The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-10
HAYES DENIES
DUAL MURDER;;
HEARING.T0DAY
Witness and Youth Charged
With Numbering Rev. Hall
Sick to Stories
SUSPECT WEAK MINDED
Daughter Of Murdered Choir
Leader Insists That Boy
Did Net do Killing
SUSPECT WEAK MINDED
PLEADS, NOT GUILTY

ward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Flea
nor Reinhardt Mills, and was held
by Justice of Peace Stuphen with
out bail for grand jury action.
Authorities who announced with
show Of confidence upon Hayes
arrest yesterday that the Hall
Mills mystery had been solved,
evinced less satisfaction with their
case today.
One of the Investigators said
another lead was being worked up
on, which, if verified, would
Change the entire complexion of
the case" r..-
This lead, he added, pointed
away from young Hayes and ap-
peared to provide a motive that
would explain the mad slashing of
Mrs. Mills throat in addition to
her bullet wounds.
Raymond Schneider, upon whose
accusation Hayes was arrested
still was held today as material
witness and was being questioned
from time to >time in an effort to
clear up discrepancies in his story
as compared with facts establish
ed from other sources.
Schneider says Hayes had shot
the minister and the choir singer
under the apple tree on the old
Phillips farm thinking the pair to
be Pearl BANNER, Is, and her step
father, Nicholas BANNER. Schnei-
der admitted that he himself was
in love with, the girl and declared
that Hayes had acted as avenger
Of wrong Schneider believed had
been done himself by the girls
stepfather. :, 4
Stephens Hayes denied the story
.vehemently, hurling counter ac-
cusation that Schneider had rob-
bed the dead minister's body of q
gold watch and seeking to divert
suspicion from himself. Schneider
charged that Hayes stole the
watch.
When Prosecutor Beekman of
Somerset county was asked if he
had eliminated all other persons
from further. consideration in the
case he said:
"Oh, no, we have not. We are
checking up the field, following up
every lead we have"
New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. TO-
Clifford Hayes, 10 years old, who was
arrested yesterday charged with the
first degree> murder Of the Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall and his choir
leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
was to be arraigned in court today.
With Ms friend, Raymond Schneider,
81 years old, arrested as a material
witness, Haynes spent the night in
the county Jail.
Hayes was held incommunicado,
while Schneider was subjected toi an
other long questioning during the !
night by detectives in an effort to
obtain further detains. Hayes has
steadfasuy denied the allegation
made by Schneider that the double
Staying was a case OF mistaken iden-
tity, the intended victims being 15-
year-old Pearl Bahmer and her step
father Nicholas BANNER.
The only theory so far advanced
by the authorities for Hayes motive
was a desire to right a supposed
wrong done friend, Schneider, who,
although married, admittedly was in
loev with the Bohmergirl.
Officials at the 1ocal prosecutors
office said that Schneider was not
strong.
Nicholas BANNER, father of Pearl,
took exceptions to the story she told
yesterday to the effect that he was
on the night of the mur-
der. He declared that he was per-
fectly sober and was sitting on his
porch when Pearl came to him and
asked him to take walk with her.
They, stopped at a store, he said, and
had ice cream. During their talk,
BANNER asserted, Pearl complained
to him of Schneider's attentions. He
told her he had bought AS calibre
pistol and that she need not worry,
as he would protect her.
Pearl said today she was sure
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