The Washington times., 1922-10-17
Of
SUSPECTS
FIGURE IN
BIC CLUES
Have Been Mentioned, but
Police Refuse to identify
Them.
International News Service.

International News service.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct.
1.-The arrest of woman and
man in connection with the
murder of the Rev. DR.. Edward
w. Hall, wealthy rector Of the
fashionable Protestant Episcopal
Church of St. Jonn the Evangelist,
and his beautiful choir leader,
Mrs. James M. Mills, was expected
hourly today. Both the man
and woman in question have been
mentioned from time to time in
connection with the double murder.
Asked when ne expected TO make
one or more arrests, Prosecutor
Beekman said: 81 must decline to
discuss that phase Of the case"
The prosecutor was asked IL he
hought that Willie" Stevens was
withholding important information.
lie responded:
THAT Is a question. Willie Is
study to me. He has a remarkable
command Of English and never loses
his poise. lie is always the cultured.
polite gentleman"
Henry Stevens arrived al the
Middlescx county courthouse at ~
o'clock to be questioned as to his
knowledge of events Immediately
preceding and following the tragedy.
Soon after Henry Stevens reached
the prosecutors office, Mrs. Hall
Willie Stevens, her older brother.
Halle Peters, friend and confidante
Of Mrs. Hall. and another woman. be
lieved to be a maid in the Hall home
arrived
They were brought to the prose.
cutors office in the automobile OF
County Detective David. They rushed
from the machine into the building.
making every effort 10 avoid news
paper reporters and photogrs pliers
who gathered around them.
State Action Postponed.
AS a result of the new drive" OF
Prosecuting Attorney Joseph f.
Strickler. of MiddleseX County. and
Prosecuting Attorney A. NJ. Beck,
man. of Somerset county. Supreme
Court Justice Parker has postponed
indefinitely his decision upon the re
quest to put States Attorney Gen
eral McCrann in charge Of the In.
vestigation. 1t is now probable that
Attorney General McCrann will not
be called into the case at all.
been unearthed and will furnish
much Of the ground upon which the
proposed arrests are to be made:
discovery of love letters written
by DR.. Hall to Mrs. Mills showing
that he was infatuated with her;
that he had been keeping love trysts
with her and that he had proposed
eloping with her to some foreign
country.
Motionless Auto A Clue.
woman looking over the old Phil
covered on the afternoon Of the day
of the murder, September IA.
+ 3-Discovery of two blood stained
handkerchiefs near the spot on the
Phillips farm where the two bodies
were found laid ont beneath
stunted crab apple tree-one Of the
handkerchiefs bearing q monogram,
the letter IS"
4-Finding OF witness who saw
q motionless automobile standing in
DE Russey Lane on the night OF
September IA. when DIR. Hall and
Mrs. Mills were shot to death.
The witness, who saw a woman
looking over the old Phillips farm on
the afternoon Of September II, has
identified her from a photograph.
Three persons were summoned to
the courthouse this morning for final
examination before the authorities
act. They were Mrs. Hall, widow of
the slain clergyman; Henry Stevens,
her brother. and Miss Louise q.
Geist, one of the three maids In the
Hall home.
Maintains Two Homes.
Stevens is wealthy and maintains
two homes. one in New York city,
and the other at La Nallette, N. J.
lie has produced witnesses to show
he was on a fishing excursion near
La Vallette on the night Of the
double killing Miss Geist is valued
as a witness because she overheard
the telephone conversation between
DR. Hall and some other person JuH
before ne left his home on the night
u Sept embeT ~. never to return.
Mr. stevens had planned TO sail fJt