Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-11-02
Says Mrs.
Mills

and the robbery are all rot. 1t wa.
L jealousy and 1 think her throat wa.
cut in spite against her singing"
Mills retold Of going TO the church
at 2.1o IN the morning Friday when
his wife failed to come home.
Seeing she was not home
thought she might have been taken
I with fainting spell at the church
8 and ! went there but did not see
/ anybody. / returned and put out my
81 light at $50.
"At $50 Friday morning Mrs.
Hall came into the church while I
was there.
1T was not about o'clock as she
says know it could not have been
earlier because the children had al
ready gone TO school. 1t was then
q that she spoke about foul play. She
stayed only short time. The first
thing she asked was Was anybody
sick in your house last nightT
"About noon time she came 10 my
house and walked up the steps. I
said haven't heard anything. She
replied I haven't either, and walked
away.
& Mrs Hall is wrong when she
says she did not come here at $40
( that afternoon. l remember that
. had Just returned with some ice and
/. was putting 1t in the icebox She
stayed only a minute that time.
Il saw her again about O'Clock
when l went to her house. I asked
II she had any news and she said
she had none. l stayed there
little while and talked. She didn't
seem TO take It nearly as hard as
did,"
Mills admitted that his wife
"could have received letters with
put me seeing them"
He denied he had ever been any
nearer the Phillips farm, where the
bodies were found, than the land
Ing bridge"
Il am man enough not to have
kept that job at the church II had
thought there was anything between
the minister and my Wife" Mills
said. IT wouldn't have stood for any
thing like that for a minute.
Il would have gone TO Hall and II
ne would not listen I would have /
gone TO the Bishop and the vestry.
They would have known about It
all right"
without displaying a single spark
of feeling. with never tremor OF
the lips, and without a single tear
dimming for an instant the cold.
steel gray of her eyes. Mrs Hail
submitted yesterday afternoon to
an interview lasting flfty-three min
utes, and talked, largely in mono
syllables OF the crime that deprived
her of her husband.
Minute by minute she answered
questions caimy. carefully. thought
fully, she withstood the scrutiny OF 4,
more than twenty pairs or eyes. :
Item by item she met the differences ,
and insinuatIons that the State OF .
the Hall-Nfills murder mystery make ,
Inevitable. Step by step she went :
over her own movements on the I
night OF the tragedy. She talked of !
murder. OF divorce. of property. of !
insanity OF her husband and the '
possibility of his inidelity She talk
I'd, carefully and thoughtfully. of {
every aspect of this extraordinary !
case-for very close TO an hour
sitting In the library OF her home.
where, unquestionabiy, she and her
husband had often sat together.
Not once did her voice CULVER. Not
pnce did her eyes fill. Not once did {
she shift uneasily. Not once did her !
ayes dim. Not once did her lips
witch Not once did her brow s
wrinkle. Not once did she show
resentment and not once did she s
display. even for an instant, that
gentleness. that tenderness, that
sorrow that might have been ex-
pected OF a woman OF gentle breed
ing who had lost her husband within :
a matter OF weeks.
On the other hand not once did
Mrs. Hall show sign of vindictive- !,
hess. Not once was there an evil J,
dence OF high feeling we'll controll I,
ed. Not once did passion OF any sort !,
shi-o in her eyes. and never. in
all the ffty-three minutes, did Mrs. =
Hall evincc the slightest real inter n
est IN what was going on. in what n
had happened. or in what is surely s.
about to happen. F
At the close OF this remarkable in 81
tsrview. which is probably without n
parallel. there was CLEAN OF light. 81
The time had been set In advance r
for the close-2.so. The hour had Il
arrived. Timothy n. Pfeiffer. conn-
sci for the woman, who had remain In
ed without, had reeDtered the room. W
One interviewer suggested another "
question. Mr.. Pfeiffer looked at his pi
Silent and clearly with consideration 4.
for her said: Il think Il has lasted II
long enough. Mrs Hall, standing VI
Strengthened her shoulders just ~
trine and said with slight asperity: %
Eyes. they have asked questions n
enough Temper. disdain. pride-es- -
pecially pride-lay behind those few ~
words and the slight movement of %
the Shoulders.
Throws No New light. q,
Mrs. Hall, when the time comes, as y,
It will. will make a wonderful wit .,
ness. She can stand cross examination tr
as few women can. She has wonderful ee
reasoning power and no Imagination n;
whatever. Her mind and her feat Ct
ures she has under absolute control. a.
She will make no mistakes and she
will display absolutely no emotion. o.
She gave the impression today that o.
she is wholly without emotion. That, q
of course, cannot be so. But II there 81
Il BRAIN TESTS. c
II BY Sam Lloyd.
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