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About ten years prior to Connie's disappearance, there was a little boy who died at Camp Sloane. In an article from July 25th, 1940, the camp plead not guilty for having a camp doctor working without a medical license in the state of Connecticut. The camp director was Ernest P. Roberts, who would be the same director 12 years later when Connie would go missing. On July 17th, 1940, there was an outbreak of food poisoning, that ended up being investigated by the state health department. Case records signed by Dr. Fry indicated he was practicing, despite the camp director saying the New York doctor had been engaged merely to render first aid, and maintain a general check on the health of campers. Two state police men went with the state health official to the camp. An 11 year old boy named George H. Winterich, son of New York newspaper man John T. Winterich, died in a hospital on July 15th, 1940, at a hospital in Sharon, Connecticut, after he’d been stricken ill at the camp. Dr. J.S. Chaffee, the Sharon, CT medical
examiner, attributed the 11 year old’s death to a streptococcus infection.
examiner, attributed the 11 year old’s death to a streptococcus infection.