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Show WIFE OF SLAIN RECTOR ISSUES HER STATEMENT For First Time Since Dis-corery Dis-corery of Bodies of Her Husband and of Sextor's Wife, Mrs. Hall Talks HAS NO THEORY OF REASON FOR CRIME Details All Movements She Ma"de5n"NiglirAfte7Min. ister Had Received Call; Expresses Faith in Him NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Sept. II (By A. For tha flrat tlma alnca tha discovery of tha bod Ira of her hu,. band, tha Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and hie choir leader, Mra Kleanor Relnhardt Mllla. a week ago; Mra. Hall, tha rector', widow, today con-aented con-aented to give an Interview to repre-eentatlrea repre-eentatlrea of the press. They had previously pre-viously tried unaucceasfully to obtain aome expreaalon of opinion from her aa to the myatery of what the authort-tlea authort-tlea have decided waa a double murder committed probably on tha night of September 14. Mra. Hall today waa more In public lew than at any tlma alnca the discovery dis-covery of the bod tea. i First aha waa examined for over two hour, by the proeecutora of Somerset and Middleeex counties. Then she laaued a aigned statement recounting eventa leading up to the murder and giving her rec-ollectlnn rec-ollectlnn of occurrencea day by day from Wedneeday, September H, until Saturday. September la, when tha bodiea were found. "Did you feel jealousy toward Mra. Mills or anybody else?" aha was aaked tonight. Her reply waa: "No." "Do you hava any suspicion of anybody any-body who might have committed the murder?" waa another question, to which aha replied, "No," "Did you aver bear any gossip about Mr. Hail and Mra. MillsT Again aha aald. -No." A TELEPHONE CALL. Asked about the telephone rail, her hueband anawered at 7 o'clock on the night of Thursdsy. September 14. just before ha left hla home for the loot time, aha aald aha did not know who called him. When she was Informed thst Mra. Jessjs Jamleeon. one of the choir elng-era. elng-era. had aald today that Mr. Hall brought her a bouquet of flowers at I o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Mra. Hall did not aeem aurprlaed. although in her signsd statement ahe had made no mention of this. Shs explained that he often carried flowers to persons who were sick and that ha probably took a few minutes from his other engagements en-gagements that day to take a bouquet to Mrs. Jamleeon, who waa not feeling well. When Mra. Hall waa asked In effect, why ahe did not offer a reward for the capture of her husbsnd's slayer or employ private detectivea. aha endea the Interview by aaying: "I hava no statement to maka on that." Mra. Hall Issued a signed statement late today recounting tha eventa leading lead-ing up to tha murders. Ths stata-ment stata-ment follows: "Wedneeday. September II. 1122." TOOK OTHERS ON PICNICS. "For the past three years. Mr. Hall and I have taken Mrs. Kleanor Mills snd Mrs. Addison Clarke on picnics In sppreclatlon for all tha work they have done for the church. Thle year we went to Lake Hopatcong, the plcnlo comprising Mr. Hall and myself, Mr. Hall, mother, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Clarke. We reached home about i o'clock n ths evening. "Thuraday, September 14, 1121. "In tha morning 1 took out the Dodge car. "In the afternoon Mr. Hall took the Dodge car and went to make an ad-dreaa ad-dreaa before the Parent-Teacher aseo-elation aseo-elation at the school at Berdlne Corners, Cor-ners, leaving home In time to arrive there at 1:10. He came back between 4 and 4:10. gathered flower, to take to a sick parishioner - at Ht. Peter's hospital and. In company with sis little lit-tle niece, went out again, returning shortly after o'clock. He had family fam-ily supper with me. my brother William Wil-liam and our little niece. "Mr. Hall was preparing to go out about 7 o'clock when the telephone rang. He answered from the extension exten-sion upstairs, as he happened to be there. I did not overhear tha con-vematton. con-vematton. "Mr. Hall went out about 7:1. telling tell-ing me that he waa going over to the Mills' to explain something that Mr. Mills did not quite understand la the doctor's bill. "Mr. Hall waa always early m coming com-ing home. .Naturally I waa very much worried when be did not come In. A bout t v my anxiety became ao great that I roused my brother WIU Ham and we went down to the church, thinking It poaslble that Mr. Hall had stopped there for business, as he frequently fre-quently did, and had fallen asleep In hla study. CHURCH WAS DARK. Ths church waa locked and dark. T then went around by the Mills house, thinking someone might have been taken , HI, and that my husband had remained to rtve assistance, as ha had stated that he was going there shout the bill. "The house was dark and I came directly di-rectly home with my brother William. "Friday, September H, l2t. "About 7 a. m. I telephoned the po-! po-! tics to learn tf any accident had been . reported. Tbey had nothing to report. (Continued on page I.) VVIFEOFSUIN (Continued from page 1.) I took the Dodge rar and a tar ted downtow n, thinking I might hear aome news. In front of the church 1 aaw Mr. Mllla. I lopped and aaked him If Mr. Hall had been to hla house on tha preceding e renin. Mr. Mill said he had, not eeen him, apd ao far aa he knew, Mr. Hall had not been there. Ha added that hla wife had alao been mlanfng. I then cam home and telephoned- to Mr. Hull'a slstera. I met them at the train around noon. I consulted with my aiater-Jn-law and telephoned Mr. Horence (Mra. Hall'e lawyer;, who said tha authorities oua;ht to know, j.nd that ha himself would so to the police. Tha rest of the day I remained at home. "Huturday, tepirmTer 19. !?. I telephoned a member of my family fam-ily living next door, who came over at once. I telephoned to Mr. Florence to ak for news. About the middle of the morning a Home News reporter telephoned me asking If Mr. Hall were at home, and being told not, requested hla addreaa I and the date of hla return. I asked ! him why they requested thla and he j said they feared something had hap-I hap-I pened to Mr. Hall. 1 shut off the tele- phone and called Mr. Florence, repeat-, repeat-, Ing the conversation to him. About 1:30 a member of tha family came to my home to break the new a to me. telling me that my ear of an accident waa verified. He Informed me that Mr. Hall had been shot. Mr. Hall had no private enemies. I can form no conjecture aa to tha motive of the deed or the perpetrator. Our Ufa together had been absolutely happy and sympathetic. sym-pathetic. My confidence In Mm la boundless and unshaken. 'FRANCES N. HALL. |