Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
MAY CONTINUE
MURDER PROBE
Investigation by the Deem
Der Term Grand Jury
is Regarded Likely

NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. r.
1t is believed today hal the next
move in the Hall-Mills murder in
vestigation will be to put the case
back in the hands of the local prose-
cutors Bergman and Stricken, and II
is considered probable hal It will go
before the new December grand jury
in Somerset county in some form
in about a week.
Special Deputy Attorney General
Wilbur Mott, WHOSE investigation for
the state resulted in the present
grand jury's refusing to indict any
one, will confer with Attorney Ger
era1 McCran tomorrow. 1t Is be-
lieved this will end Mr.. Motifs con
nection with the inquiry. One matter
10 come up is the bill Somerset coun-
ty will be asked to pay for Mr.. Motifs
work, There is an intimation this
bill will shock the people almost as
much as the murder did.
Until Mr.. Motifs status is deter
mined, no active move is expected
in The case. The four agencies ex-
pected to continue the investigation
are the authorities OF Somerset and
MiddIesex counties, the state troopers
and Mrs. Frances Stevens Halls pri-
vate investigators.
There was no confirmation today
OF the report that Bernard A. Flood
one of the best known detectives in
the New York Police Department.
had been loaned to investigate the
murder. No one in authority has
had any information hat he Will
lake a hand and Mrs. Halls lawyer
denies he is to work for her.
Raymond Schneider, the youth
who found the bodies lying under
the crabapple tree on the Phillips
farm, and some weeks later ac-
cused his erstwhile chum, Clifford
Hayes, of having committed the
murders, will be placed on trial be-
fore County Judge Peter F. DAILY IN
New Brunswick tomorrow. He is
charged with perjury and with i'm
pairing the morals of young Pearl
BANNER, who was with him when
he discovered the corpses.
While the Schneider trial will
hardly help solve the mystery, it
will undoubtedly supply a number
Of sensations concerning the inves-
tisation. It is understood Schnei-
der will claim his Confession" was
obtained under duress; hat detec-
lives questioned him for so many
hours at a time he was weak from
hunger and loss of sleep and would
have signed anything just to be left
alone.
The Rev. John s. seachrist of the
Sayreville Methodist Episcopal
church near here vigorously attack
ed the officials of both counties yes
terday in his sermon. He said in
part:
present day conditions in Mid
1.-. -~,,-4,, n r1 nall lynnyyn m anU
intelligent and thoughtful observer
-thoughtless or vicious forgetful-
ness of God, willful and violent rob
bing of God of that which is due
Him, the exaltation of the temporal
and human to the depreciation and
obligation of the divine and eternal
things. Justice appears to be fall
ing down and there is a constant
growth in the tendency toward law
Iessness.
'That is indicated clearly in the
fact that in one of the most i'm
murder cases in this coun-
try in years there has been an APP
parent miscarriage of justice.
mot only that but the officials
who are charged with the enforce
ment of the law and the a%pprehen-
sion of offenders do not appear even
have made a really sincere effort
10 bring the murderers to justice.
"In an adjoining county the peo-
pie appear TO have put the question
OF expense ahead of that of justice
the protection of society.
There is a trend toward a luxur-
ious and vicious form of life. X
ceedingly wicked, and the use OF
violent power to obtain advance
ment,"