The Washington times., 1922-10-22
WOMAN AND MAN TO BE ARRESTED TUESDAY, IN HALL

upon his sudden recovery from weari.'
ness. On the way home from the
party. according to, the witness, Mrs.
Hall proposed toast: Here's to
our sweethearts and wives. May our
sweethearts be our wives and our
wives our sweethearts." Mrs. Mills
then chimed in with, II have a better
toast: May our sweethearts and our
wives never meet" The rector
laughed, but his wife was silent.
Charlotte Mills. the 16-year-old
daughter Of the slain woman. Is re.
ported to have told the police to.
day that. owing to the 'unhappiness
in her home. she often thought she
would like to leave and live with
relatives. She said that her father
had recently told her not to tell
newspaper reporters how he and
her mother had quarreled.
The girl said that at the breakfast
table the morning after her mother
had disappeared and the day before
the bodies had been found her
father had said: Damn her. she
went away with him after all. She
has given him the love she would
not give me-
There now seems no doubt that
both Mrs. Hall and MIR. Mills sus.
pected and feared the possibility
of the rector and his choir singer
eloping and that this spectre had
been before them for many weeks.
Whether they ever discussed II Is
not known.
Climax Is Near.
There was every evidence tonight
that the famous mystery is d ifting
swiftly to sensational climax.
Prosecutor Beekman. Of Somerset
county, and Prosecutor Stricken. OF
Middlesex. were clOseted in confer
enre tonight. and it was said that
differences which have existed be-
tween them were being smoothed
out.
Timothy M. Pfeiffer. attorney for
Mrs. Hall. was asked tonight :,
us Mrs. Hall aware OF the trend
the Investigation is taking?'
II believe she is" was the reply
How iss sheI taking it?'
She is bearing up exceedingly
we'll under the circumstances
Pfeiffer said Miss Touch, the Hall
maid, questioned by the authorities
this afternoon about reported
relations OF the rector and his wife,
had denied there had been any
break" between the couple. She
was asked specifically whether
there had been any trouble be
tween the minister and Mrs. Hall
following their return from trip
TO Point Pleasant last June. She
told the authorities there was no
trouble that she noticed. according
to Pfeiffer.
she told the authorities, according
to Pfeiffer. that on Saturday morn.
ting, September 16, before she had
heard of the finding OF the bodies OF
her husband and Mrs. Mills, Mrs
Hall had asked her to wash Il pair
ot the minister's soiled socks. The
maid, however. according to Pfeiffer,
told the. authorities THAT Mrs. Hall
said MOI hIng at that time to indicate
Lntt she vas aware of her husband 5
deuit. l.; had been reported that
Mrs. H"ll. when she gave the socks
TO Tie maid to wash. had said to her.
~ kiuv my husband is dead, and
wan' these to put on the body
Maid Questioned Closely.
The domestic was asked, according
to Efsiffer. whether she knew OF any
unfriendly feeling existing, between
Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs. Hall,
and the rector. and whether Stevens
had visited the house here since the
marriage of his sister to the min
lister. The domestic is said TO have
replied that she did not know of any
unfriendly feeling between the two
men. She denied the reports that
Stevens had never been in the house
after his sister married. but added
he aQlhEnn fha hnllgp nrnh-
ably not more than two or three
times during eleven years. She also
said! Pfeiffer declared, that Henry
Stevens was in New Brunswick the
davhis sister was married, but that
he did not give her away as had
been planned. Mrs. Halls mother
did that. she told the prosecutor.