NYT article on the Hoey Trial:
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/10/01/archives/asks-grand-jury-act-in-evelyn-hoey-death-west-c hester-pa-prosecutor.html

Clipping published after Evelyn’s death:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-anniston-star-chorus-girl-killed-193/130887230/

Evelyn’s Playbill entry:
https://playbill.com/person/evelyn-hoey-vault-0000081109 https://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/609640 https://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/656370

Evelyn was born December 15, 1910, in Iowa, USA. She began her performing career in
Minneapolis at the age of 10. She obtained good notices for her performances in Good News and Fifty Million Frenchmen. Cole Porter was the lyricist for “Frenchmen” and Evelyn was reportedly a muse of his for a while during her Broadway career. The song “Boyfriend Back Home” is rumored to have been written for her.

She rose to fame after with the touring vaudeville group, The Greenwich Village Follies after asking her mother for permission. The follies played for 8 seasons in New York from 1919 to 1927. She would go on to play in London and Paris.
She had one movie credit with a role in the 1930 comedy Leave It To Lester. The film was directed by Frank Cambria. It appears to be a “lost film” and is no longer available. She also appeared in a short film entitled The 20th Amendment. Both movies starred Jack Haley, who would later become known for flaying The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.
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Hoey was found dead of a .45 caliber gunshot wound to her head on September 11, 1935, in an upstairs bedroom at Indian Run Farm House, a country home rented by Henry H. Rogers III. Evelyn had been a guest at the house for a week before her death occurred.