New-York tribune., 1922-11-24
Arrests Sure
In Hall Inquiry,
Says Official
Predicts Indictments on the.
Evidence Already Given
and Awaiting A Jurors:
Others Not So Confident
Widow s Dyed Coat Shown
State Checks Story That
Rector and Wife Quar-
relied at Friends Wedding
From . zoe cerrrsponaent

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. J., Nov. "a
With the grand jury proceedings In
the Hall Mills case temporarily held
UP for no apparent cause state Of
fetal WHO is intimately acquainted
with the details of the, dual murder
declared himself confident tonight that
one or more indictments will De re-
turned
His assurance, ne SAID, is founded on
what already has been presented TO
the grand jury and what he knows
viii be put before il next week when
it reeonvenes All the officials for the
state do not share his view, however.
In She interim between grand jury
sessions they are hard at work col
lecting fresh evidence and checking up
20 forsify their case TO the last degree
possible.
Hundreds Of anonymous letters have
been pouring in 10 ne authorities and
ever since the murder of the Rev Ed
ward W. Hall and Mrs Eleanor r.
Mills on September IL became public
knowledge These letters are full of
theories, some of,them sober. more Of
them freakish. Many Of the writers
claim inside knowledge of the crime.
Charlotte Mills has received 800. Lieu
tenant James F. Mason, chief of Prose
cutor Motifs investigating staff, has had
1875, and Mrs. Hall has also received q
deluge of anonymous missiyes-
Have Evidence of Quarrel
One IF the chief aims Of the state
in She presentation cf its case to the
grand jury is to establish the fact that
Mrs. Hall was cognizant Of whst was
going on between the rector and the
choir singer. The authorities let 1t be
known to-day that in the course of
their investigation they learned that
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall quarreled two days
before the murder over a clandenstine
engagement made by the rector and
presumed to be with Mrs. Mills. The
quarrel is believed to have resulted
from an incident which occurred dur
ing the afternoon and which gave Mrs.
Hall an opportunity to get positive
knowledge Of the affair going on within
such cioae range Of her own sheltered
life in her big bleak home.
According to the story told by the
authorities Mr.. Hall was away from
home during the afternoon ard mis-
wife was much concerned over his
whereabouts. She telephoned several
places, including the home of Miss
Mile 0pie, who lives next door to
the Mills home. The rector is said to
have returned about o'clock and to
have refused to say where he Ind been.
He immediately made preparations to
GO to wedding at $3.50 o'clock at the
heme Of Henry Stryker.
The Rev. Cordie J. Culp, Of the Pres
byterisn Church here, oficiated and
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall were present as
friends of the bride and bridegreom's
families. 1t was during the ceremony
that something occurred which caused
friction between the Halls, the authori-
ties say They refuse to disclose Just
what it was, however. The coolness
between them Is said to have been
noticeable, although Mr.. Culp. when
seen to-day, declared he had not been
aware of it.
Said TO Have Phoped Mrs Mills
Mr.. Hall is then supposed to have
told his wife, after frigid drive home
in their sedan, that he had an in1por.
tant engagement at 3 that night He
did not explain it further. On getting
home nc teiephoned to some one tho
authorities believe was Mrs. Mills II
is their theory that he wanted to war;
her Of the slip that had been made at
the wedding, for on the next day ali of
them were going together on the Lake
Hopatceng trip,
The rector was scheduled to per.
form wedding ceremony at his owr
home at 1880 that evening. He sailed
up the bridegroom. Howard Edan, and
sold him 10 be on time, as he had