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Show V V V V V Q 9 Ql SLEUTHS FAIL TO PENETRATE MYSTERY WALLS I Crime Concerns Few Persons Per-sons Yet Detectives Are Foiled MONTH HAS PASSED Both Widower ar.d Widow Knew of Relation Between Be-tween Victims Bj EDMUND HURLEY (Copyright. 1922, by The Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. Oct. 14. it is Just a month ago tonight that Mn Eleanor Mills, wife of th cxton ol the fashionable episcopal church of St. John, tho Evangelist, and leading member of tho church choir, walked" (down Derussy lane, which threa I way through u liHd of goldcnrod. to the lonely old Phillips faun houSo. V Quarter of ?n hour later, the Rev. ' Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of 8L"1 Johns. and husband of one of the wealthiest women in tho community, strolled nonchalantly down the same j lane. i Neither returned: It was 8 o'clock of a wonderful summer sum-mer evening. Several persons saw and recognized Mrs. Mills and Dr Hall Somo two hours or more after I they had left tho main thoroughfares, tour shots were heard by householders living on the edge of the city park. There was a scream, and all w.-is silence. si-lence. The night was one of velvety da rkness. THEN BODIES ARE FOUND Two days later the bodies of the rector rec-tor an dthe choir singer were tound lying sldo by side, under an old crab-apple crab-apple tree within tossing distance of 'the farmhouse. About them there was jno sign of a struggle. Tho minister's glasses were on his nose. His hat was pulled flown across his face His right hand lay in an affectionate caress upon the shoulder of the dead wo-I wo-I man. one bullet wound was In tho j minister's head; three clean-cut bullet holes had been drilled In the woman's forehead not more than an inch apart, BUT NO REVOLVER Murder and suicide! The accusation rang through New Brunswick and all the northern part of the state. But there was no revolver re-volver about, only empty shells ejected eject-ed from a 32 calibre automatic pistol ii.s it .-.hot There was none of tho - onfuslon of the usual murder and self destruction. Instead both bodies ap-porently ap-porently had been carefully pluced .side by Bide The woman's skirts had been - moothed down, j But most significant of all, a half j dozen love letters, written by Mrs. Mills to the minister, were found scattered scat-tered over the bodies. Against the heel of the minister wa propped one of his personal calling cards There was studied Irony everywhere, It was only too plain to those who knew tho early fads that In the dou-, dou-, bio murder there had been an Impelling Impell-ing motive Jealousy and vengeance. RELATIONS W ERE KNOWN It was apparent that the UaflOU between be-tween the mlnlnti r and the choir singer. sing-er. Which had been going on for a. yeai or more., had come to the knowl-odge knowl-odge ol others, jn the four Weeks that have elapsed no tangible clue to mur-I jderer or murderers 1ms been found. l. n the pistol wltli vvhhh the crime was committed had not been located. I The bodies were hurried off to bur- ( Continued n Page Two) DUAL MURDER 1 TRAIL BROKEN Prosecutors Stung By Inability to Solve Mystery (Continued pyonS Page One.) IV The rcrtor was given sn lmprea-1 lmprea-1 slve funeral from the church where 1 lie had aerved The vestrymen met and passi d resolutions expressing .their entire confidence In the mur-Idered mur-Idered mlnleter. as a man. as a rector, 'and as a husband Tho woman In the case was burled from an nndi rt.iklng establishment, although she. too had been prominent In nil th work of the church. Only her husband, the sexton, and her 16-year-old daughter, Charlotto, appeared as mourners. TALK STIRS H lo j Investigation lagged. The authorities authorit-ies were kIow and apparently reluctant reluct-ant to move. The common people of N w Brunswick began to talk. They iald the Influence of great wealth and I of politics was hushing up the crime, rhen the reporters for the New York papers and other out-of-town correspondents corre-spondents arrived. Things began to happen. Charlette Mills wrote to Gov- mor Kdwards. who now Is running for the I'nlted Staler senate, and pleaded with him In childish frankness, frank-ness, pleune to find the murderer of her dear mother. The governor sent state troops and they have been here ever since, although al-though their tctlvttifl have done lit- 1 tie more than the local authorities had accomplished toward a solution of the I treat mystery. 1 i:kn rniiMr is ( i t Publicity began to accomplish much. It resulted, first of all, In an exhumation exhuma-tion of the bodies and a thorough au-topsy au-topsy a small detail which had been nCfflottod In the first place. With tho m w autopsy came the startling cvl-dnOfl cvl-dnOfl that Mrs Mills' throat had been 1 ut from ear to ear. supposedly after j rhe was dead, evidence of a further) act of revenge on the part of thoso who pi rpi Ir iie.l the crime. Mrs. Hall, widow of tho rector; James Mills, widower of the choir stinger; 'Willie" Stevens, a dumb-bell" brother of the widow, all were quea-il"ne, quea-il"ne, by tho authorities as to their, movements on tho night of the crime. 1 to AM. I. - .4 V W M 1 4..0. mikio, unu liu OL'Aluu llliu nji'in most of the night of Bent ember 14. looking fur missing husband and wlfo. I Thojl had met at the church. Their stories did not altogether Jibe in every detail, but the authorities accepted Whet they said. Stories ontlnued to circulate that two men and a woman were seen leaving leav-ing the si ene of the murd r In a sedan se-dan car, PreeeUTfl for action became greater and greater. The crime took Its place In tho politics of tho state The public was clamoring for nn arrest. Governor Gov-ernor Edwards sent tho commanding Offleer ot tho state troops to New L Brunswick, and told him not to return, to the stato capital at Trenton u ', the murderer had been arrested- ' ' HOY Is AUK! si j D Monday morning last earn t1 rest of tho "murderer." V n5i. 19-year-old Clifford Have 00r. ' U' gOOd repute In the f ' 3" a up. charged wltbt rtn" was locked . u , 1 s 1, ' rVnc' bright had " lder. a boy none too tes Sd t confessed," the authorlt-thal authorlt-thal 1 1 'lftt he was with Hayes and mlataWyM hart sll0t tne couP' D 1 1 ! ri 9t l thinking the rector was a I j, nder and the woman the bartend-I bartend-I stepdaughter. It was tho most Antastic "confession" over COnoelved I In the brain of a "half-wit" detective. The arret gave" the authorities a I breathing space of several days Then thfl bubble burst. Schneider repudiate repudi-ate d the confession hlch no one but thfl hard-pressed authorities ever be-llered. be-llered. Hayes was released and returned re-turned home In a blaze of red fire Aft. r this fiare-up the investigation relapsed again N 1ME IN GOLD The name ot the Rev. Lr. Hall still stands on the gold-lettered announce-tnent announce-tnent board, framed In Ivory, as rector Ol St. John the Evangelist. James Mills continue to act as scx-jton scx-jton of the church, but In his goings and comings ho avoids the congregation congrega-tion as much as possible. . old rhtlllps" place out on Derus-wy Derus-wy lane has become a favorite picnic placo. Tourists come from all parts Ol thfl Mute, bringing their lunch and eal under the old crab-apple tree, v. deb Is no more mute In this murder mystery than aomc of those who -to'iild be foremost In clearing It up. The name of the slain rector re-R) re-R) lining on the church walls Is u symbol sym-bol It Is a symbol of tho defiance of thfl leading spirits In St. John's mem-bi mem-bi rshlp, who flay that the double iuur-i iuur-i r to them Is a closed chapter and that the work of tho church shall henceforth go forward as if nothing : happened. It is this spirit which baa made tho work of a tardy prosecution prosecu-tion ao hard. A1A VYv I I 'Mi s B CK Tho Investigation has gone far ail. id at times, but it always comes I eel! to a further questioning of Just refl persons. One of thos.- Is the widow, the second, tho widower, and the third, brother "Willi" Stevens. Ithe man with the bruin of a child. N. w B rune wick has rycurrlng waves of excitement over the crime, but for ithe most parls reconciled to the bell, be-ll, t thut there will be no solution no Ipublii or formal solution in any event 1 dfl silence of those who might throw further light upon the relations of the r.-. tor and the choir singer Is growing deeper day by day. The members of the choir have been the greatest disappointment dis-appointment to the prosecutors There was. an uiuoual spirit ol mutual Interest Inter-est und catnraderle there. No one in tho choir will admit they ever saw ' unythlng out of the ordinary in the relations re-lations between the slain couple. One 'old eatryman. now out of tho choir, declares thut Mra. Mills once tried to ...iiiP" htm while they were singing sing-ing tog. " her it was after he had prowd adamant to her advances, he ays, that she " vamped" and won thfl rector. Amazement that the choir members all should tell atorles so similar, sim-ilar, led the investigators to tho discovery dis-covery that after the finding of the 1 lies tho choir had met together and ar. ed to a common policy of speech ai.d action. JINT FOUR INVOLVED The crime was one In which four principals were involved. The murdered murd-ered map and woman clearly were af-Iflnltles. af-Iflnltles. The authorities are left to deal with two persons who are as far apart as the pole a. the sexton, who .knew that his wife did not lovo him anv more and was constantly with the rector, and the widow of the rector, who must have suspected that something some-thing was wrong If she had a tltho of tho intuition usually attributed to women wo-men In Mills, the texton. deal with a mild mannered man of small stature and gray at 45. In his questioning he has contradicted himself more than on. In some details. In Mrs. Hall, the authorities find a woman of 66. atrong minded. slf reliant re-liant and determined. Back of her la th. wealth and traditions" of the Stevens family dominant factors In 00 Tho name bank Is derived from "banco," a term applied to tho behchea formerly erected In the market mar-ket placca in Italy for tho exchange of money |