Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-09-18

Middlesex county authorities are
not officially on the case as the spot
where the bodies were found Is over
the line in Somerset county. But
unofiicially they were extremely ac-
tive about this city where it is Ger
tain the tragedy had. its beginning
il not its end.
The Triangle Probed
Mills. the widower of the tragedy,
Mrs. Hall. the widow. and her
brother, Willie. an eccentric. were
the figures about which the inves-
tigatio revolved.
All three were expected to be
questioned again today-Mrs. Hall,
wanderings in the early hours of
Friday morning shortly after the
murders are believed to have been
committed, Mills, for the story of his
own wanderings at the same hour,
ana Willie for further light on his
urcanny prediction on Friday morn
ing that something terrible IS go.
ing to happen"
Was Mystery Woman
Mrs. Hall admitted last night that
she was the woman in the polo coat
whom witnesses told of seeing leav-
Ing the rectory about 2:45 o'clock on
Friday morning. She was quoted as
saying that she had gone to the
church accompanied by her brother
Willie seeking her husband, who
had not come home the night before.
Willie refused to say whether he was
with her. Witnesses did not see him
return to the rectory.
Newspapermen who went over the
scene again yesterday. found two
crosses carved with a penknife on a
cedar near the apple tree under
which the bodies were found. The
crosses apparently were newly cut
but whether they had been there
when the bodies were found or had
been carved later by someone of
morbidly sentimental turn of mind
could not be ascertained.
Conference This Morning
Prosecutor A. M Beekman and
Detective George S. Totten of Somer
set county. held a lengthy confer
ence with Prosecutor Joseph f.
Stricker and Detective Ferd A. Da-
vid, the Middlesex county officials
in Prosecutor Stricker's office here
this morning. Although the bo-
dies were found in Somerset coun-
ty, the general opinion seems to
prevail that the murder was COM
mitted in Middlesex county and the
bodies carried to the spot beneath
the apple tree on the Phillips farm
where they were discovered. The
Middlesex county authorities are
therefore cooperating in every way
to run down the murderer or muir
dcrers and secure the details of the
case.
Shortly before noon the confer
ence between the Somerset and Mid
dlesex county prosecutors and detec-
tives came to an end, Prosecutor
Stricken being the only one of the
five officials who would make any
comment.
"It is one of those mysterious
cases very difficult of solution" he
said, "and looks to me like another
Elwell case"
When asked If any arrests could
be expected shortly he answered.:
There may never be an arrest In
this unusual case" He said both
counties would work together on
the case and the work of running
down clues was now under way. A
party of five, consisting of the two
prosecutors, Detectives Totten,
David and John Ferguson, left i'm
mediately after the conference for
the spot along the Raritan river
where the bodies were found.
Services for Rev. Mr.. Hall were
held privately at his late home
last night. The wife, it is reported,
did not care to view the body of her
husband and gave instructions to
have the casket covered. AT IL
o'clock noon today the services for
the deceased rector were held from
the church, interment following in
Greenwood cemetery.
The funeral for Mrs. Mills will be
held tomorrow, it was announced
this morning, and will be private.
In addition to Willie, Mrs. Hall