GIRL'S HOAX

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 33, 1 October 1931, Page 4

GIRL'S HOAX

kii "ATTACKED" FIERSE^j WROTE TOREATENING LETTER J TO STIMULATE HER 1 YOUNGMAN. | CONFESSES TO POLICE. 1 MILO (Maine). 1 Fear that she might lose her boyl friend caused a 23-year-old girl, Onal Rogers, to play a hoax of a death! threat on police authorities. f The girl confessed 'to Investigatorl Frank J. Rogan, of Bangor, who hadl been working on the case with Conntyl Attorney Jerome Clark. I Mis3 Rogers, who had been work-j ing for Dr. A. M, Carde for four! years, was friendly with a young man j named Murray Littlefield. ; One night she showed Dr. Carde I a letter she said she had picked up the night before when she answered | the door-bell, but found nobody there. j Found on Floor. Together they read the letter threatening her with death. The doctor became suspicious. That evening hei went out and left Littlefield looking after the girl, since the letter said that only in the boy's company would she be safe. About 10.45 Miss Rogers remarked she was tirod and sent Littlefield home. In a few minutes Dr. Clark returned with County Attorney Clarke and Policeman Aaron Day to find the girl groaning on the vestibule floor. They placed her in bed and after some effort quieted her sufficiently to get the story of the alleged assault. She showed them marks on her throat and scratches indicating a struggle, and explained that when Littlefield left her she went up stairs to retire and the door-bell rang. She went down, aiid as she stepped into the vestibule a tall masked man seizcd her, choked her, she said, and threatened to shoot her if she screamed. The ringing of the telephone frightened him away, just before the doctor came., but she didn't have the strength to get to the telephone, she explained. Confesses Hoax. Deputy Sheriff Walter Blake and State Trooper Sheppard, a fingerprint expert, went to work. A chcck-up was made on every person who had access to Dr. Carde's office. It was learned the machine upon which the letter was. written was similar to ons in the doctor's office. The paper used was from a pad, apparently the same as one on his desk. The marks on the girl's throat were made by a girl's finger. Under questioning by Investigator Rogan, Miss Rogers broks down and confessed the whole story was false. She said she wrote the note to herself and inflicted the scratches on her face and throat to make it look more realistic. She had loved Littlefield for a long time, she asserted, and thought the letters would make him jealous of the man who "loved her so much he was going to kill her to get her out of Murray's reach." *