The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-17
MINISTER AND WIFE OF CHURCH /ExT0N
 FOUND MURDERED
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AC0uIlnue0 From R0K0 OmG1 peared again she was wearing one of her newest street dresses and her newest hat.
 Naturally I asked her where she was going" Mills Is reported to have said. land she told me that if really wanted know I could fol- low her and find out" Answered Daughter
 Playing on the front steps as she went out was Mrs. Mills 16-year-old daughter, Charlotte. In answer to question from the girl, the mother Is said to have replied she was going out for little while.' Mills told the authorities he did not follow his wife. He said as the eve ming wore on he was too nervous to go to bed He said that at 2 o'clock in the morning he went out for a walk. His walk led him up the hill to the little church of St. John the Evangelist. an edifice which crowns rising knoll, the church which he served as sexton, where his wife sang as one of the leaders of the choir, where small but rich congregation worshipped, and where Rev. MT. Hall had been rector for 10 years. Mills said he entered the church and sat down in one of the pews. Near dawn he said he got up and re- turned to his home, to find that his wife had not returned. Again at o'clock that morning, he said he wan dered back to the church. On the front stoop he met Mrs. Hall. the rector's' wife.
 Asked About Husband She asked him, he said, if he had seen her husband. He declared that he countered by telling her his wife was missing. Mrs. Hall then went to the police station. It was not until nearly 24 hours later, today, that Raymond Schneider and Pearl Banner went to stroll in Russey's lane, a quaint rustic way. known by young swains of the coun- tryside as Lovers Lane." The ap- pie tree midway down the lane was the objective of their stroll. And there they found the bodies of the rector and the sexton's wife. Police differed as to whether foot prints found in the dust at the tree roots were made in struggle. County detectives also disagree with Coronor Long that the shooting did not occur under the tree. Light winds had carried several of the notes and cards some distance from the bodies. Mills, In his state ment to the authorities, asserted that he had seen several of these letters and declared that they were written by his wife to their children while she was visiting in the southern part of the state this summer. The de- tectives declare they were written to the rector.
 Written fin Pencil
 One of the letters, bearing no sa1u- tation and no signature and written in pencil. read:
 You are a true priest. You see In me merely your physical inspiration. You are the priest. Was Pan re- ligious? God makes his people to en- joy themselves deeply"
 Another in the same handwriting reads
 Please do not laugh at this. Il know I'm a crazy cat. but I can't be different. Charlotte talks, then Dan asks questions, then he annoys, so how can I writer"
 Dan and Charlotte referred to in the note were Mrs. Mills two child ren.
 Detectives checking up on the movements of Mrs. Mills after she left her home Thursday night learned she was a passenger on an interur ban car which connects New Bruns- wick and several nearby towns. She rode to the end of the line. which was reached about S:20 o'clock. The lines end Is a short distance from farm i known as the Phillips place, which borders Russey's lane. County authorities promised that an arrest would be made in a few hours but declined to say whether the person would be a man or a woman.
 Coroner Long in statement said:
 There Is no doubt that this was a double murder The shots entered the body In such a way that any theory that one of the pair shot the other and then committed suicide is ab surd. am of the opinion that the murder was not committed where the bodies were found, but that the bodies were transferred to the spot in an automobile"
 fT have not the slightest idea who committed the crime" said County Detective George Trotten, after he had questioned Mills. n ID lN