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Show GIRL'S ATTORNEY. GIVES VERSION ON SMC Woman Lawyer Set Up Theory in Noted Hall-Mills Hall-Mills Tragedy By FLORENCE M. NORTH, Attorney for Charlotte Mills. I Written for the I'nited Tress. j NKW HKfXSWICK. N. J.. Oct. ? I ft'opyrlKht. 1922. by V. P.) In my search for the slayer of Dr. Hall anil Mrs. Mills. I have turned the simple I story of their lives from the day they j met until the hour of the tragedy. I Somewhere In that direction lies the j secret of why they were slain. The I clue that will lead to apprehension of rthe murderer is to h found. I am con- vinced, in some hit h'i to uncut pages of their romantic story, j Twelve years ago, at a time when j he was expecting .'mother child. Mrs. I Mills first met Dr. Hall. She had gone j to the Stevens home in answer to an advertisement of Mrs. HalTs for some-I some-I one to clean house. While she was on i her knees, cleaning up, the pastor, who had just come to the little parish of . St. John the Kvangelist, and who had ! a few months bef'iro married the j wealthy, n ristberatic Miss Steven. came Into the room. He spoke to her kindly. Krom that momenl, mibseqiient events, lead US tO believe she had eyes for no other man. She became moody and irritable. With the birth of her second child, this mood, I parsed, but she was never quite the same. Mrs. Mills became an Ardent churchgoer. church-goer. She plunged into the work of tho little parish with all her energv, ; of which, like many women of her small stature, she seemed to have a limitless supply. I She and Dr. Hall were gradually f thrown together through the years that f followed. The affair apparently rip-i rip-i ened rapidly. C.ossip started in ehiirch j circles. Mrs Mills drifted an ore and i more away from her family The rent is known: how (bey wre apparently lured away from lhiir . homes and sin In. I Two groups are under suspicion. One, of course. Is that urged on by the ' Jealous woman The other group, which might, tin-j tin-j wlttineb. have beeri responsible for the double killing, would be a group of ("vigilantes." outraged bv discovery of j the rector's affair with Mrs. Mills. This I group might conceivably have attempted at-tempted to confront th pair with evl-, evl-, rient e of their pubi. They might have intended nothing more than this, "with perhaps a ducking fur the woman who had sinned. They were probably armed, if they attempted a kidnaping. |