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


streets we came on Raymond, Cliff
/ ford Hayes and the Kaufman boy
who were all sitting on a stoop
They got up and followed us. Afte
a while l wanted TO go home. blu
my father took me by the arm ant
would not let me go. Then I be
gan TO cry, because It was getting
very late.
Raymond and the other TIVE
were following us all of the time
and Raymond took off his coat anC
said he would fight my father If HI
hurt me. Then we finally sat dowr
in front of Johnson and Johnson's
and Clifford got down in the gras:
and crawled toward us, Somebody
asked him what he was doing. and
he answered: I'm looking for q
place TO sleep
1.-The next day met Raymond
and he asked me how long l had
stayed out there. l told him l got
home at five minutes of ~. He
told me that he did not get in until
3 o'clock, and when l asked him
where he had been all that time he
said he would have followed us,
but lost us.
Il met Raymond again on Satur-
day morning. We walked out on
Easton avenue and l told him
wanted to go down De Russy lane
as 1 had never been there before.
He didn't want to go. but finally
hndfag
twice; once when he went by. but
thought they were just sitting there.
when we came back l wanted
to go over to them, but Raymond
held back, and told me It was none
of my business. Finally I took him
by the hand and we went over. Then
we saw the blood. Raymond said;
They must have been killed some
where else Then I ran down the
lane to tell somebody about II. and
Raymond followed me in about ten
minutes"
Pearl exhibited a little resentment
toward Raymond, saying he had
told the prosecutor that she falsi-
fed.
do you know" she put in rather
irrelevantly, that Raymond had a
very sharp. pearl-handled pocket
knife? He was always cutting
up with 1t. and I've seen
It lots of times"
The girl said young Schneider
often had tried TO get her TO go
away with him. and that on the
Sunday two weeks after the murder
he had been particularly insistent
on her going with him to Perth Am
boy, where he thought he could get
a Job. o.,
Pearl recalled that about a year
ago her brother Henry had "beaten
up" Raymond because he didn't
want him bothering around with
her. Schneider. she said, had a re-
but she had never seen it.
Near the end of the interview she
added that she had seen Schneider
on the Sunday evening following the
but that he had told her
ne was sick from having seen the
bodies and could not go with her.
Later he changed his mind, she
aid. and decided to accompany her
Mills Doubtful of Confession.
Mills, the meek and frightened
husband of the dead choir singer,
appeared to be somewhat taken
black by the unexpected arrests. He
rather doubtful about the
ruth of Schneider's alleged confess
iion.
HE might have had to say some
hing just to get away from being
Questioned" said Mills. IT know |
low it is. I have been through It,"
When told that the killing appear
ID to have been a mistake, he said:
"A mistake? My God, what
Mistake"
. Then. true to his character
throughout the case. he went on:
who is going to pay me for the
listake? I have got TO stand for
uneral expenses.
Mrs. Hall has her servants, but
~ family Is all broken up. N.Y.
aughter is in the last year of high
,hool and / cannot take her out.
have to get my own meals and
ash my own clothes while holding
own two jobs, and my check from
lie church is Immediately Endorsed
yer to two physicians who perform
/ an operation on my wife"
Mills said he still had implicit
,nfidence in both his wife and Hall,
nd that though they were undoubt-
lily at the Phillips farm, he was
ltisfied that there had been moth
g wrong which took them there.
Mrs. Hall could not be reached
the morning. but Miss Sally Pet
s. her friend. when informed Of
lie arrest. said:
Isn't 1t wonderful? wonder
hat the Prosecutor will say now"
ayes's Mother TO Fight Case
Mrs. Mary Hayes, mother of the
W now held in connection with the
urder of the rector and the choir
niger, is i'll at her home, as a result =
the latest investigations of prose-
ting officials. Although she was
liable to talk with reporters she au-
orized the following statement,
rough her son, Joseph, "a, a
other of Clifford:
I'VE will fight the case to a finish
we have to mortgage out little
me to do it. love every hair in
y boys head; and know ne never
uld have committed such a ter
Die crime. l am sure that never
,uld he have hurt anyone. He has
en- staying at home during the
st three weeks because 1 am i'll,
Il need his help at home Before
at he always worked steadily a.