South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-25
FOLIO K. K. K.
LEADS In DUAL
MURDER MYSTERY
Special investigator Believes
Possibility Of Klans
Part IN Crime.
BY FLOHENCE ". NORTH.
Attorney For Charlotte Mills.
written Tor The United Press.l
-lnn.r-ELI. Ill. LN Z. p


NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j.. OCT
24.--3Iy lfe has been threatened in
a series ~ let-e-s The latest OF which
was EHeI *. r k
AZ he same time. J have received
anon Gus letters f-om the south.
Suggesting chat a national orgauiza-
zion which feels It's duty 20 interfere
in the matter Of married persons
morals mas have been responsible
for the Staying of Dr. Edward
Wheeler Hal and AIRS Eleanor Mills
James Mus. Charl0t,es father. Is
quoted ~ sins 90 reporters that
ne knows some people who VIII
make 6, hot Tor those who bother
him, and that he wouldn't want
these people sore on me-"
Do all these apparently unrelated
facts furnish Us light on the mys-
terry. which the local prosecutors
have failed % solve. and which the
state o. New Jersey now has taken
ln haudg
note signed Il. X. X.
] had just pointed out In my ar
ticles explaining nay investigation
that the murders might have been
committed by a committee Of out
ragged citlzens-when along came the
threatening letter TO read.
If you do not stop exploiting
your foolish ideas. the X. X X. will
give YOU a taste OF the same medi-
cine we gave 90 Mr. Mills so be-
ware or. you VIII see the fiery cross
some nient and get your due re-
ward This was signed * K K. 4"
] paid little attention at the time
Ny investigation was pointing to-
wards a jealous woman as the slayer
OF the rector and the choir singer.
] had not given much thought 90 the
possibility Of a committee murder. 8"
although I-had pointed out how this
was one OF two theories 70 which my
search had narrowed down
What II James Mills said what no
is quoted as saying did he mean o
Does he really know g0meth!ng2 Il
seems hardly likely that ne was do
ms more than trying 10 drive away
a Fostering reporter, FOR If he really
knew Of a Furnishing agency - he
could point the way 90 his wife's
murderer.
But ont Of the mass OF letters.
some threatening some praising
come Offering help. which ] receive
each day. these letters that have
Started coming in from the South
now catch my attention.
Notes Become Significant.
Find out who. among the church
member belong to a certain well
known order one letter Of advice
read. "As you have suggested. Mrs
Mills and Dr. Hall were probably
seized, taken 20 a vacant buiIding.
Confronted with evidence OF their
love affair and killed The murders
were the result Of an upHft com
mittee supervising the morals Of the
church"
When had advanced this theory
~ possibility. I had no thought
II certain nationwide orga MIA
ton. I do not believe that any such
agency as the Ku XIX Khan has in
terfered in the affair But is ii quite
POSSIBLE that a band. possibly from
WV AfA tAl N ~ r. aaer-lAt mas lahen p
vantage Of the fame OF that organt-
gation TO sign epis-Ies with the let
ters *. X x"
New Prosecutors Job.
Most OF the letters which I have
received on this subject have been
serawled by some iulterate crank.
But In this. as in every phase Of my
investigation, I am overlooking
nothing
The state now has charge OF the
case. and after five weeks we are
hack where we started from as far
az investigation OF the killing is con-
cerned Here. after a mass OF con-
tradictions which have piled up IN
the path OF our probe have been
si3ted. is what Mt Mott, the new
prosecutor IN charge has TO go on.
t1.-The one fact upon which
every one seems 20 agree Is that the
couple DIT. Hall and Mrs Mills. &C
tpally are dead. and that their bodies
we're found side by side beneath a