Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-05
MYSTERY GAR,
EL0PEMENT IN
MURDER PROBE
Sleuths Get New Clues
in Hunt for Slayers
of Church Personages.
Mrs. Mills and Rev. MIR.
Hall Planned Getaway
to Orient, R e p or t.

New Brunswick, n. j., Oct. A
men and woman-was added
Wednesday to the conflicting maze Of
clues among which Middiesex and
Somerset county authorities are
cropping in their efforts to apprehend
the slayers of the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and his choir leader,
Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills.
A. Z. Soper, retired business man
of Highland Park, came forward with
the story of this car. Nearly three
weeks ago, on the night of the mur-
ders, Soper told the authorities, he
passed sedan in DE Russey's land,
close to the spot where the bodies
were.
He turned his searchlight on the car,
he said, and observed that it contained
failed to recognize any of the trio,
he siad, he. observed that the woman
wore light coat.
a polo coat of light gray on that
night when, according to her story, she
left her home after midnight to seek
her missing husband in his study at
the church of st. John The Evangelist
Mrs. Hall has told the investigators
she was accompanied by her brother,
Willie" Stevens, an eccentric New
Brunswick character. The Halls own
a sedan car, which the minister left
in the garage when he went to what
proved to be his death tryst.
EIopement PIanned7
Three more bits of evidence sup
porting the theory that the minister
and Mrs. Mills were on the point of
eloping TO the orient when they were
slain, also came to light Wednesday.
:. One was a letter believed to have
been written by Mrs. Mills only few
hours before she met her death. Au-
thorities withheld the contents of
this letter, which, it was admitted.
was found in the dead clergyman's
pocket. 1t was learned, however, that
it contained the expression "Oh, for
the time when | can do your mend
ing"
1t is by this that the authorities
fix the time when it was written.
They have learned, it was disclosed,
that the day before the double Staying,
the minister, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Mills
and Mrs. Minnie Clark had been on q
picnic to Lake Hopatcong, and that
an incident of the trip was that the
minister tore his trousers while
climbing a barbed wire fence, and had
Mrs. Hall mend them with a needle
and thread she happened to have along
Consulted a Seer
Another evidence of the supposed
elopement plan was contained in a
letter from w. G. Hinhia, a Hindu
Ocultist of Miami, Fla. Hinhia wrote
that Mrs. Mills had sent him letter
these three questions:
viii the minister get a divorce?"
viii he go to a foreign country ?"
IF he gives up the other woman and
goes to the Orient, shall / 90 with
him?"
He said that he had answered he
could give her advice which would do
good" if she would buy his book on
astronomy, but that he had heard no
further from her.
The third indication of an clone
ment plan was conveyed to the authori-
ties in report of a remark a woman
member of the church was said to have
made at Mr.. Halls funeral.
We'll, they are taking the minister
out of the church." she was reported
to have said as the funeral services
were concluded. They didn't get off
to Japan after ALL"