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Show 'LOVE FENCE' AT CHURCH FOUND Detectives Claim Progress in Probe of Pastor-Singer Pastor-Singer Deaths. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J . Oct. 7. By an intensive Investigation of sov-eral sov-eral of tho earliest clues discovered I In tho double shooting of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall. and Mrs. James Mills, wife of tho church sexton, sex-ton, state and countv authorities announced an-nounced Friday they had constructed a framework on which they expected the entire case to him,'1- This framework, tho authority Maid, consists of four cardinal questions ques-tions to be put to Mrs Hall an 1 Jumes Mills, when they are summoned for requestloning, which probably will be today. The first of the questions which the authorities say they want to clear up, Is the exact number of times which Mills met Mrs. Hall on the day boforo tho discovery of tho bodies of tho rector rec-tor and Mrs Mills in the Somerset county orchard. Mills had said that ho met Mrs. Hall four times on tnis day; first, early In the morning at tho church; twice at his own home, and onco at her homo. Mrs. Hall, detectives said, has told them that she saw Mills but once, and this was at the church. WOMAN IN POLO COAT. The second question concerns tho statement of William Phillips, nlpht watchman of tho New Jersey state college for women, that the woman In tho polo coat, who entered tho Hall home early on tho morning after the double shooting, woa unaccompanied. Mrs Hall, who has admitted alio Is tho woman to jyhom Phillips refits, has declared that she was accompanied by her brother, William Stevens. The third question Is why Mrs Hall I failed to make any declaration of the lafge sum of money ound tn Hall's horn, and the fourth is why neither j She nor Mills. In their original ques-j tlonlng by Somerset county authorities, authori-ties, made any statement of tho cloio friendship and Interest ilch the rector rec-tor and Mrs. Mills had shown In eacn other. ORDER IT) FENCE BUILT. The niost important new discovery, which was made In tho systematic questioning of members of the church choir and persons living near the' ehurch, was the finding of what i-' teethes called the "love fence." Th!i was a special chicken and barbed'wlre fenco which Hall' ordered Mills to build about a shed In the rear of the ehurch. Detectives said they were informed by Sjcrsons living near ih church that on occasions they had seen Hall and Mrs Mills leave tho ehurch, separately, by a rear ocur, and go to this shod The barbed wire barrier, the detectives said, prevented prevent-ed anyone from approaching the shed from the rear Colonel N. A Swarzcopf, commander com-mander of the New Jersey state pollen, po-llen, for tho first time Friday participated par-ticipated in the investigation te-sldes te-sldes Phillips, the authorities reques-tloned reques-tloned Mrs Benjamin Vogt, one of the women who have reported hearing hear-ing two automobiles racing alomr Easton avenue after the shooting is believed to have occurred. "We know something about these automobiles, ' was the only statement which Prosecutor Strieker would make after the questioning of Mrs. Vogt. on |