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Show ROBBER THEORY IN TWIN KILLING : Rector May Have Been Carrying Car-rying Securities When Shot NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J , Sept. 27 Authorities Investigating thoj slaying two weeks ago of the Rev. I Bdward Wheeler Hall rector of the Episcopal chur.-h of St John tho Evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs Eleanor Rolnhardt Mills, sought told to-ld ay to run down rumors that the j rector may have been carrying securl-tb.-i valued In exrms of $10,000 when I he was fhot When this report be-cnme be-cnme current investigators had given I little credence to suggestions tht the double killing might have been tho work of robbers or a blackmail gang The bodies of the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs Mills were found In a deserted field near New Brunswick three days after they had disappeared. Today's Inquiry paid particular attention at-tention to the rumor that securities inherited by the Rev. Mr. Hall from the estate of bis mother-in-law were taken from his strong box prior to the dav he was killed M, IT NESS FOUND. Discovery of a witness who declared he heard frequent quarrels between Mrs. Mills and her husband. James Mills, over the Rev, Mr. Hall. Tuesday Tues-day led authorities to aubject Mills to another long examination. Mills has maintained, since the bodies were discovered a week ago I last Saturday that he had no suspicions sus-picions concerning the relations between be-tween the slain pair reported to have, planned an elopement to Japan Mills' 18-year-old daughter. Chor- lotte, also was examined again. When, i he two left the courthouse Prosecutor Beekman said that whip- some progress prog-ress hud been made toward solution of th- mystery it wa,s not as much as h id been hoped for. HALF i '.I N THEORIES. "Are you working upon any particular par-ticular theory. ' he was asked "No. There are half a dozen channels chan-nels ulong which we are working Jealousy plays an Important part In our Investigations as furnishing a possible pos-sible motive, but It Is not the only possible motive." "Has anyone been eliminated'''' he w as asked. "Nobody," he replied. The witness to whose testimony th" authorities were given special attention atten-tion today was Miss Millie Ople. a neighbor of the Mills. I ill KY ( F BliACKM UL One of the elements which returned Into tho case today was tho theory of blackmail. Unsuccessful attempts, detectives said had been made to trace the whereabouts of $10,000 securities which the slain rector received from the estate of his mother-in-law The authorities attached significance to the disappearance of these securities, saying that It strongly hinted that blackmailers were Involved In the mystery In some way. Mills was summoned to the courthouse court-house early In the day and was ques-'tloiio,! ques-'tloiio,! there for several hours by de-tectlves de-tectlves of both counties, who are per-Isistent per-Isistent In announcing that they are I "closer than ever before to a solution ;of the double shooting." "I don't know any more nbout this than you do," Mills said on leaving the courthouse He returned after his questioning to the school where he Is employed as Janitor. "I have been over the story again and agnln and I have not changed It any. I'm Innocent and they can't put anything over on mc." |