Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-11

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to the court house again yesterda
! and after she had been questfone'
D was taken before Judge Peter
= DAILY. She told him she was II yeal
! old and she freely admitted. as sh
had to the detectives. her relation
S ship with Schneider. She denied, 6
first. that such relationship ha
4 ever existed between her and an
r one else.
Then the Judge asked her poin
blank about her father and she toll
the story that led TO the issuance o
the warrant for BANNER. She sal
! that her father had attacked her Of
} the Thursday night OF the murder
thus confirming a part OF the stor!
/ told by Schneider, Hayes and Kauf
mann. who were. following the pair
After he had heard her story
}, Judge Daily held the girl for a weeB
on a charge OF incorrigibility, con
4 tinuing the case. He said he felt
all things considered that the gir
would be better Off in jail than in
her own home. She had no idea at
the time that her father was to be
arrested.
The arrest OF BANNER can be cred
tied. not TO the county detectives,
but 10 the local police. who have re-
msined out OF the case, much to the
surprise OF everyone outside the
charmed Beekman-stricker-Toolan
L circle. It was accomplished about
$50 last night by Policeman Joseph
Curran, who saw BANNER riding in
an automobile and knowing there
was an alarm out for him picked him
up. David, the detective, had been
seeking for BANNER for two hours
BANNER was at once arraigned be-
fore Judge DAILY and was told of the
charge against him. The complaint
had been signed by Detective Fitz-
patrick. The date mentioned as
that OF the particular charge was
July 10. BANNER said that Pearl
was his own daughter and volun-
teered the information that It would
be shown to be impossible for him
TO have committed the crime
charged. He was held in $4,000
bail and was in Jail, where his law
yer, Paul W. Ewing. visited him. In
New Jersey the crime OF incest is
punishable by imprisonment for If
teen years or a fine OF $1,000 or
both.
Admits He Had Gun
In jail BANNER talked freely be-
fore he saw his lawyer He admitted
that on the night OF the murder he
had a As calibre pistol, but said he
had borrowed Il and that II had not
been in his possession before or
since. He was asked again as 10 the
caliber and laughed; Sure It was a
forty-nve. Don't you think / know
the difference between a thlrty-two
and a forty-five7"
Ii was a 80 with which Hall and |
Mrs. Mills were killed. Asked II he-i
knew who committed the murder, |
after he had said that he did not, |
BANNER said he believed he did |
know. and that It was not Hayes. He |
felt, he said, he could get down on |
his knee and swear il was not
Hayes. He recalled in this connec-
ton that II was Schneider who was |
looking for his daughter Pearl that |
night, not Hayes.
The Dodge car that has come |
into his possession since the muir
der. BANNER said, was bought by |
the woman now regarded as the |
stepmother OF Pearl. She got an
inheritance from an uncle in Tren- |
ton. When asked from whom he /
had borrowed the AS BANNER an
swered; Now you're going too
deep"
Here is Banners story OF his
movements on the night OF the muir
der:
"I met Pearl on the front steps F.
early IN the evening. can't re-
member the time now, but It seems
10 me IL was before s o'clock. I had /
been drinking and asked her 20 go
With me for walk until ] sobered
NJ. Red Hartman and his girl said
hey would walk with US for a
while and we all four walked down
Nelson street, up Albany TO George.
IN George street. Pearl and / went
INTO a basement candy store to get
ome ice cream and soon afterward
Red and his girl, whom we had left
,ehind, came in. We ate our Ice
ream and went out and continued
ur walk up George street. Finally
reds girl left us 10 go home and
DON afterward Red left us too.
Pearl and walked alone up
George street until we came 70
ohnson and Johnson's factory. Just
little beyond the factory we sat
own on one OF the lawns 10 rest
Pretty soon Pearl said that
omebody was following us. saw
wo men. but didn't know who they
we're. one came up and started
over the grass. asked
lin what he wanted and he said he
vas looking for a place to rest.
After a while we got up again
nd went on our way. Pearl said
hat the two men were still follow
ng us, but I didn't pay much at
entlon 70 them. About a quarter OF
mile further on we sat down again
N the grass near Scott's culvert. l
emember II well. because I recall
eminding Pearl that II was from
iere she had jumped into the canal
when she tried 10 commit suicide a
while ago.
we sat there a while and finally e
anne back home the same way we
.ad come up. I didn't see anything
more Of the two men. on the way
ack I gave Pearl 30 cents and she
1T me at the corner OF Nelson and J
.lbany streets % go into Mrs. DORIS '
nd get some ice cream. My wife 5
Did me afterward that came home J
bout II o'clock and that Pearl c
anne in about 1880.
II don't know who the men were I
hat followed US eNcept that Pearl v