The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-28

came 20 feet south OF the house and
helped me cast net. II was so rough
l couldn't get anything and the waves
filled my rubber boots.
THAT was Friday morning. I drove
family to Point Pleasant to catch a
train to New York about 1850 and left
some clothes at a laundry at Osborn
vile about 9 o'clock and then came
home through Manpoloking. That
evening | went out on the beach again
and got good sized bluefish. Mr. Eyer
was there again.
The next morning, Saturday
cleaned the fish AMI took II over to
Mr.. Eger's and went out on Barnegat
Bay TO catch bait l came in at noon
and Mrs. Eyer had cooked the bluefish.
We ate a great deal about O'Clock
and / made the remark that / had
better go out on the beach or / would
fall asleep.
II had been fishing but a short time
when the station agent. Mr. Austin. 4
relief man, VINO is here in the summer,
came along the boardwalk waving L
telegram in his hand and said, This Is
important
Receives Murder Telegram.
THE telegram read: Edwin Hall has
been killed. Come at once to my house.
1t was signed Edwin r. carpenter
That is Teddy. my cousin. His house
is at right angles TO Mrs. Halls.
II turned to Eyer and said
Billy. what do you think of this?
Edwin Hall, whom you met last sum-
mer, has been killed. 1t must have
been an automobile. I can't account
FOR ii any other way. as he drove
car frequently
Eyer came into tho house with me.
We put the fishing tackle away and I
looked up time table and found could
get train for New Brunswick at rs
or :35, daylight saving time.
Il changed at Sea Girt and at Mon
mouth Junction and arrived about
twenty minutes of in New Brunswick.
At Monmouth Junction I bought a New
Brunswick Home Neps and saw in large
headlines that Edwin Hall and Mrs.
Mills had been murdered That was
the first inkling hadIt was murder.
Before leaving here ] telephoned to
my sister and to Edwin Carpenters
house. His maid speaks broken English
and could get no information from her.
also telegraphed 20 Mrs. stevens In
our apartment at 100 East Thirty-fifth
street, New York. She was out, and
told the hallboy to tell Mrs. Stevens that
Edwin Hall had been killed and l was
starting for New Brunswick
From then on you know the rest.
Mrs. Stevens came out to New Bruins
wick from New York Sunday morning.
IL suppose fifteen or twenty persons
saw me in Lavallette Thursday night
George Johnson remembers lighting
matches 70 see the scales. but Is not GER
tain what night it was"
Butcher Helps stevens Alibf.,
Among the hitherto unmentioned wit
nesses appearing to-day to strengthen
the Stevens alibi were Mr.. and Mrs.
George Oxley.. Oxley's butcher shop and
grocery Is at the corner of Grand Cen
trail avenue and Vance street He said :
Il closed up about o'clock that
Thursday night went upstairs, had sup
per and played with the baby. After my
wife finished the supper dishes we went
over on the boardwalk about or s 80
My wife and l saw Mr. Stevens fishing,
and Mr. Mellenger, Mr.. Eyer and 1
think, another were with him. I remem-
be- IL was September IA because l broke
my reel on the night Of the thirteenth"
Arthur Apologize said Tonight
II saw Mr.. Stevens on the beach first
between 8 and Z z. NJ. was there
until about 10 80. He was there all the
time. with Mr.. Eyer. We were together
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights
on the beach, and Saturday Eyer told
me Mr.. Stevens would not be there, as
his brother-in-law had been killed I re-
member that Thursd ay night Henry gave
me a hook such as he had been using
and with the first cast / landed six
pound bluefsh. George Johnson came
along and lit matches while Mr.. Stevens
weighed it,"
Mr. Johnson corroborated this state
ment and said that although he felt sure
the occurrence was on Thursday night
he was unwilling to swear to it,
Cook Tells of Arrival.
Mrs. Evanson, the cook, said she ar
rived at the Stevens house at o'clock
Mr.. Stevens had supper there about 6 or
after. she said, and then went out on the
beach. She left at Z 40 and ne was still
fishing. When she reached the house the
next morning to cook breakfast, she said
he had not come in from fishing and his
clothes We're wet.
This afternoon Mr.. Stevens went in his
motorboat to his shooting houseboat
anchored at Cormorant Point and he
brought back his friend. Max Chadwick.
and the two gunners who had been there
since Thursday morning.
Although no State police appeared in
the village to-day they are posted both
at Point Pleasant to the north and at
Seaside, a little hamlet to the south, and
are Keeping close watch on Mr.. Stevens's
movements
The entire village of Lavallette ex-
presses Indignation that Mr.. Stevens has
been brought into the case again through
the statement of Mr.. Mott. and the VII
layers have perfect confidence in his
ability to dlsprove any charge that may
be made against him.