Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-24
DECLARES MRS. HALL
KNEW OF ONE TRYST
Record Of Marriage Proves the
Rector Was in Rush to
Meat Mrs. Mills.

New Brunswick. N. J., Nov. a.
A dramatic murder trial, with a wo-
man and probably two men as the
defcndants. predicated entirely upon
circumstantial evidence. is to be the
outcome OF the Somerset Grand Jury's
investigation OF the murder near New
brunswick, n. j.. ten weeks ago OF
the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and
Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
CONFIDENT that the evidence will
Justify indictments and that the Grand
Jury will return them was expressed
In New Brunswick yesterday by an
oficial closely associated with Speciai
Deputy Attorney General Wilbur A..
Mott in the conduct OF the murder
investigation.
The same confidence was not ex-
pressed with regard TO convictions
as the outcome OF the trial OF the
case before a jury. at its best. the
cf,icial admitted. the States case is
not strong one.
The Grand Jury will resume its
investigation Monday morning. BY
Tuesday night, IL is expected. all the
evidence will have been submitted.
Whether Mrs. Halls request TO be
heard Is 10 be granted Is still un-
decided
That Mrs. Hall was aware OF her
husbands affair with Mrs. Mills be-
fore the murders WAS alleged yester-
day in another story sent under
ground TO the newspapermen in New
Brunswick by a Middlesex county
sleuth.
Tho story Is that Mr.. and Mrs. Hal
ouarrollcd over n secret engagement
he - said TO have arranged for th'
evening of September -, TWO days be
fore the tragedy.
During the afternoon. Il was said
Mr.. Hall had been away from hom'
and Mrs. Hall. excited as 10 hi
whereabouts. telephored several times
10 Miss Mile Op!e. who lives mex
door 10 the Mills family. according q
ihs story. in unsuccessful efforts :,
locate her husband.
About 5 O'Clock, Mr.. Hall IS sal,
20 have returned home. !mmel.atel,
preparing for wedding at $50 a
the home o, Henry Stryker, whithe
Mrs. Hall went with him. During tn
wedding IL was claimed. Hall VA
roticcably cold toward his wife, an
sill according 10 the story told b.
the MiddieseX county sleuth, le
sip a remark which gave Mrs. Hal
an mixing OF his rela, ons with Mrs
Mills. This remark. the sleuth woul
not reveal. lie intlmated that 4; VA
one 81 the aces in the hole"
PrpceedinG with the story OF "evi
dence' that Mrs. Hall was aware o
her h,Rta nds .ndlscre;ions, the sleutl
said ;ha; Mr.. Hall announced he ha
an important angAgsment a. s o'clocl
that Aight. tsisphoninG to some one
bsl1eved - have been Mn, MILL
abcut IT,
Al $50 the clergyman was schedules
10 perform another wedding a. hi
home. marrying Miss Marie Koch {
Howard Eden. both OF this city. Al
though the couple had been warne
% be prompt. inasmuch as the recto
had an important engagement. tn
wedding did not start until O'CLOCK
Mr.. Hall was described as havin
been very much worried and as hay
ms remarked 10 Mr.. Eden after IN
ceremony, You have been married
bu: you have kept me from a Yer
important and very pleasant eneag,
ment"
Instead OF laying his ves.men'
carefully aside. as his custom, NJ
Hall is said 10 have torn them of ar
hung them UP in great haste and the
20 have rushed from the house, in Z
anxious endeayor 10 reach Mrs Nil
and warn her 10 De careful on the
trip TO Lake Hopatcong the next da
Corroboration OF the claim that n,
Hall was in a hurry. the Getecti'
sad. would be found in the f.-ct IN.
the record OF the koch-Eden weddir
In the New Brunswick Health Off,
is not signed by Mr.. Hall, as was il
yar!ab.y the case. but was signed "P
J.. y. II" in the handwriting OF h
wife. This. on investigation. ";
found 70 be true.
The bride and bridegroom both d
cisred last night that Mr.. Hall d
seem hurried and nustered Tn,
recalled that the delay in their We
ding was due TO a fainting spell su
fered by the bride in the Hall hon