Rogers Brothers Confess Robbing Slaughter House
100 years ago – November 26, 1925
Late Thursday afternoon C. F. Rogers, 42, and H. C. Rogers, 39, the latter known as “Doc” Rogers, both well-known men of this city, confessed to a systematic series of robberies of the Roehm & Hassett slaughter house north of this city, and led the officers to a cache of tools which they had taken from time to time. The arrests were the result of a protracted period of detective work on the part of Jay Hassett, one of the proprietors of the Center Street Market.
According to Hassett, the first robbery occurred in April, just after a big slaughtering had been completed. The hearts, lights, lungs, and other meat taken from carcasses, considered in butcher parlance as “offal” together with one or two tools, disappeared. A few weeks later, immediately after another butchering, the same thing was repeated. Hassett made up his mind to sleep at the slaughter house. He slept there every night for two months without an attempt being made to break in.
Finally, he returned home, and the second day after that the place was robbed again. Just recently another big slaughtering was done, and along about eleven o’clock at night Hassett drove out to the slaughter house and arrived just as the robbers, two of them, were jumping into their Chevrolet auto, which was loaded with meat. Hassett got the license number of the car and traced the ownership to Fred Rogers of this city. Sheriff Joe Ryan was called into the case, and yesterday Ryan came to Healdsburg and by skillful maneuvering secured a confession from both of the Rogers brothers who returned all of the tools which had been missed. The men were taken to Santa Rosa and placed in the county jail and will face burglary charges in the superior court.
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