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Show Widow 's CoatExamined Double Murder Baffling Jealousy Motive, Belief Release of Clifford Hayes Explodes Ex-plodes Supposed Theory of Solution NEW BRUNSWICK. N. X. Oct. 11 By A. P. While state and county officials s.Vrht anxlouaty today for snmethlnc tangible on which to pro-reed pro-reed In tha Inquiry Into tha murder on Keptember 14 of tha Rev. Edward Wheeler. Hail, rector at tha Eplsnnnsi Church of Ht. John tha Evangelist, and tha choir singer, Mra. Eleanor Feln-hardt Feln-hardt Mllla. frlenda of Clifford Hayea went ahead with preparatlona for a maaa meeting tonight to celebrate Hftyeo release yeaterday. Hia release and the collapse ef the case of mistaken Identity made out by authorities foljowed tha admiealort by Raymond Schneider that hia tr-euaatlon tr-euaatlon of Hayek waa falsa. Schneider Schnei-der atlll waa held In tha Somemret county jail today, although no new charge had been lodged against him. He waa locked up aa a material witness wit-ness some days ago. Authorities were admittedly "up In the air" again. Tha fawn colored eoat and ecarf which Mrs. Frances Steven Hall, widow of tha rector, had dved In Philadelphia Phil-adelphia a few daya after Dr. Hall waa murdered, were In the handa of a New Brunswick chemlat today Tor analysis, the action being ordered by Prosecutor Joseph Strieker of Middlesex Middle-sex county. Detectives, thrown off the troll temporarily tem-porarily by Schneider's falsa accusation, accusa-tion, turned again to their original theory that the double slaying waa prompted by jealousy and that a woman waa one of tha partlclpanta la the crime. Break in Alleged Romance Uncovered NEW PRPN8W1CK. N. J, Oct. 1 TRy ti. f" ) There waa a break In the alleged romance of tha Rev. Edward W. Hall an Eleanor Mills, the sex-ton's sex-ton's wife, about three months a-o When thla fact came to light today, a, woman, believed to have filled the gap and to have been friendly with the pastor while Mra. Mllla was re- covering from an operation, was sought aa a possible suspect In th murder of the couple. The woman, toward whom three avenue of Investigation turned, may have become enraged at reaumptton or tha preacher's alleged love affair with tha choir singer, It waa believed. Or a man Involved In thla newly bared angle of the tragedy, and now ought by th authorities, may be placed under aueplcloa. What appear to be a brand new field of Investigation haa been opened up. A statement by Jamea Mllla, husband hus-band of the murdered woman, that hia wife waa III, operated upon and convalescent over a considerable period pe-riod of time thla summer, may have pointed the way. The Investigators hsve turned their backs upon the unfortunate little trloj of feehlemlnrted characters. Raymond Schneider. Pearl Bahmer and her fa- ther. Nick, who still, however, remain In JalL |