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Show NEW JERSEY CITIZENS DECLARE I ARREST OF BOY IN HALL-MILS I MYSTERY IS POLICE FRAMEUP I Pearl Bahmer, Third Person Involved in Puzzle, J Arrested As She Confesses to Immorality; Hayes Not Believed Guilty of Crime NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 11. Thomas Hagerty, counsel fox j Clifford Hayes, the 19-year-old boy held on a charge of murdering the Rev. Edward Wheeler .Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, announced today he had proof that Hayes was at home in bed al the hour when Raymond Schneider who is held as a material wit-ness, wit-ness, charges he committed the crime. The lawyer declared he wa absolutely convinced of Hayes' innocence. That many of the residents of acw j Brunswick pharc his belief has been i proven by two things In the last twelve hours. SLEl i II is MOBBED ! A crowd of about fifty men early itoday attached Prank P. Klrby, Middlesex Mid-dlesex county detective, credited with having obtained the gchnelder state-; state-; ment on Which Hayes is held, bom-; bom-; bardlng htm With bricks and threat-lening threat-lening to tar and feather him. He escaped by locking himself In the Pennsylvania railroad station. The other evidence of sentiment in Favor of Hayes was announcement of plans for a "tag day " Saturday to ralso a defense fund for him. THREATENS THROAT CUTTING The authorities turned part of their attention of checking new stories tOl 1 by Pearl Bahmer. She sought in her I latesj storj today to turn suspicion on her father who. she asserted, had 1 more than once threatened to cut I her throat. Mrs Mills' throat was i cut and the story, told by Schneider of an attack by Hayes fails to explain ex-plain this fact. The plrl said that after she had Walked with her father as far as BUCCleuch park on the night of September Sep-tember i i, and had an -ncounter With Schneider, Hayes and Leon Kaufman, her father took h-r home and told her to go to bed. This, she said, was around 10 o'clork Looking out of her wlndo.w she de-c'ared de-c'ared she saw her fsrthftr walklns about and muttering to himself. Bahmer. who was arrested Tuesday Tues-day nlsht on a statutory charge preferred pre-ferred by his daughter, after she had bei n locked up as an Incorrigible. was uncommunb atr-e m his cell toe Bombarded with brkks Kirby es aped unhurt by locking himself ir, the baggage room at the New Brun-wick Brun-wick Pennsylvania station. Later hi twas surrounded by armed policemen 'and escorted to police headquarters, ; while the crowd which had shown lis resentment over the arrest of Hayea dispersed j CAN'T GET CONFESSION. Kirby was met by the group of citl-sens citl-sens as no emerged from the Pc-nn-aylvahia station on his return from Somervllle where he had sought un-HUCCessfuIlj un-HUCCessfuIlj to obtain n confession from Hayes The group included sev -er.il members of the committee which jhad obtained the offer of a $1,000 re-I re-I ward for the arrest and conviction 'of the slayer of Dr. Hail and Mra. Members of the crowd protested angrily to Klrby against the arrest of Hayes, declaring they considered It "a frame-up" to quiet the tndlgna-tion tndlgna-tion of the citizens and soothe an I j aroused governor, by making it ap- ii pear that the mystery had been cleared up, Klrby replied with equal candor H at first, at the same time walking rapidly away from the railroad sta- H tion in tho direction of police headquarters head-quarters Before he had proceeded far he found himself Burrounded by i the crowd His way was soon blocked by angry I and excited men. He looked "around and ran toward the station Tho crowd ran after him with threats of I tai and feathers. The- pursuit led j past a pile of bricks. Many Jn tho crowd stopped long enough to get an armful with which to hurl aRer the fleeing officer. Reachlntr thO .station nl.itfnrm Wlr- H 'by espied the open door of the bag- ! gage. room, dived Inside, closed tho door and bolted It. Just as leaders of tho crowd rushed it A posse of railroad men summoned sum-moned by the station agent arrived and rescued Kirby The crowd van- H lshed with the arrival of the blue BLOODY BASKET GONE. The authorities today turned thoir attention to investigating a report that a blood stained basket, whl. h was scon near the bodies of the slatn rec- tor and his choir leader had dlsap- H peared Four persons. It was said, saw this basket. J Announcement was made today that J a committee of citizens In the sixth 1 ward where Clifford Hayes lived would hold a "tag day' on Sunday to raise flUlda Cor his legal' defense. Prison bars closed Tuesday night on a third important figure in the Hall-Mills Hall-Mills murder mystery, but the i near- H ceratlun. instead of helping clear the ,v( ird tangle of clews and counter- 1 clews, served only to emphasize the difficulties authorities are encounter-Ing encounter-Ing in their efforts to check up the evidence on which 19-year-old Clifford Hayes stands accused of the doublo slaying. PEARL BAHMER JAILED;. The third to go to jail was Pearl Babm r, the 5-year-old girl who Ray-mond Ray-mond Schneider says Hayes thought he .-. : I l&ylng, With her father, when, an ordlng to Schneider's story. Hayes fired four bulleta into tho bodies of H the Rev. Edward x heeler Hall artfl .'Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills on thU night of September 14 on the do-eerted do-eerted Phillips farm. Schneider is held as a material witness. Pearl was not officially Jailed in i onnection with the Hail-Milla case. j Th-- charge against her which she (calmly admitted was incorrigibility Prosecutor Stryker of Middlesex H county, who has been active in the investigation in-vestigation of the Hill-Mills case, ap-peared ap-peared personally against her. County Judge Dab before whom the hearing H was held, departed from the rule of se, recy In Juvenile cases and threw I his court open because, he declared, (Continued on Page Two) DUAL MURDER SLEUTH MOBBED New Jersey Citizens Protest Laying Crime on Boy, 19 (Continued From Page One.) the people "have a right to know why she Is being put In Jail." CONFESSES IMMEDIATELY. At the end of the harlng. after Inhe had testified to Intimacy with Schneider and her father, she waa of-I of-I flclally committed for a week, pending pend-ing a decision on the Incorrigibility charge. Unofficially. It was said that she was being given a chance to "think over" the. conflicting stories she has told An additional reason for her Incarceration whs said to be the facl that sh- was too difficult to I find when she was wanted for 0.111-'-tlontng. Nicholas Bahmer later was air. -iid a 11 result of the charges preferred by his daughter and held In 110,000 ball following his arraignment. arraign-ment. 1 Pearl, who was with Si hnelder whi n the bodies Of Mr Hall and Mrs. Mills were found" two days after the murders, mur-ders, on more than one occasion, has given newspaper men working on the case reason to believe she knew more than sho was tell i n g. Incidentally, she has tumed against Schneider, once admittedly her sweetheart and I has sought to convey the Impression that he :neS mon- about the tr.urd rs than Hayes, whom he accused of the crime. TELLS FXH'R STORIES Schneider. It waa disclosed, told f"iir different stories about his knowli due of the slaylngs before he reached the story of Hayes' commission of the crime, on which the authorities acted. act-ed. After he had been trapped in prevarications pre-varications In the first four, sabl a state trooper who was present throughout the long examination. Schneider would say: "Well, let's go back and stnrt all over again. I'll tell tho truth this time." His final story still falls to harmonize har-monize with facts about the murder, brought out from other source, notably not-ably his insistence that neither Hayes nor he had cut Mrs. Mills' throat after af-ter tho shooting, although an autopsy Showed the head had been almost severed. There are almost as broad discrepancies discrep-ancies In his story of his whereabouts on the night of the murders and that told by Pearl Bahmer. Schneider said he was with Pearl for several hours that night before he saw Fearl go- ln out with her tnther. ana siai ieu 'trailing the pair with Hayes. STORY OSFLiICTS. Pearl first said he waa with lur until un-til about 9 o'clock Then she said ihe was not with her at all. Dctec-Itlves Dctec-Itlves say they have practically established estab-lished that he was not with her and Jthey are trying to check up on his movements between 8 and o'clock. I the period In which the murders are known to have been committed. Schneider says it was about 1 O'clock When Hayes shot the minister and the choir singer "by mistake." All other witnesses have agreed that the screams anri shots which wrote the finish to the Hall-Mills romance, were heard about 10.30 o'clock. Despite these and many other apparent ap-parent conflict In his story. Prosecutor Prose-cutor Beekman, of Somerset, insisted he had evidence enough against Hayes to Justify tho charge against him. and even told newspaper men he believed he could convict Hayes on evidence nor In his possession. He refused to disclose the nature of this evidence, however. T( H 8 STOLEN. Hayes. In the meantime, remained in the county Jail at Somervillt awaiting await-ing action by the Bomervllle grand .jury and protecting his Innocence of Schneider's charge. He adhered to I his story that he and Schneider had come upon the bodies of the slain pair while hunting for Pearl and her father fath-er that Schneider had stolen the ministers watch and that they bad both decided to say nothing about their find. Detectives and state troopers continued con-tinued their efforts to uncover more evidence about the murders, many of them frankly expressintyifceptir ism as to Schneider's story, ind Indicating they had leads which pointed to a wholly different solution of the case. Disbelief In Schneider's story apparently ap-parently has gripped hundreds of citizens citi-zens of New Brunswick, many of whom have openly expressod conviction convic-tion that the authorities were on a false scent. There was a report that several leading business men W re planning to uLart a public fund for Hayes' defense, but this could not be confirmed. Walter C Sedan, counsel for Schneider, Schnei-der, announced he would appear be-fore be-fore Bupreme Court Justice Parker m Trenton Thursday, seeking his client's release on ball. He said Schneider could raise boll If It were fixed at not more than $10,000. |