Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-10-11
Three IN JAIL
But DOUBLE
KILLING IS
YET MYSTERY
ny Associated Press

Hy ASsoctnted freNe
NEW BRU NSWICI. y. J.. Oct. To-
IriSDn bars closed tonight ON third
important figure In the Hall Mills muir
der mystery-but the incarceration. In.
stead Of helping t0 clear the tanglc Of
clues and counter clues. served only 90
emphasize the difficulties the auihOri.
ties are encountering in their efforts TO
check up the evidence On which l9-ycar.
old Clifford Hayes stand, accused of
the double Staying.
The third 10 GO 10 Jail was Pearl
Isahmer. She IL the l5-ycar.old girl
whom Raymond Schneider says he
thought he was sinying with her step
father, when-accor,iing "a Schnei,ler's
dceN-iiayes fired four bullets into the
bodies ~ the Rev. Edward Wheeler
Han and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills
ON the night Of September ~. on the de-
setted Phillips farm. Schneider II held
- = material witness.
Pearl was not officially tailed in con.
ncction with the llall.Mills murder The
charge against hcr-which she calmly
admitted, was incorrgibilitv. ProsccJ.
tor Stucker of MiddlcseX County. who
has hren active In the investigation Of
the Hall Mills ease appeared personal
y ag,.na, her
Admits Intimacy.
~ The end of the hearing after she
had testified TO intimacy with Schneider
and her stcpiathcr. she was officially
committed for = week pending de.
c.Sion and her stcpfnther. she was OF
iiclally committed FOR a week pending
decision on the lncorrigibility charge.
fnotficially, u was said that she was
bing gwen \ chance To think over"
the conflicting stories she has told An
additional reason for he Incarceration
vas said 20 be- the fact that she was
10 difficult, 10 find whcn she was want.
Cd for questioning Nicholas Bahmer
nlcr was arrested aS a result OF the
charges preferred by his s,cp.daughter
md held In Slo.Ooo hail following hls
arraignmcnt
Pearl. who was with Schneider when
ID" bodies OF Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills
were found two days after the muir.
d'rS, on more than ono occasion has
given newspaper men working ON the
than she was telling incidentally. she
has turned against Schneider. once nd
miticdly her sweetheart. and has suugh.
to convey III impression that ne knew
murc about the murders than HAYES
whom h. accused II m, crime.
Schncidc.. II was disclosed today told
four different stories about his knowl
cdge of the slayings before hc reached
The story of Hayes commission the
Grim" ON which the authorities acted.
Hts final storr still fails o. iibc with
facts about the murder brought out
from other sourcrs-notahly his insist.
cn"c that neither Haycs nor hc had cat
Mrs. Mis- throat after m, shooting
although an autopsy showed the head
had b-cn almost scvcrcd.
Broad Discrepancies
Th'r" arr almost - broad discrcp1r.
ci"s ~ his story OF his whereabouts M,
night 'l the murders and that told Is
Pearl R9hmcr Schneider said he was
with P'arl FOR several hours that nigh,
before he saw Pearl going out with hcr
s,ap.i'thc' and started trairng tho
r.iir with Hayes.
fearl said shr was with hen until Z
O'Clock Then she said he was not viii
h"r ~ al Detectives SAY they hav,
practically established that he was not
with hcr and th,y are trying 90 check
~ on his movements between eight and
u o.clock-,hc period n which ~,
murders are known 10 have been com
n.l't,d.
Schneider says it WAS al-aut o'clorl
when nales Shot The minister and choiI
leader by mistake Witnesses hay,
agreed that the screams and shots wcn
heard AZ about 1850 O'Clock.
Despite these and many other part.
conflic, IN his story. prosecutor Beck
man OF Somerset said D.. believed h.
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