Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-18
HALL FAMILY
ON STAND IN
MURDER CASE
Strange Woman Takes
Look at Widow, Then
Leaves in Silence.
Letters Made Public
That Minister II a d
From Late Mrs. Mills.

New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. IL
Prosecutors seeking to pierce the bar
riers of uncertainty about the mur-
ders of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Rhinehardt Mills, the
wife of his section, more than a month
ago, Tuesday turned from a search of
theoretical by-paths and massed an at
tack against the center of the drama
the families of the dead man and
woman.
The Hall family trio, Mrs. Hall, her
brother, Henry Stevens, and Willie
Stevens, her eccentric brother, were
examined one by one in the court
house, Mrs. Hall for a full hour and
the others for short periods. Each was
questioned alone; and the results were
guarded.
But one strange aspect of Mrs. Halls
questioning was made known by her
counsel. Thomas n. Pfeiffer.
Stranger Surveys Widow
Mrs. Hall was seated at the end
of long room, alone Attorney Pfeif-
fer said. She was asked to remove her
hat and to put on the gray coat she
says she wore when. at 2 o'clock in
the morning on September Is, she went
to search for her husband She put
on the coat.
Then q door opened at the end of
the room and a woman of foreign as
pect, poorly dressed and alone, entered
and sat staring at Mrs. Hall, her at
torney says. For minutes she looked
at the widow of the slain rector, turn
ing her head this way and that. Then.
without saying word, she left the
room, Mrs. Hall being permitted to go
soon afterward.
Whether the unknown woman iden-
titled Mrs. Hall was not announced.
The description of the silent foreigner
tallies in many points with that of the
woman whose home near the old Phil
lips farm, long mortgaged, was cleared
of obligations by a recent payment
The woman was brought into the case
Monday when she spoke of having seen.
previous to the murder, a woman
search the field near the spot where
the couple later were found.
Letters Made Public
Prosecutor Beekman of Somerset
county Tuesday made public some of
the letters found on the body of the
Rev. Mr.. Hall. They were, he said, in
the writing of Mrs. Mills, although un-
signed
One of them is a critical epilogue
of book the rector is said to have
given Mrs. Mills, 1.-THE Mother of All
Living" by Robert Keable, described
as love story of Africa. exotic in
atmosphere and frank in treatment
Dearest" the letter says, "how fast
| read. l remember, too. honey mine,
ruha% lof +hara &c fn Coll oft
! read this book-we must take it with
US when we ride and talk about it. I
marked the parts-this Keable GER
tainly knows. 1t is sweet nothing COM
pared to ours-I don't want to read
such books ever again. Whya You
know. They make me yearn for what,
perhaps. l missed in this life. And TO
think that now and hereafter I shall
never escape this longing until our
souls are one at last"
Looks at Noble Man"
Dearest, dearest boy of mine. good
morning" another letter begins. what
joy and peace Is ours today, and
strength. How gracious God is. to priv
ilege us to know this most joyous,
greatest blessing-I am on my knees.
darling, looking up at my noble man.
ders, that love you even more than
yesterday"
Prosecutor Beekman attaches i'm
portance to a third letter, in which is
found, Honey, mine, / was needing
you as only you know, but he was here
and so / said not to come"
Henry Stevens was questioned, ac-
cording to Attorney Pfeiffer, regarding
his alibi for the night of the murder,
when he said he had been hunting near
N. J.