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Show I GIRL OF IS MAY SOLVE PASTOR-SINGER CASE I CHATRLOTTE MILLS FEELS SURE SHE KNOWS DOUBLE SLAYER I up Br' aim I in the double aundcf mystery: Mr Eleanor Retnhardl MHJs (i-ft), -inin choir leader. Charlotte Mills (rleht, abor), her rlauchtcr; ami the Rev, Ktlwanl WIii-oIit Hull, the h-ii ret--tor. T the right: Church of St. John the 1 ? miellst. BY ALKX AN PI R HERMAN? NEW BRUNSWICK, N J Oct. 2. I Will a 16-year-old girl, bent on I avenging tho death of her mother, solve tho baffling preacher murder I myMlery which hii stumped the lead-8 lead-8 In detectives of tlie state7 II).- K-Irl Charlotte Mills dauphtr UP? "st the sexton of the Church of St. I ; John tho Evangelist Is sure that she 1 will. Since the finding of tho body I of her mother alongside that of the Kev Edward Wheeler Hall in a woods near a deserted farm house on the i outskirts of the town, she has been ( working untiringly In an effort to run down tho slayers. But the authorities haven't been i I making miirh headway In getting to j the bottom of the case. 1 On the night of Thursday, Sept. 14, both Hall and Mrs Mills, who was I leader of the church choir, left their I respective bonus, giving varying rea-i rea-i sons. Shortly before, each had re-j re-j reived a telephone call. A lHje that night they wore seen walking near a park, f n Saturday morning their bodies 1 were found hulf a mile away. GIRL TELLfi BEXIE1 Who killed them? Why? No one J seemed to know Many were the i conjectures but the church people i talked reluctantly to the authorities I 'harlrtte Mlf-atyled flapper, says; j I think a woms0 lld it; a woman J who was very strong. mam "My mother was one who, if nc-i nc-i Used of unythlnjc and knew she was Innocent, would fight all she could. But sho weighed only 118 pounds and vos very' weak. "My mom didn't have a ehanc" "This woman Isn't like ordinary folks. She has funny eyes that make you afraid of her, sort of like a man's." The girl's suspicions and the reasons rea-sons for them arc known to the authorities. au-thorities. But they are having difficulty diffi-culty In making progress In the case on account of the reluctance of the church members to present Information Informa-tion that the authorities bellevo they should be able to give th"'m. Centered about the little ivy-mantled church and the Inner lives of its parlshlonr ra, the mystery has these for Its leading characters: The Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall for 10 years rector of tho church attended at-tended by the wealthiest families tn New Brunswick. Eight years ago he married Mrs Frances Stevens Hall one of the wealthiest women In tvn. She was 14 years older than the rector With her 111 1 William Stevens a bachelor brother bro-ther who la very eccentric Although 58 years old, he has told of how no once acted us messenger between Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Relnhardt Mills ' choir leader and young wife of the sexton. Sac was a woman of Id -n i -lstlc temperament who used to pen lyric poetry and write "love letters to . nobody." Her husband James Mills Is a quiet Individual l who has been janitor of a public school, gardener and church sexton for 17 years Mills In statements a-stied a-stied since the murders, stands by his wife but says he is unable to give any explanation as to why she should ha vo been slain. Meantime Charlotte Mills his daught-r spends all her time trying to dig up evidence to substantiate her belief that she knows the person who kill 1 her mother and the rector. DIRK Rl PORT FALSE. NEW BRUNSWICK, !f. J., Oct. 2. Humors that two dirks had been found In tho home of Matthew Sullies, Sul-lies, caretaker of tho Phillips farm, by detectives Investigating the double dou-ble shooting two weeks ago of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. John the Evangelist, and Mrs. James Mllla. were denied by the police. po-lice. Detectlvei said that the weapons wore ordinary kitchen knives. The medical report covering the condition of the bodies when they were found in the Somerset county orchard, still lacks a fesjtatement regarding re-garding the number of bullet wounds found In Dr. Hall's body. This may be completed today when an autopsy Is expected to be perloriin 1. The aUthorltb-H have Intimated that new lines of Investigation may develop de-velop from Information given in the eight unsigned and unaddreosed letters, let-ters, which, It was definitely established. estab-lished. wer In the pockets of Mr. Hall when his body was found. Th-authorities Th-authorities have declined to common on the contents of these letters beyon 1 declaring that they are derogatory t certain members of the congregation. |