Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-11-07
HENRY WOULD
LEAVE COUNTRY
Likely to Force Issue by Leav-
ing Country for World
Tour
WIFE MAKES DENIAL
State Police Watching Him.
Says He Knows Nothing
of Double Murder

LAVALLETTE, Nov. (By The
Associated Press):-Henry Stevens,
brother of Mrs. Frances Stevens
Hall. widow of the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall. who was murdered
with Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills
near New Brunswick on September
IA last, is discontented at the delay
in the official inquiry and contem-
plates bringing matters to an issue
by leaving town, Mrs. Ethel Stevens.
his wife, said in an interview here
today.
"We think that 1t is about time
that we pull up our belongings and
go away from here just to force an
issue with the authorities who are
investigating the murder she said
Stevens has told the investigators
that he was fishing near Lavallette
en- the night of the murder and has
furnished the names of several per-
sons who he says saw him. Mrs
Jane Gibson, farmer, has told the
authorities that a man committed
the murders and that he was ac-
companied by a woman in gray
coat.
Mrs. Stevens received newspaper
men in her home with cordiaIity and
served them with sandwiches. She
explained that her husband was
across the bay at a cunning point
but tha he could pe reached by a
system Of signals she had arranged
with him.
I'VE were ready to go on world
tour when this thing happened. =
said Mrs. Stevens, ..but we gave it
up because We thought it would be
better for Henry to stay here and
face whatever was in store for him.
Now. however, We think the authori-
ties have had time enough TO act and
we think that the best way to force
them to do something will be FOR
US to leave town and start our trip.
THE question has often been ast1
ed: Why didn't Henry give his Sis
ter away in marriage p. Wen Mr..
and Mrs. Hall were married Henry
was in New England. There was
nothing in common between Henry
and Mr.. Hall and for that reason he
made no special effort to attend the
wedding. 1t is untrue that he re-
fused TO call on the Halls since the
wedding. There IS an entry in his
diary for June %. It says: Edward
and Frances here which means that
they spent the afternoon here.
Il believe the solution Of this
crime has not even been hinted at
yet. Has anyone ever thought OF
looking up other men who might
have figured in Mrs. Mills life? We
are ready to help the authorities in
any way. We thought they might
want Henry in a hurry some time so
we arranged a complicated set of
signals while he is away. Right now
he Is at cunning point about twelve
miles across the bay and with the
good telescope we have upstairs. on
decent day, can see him. He has
arranged to hang out flag while he
is there. If the fag-it is really
nothing but large handkerehief-.s
hanging out I know he is there. II
it isn't, he is coming in.
That's the way we expect to cem-
munieate until this either blows over
or we leave town.
state troopers were sent down
here to watch Henry. They paraded
up and down along the boardwalk
in front OF the house all day long
but Henry had gone to the cunning
point at 8 a. m, so there they were
walking back and forth watching the
house, while the man they were sup
posed to be shadowing was twelve
miles away. If they had only told
us all about it we would have in
vited them in and made them COM
Portable"
Mrs. Stevens said she felt certain
that neither Mrs. Hall nor her two
brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens.
knew anything about the murder.