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Show some distance removed. There she was thrown Into a dark room. Next IT. Hall was captured snd taken there. The roupie were confronted con-fronted with Indisputable evidence of an "affair." The rector sprang to Mrs. Mills' defense. de-fense. He was thrown down. Ha arose, fighting, and was hot through the head. They probably had not Intended to kill him. Thla doubly einaged the woman, ths mysterious woman who planned the crime, wreaked terrible vengeance upon poor little Mrs. Mills, enfeebled through a serious operation and weighing weigh-ing but 109 pounds. Mrs. Mills was small, hut she fought for her life. She received bruises and scratches in the fight. She was shot three times and afterward her throat was cut. The bodies were then taken to the crab apple tree and the letters scat tered. so that they might seem to have been murdered In a lovers' rendezvous. This, as I see it. Is probably what happened about :30 or 10 o'clock on the night of September 14. Tomorrow I will go into details ss to our search for the perpetrators of this fiendish "execution." and will tell all we have been able to discover. ! about 7 30 that evening "nil was never' I again see,, alive by the numbers. A to the rector's movements Ju-t 'before the crime, we are left in doubt : through reticence of Mrs. tlr.ll and her i family to permit "a thorough lnye-tiu-a-tlon. " Hut e know enough to believe Dr. Hall was agitated. I have reason to believe a member of the Hall household will testify the reet.,r was greatly disturbed. WOMAN BOARDS CAR. Now what came next? We have the testimony of a witni ss who say Mrs Mills board a car headed out toward the park, where she and 1 r. Hall were wont to meet anil discuss poetry and nature and the things they loved. Mrs. Mills left tho car three blocks before reaching the usual stop at Kastern I avenue. She walked slowly, hesitantly; looking behind her occasionally. Why, dul .he act this way? And the rector. We are not absolutely abso-lutely certain, but we have been told by supposed witnesses that he came I along en . foot a few minutes later, hands in pockets, head down, hurrying. The darkness of the night that hung over liincleuch park swallowed them up. and from then on It Is, as yet. conjecture con-jecture as to what went on until the bodies, side by side, were found beneath be-neath the crab apple tree. Hut my investigations lead me to believe be-lieve that some such scene took place: ATTACK SURMISED. . Mrs. Mills was seized and pushed into an automobile. She was taken to ;a vacant building, not on I'lilllips' farm, but In r little group of houses I northwest of the ersbapile treeand Minister Slain . Defending Woman By FLORENCE M. NORTH, Attorney Foe Charlotte Mills. NKW BRl'NSWICK. N. J . Oct. 1 (Copyright, 12:. by the Cnited I'ressV -Dr. Kdward W. Hall was slain by accident as he struggled to defend Mrs. Kleanor Mills against th Insane fury of a Jealous woman and her confederates. con-federates. The couple whose bodies were found near l'hililps fnrm on September lb were either lured separately from their homes two nights previous or were kidnaped a. they made their way to a rendezvous and the woman was murdered after the rector was accidentally shot. This occurred in a vacant building not far from where they were found dead. This, after a thorough Investigation with a trained staff of operatives, is my theory of the mysterious murder. Kverything we have been able to discover dis-cover concerning the crime. deep probe. Into the past lives nnd relationships rela-tionships of the principals, sifting of the contradictory tale, told by certain person, intimate with the stain couple, cou-ple, all point in this one direction. Tha murder was Instigated bv a Jealous woman. My men have ahso- lulrly rilscar.lAl the iiniiMthiliiy thU tht Tltn wt an. arrtilnt. hthI iI.i ? little rrodpno- In any blackmail theory. the-ory. l.:u'h clur. a w nrnarth It In loriouly a whlp month aft or th-findina th-findina of tho ho.lirn a month ol jht:nif til inai-tlvuy nn the part of off it-iil-turns t ht fintt r of unii Inn .ilwavM towariU (hi J'-aloun wniiian. AUTHORITIES DISREGARDED. I We hav on'y arratrhrtl the surf nee In our Ktnnli antl n name nirtn , thnse lnvnlve'1 in th Uiniiie has h'n j rlimiiiatp1. We will -in-orf.!. r'Karil-! r'Karil-! lena of what the authorities may lo. until the Hiun1err of t'harlotte Mill' ' mother i hrouifht to Justu-e !'mr rhirlotte, pitiful lit tin child vU-tltn of the jrrlm traKedy. her jrlrlish dreams Jrtroed. her future a blank, toward whtrh he dances in a. made whirl of excitement. She cannot rest nor rlax. Hh has auddf-nly become 'mature. Hoh)fil of th lovinir mother who wax "more of a stater" t hr, Charlotte ha a naed almust overninht. No one tan take her nvther'a p'acvln h-r life, but Charlotte Mills can be anted. It may he wll to vvr lh theory of the murders, which after a thorough near h Into th lives of the rrtnripals. . as Charloie has helped me know them. 1 hava evolvetl. Iter I wilt shw how each fn'ih scrap of ex'ldenea whlt h our mrn have dua up fit In l:ke a t.tt of a picture puzzle until tho portrait is nearly complete. The murderer we cannot .name -yet. A few nnr linka tn our chain and we hope to present the prosecutor with the facts. NOT REGULAR NIGHT. Thursday nijtht, the nisht of the crime, was not "their nlht " Ir. Hail and Mrs. Mills were accustomed to meet Tuesday nd Sunday. This, to my mind, establishes the fact that their meetimr on the night of the murder wa unexpected by either.' Charlotte tells m that her mother received, through a peithlMr. Mrs. Opie. a mrniati to call lr. Hall Thurs. day afternoon. Jhe refused the neighbor's neigh-bor's offer of use of her telephone and ran to a little corner store. What he mt o know ' Knna |