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Show IEW SENSATION SP1UNG IN I0DBLE MURDER WRITER SAYS HE SAW RECTOR KILL SINGER Anonymous Author Claims to Have Witnessed Brutal Murder AFFIDAVITS SIGNED Two Men Declare They Heard Loud Cries for Mercy m:w jjkl' n'swicc. n j., ict. io (By the Associated Press.) N-w evidence in the Hall -Mills murder case is in th - hands of the authorities. M - as declared today by a man close in the confidence of County Prosecutors Prose-cutors Beeknian of Somerset county ainl Strieker ol Middlesex eounty. The assertion was given color by continuation or the feverish activities oi the past thrc days' on the part of the detectives and others on the case. REW SENSATION. TRENTON. N. J. Oct 19. Ellis H. Parker Burlington county detective, today made public un unsigned communication com-munication mailed from Philadelphia purporting to solve the Hall-Mills case us on.- of murder and suicide The text follows: "One afternoon about three weeks ago I lay down In the grass on the I Phillips farm and fell Mleen about dusk. I was awakened by loud voices' scolding, hooking up I saw not far from me a man ami woman He was ;sltting close to a tree and was cutting jthe bark SU. was sitting nearbv, soiling letters. ST VBBED A llll KNIFE. "She asked him to keep his promise. He t 1 I her he had made none He took the letters and threw them away and was going to leave her She 'grabbed him by his foat and tore U , He boxed her in ine face. She pulled his hair anu scratched his face He Stabbed her wi.u pis knife und she cried and told him she would tHl his wife and get him h,rri :. I Then he shot her In the face. She screamed ) loud and long. Then he shot h r more, two or three times. "Then he saw me. He looked awful. and then he shot himself Afte a time I went over to offer help but. they were dead ( straightened them I out and their clothes. I saw a card ! with the letters near his feet. I hael I been sick since the dnv, but told no one, When he fell he km It on hr and i cut h. r throat " N; WITNESSES HEARD. NEW BRUNSWICK, V J.; Oct, 19 j ! (By the Associated Press.) Affl- , laits have been obtained from two men whose Identity the authorities! Ir- liis.- tO divulge, i ountv prosecutors' said which set;-, lorth that the double! , murder Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler' Hail and Mr3. Ele inor Bernhardt Mills did not occur in the Somerset county orchard where the hodle.s were found ; but In a barn on the southern out-1 skirts of New Brunswick. 'Investigation which followed the filing of the ifflflavltsj the authorl- tlei said, led to the discovery by tho: police of the two handkerchiefs onei i a man s and the other a woman's i held to be Important clues In the case. I Thej were not found on the Phillips farm, as reported at that time, but' in the barn which stands on the oppo-l site side of New Brunswick Two dark! brown combs are also said to have1 been found In the dirt floor of the bam. These cpmbs Charlotte Mills is reported to have Identified as having hav-ing belonged to her mother PLEAD FOB MERCY. The statement which the authorities allogi they have obtained from the two men is said to declare that they were driving from Red Hank. X. j!, about 12 o'clock on the night of October Oc-tober H Two miles out from New Brunswick, they said they passed the barn, a deserted dilapidated structure plastered with advertising posters. Which stands in a field close to the h igh way. Prom i his barn the men are reported re-ported to have said they heard screams issuing, pleas for mercy, and then one long shriek, "murder' rhe police!" Th. men drove through Now Brunswick without reporting tho oc-currence, oc-currence, and an hour later were on Baston avenue, when they were passed by a sedan going toward the Phillips farm. In the machine, they said, was l woman wearing a gray coat, and i man. sedan RETURN&. I he afflda It Is said to state further thai the men were, on Easton avenue, near the park which adjoins tho Phillips farm for nearly half an hoti-and hoti-and that they saw the sedun n turning at a high speed. It turned from 10 a (on I'.iiim- mar th. park and disappeared. dis-appeared. Tin- county prosecutors In an effort ef-fort to shroud tini;- Investigation In a s. , recy which they declare to be essential to s successful solution of f Continued ori I'azt Two) NEW SENSATION IN DUAL CRIME (Continued From Page One.) the mystery, have removed their headquarters head-quarters to the town of Eoundbrook. N. J. In certain quarters the statement of the two signers of the affidavit is not being accepted unqualifiedly j These detractors point out that It , contradicts evidence already taken from persons living In the vicinity of , the Phillips homo that thy Heard the j screams und shots on the furm on the ntvhl i-.f tho rtmiMe aliivlm- I MYSTI.RIOl S Si 1U TINY That tho examination of Mrs Hall, the widow of the rector, in the prosecutor's prose-cutor's offlco when she was closely l scrutinized by a woman whose Identity I has not been fully revealed, was even ! more eerie and mystifying than a, first reported, became known In connection con-nection with the announcement ol the l obtaining of the affidavit This woman, the prosecutors now say, was only S decoy Sitting directly across the room she was supposed to absorb all the attention of Mrs. Hall, While tho rector's widow wus being closely scrutinized by the two men who ure now said to have made the affidavit The authorities have declined to make public the result of this elaborate plan for examining Mrs Hall WOMEN QUESTIONED. The love notes of the rector und Mrs Mills, which were made public, shed an entirely new light on certain phases of the case, the authorities said. The Minnie" of these notes, Mrs Addison T, Clarke. has been questioned regarding her movements M particularly on tho day the bodies of the rector and the choir singer were found. She was asked whether sho had ever taken any pastry to Mr Hull. This she is said to have denied, but j has admitted. according to the authorities, carrying a package into the Church of St John the Evangelist, the duy on which th crime became public. The authorities .ald they had j not accepted her explanation thai this I package contained nothing but the vestments ot the slain rector. |