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Show I jyecond Year No. im HALL CALLED I 3ABYKMS BY SLAIN SINGER I Passionate Missives De- scribe Varying Moods of Wjr- Mrs. Mills Br; LETTERS UNSIGNED jOne Says 'Charlotte Talks' Bp and 'Don Asks Her Bp' Questions' mi'- NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. Oct. is. A second series of the letters said H to have been written by Mrs. Eleanor H M '.is, wife of the church sexton and H choir leader, to the Rev. Edward H Wheeler Hall, was made public today H by authorities as they continued their H efforts to solve the mystery of the H 'slaying of the couple September H. H Qnaddrsssed and unsigned the let- H iters are filled with terms of endear- H I ment In them the minister Is often H referred to as "sweet, adorable baby- H kins." ThCv speak of "a love nest." H of a woman's dreams of "true love." H Mini describe the varied moods of a woman 'loved and loving without th'j flEe (conventions" H Excerpts from the letters follow: H "Dearest, dearest boy. Wasn't I H 'happy to find a sweet note for I didn't H expect you would leave ono for mo H yesterday." H ADORABLE BABYKIXS." Bs My Darling. How well you seern K(L;, ; today ... I am tired want to lie. H and rest for hours. Oh, you H sweet adorable babyklns of mine." H "... I'd build a waiting love nest. H People would mean nothing. I H had rather watch the bugs and anL H as they crawl along. Don't you love H to watch an ant as It creeps along, H "And darling sweetheart. ... I H long for our love to be the truest H Ideal as pure as we can make It, for H then It Is truest to nature. H CnAIt IjOTTE TALKS. "I know I'm a crazy cat. . . . Char- H lotte talks. . . Then Don asks ques- H i Hons, then annoys, so how can I H "Darling mine, didn't you feel mo H I purring blissfully contented? H Ami close to you, too." H My sweetheart .'rue heart. I could I crush you. Oh. I am wild tonight." B I "One time I told vou I hated your I I work. ... I hated your parish. 1 H guess it Is because I am Jealous of It H bocause It must come first In your H 'life. Not because of conventions, but H because you love it so. Oh. I know It H because vou are a true priest born SHE IS BIS FOREVER. "1 have the greatest of all bless- H Ings a noble man's deep, true, eternal H love and my heart is his my life Is H I his all I have Is his. ... I am his "I will hate the winter nights. Then H I dream of curling up in a chair with H you oh, what dreams I have. Will H ever H I am holding my sweet habykln's H face In my hands and looking deep H Into his heart and reading there the H I message that makes me live gives H mo strength and life " FAMILY QIZZED. The Hall family trio. Mrs. Hall, her 1 brother, Henry Stevens, and Willis H Stevens her ecceritrlc brother, -were H examined one by one In the court- H house. Mrs. Hall for a full hour and H the others for shorter periods. Each H was examined alone: only officials H were present and the results were H But one strange aspect of Mrs Hall's H questioning was made known by her . ounsel, Thomas N. Pfeiffcr. 1 Mrs Hall was seated at the end of s long room, alone. Attorney H i Pfelffer says. She was asked to re- H (Continued on Page Two) II LOVE LETTERS TO RECTOR READ (Continued from Pac Onci mors her hat and to put on the gro coat she says she wore when, at twe 1n the morning on September 1", ."h went to search for hrT husband. I Sho put on the roat. ! PEASANT ENTERS. Then tho door opened at th. n 1 j of the room and a woman of fort IgXl aspect, poorly dressed, and alone entered en-tered and sat staring at Mrs Hoi), net attorney eays. For minutes the looked at the widow of the (--lain rector, turn-I turn-I lng her head this way and that. Then without saying a weird, she left the room. Mrs Hall was permitted to go soon afterwards. "Whether the unknown woman Iden- r tifled Mrs. Hall or not, was not announced. an-nounced. The description of the i lent figure, tallies in many points, with that of the peasant woman whose home near tho old Phillips farm, long mortgaged, was cleared of obligations by a recent entire payment The peasant peas-ant woman was brought into th-- cms-yesterday cms-yesterday when sho spoke of having ween, several days previous to the murder a woman starching the fields near tho spot where the couple were H later found. 1J7IT1JRS MADE PUBLIC, 1 Prosecutor Beekn.an of Somerset county made public some of the letters I found on the body of the Rev. Hall. They wore, he said, in the handwriting of Mrs. Mills, although unsigned Ono of them is a critical epilogue of a book the rector Is said to have given Mrs Mills 'The Mother of All Living." by Robert Keable, described as a love story of Africa, exotic in atmosphere ami frank in treatment "Dearest." the letter says, "how fast 7 read: I remember too, honey mine, what a lot there is to talk about after ) read this book we must take it with 05 when Vc ride and talk about it. especially the marked parts this Keable certainly knows hearts it Is sweet, but nothing compared to. ours 1 don't want to read such booka ever again. Why? You know They make me yearn for what perhaps I mli-ised In "this life. And to think that now and hereafter I shall never escape this 'longing until our souls are one at last," "WONDER OF WONDERS." "Dearest, dearest boy of mine good morning," another letter begins "What Joy and peace Is ours todav and strength. Now, gracious God Is to privilege us to know this most Joy-ous, Joy-ous, greatest blessing I am on my I knees, darling, looking up at my noble man, worshipping, adoring. Wonder of wonders, that I love you even more than yesterday." i Prosecutor Beckman attaches Im- I portancc to a third letter in which is I I found j "Honey mine, I was needing you las only you know, but he was here lund so I said not to come." 1' Henry Stevens was questioned, according ac-cording to Attorney Plelffcr. regarding regard-ing his alibi for the night of tho mur- der, when he said he had been hunting r.i ar Lavallette, N. J. He announood thai )ils proposed trip had been ono planned to South America; not to Europe, as has been stated, but stated that arrangements had been cancelled. Officially, the results of the re-I re-I examination were not made known Moreover, a new drle has been started; vaguely it in believed, thut I new evidence has been uncovered and the return from scattered trails to the massed attack today is expected to bring definite action. No arrests were made. "If Charlotte was paid any money for the letters which have been published. pub-lished. " said James Mills, husband of the dead choir leader. "I will make her give It back. That Is blood money land I want none of It." j When aeked If he still believed that there was nothing unusual in the friendship between his wife and the minister, Mr. Mills said: "If these letters ure real, and there iseems to be little doubt of that now. l cannot help but believe what 1 see. It Mrs Hall doesn't sco It. she must be blind " I Two state policemen were placed on guard at Mrs Hall's home. |