The New York herald., 1922-10-17


condition. His alibi to the effect that
he was fishing at his home in La VAL
lette on Barnegat Bay on the night of
the murder has been checked up.
Willie Stevens, Mrs. Halls other
brother, who lives with her. is to be
examined again.
Two HandlSerchiefs Found.
Two handkerchiefs, said to have been
found not far from where the bodies
lay the day after the murder, but which
We're not given to the authorities, are
said to be among the important bits of
evidence on which the prosecutors are
basing their contemplated action in maxi
ing arrests and getting nearer solu-
ton of the crime.
The handkerchiefs, both stained one a
womans and the other a large linen
one of the type commonly used by men,
are said to have been obtained by the
New Brunswick Chief of Police early to-
day from the man who found them.
This mans name was not made pub
| lie, but it is understood that he is not
the butcher, William Deinzer, who found
| a handkerchief on the Phillips farm on
the day after the murder and immedi-
ately gave it TO the authorities. The
handlIerchiefs, which are now in the pos
session of the authorities, are said to
have no connection with this one. The
chief would not discuss the new evi-
dence tonight. and Prosecutors Stricken
and Beekman said that they had not yes
received them.
The county detectives have turned
their attention to some of the Hungarian
friends of Willie Stevens and tonight
| Detective David has been examining
| Mrs Lengal, whose house in the Hun
garian quarter Willie visiteds frequently.
What David got from TINS woman, who
| is rather elderly and fat. is not known.
An automobile figured in the mur-
der and Hall and Mrs Mills were not
killed where their bodies were found
according to the theory of the two
prosecutors. 1t is believed that the
two youths, Hayes and Schneider, saw
more on their nocturnal ramble than
the public has been told and that they
are responsible for the new lead on
which the prosecutors are working
These two boys were in the neighbor-
| hood of the Phillips farm from IL
| o'clock until g. according to their own
story. Thus these-auestions arise:
Did Hayes and Schneider see an
! automobile in which there were two
| Mills and Dr. Hall or their bodies?
Did they tell the Prosecutors this
under the strain of third degree?
| Did Schneider go looking on that
! Saturday morning for the two bodies
| he found?
The automobile has figured frequently
| in nearly every theory. 1t is understood
now that the Prosecutors have n new
witness who can identify the machine.
| Tells of Seeing Strange Woman.
! The Prosecutors also are checking
carefully a story from the Hungarian
farm section about a mile beyond the
/ Phillips farm on the Easton road
| Hungarian woman there has said to
some Hungarian friends in town that on
the afternoon of the day of the murder
a strange woman went to the farm and
waited about. obviously looking FOR some
one She waited long time and then
went away.
Nothing was thought of this at the
time or until after the murder mystery
had engaged the attention of every one
for many days. Then the Hungarian
woman told her friends that she had
seen in a newspaper a picture of the
woman who had waited about the Hun
garian farm out beyond the Phillips
farm some few hours before Hall and
Mrs. Mills were killed
The Prosecutors are checking with the
utmost care Halls movements on the day
before he died. In this connection they
will recall Louise Geist, the maid in the
Mou III5 9uJ 'MoIIom-ol 'emoq UBH
saws that when Hall answered the tele-
phone before he went out to his death he
answered That's bad" to some state
ment at the other end of the wire.
Mrs. Hall is to be questioned again.
though she may not be taken to the
courthouse. Her examination may take
place tomorrow or tomorrow night or
NAV be postponed Much will depend on
what the Prosecutors learn from the
other witnesses.
Prosecutors to Keep Command.
Prosecutors Stricken of Middlesex and
Beekman of Somerset county have as
sured Justice Parker of the Supreme
Court that. after all, they can solve
the Hail. Mills murder mystery and that,
therefore, it will not be necessary for
Attorney-General McCran TO take
charge
These assurances are based on clew
that the two prosecutors have obtained
through the Incarceration OF Clifford
Hayes and Raymond Schneider after the
latter had accused the former OF the
crime.
Quite accidentally Schneider let some
thing drop that led the detectives, par
ticularly George Totten of Somerset, to
a promising new lead.
To date the county detectives have
kept much of their information from the
State troopers sent here by orders OF