The Mankato free press., 1922-10-20
UNKNOWN oULyLs
HALL-M|LLSDEATH
Additional Evidence In New
Brunswick Tragedy
CLAIMS EYE WITNESS
Declares Rector Shot Choir
Leader In Angry Fit and
Then Killed Self
tAssociated Press Dispatch ]

New Brunswick, N. j., October 1S.
New evidence in the Hall Mills
murder case is in the hands of the
authorities 1t was declared today by
a man close in the confidence of
County Prosecutors Beekman of
Somerset county and Stricker of
Middlesex county. The assertion
was given color by continuation of
the feverish activities of the past
three days on the part of detectives
and others on the case.
The Unsigned Statement
Trenton, N j, October 19-Ellis H
Parker, Burlington county detective,
today made public an unsigned
communication mailed from Phila-
delphia purporting to solve the Hall
Mills case as one OF murder and
suicide. The text follows:
one afternoon, about three weeks
ago, | laid down in the grass on the
Phillips, farm and fell asleep about
dusk. | was awakened by loud
voices scolding. Looking up saw
not far from me a man and woman.
He was sitting close to a tree and
was cutting the bark. She was sit.
ting nearby, sorting letters.
She asked him to keep his prom
ise. He told her he had made none.
He took the letters and threw them
away and was going to leave her.
She grabbed him by his coat and
tore 1t. He boxed her in the face.
She pulled his hair and scratched
his face. He stabbed her with his
knife and she cried and told him she
would tell his wife and get him ar
rested. Then he shot her in the face.
She screamed loud and long. Then
ne shot her again, two or three times.
Then he saw me. He looked aw-
III, and then he shot himself, Az
tsf . time / went over to b ffer hei6
but they were dead. straightened
them out and their clothes. / saw a
card with the letters near his feet.
| nave been sick since that day but
told no one. When she fell he
'kneIt on her and cut her throat.
New Brunswick, N. j., October 19.
Detectives began today to inves-
tigate the newly developed report
that the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
rector of the Episcopal Church of
ST John the Evangelist, and Mrs.
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, choir
singer, were murdered in a shed at
weston Mills, q settlement several
miles from New Brunswick and
about four miles from the Phillips
farm where their bodies were found
on September is. Affidavits con-
tanning this new Information were
made public by the police yester
day, almost at the same time that
DR.. John F. Anderson, chemist, re-
ported to the authorities that an
analysis of the bloodsoaked ground
where the bodies were found led
him to. believe the murders took
place there.
The two men who made the aft
davits said that they heard a wo-
mans screams and her pleas for
mercy as they passed the Weston
Mills shed about 10: 30 p. m. on the
night the rector and Mrs. Mills
were slain. The men said that
they continued on their way and
that soon after, ten o'clock in the
morning an automobile whizzed
past them in the direction OF the
Phillips farm. .E.. n
Some of the officials are known
to place little credence in the new
information. and are clinging to the
theory that the couple were killed
near the spot where the bodies
were found.