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Show Trail in Double Murder Leads to i Home of Town's Leading Family NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. Oct 20 i Bv the Associated Presa jTho latest lat-est investigation into the double Slaying Slay-ing of the Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, choir singer, which the authorities have been guarding with .such secrecy that thev have considered It essential to remove thelT" official headquarters to Boundbrook, N J.. leads directly Into the home of 'one of the leading families of New Brunswick a county official nnld tonight. This official, who declined tc permit per-mit hi? Identity to hf rovealed. Is ! known to be In very close touch with I the countv prosecutors. I "The authorities are in possession or something with winch the put-lie has not been acquainted and wh ch is being Jealously guarded,' he sal 1. w all sincerely believe that it col-talns col-talns the solution of the crlm." Less than 24 hours after it becama known that the county prosecutors through tho obtaining of signed statements; state-ments; had built up a theory thut; tho couple were slain In i vacant shed, more than four miles from the spot where their bodies were found, tli. authorities wore ridiculing the story Examination of the floor .-.f the ' i ding, which was said to have formerly for-merly been used .is a school, is said! to. have failed to reveal any trace of blood stains. J Tho authorities admitted that they, were attempting to trace tho diary, of Mr-i Mills, which it is said, shh crave to the rector In exchange for his. The also said that consideration was being given to the possibility t. v Mrs. Mills' diary in possession of lSbI rector had been a starting point of Uho crime, and that tho establishing"! of the tietual time or Its discovery among his papers Is considered of g.eat value In the ca.se. In tracing this clue, the authorities learned thot u man Identified as Edward Carpenter, a cousin of Mrs. Hall was seen leaving the Hall home on the morning on which the bodies were found, carrying a tray, filled' with what were said to be papers. |