Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-07
TRUTH HAS NOT
BEEN TOLD, IS
POLICE CLAIM
More Sensational Develop
ments in Murder Probe by
County and State
WILLIE AT S0MERvILLE
Mills Talks of Case -TooIan
is Puzzled at Mrs. Halls
Attitude
WILLIE AT SoMERvILLE

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. fBv
The Associated Press ):-State and
county authorities after spending
most of the night working on the
case were up early today to con-
tlnue their efforts TO solve the nys-
terious shooting September IL OF
the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall.
rector of the Episcopal Church of
st. John the Evangelist, and his
ehoirleader. Mrs. Eleanor Reinharit
Mills.
Considerable progress was uaaze
during the night by detectives work
Ing directly with Col. H. Norman
Schwartzkopf, of the New Jersey
state police. and the prosecutors af
Middlesex and Somerset counties.
Willie Stevens. eccentric brother
of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow
of the slain rector, was returned to
the Hall home about O'clock this
morning after lengthy quizz at the
hands of detectives who took him
from the Hall home late in the af-
ternoon. The questioning took place
at Somerville- Col. Schwartzkopf,
who directed Stevens examination,
declined to make any comment early
today when he returned to New
eAAlSh4Chs liz d0AEa4NNSQ that GA6t~
ems had been closely questioned
about his movements on the night
of the killing.
The state troopers interviewed
seventeen members of the choir and
told exactly the same story. All said
they had noticed DIR. Hall and Mrs
Mills were together a great deal. but
had thought little about it because
the rector was kind to all members
of his congregation. The troopers
then learned that all of the women
questioned had met last Friday night
after choir rehearsal and agreed
upon the story to be told in case
they were questioned
John E. Toolan, assistant prose-
cEtor of Middlesex county, who has
been active in the investigation when
pressed today by newspaper men as
to the progress in the case said:
at looks nightly like the inquiry
is pointing into the Mills or Hall
family. Somewhere in one of them
there is someone who appears to
know more than has been told.
Mrs. Hall has not reacted natur-
ally. She has shown no interest
in her husbands death but instead
has gone into seclusion and will see
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1t was learned this morning that
Prosecutor Stricken sent a letter to
Charlotte Mills, daughter of the
slain woman this week assuring her
that everything is being done to
solve the murder mystery The LETT
ter reads as follows:
Dear Miss Mills:
Il appreciate deeply your great
anxiety to have your mothers nur-
derer 4apprehended. assure YOU
that everything is being done to
bring about this result.
''Very truly yours.
JOSEPH E. STRICKER.n
James Mills, husband of the slain
choir leader, in a conversation this
morning with newspaper men ssid:
eff Mrs. Hall has made the state-
ment that she saw me only once on
the day following the murder, she is
not telling the truth.
She came to the church in the
morning and at noon came to my
house while l was cooking my din-
ner. At o'clock in the afternoon
she again called at my house. ] was
putting ice in the ice box at the
time. That night I went to the
church about o'clock to prepare
for choir practice and then went to
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