New Britain herald., 1925-04-11
FRENCH POLITICS MUDDLED AS HERRIOT RE7zRES AND NO SUCCESSOR $ LOCATED
ROGERS TOO WEAK TO
 MAKE NEW CONFESSION
New Haven Police Visit Him at Schenectady
 Hospital

the chief Of police Of Schenectady that the latter officer with a stenog- rapher had visited ThurIow H. Rog- CTS at the hospital to obtain a fur ther statement from him bearing up- on his alleged confession of killing his infant child and placing the body in bag which was found checked in the New Haven station. The officer reported, however, that Rogers was In such 8 weak state that no connected statement was se- cured.
 Captain Deegan of the detective bureau said that he was awaiting & finding from Coroner Mix. and after that decision would be made as to application for warrant for Rogers arrest.
 Religious contention unbalanced the mind of Thurlow H. Rogers and caused him to chloroform his seven weeks old baby on March '24, &C., cording to the story told by Benja- man J. Weiner Thurloys former employer. and substantiated by Mrs. Sigred Nordgren of 431 West Main street, this city. Rogers himself is alleged to have said that he killed his child because he did not want it brought up under any religious faith other than his own, although it Is said that he would have allowed the baby to be reared a Catholic had not his mind been disordered by the death of his wife and the haste of her parents to have the child bap- tized.
 Rogers is now being held in Schenectady, N. r., pending extra bdition to this state on 8 charge of homicide. He is suffering from an overdose of sedative, acute spinal meningitis, faulty heart action, and inflammation of the brain. He was found in a Schenectady hotel 6 week ago with a rope around his neck in an attempt at suicide. Ex- tradition proceedings have been be. gun by the police of New Haven. where the alleged crime occurred and Rogers will be brought back as soon as he is released from the hospital. Mrs. John Valaitis, grandmother of Rogers dead wife, has unidentified tho al nt hoe F6Upd or +I,n Jaod I,, Far f which was checked at the New Ha- ven railroad station, and all i4for- nation needed for extradition has been secured. His condition, how ever, will make it impossible for Rogers to be moved for at least a week.
 Weiner, A New Haven druggist, told of a special delivery letter re- ceived from Rogers and dealing with the religious wrangle over the baby; Rogers spoke of his wife as an angel, but told of his troubles with her family. This was on March 14, and on the following day Rogers visited the Weiners in New Haven: he ap- peared irrational and talked contin- ually of his wife, baby. and religious dilemma. He said that he would yield to the Valaitis family and left the house.
 On March IS, he brought the child to Mrs. Nordgren in this city, where the infant was taken care of for two days. Mrs. Nordgren declares that it was the haste to have the baby baptized a Catholic which turned Rogers against that course and led him to commit homicide.
 He took the baby from the Nord- gren house on March 20 and went away with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Earl Rogers of West Hartford, pre- sumably to her home. Captain James J. Deegan of the New Haven detective force has established the fact that Rogers purchased the chloroform in Hartford. whence he went 10 New Haven on the 24th and is supposed to have committed the crime.
 Rogers appeared here again on March 29, five days after the report ed crime; he appeared nervous but said that the baby was in an insti- tuition and being properly cared for.
 On Tuesday night, Mrs. Nordgren says, she was visited by a man who claimed to be a detective but would show no credentials. He accused her of checking the suitcase in which the babys body was found, but she denied the charge and offered to go to New Haven and face the worker at the checking room. Her chal- Ienge was not accepted. She Is still in doubt that it was her cousin who committed the crime and wishes to see his signed confession or the baby's clothes before being certain.
 Coroner Eli Mix is Investigating. but will not call Mrs. NordgFen until her husbands illness has pasesd, nor will he hand down a finding until Rogers has been brought to New Haven and personally questioned by him