The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-09-13
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him in Jail just before his release
Young Rogers vowed his limo
cence as his mother stepped up to
the door of the cell. He said:
1--WE were all downstairs when
the shot was fired"
THINGS MOVE FAST
With a regal gesture, the pa
trician Mrs. Rogers brushed aside
the explanations. She said:
1--WE come to take you out Of
here, son."
But young Rogers continued
with his story as calmly and dis
passionately as though he were
telling of the most minor incident
81 can't understand why she
did it. Kelly and 1 were sit
ting there in the front room and
we heard the shot. 1 ran up
stairs and there she had done
it."
Things began moving as soon as
Mrs. Rogers arrived in town with
her lawyer, John j. Halpin.
Almost Immediately the district
attorneys office consented to the
posting of bail.
Precise, aristocratic looking
District Attorney William A.
Parks, continued to lean to the
suicide theory, though he adj
mitted there was not the slightest
sign of a motive for self,
destruction.
An autopsy was performed last
night by DR.. H. B. F. Davis,
county medical examiner. While
the reports are to be kept
officially secret until the inquest
at the county hospital next
Thursday night, DR.. Davis said
that the wound was such that
it could have been self-inflicted
He said the bullet entered the
right temple and emerged on
the upper left side of the head,
tearing away part of the skull
There we're powder burns on the
head. The physician commented:
"Miss Hoey was exceptionally
beautiful. She was small and
slim, blonde and with gray eyes,"
A SECOND AUTOPSY
It was this beauty which helped
the torch singer to stardom in
Fifty Million Frenchmen," in
which Betty Compton, now wife
of New York'S former mayor
Jimmy Walker, also was featured
After the State had finished its
autopsy last night a second
autopsy was performed by DR.. Will
liam S. Wadsworth, eminent Phila
delphia pathologist and ballisrics
expert, in behalf of the defense.
Four of Rogers attorneys, for
mer Superior Judge. Robert S.
Gaythrop; his son, Thomas Cav.
throp, and j. Paul MacElree, OF
this city, and Joseph Stills Clark
of Philadelphia, looked on. Later
they proceeded to the house OF
death and at around midnight re-
enacted the tragedy.
Curiously examining the strange
variety of guns scattered every
where-Rogers had a mania for
guns and had more than so OF
every describable make dlstrlb'
uted through almost every room
they examined the scene from top
to bottom.
Blood on C0verlet
They studied the bloodstains on
the bedroom floor, which showed
how the petite singer had fallen.
They wondered at the spatter OF
blood on the beds coverlet.
But what they studied most
was the view from pantry adj
Joining the kitchen through
living room window. This was
because Rogers star alibi wit
ness, Cloud Battin, a grizzled
farmer who was at the house on
business when the tragedy oc'
Cured, declared he was standing
in that pantry when he heard
the fatal shot upstairs. At that
precise instant, he said, both
Rogers and Kelly were sitting in
the living room. He related how
they ran upstairs and found the
girl dead.
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Rogers and Kelly when Battin
told that story yesterday. But
shortly afterward George va
mazda, Rogers Japanese cook,
completely refuted Battin's state
ment.
Yamads asserted Battin was in
the kitchen and not in the pantry
with him when the shot was fired,
that no view of the living room is
possible from the kitchen and that
neither of them knew what the
sound they heard was until Rogers
came stumbling downstairs
screaming:
"My sweetheart has shot her
SELF"
The Jap was positive:
"Mr. Battin mistaken"
Rogers chauffeur, Frank Gaia
lano, disclosed that Miss Hoey
was in tears few minutes before
she died.
Catalano also gave a vivid de.
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