The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-11-16
Detectives Also Question
Man Who Drove 1t Night
of Sept. IA.
SILENT EN1P OK on DisGo'efsisiz DISCO fiis4.
Blast New mystery Visit Of
Two to Widows Home
Officials Know Men.
Especial from Staff Correspondents
Of The Evening Worldly

Of The Evening Worldly
NEW BRUNSWICK. N. j.. Nov.
lC.--on Easton Avenue not far from
Dc Russey Lane Detective Ferd David.
Middlesex County Investigator OF lie
murders Of the Rev, Edward wheeler
Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills. hiss
found rnttletrap wagon. and from
the discovery the narrative Of AIS
Gibson. the "mule woman" as 10
what she saw on the night q I've
murders has again gained crcdIBil.iy.
Mrs. Gibson has told OF being called
out Of her house by the barking OF
her dog soon after the Afillsvillo bus
passed her farm on Hamilton Road--0f
hearing a ramshacltle wagon turning
from Hamilton Road down Do Russey
Lane toward Taston avenue She had
been troubled by thievery-of her corn
and she suspected tho wagon was
driven by the thief and was carrying
away load OF it. II was then she
saddled her Jenny mule and followed
the rattle OF the wagon down the lane
INTO the climax OF the Hali-MIIls
tragedy,
In the dogged, persistent work
which has characterized the ofiiclal in
vestigators since they realized thei-
first errors OF oversight and unde,
estimation, il became important
find that wagon and obtain the COZ
roboratlon OF the driver as TO his haV
ing passed down De Russoy Lane ant
toward New brunswick on Easton
Avenue that night.
The wagon is found But the driver
refuses to admit no was out In It the
night of Sept. Il. A search OF his
premises furnishes ample reasons for
his refusal to admit he was out that
nlght--reasons which might put him
in danger Of jail.
The investigators also have the
word Of ueighbors that ais denial Is
false.
Special Prosecutor Mott has found
witnesses TO tell the Grand Jury ot
the Rev. Mr.. Halls stock excuse for
his absences from home. He always
said hts automobile tire had blown
out. The witnesses report that whea
he reported three and four blowouts
a week for several weeks in success
sion his excuses for being out late
we're received at home with marked
suspicion.
IL is Understood that Timothy
Tumulty, who had the care OF the
Hall garage, was questioned by Mrs
Hall about these plowouts iu such a
way that he blurted cut the intorma-
tion that the rector had not hNd
blowout in over month: whereupon
Mrs. Hall is said 90 have shown oo,r
anger and TO have started to find Mr.,
Hall to take him to task
Affecting the sincerity or Mrs
Halls protest that she never suspect
ed her husband OF any undue affection
for Mrs. Mills is statement Iv
James Mills. not before pubHshechrc-
garding one of his Ave talks with
Mrs Hall between the time the rector
and Mrs. Mills dIsappea red and tho
time their bodies were found Mills
has told Mr.. Mott that he asked Mrs.
Hall If she had any idea where hce
husband and his wife might have
gone,
II suppose they went to Or. David.
sons in Newark TO see about her
teeth" he says Mrs, Hall replied and
that he answered. mo, IL they went
10 a dentist they would have gone tc
DR.. Hasbrouck in New York"
Mills said Mrs. Hall was impatient
with the suggestion, replying, ''Non.