Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-20
HALL WIFE
AND S|NGERAT ODDS,
WITNESS EXPLAINS
The Two Women Reported to
Have QuarreIed at Point
Pleasant Church Camp.
SEXTON SAW WlFE'S NOTES
BY Associated Press to Every Evening.


New Brunswick, N. j.. Oct. 90
Authorities investigating tho Halls
Mills murder mystery today were
checking up details OF new lnforma-
ton which they say dovetails with
facts previously obtained and points
to definite solution of the case.
Search for an automobile of old
model which B. X. Soper. retired bust
ness man Of Highland Park, declared |
he saw In the de Russys lane near
where the bodies of the slain rector |
and his choir leader were found Sep |
tember 16, was instituted today by !
all forces seeking solution OF the |
crime.
Soper asserts he can identify the
car on sight.
He declared he was returning by
motor from visit to Somerville the
night of the murder and that the car
attracted his attention because of It's
model and the fact that It was coming
from a section seldom followed by
motorists in the middle Of the night.
Investigators believe that the auto
mobile clue brings them closer TO the
slayer or slayers and are making it
their first point OF inquiry
| The authorities were Weighing care
| fully the story that Mrs.
Frances Hall, widow OF the Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall. and Mrs Eleanor
| Reinhardt Mills, who was murdered
| with the clergyman. quarreled shortly
before the Halls left New Brunswick
for a vacation last summer. and that
the ill-feeling was pronounced after
the vacationists returned.
Information of the quarrel was
given out by Miss Florence North, wo-
man attorney for Charlotte Mills.
daughter of the slain choir leader
Miss North told reporters that a scene
had taken place between Mrs. Mills
and the rector's wife at a camp main
tanned by the church at Point Pleas
ant on the Jersey coast last summer
Reference was made 10 the quarrel in
a letter written by DR. Hall TO Mrs.
Mills, she said.
Insisted On Riding With Rector.
The alleged trouble arose at the time
the camp was breaking up. according
10 Miss North. Mrs. Hall, who had
: not remained at the camp. drove TO
Point Pleasant 10 get her husband.
AS she and the rector started TO drive
off. Mrs. Mills ran after the car and
demanded OF Mr.. Hall II he intended
TO take her with him. He invited her
TO get into the car and she rode to
New Brunswick with them.
This incident was a prelude TO a
more or less rupture between the two
women. It was said. After Mrs Hall
returned from her vacation in New
England she and Mrs. Mills spoke 70
each other perfunctorily, but It was
, evident there was no friendship be
tween them, Miss North stated Char
lotte had informed her, Miss North
5 said, that the two were decidedly cold
: toward each other during the day:
D Immediately preceding the murder.
. Miss North announced that Mr.. Hal
] had written a letter 10 Mrs. Mills from
3 lslesford about Aug. 90. less than
e week before his return 10 New Bruins
t wick in which he severely criticize
his wife. who was with him on he
s vacation, fer her conduct toward Mrs
5 Mills at Point Pleasant.
d Wife's Remarks Foolish, Wrote Rector
Her remarks at Point Pleasant wer
! foolish and entirely uncalled for" tn
: rector wrote Mrs. Mills. according I
the quotations made by Miss Mort
d, last night. The lawyer said that Ha
went on 10 write in the same letter
= 81 don't blame you for being hurt
!, you know how I feel about then
Dearest, don't let Il trouble you.
- didn't show her your letter to me-
but you were wise 10 send II to Isle
ford-for she might have commente
If no letter came from you. But sh
didn't ask to see it-just said. is ther
any news from Eleanor"
According 70 Miss North. the rectC
tried TO reassure Mrs. Mills, who ha
n evidently been worrying about II
u risk they had been running. He 10
IN her. said Miss North. that Mns. Ha
had not said anything about the cho
singer. and he did not think his wife
former friendliness for Mrs. Mills h;
" changed. He told her. according
Miss North. 10 use her own judgme
about writing 10 Mrs. Hall.
Hall Hurried to Meet Mrs. Mills.
10 But the rector's wife had chang
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