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Show Jlayer of rector and choir singer known ARRESTS NEAR IN APPLE TREE DUAL MURDER New Jersey Police Say-Name Say-Name of Slayer Is Known to Them i "WORK OF MADNESS" Funeral for Rector Monday and Sexton's Wife's Services Today NEW BRUNSWICK, N J . Sept. 19 After three days' Investigation of the murder of the Ilev. Edward W. Hall rector of the church of St. John 1 he Evangelist, and Mrs Eleanor Bernhardt Mills, wife of James Mills, sexton of tln" church, authorities expressed ex-pressed confidence that today's dc-' velopmehta would bring a solution of the mystery. Arrests were expected ' for, county officials declared. they km-w who did tho shooting. The bodies wre found Saturday, morning side by side, under an apple' tree In an orchard in Somerset eounty. ! KNOWS WHO !!! I I Prosecutor lleelirnan, of Somerset averted that he knew the perpetrator perpetra-tor of the crime- We know who did It.' Mr Beek-man Beek-man said, "and we know where it was committed It was not where the bodies were found. Neither was It In the house on the Phillips farm. Everything about the case will Se made clear soon. I believe That is all I can say " Ferdinand A David, county detective detec-tive of Middlesex sold that the "suspect"' "sus-pect"' was a man whose movements before and up to the time of the shooting had ben closely checked. The arrest, he said, probably would be made today. He added that his study of the case had convinced him that the doable shooting was a 'madman's act." AWAKENED BY SCREAMS. Henry McCabe, a bridgl lender, told the police that on Thursday night shortly before midnight he was awakened awak-ened by screams He said thai he railed his wife and that they listened together until the screams grew falnt--r and fainter The nc vt morning they asked Mrs Henry Waters, a neighbor If she had heard the si reams. Mrs. W aters said she had not, but had been awakened by reports of four gunshots Mrs. Mills was shot once between the .yes. The rector's body bore four bullet wounds. With this new testimony fixing to a certain extent the scene of the crime, attention was drawn to a vacant va-cant house which stands on the Phillips Phil-lips farm a tract of land adjoining the orchard. This house has been known for some time as the "mystery house." It Is said to be rented. Is fully furnished and yi t Is untenanted. Ml (forts to trace through real estate agents those renting the house are said to have railed. a superficial examination Is said to I reveal that the house ma hae been recently occupied. th"bugh no one has beet) known to have made his resl- 1 denes there for some time. Detectives assigned tu investigate certain remarks of William Stevens, a (Cintlnnc on Pn ?c Two ARRESTS NEAR IN APPLE TREE DUAL MURDER (Continued from Pace One) brother of the rector's widow, learned that Ids rendezvous was the station house of tho local fire department; and that he nlways "went to all the fires" At the station hnuv, It was, said that "Willie was known as a charactor " Stevens has admitted, according '.o , th' iollre, that he remarked a few, days before the shooting of nis broth-1 er-in-law that "something big is going go-ing to happen soon " It became known that Mr. Hall act- 1 ed In unofficial capacity as trustee I of the fund created. It is said, it Stevens' request from tho sum which he inherited from his mother'-i estate. es-tate. Jami'.i H Porter, trustee ofii-cr-r of the National Hank of New Jersey, Jer-sey, administered the fund, but the money was paid to Stevens by the rector. rec-tor. STEVENS n.Vn fiRIEYANCE. "Stevens frequently complained to me." Captain Jegan said, that Hall did not give him enough money." A thorough search was made by detectives of the Mills home When theV arrived they found written on tlm front door in a round hand, which tho pollco said "might huw been done by a woman." the quotation: "Blessed are the departed." No. 181. The inscription was not on the door on Saturday, said the investigators, I who oxpresaed the belief that it re- fers to a hymn and may havo some bearing on tho caso. The Right Rev Albion W Knl?ht, Protestant Episcopal bishop ot New J.'rauy. aided by mort- than a score, of clergymen, conducted the fum-r.il services for Mr. Hall, in the church whiclx he served as rector. A vested choir assisted In the regular Episcopal Episco-pal service. There was no eulogy. The body was taken to Now York for burial Services will be held today for Mrs. Mills nn |
