injured, in his belief when his head struck a telephone pole as he was leaning out of the automobile to get a better view of the roadway in the dense fog which prevailed. The cor oner in his finding declared that in Schneider were under the influence of liquor which they had to drink when dining at the inn. States At torney Arnon filling of New Haven county announced later that the finding of the coroner was based in his opinion on 'indisputable facts"
 No Warrant served
 Later MT. Church. as prosecutor of North Haven announced that he had issued a warrant for Miss Schneider on charge of driving an automobile while under the infiu- ence of liquor. Afterward he declar- pearance of Miss Schneider In the North Haven court, by agreement with her attorney. had been called off. The warrant was never served.
 Tn the coroners finding Mrs. Hulse one of the witnesses testified that Miss Schneider told her that she had pushed Rogers when he attempted 10 kiss her and she Thought she had killed him." Miss Schneider de- clared she did not recollect making such a statement.
 In the testimony before the cor oner reference was made to a gray car" seen in the vicinity of spot where Rogers was found fatally hurt, but which later disappeared.
 MT. Church said that Thursdays inquiry would be behind closed doors and not open to the public.
 The names of the occupants of the "gray car" 1t Is expected will be sought by the grand jurors at their session. Coroner Mix, 1t was stated, had declined 10 make public the names of the occupants of the car on the ground the car or those in 1t had no connection with the death of Rogers.