The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-11
Officer Who Secured Schneider
Statement Attacked.
Threatened With Tar and
Feathers, Detective Flees.
BANNER GIRL UNDER ARREST
Admit That Mys-
terry Is Not Yet Solved.
Finding of Bloody Basket May
Lead to New Clews.

New Brunswick. Oct. 11.-Frank p.
Kirby, a MiddleseN county detective.
credited with having obtained the
statement from Raymond Schneider on
which Clifford Hayes, 19 years old
was charged with the murder of Rev.
Wheeler Hall, rector of the Episcopal |
Church of st. John the Evangelist, and |
| his choir leader. Mrs Eleanor Rein-
/ hardt Mills. was attacked by "a group
! of citizens as he emerged from the
| Pennsylvania station on his return
| from Somerville, where he had sought
unsuccessfully to obtain confession
from Hayes.
Members of the crowd protested
angrily to Kirby against the arrest of
! Hayes declaring they considered il a
| 'frameup" to quiet the indignation OF
, citizens and soothe an aroused gov
| ernor by making 1t appear the mystery
had been cleared.
Surrounded BY Crowd.
Kirby retorted with equal candor at
first at the same time walking rapidly
Iaway from the railroad station In the
direction of police headquarters Be-
fore he had proceeded far he found
himself surrounded by the crowd.
which pressed closer and closer to
him.
He looked around decided the
crowd was thinnest behind him, and
turned and ran. The crowd ran after
him, with threats of tar and feathers.
The pursuit led past a pile of brick.
Many in the crowd stopped long
enough to get an armful with which
Ito hurl after the fleeing officer.
. Reaching the station platform, Kirby
espied the open door of a baggage
troom. dived inside, closed the door
and bolted it. just as leaders in the
crowd reached ii.
A posse of patrolmen. summoned
by the station agent, arrived and res
! Icued Kirby. The crowd vanished with
:. the arrival of the blue coats.
Two More Arrcsts.f
: Outstanding Developments yester-
: day included the arrest of Pearl BAH
= mer. Is years old, VINO was with
: Schneider when the two bodies were
: found, as an incorrfgible; also of
Nicholas Bahmer. her father. held on
a criminal charge preferred by the
y girl and the intimation by one of the
' Nchief investigators that Hayes's arrest
! did not solve the nystery-''that
! we've just started to work on the
|, case"
! MiddIesex county detectives expect-
/ ed to interview Mrs. Frances Hall.
widow of the slain rector. again today.
A Find Bloody Basket.
D The finding of blood-stained bas-
l ket near the scene of the murder led
= to a report today that one or two
E more arrests were expected soon.
S The basket was discovered in a
e gully not far from the spot where the
: bodies were found beneath a stunted
: era abapple tree on the old Phillips
farm, two miles from this city.
f 1t was ans ordinary chip basket of
= bushel size and contained rags and
f paper stained with blood and covered
= with finger prints. 1t appeared as
= tho some one had wiped his hands
e upon the paper and rags.
. Persons who saw the basket have
a L
e ficials today to tell their story. During
the excitement Incident to the discoy-
cry of the crime the basket disap-
G. peared.
, Announcement was made today that
o a committee of citizens in the Sixth
: ward. where Clifford Hayes lived.
would hold tag day on Sunday for
: the purpose of raising funds for his
. legal defense"
/ Thomas f. Hagerty. counsel for
v Payes. ann 1unced today he had proof
: that Hayes was at home in bed at the
: hour when Raymond Schneider. who
Q is held as a material witness, charges
: he committed the crime.
Can Establish AIIbi.
: Schneider, in a signed statement
= declares Hayes shot the pair on the
= deserted Phillips farm. near here,
! about 1880 on the morning of Septem-
II Der Is, thinking them Nicholas Bah
mer and his 15-year-old daughter.
Pearl. Hagerty said Hayes told him,
n and that his statement was confirmed
: by his entire family. that n returned
n home at 12:45 and went Immediately
n to bed.
o Hayes admitted he had been 10
II Buccleuch park that night with
e Schneider hunting for BANNER and
d Pearl the lawyer said. but denied that
is he had been on the Phillips farm.
: Suspicion ON Bahmer.
The authorities turned part of their
!, attention to checking up new stories
q told by Pearl BANNER. She sought in
< her latest story today to turn sus-
e picion on her father, who she asserted
: had more than once threatened te cut
= her throat. Mrs Mills throat was cut
,, and the story told by Schneider of an
II attack by Hayes fails TO explain this
fact.
The girl said that after she had
walked with her father as far as Buc-
4 efeuch park, on the night of Septembe-
la, and had had the encounter OF
u which she told earlier. with Schneider,
Hayes and Leon Kaufman. her father
took her home and told her to g5 al
once to bed. This. she said. was
'i around 10 o'clock. Looking out her
ie window. she declared. she saw hel
lie father walking about and mutterina
D. to himself
Il. Rahmer. who was arrested LAS
re- night on a statutory charge preferred
III by his daughter after she had beer
1s.i locked up as an incorrigible. was un
ee1 communicative in his cell today.
er A partial check of his record showed
IN BANNER had served prison sentence
of for highway robbery and a term II
the work house for malicious mischief