New-York tribune., 1922-11-02
Of Crime, I Desire Nov vengeance :
Declares Mrs. Hall, Defending Husband
Wants Murder Solved, but
No One Punished ;Shrinks
From Offering Reward
and Relieves II Useless
First Shock Stunned Her
and She Has Been Against
Blank Wall Since, She Says

corresponding? Al know that he
wrote TO her last summer.
Q.-Did you know the contents az
any of those letters? Z. A.--No.
Q.--Did anybody every carry any
tale to you or any gossip concerning,
your husband's relations with Mrs.
Mills! A.-Absolutely nothing.
Q.--No member of che church ever
brought you letter or telephoned any
thing to arouse your suspicious? A.
None whatever.
Q.-Did anybody ever tell you that
your husband was writing to Mrs.
Mills or she to him? A.-Never.
Q.--Did you ever have any reason
before this shooting to suspect your
husbands relations, as far as Mrs.
Mills was concerned? Absolutely
none.
Q.-what is your feeling toward
your husband? Al feel he is true
to me.
Q.-What is your feeling toward Mrs.
Mills? Al do not know what to sav.
Q.-Ma'am? Al do not know what
to say.
Q.-Do you feel at all inimieal to-
ward her in your heart? Al have
no virdictive feeling.
Q.-Do you know anything, Mrs.
Hall, which you do not care to tell
for, fear it may embarrass somebody
that you know, very near and dear to
YOU? A.Nothing.
Q.--In other words, you are holding
back nothing? A-Absolutely nothing.
Q.-Have you any idea of any kind
or9any knowledge as to who might have
done this thing? Al have absolutely
no idea, nor have ! had, as to motive.
Absolutely No knowledge
Q.-You to-day are without any di-
rect knowledge that might clear up
this crime in any way? Al have abb
solutely no knowledge.
Q.-Did you ever have any feeling Of
enmity toward Mrs. Mills? A.--None
whatever.
Q.-Did you ever have any quarrel
with Mrs. Mills? A.-None whatever
Q.--Did you have any controversy
with her on the day you went to Lake
Hopatcong? A.---None.
| Q.--Mrs. Hall, you say you under
stood or knew that your husband wrote
to Mrs. Mills last summer? Will you
cause he was sending cards to all the
parish. Mrs. Mills wrote to me and he
said he had sent her cards. He spoke
Of it.
Q.--Did he say he had written letters
or letter? A.--No he didn't say that
Q.-Did you know that he had re
ceived letter or letters from her
Al know of the two that saw.
Q.--Two letters? A.--Yes
| Q.--Do you know what the con
tents of those letters were? Did 70,
see them9 A.-Yes did.
| Q.-Mrs. Hall, when you telephonet
the police on that Friday morning, VIII!
was it. as We understand. that yol
merely asked whether there had beer
an automobile accident and did not re
/ port at that time that your HUSBAND
! was missing? Al said my husbant
had gone out and had not returned.
did not tell the police who l was.
asked IL there had been any scciden
which nigh. account for his not re
turning.
Q.-Would you mind telling US wha
your motive was in not informing ths
police who you were? Al thought
could get the information without say
ing anything more.
[ Q.-When they reported that they
had no record of any accident did yor
| give them any information as to who
you were? A.-Yes.
Q.-You never had any reason to gc
to Mrs: Mills and protes. TO her about