Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-05
MYSTERY CAR IS
ADDED To CLUES
IN NJ. MURDERS
Man Says He Passed Sedan
About Three Weeks Ago
Near the Spot Where the
Bodies Were Found.

New BI qswick. N. j.. Oct, A
mystery c., with three occupants
two men and a woman---Was
added today to the conflicting
mazo of clows among which Mid
dIesex and Somerset county au-
thorities are cropping in their efforts
TO apprehend the slayers of the
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his
choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Rein
hardt Mills.
A. u. Soper. retired business
man of Highland Park. came for
ward with the story of this car
Nearly three weeks ago, on the
night OF the murders, Soper told
the authorities. he passed a sedan
in DeRussey's lane, close to the
spot where the bodies were found.
He turned his spot light on the
car, he said, and observed that It
contained two men and woman.
Although he failed to recognize any
of the trio. he said, he observed
that the woman wore light coat.
Mrs. Hall is known to have worn
a polo coat of light gray on that
night when, according to her story,
she left her home after midnight to
seek her missing husband in his
study at the church Of st. John
the Evangelist. Mrs. Hall has told
the investigators she was accom-
panied by her brother, willie
Stevens, an eccentric New Bruins
wick character. Witnesses who saw
her re-enter her home say she re-
turned alone. The Halls own a
sedan car. which the minister left
in the garage when he went to
what proved to be his death tryst.
Planned TO Elope.
Three more bits of evidence sup
porting the theory that the minis
ter and Mrs. Mills were on the
point of clipping to TIE Orient when
they were slain, also came to light
today.
one was a letter believed to have
been written by Mrs. Mills only a
few hours before she met her
death. Authorities withheld the
contents of this letter, which it was
admitted was found in the dead
clergyman's pocket. 1t was learn
ed, however, that it contained the
expression, "Oh, for the time when
| can do your mending."
1t is by this that the authorities
fix the time when it was written.
They have learned, it was disclosed,
that the day before the double
Staying the minister, Mrs. Hall,
Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Minnie Clark,
had been on q picnic to Lake Hop
atcong, and that an incident of the
trip was that the minister tore his
trousers climbing a barbed wire
fence and had Mrs. Hall mend them
with a needle and thread she hap
pened to have along.
Evidence of Plan.
Another evidence of the sup
posed elopement plan was contain
ed in a letter from w. G. Hinhia
a Hindu occultist of Miami, Fla
HinnIa wrote that Mrs. Mills had
sent him letter propounding these
three questions:
"Will the minister get a divorce?
"Will he so to foreign country?
IF he gives up the other woman
and goes to the Orient, shall | go
with him?"
He said that he had answered he
could give her advice which would
do good" if she would buy his
book on astrology, but that he had
heard no further from her.
The third indication of an elope-
ment plan was conveyed to the au-
thorities in a report of the remark
a woman member of the church
was said TO have made at Mr.. Halls
funeral.
well, they are taking the min
lister out of the church." she was
reported to have said as the
funeral services were concluded.
They didn't get off to Japan after
ALL"