Evening star., 1935-09-14
3 PROBES PUSHED
IN HOEY Staying
Actress Father Near Col.
Iapse-Suicide View
Held by Officials.
Ry the Associated Press.

WEST CHESTER, Pa, September
14.-Three different interests pushed
investigations into the death Of
Evelyn Hoey today, despite the un-
official opinion of some authorities
that the glamorous torch singer de-
stroyed herself.
Henry J. Hoey, father. who engaged
attorneys to learn all the facts sur
rounding the death Of his daughter
in the Pennsylvania farm house of
Young Henry H. Rogers last We'd
nesday night, viewed the body at the
Wilson undertaking home in Down.
ingtown.
He tottered forward In near COL
lapse. A chair was thrust forward
and he was pulled into it.
He jerked a handkerchief from his
pocket and wiped his eyes as Vincent
Downey, Miss Hoey's attorney. who
accompanied him, examined the gun
shot wound that ended her life.
Bullet Entered Right Temple.
The father couldn't bear the ordeal.
He was led to another room. Mean
while. Downey determined for him.
self that the bullet entered the
actress right temple and issued out
of the left temple just above the
hair line.
Hoey emerged from the undertak-
ing rooms early today after arranging
for the body to be sent Sunday to
st. Louis, Mo, for burial. He made
his way through crowd of curious
folk, avoided speaking to any one
and was driven away by q colored
chauffeur
The curious folk had been viewing
the body all evening. Any one could
enter and many were children.
Chief County Detective Francis
Grubb said he asked Hoey If he
wanted to confront Rogers. His reply
was:
mo. I am not indicative"
Grubb said he added that he came
only to see for himself, if he could,
what the facts were and that he re-
iterated his assertion he knew of no
reason why his daughter should kill
herself.
1t was known. however, that Morris
L. Ernst, noted liberal attorney en-
gagged by Hoey to ferret out the facts.
planned to interview Rogers.
Rogers With Attorney.
Rogers. released along with William
j. Kelly, a cameraman employed by
him, on $4,000 bail to assure appear
ance at the inquest next Wednesday
or Friday, remained in Pennsylvania
at the home of one of his ATTORNEYS
Besides the investigations by Ernst
for the Hoey family and by the Rogers
attorneys. the tragedy was still being
probed by the county authorities.
District Attorney William Parke said
1t was his private opinion Miss Hoey
committed suicide, but added that he
was seeking more facts.
DR.. H. B. F. Davis announced after
autopsy that every evidence pointed
to suicide" Detective Grubb con-
tinued to investigate, nevertheless. and
hngerprint experts were going over
the two guns found near Miss Hoey
in the room in which she was killed.
Both Rogers and Kelly were finger
printed before their release yesterday.
Every effort was being made also to
learn the exact movements OF Miss
Hoey just before she was killed.
"I'll admit haven's had time to
read the complete report of the au-
topsy," the district attorney said, but
1t seems to me that taking the story
Of Claude Battin. the farmer, who was
in the house at the time, and con-
sidering the trajectory Of the bullet
which passed into Miss Hoeg's right
temple and out through the left por-
tion of her skull, lodging high up in
the wall near the ceiling, taking these
things into consideration 1t all looks to
me as If the young woman shot
herself.
Powder Marks Near Wound.
There were powder marks about
the wound also.
Then we found that Rogers story
and Kelly's dove-tailed in every i'm
portant respect. Battin, Kelly and
the cook all agreed that Rogers wos
on the living room sofa at the time of
the shooting upstairs.
"Of course, we're still investigating.
Parke emphasized, "At the present
time we definitely do not suspect
Rogers Of murder"
He said he arrived at the scene of
the tragedy at midnight-two hours
after Miss Hoey was killed-and said
Rogers looked like a man who had
been on a good drunk. and the state
ments Of the servants set forth that
(see ROGERS. Page 81