The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-13

lowing what he considered an tm- portant lead and anticipated de. velopments "later in the day..
 Only one circumstance of the tragic death of the girl, who was celebrated in Europe and America aS one of the most beau tiful women in the world, tended to show her death was not suicide --she had been quarreling violent ly with Rogers for hours. She was young, successful, and had every reason to live.
 Many other circumstances tend ed to confirm the suicide theory. The bullet entered her head on the right side in front of the ear lobe. Miss Hoey was right handed. There were powder burns around the wound, indicat- ! ing the gun had been within an inch or so of her head when 1t was fired. Witnesses said she had been semi- -hysterical in the last half hour of her life.
 Rogers Has Witnesses Rogers. who is inordinately fond of firearms and kept a large cole lection around the farmhouse, had three witnesses beside himself to support the suicide theory. They were Kelly, his chauffeur butler. cook, George Yama.
 | Authorities constructed the fol- lowing story of the tragedy and the events leading up to it. | Rogers had known the beauti- full star of Fifty Million French men" and other musical comedies, three years and was accepted by her family as her bethrothed, though he already was married but not living with his wife.
 Two weeks ago he returned from one of his periodic trips to- Eu- rope. He and Miss Hoey drove at once to his estate-82 acres with a remodeled Revolutionary farmhouse-called Indian Run farm. Drinking began immediate ly. A few days later Catalano was sent to New York for Kelly. Drink ing continued until Wednesday af- ternoon when Miss Hoey is said to have attempted to force Rog- CTS to sober himself so that he might go to New York Thursday to confer with his attorney, James w. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany.
 Gerard is acting for Rogers in a contemplated suit to break the will of his late father.
 Start of Quarrel | Rogers resented this attention, t was said, and a quarrel began. Miss Hoey announced she was go- ing home to her mother in New York. The chauffeur said she was without money and tried 10 bor- row $5 from him. Miss Hoey then went upstairs and telephoned her mother for money. After the call was completed, Rogers discovered she was telephoning and jerked out the wiring.
 The quarrel then was renewed, the witnesses said. Miss Hoey ran upstairs, leaving Kelly and Rogers in the living room. A few minutes later, both Kelly and Rog- CTS said, they heard a shot ring out on the second floor. They found Miss Hoey on the floor of Rogers bedroom, unconscious but alive, g. gaping wound in the side of her head.
 Authorities arrived early Thurs day morning. They found Rogers still intoxicated. Ginger ale, soda and whiskey bottles. some empty and some full, were found in practically every room on the ground floor and in some of those on the second floor. The house | S,. ,,,tI1 Thn nhonf- feur had retired. The Japanese cook, whose English at best is not good, was in the kitchen, so ex- cited and disturbed he could speak only a gibberish.
 Rogers and Kelly were taken to Chester county jail here and lodged in separate cells. They both told the same story.
 It was understood that they had been engaged by Rogers mother and sister, who married and di- vorced Count Salm and whose son received the bulk of the late oil magnate's millions.
 | Will Assist Son
 Philadelphia, Sept. I3.-(UP)- Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, ST., came to Philadelphia to-day to assist her son, Henry H., Jr., to clear his name in the death of Evelyn Hoey, musical comedy star.
 Later in the day, 1t was re- ported that Henry Juniors sister, Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos. and her husband, Arturo Ramos, South | American cattle buyer and sports man would join Mrs. Rogers. | Released on Bail l West Chester, Pa.. Sept. 13-(U. P.)-Henry H. Rogers, Jr. and William J. Kelly. New York cam eraman held in connection with the death of Evelyn Hoey, New York musical comedy star were released in $2,50O bail each at l D. m. to- day.
 They were liberated on bail post ed by Rogers mother, Mrs. H. H. Rogers, after Charles Dunlap, West Chester fingerprint expert, took their .hngerprints to compare them with prints on the gun that ended the life of the pretty blond torch singer at the Rogers country estate.