New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-22
Slain RectOr's
Flock All To
Be Questioned
With Jealousy Still Held
Motive in Double Crime.
Clew Is Sought From Lips
Sealed by Church Loyalty
] lackmailTheoryW eighed
Hall Home Searched and
Second Brother of Widow
Is SOug h I by Officials

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j.. Sept. 2i.-
Every member OF the congregation Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church Of St.
John the Evangelist is to be examined
by the county officials investigating
the murder Of the rector, the Rev. DR..
Edward Wheeler Hall. and his choir
leader. Mrs. Eleanor Rcinhardt Mills.
a decp-seated feeling of loyalty to
the interests OF the church is. accord
ing to Assis.an: Prosecutor Jchn A.
Toolan, scaling the lips Of these two
hundred persons. whose threads OF in
hucnec are the warp and woof Of the
social. political and economic fabric OF
this manufacturing and college town
Of $4,000.
The decision 20 intcrrogate these
persons Is O revelation Of q more de-
term.ncd attitude within the Office OF
Prosecutor Joseph Strlcker. who is also
campaign manager for George Silzer.
Democratic candidate for Governor OF
New Jersey.
Hall Home Searched
II WIS learned to-day that detectives
working under the eyes OF Mr. ToolGn,
searched tho Hall home from CO lar 70
garret yesterday. and to-nighi other
detectives arc prosecuting n three-day
search for Henry Stevens. Mrs. Halls
other brother. Hcnry's home is in
La,Ellctte, sc3coast village about
FORTY milcr from here.
I'VE have been tr.inr 20 frd Heary
stevens in order 70 question him. since
1ucsia:," frid Assistant Prosecutor
Too.an late to-day.
Have yol any reason 10 believe that
Hcnry Stevens was in or about New
Brunswick ca tho night o. September
i4?' he was a.kcd.
Il don't know that you could call it
a reason replied Mr. Toolan. But we
think he might have been. We want
TO talk with every one who may con-
tribute scrap OF information about
this affair. Nothing we have developed
80 far would give US any reason TO
believe that the motive for the crime
might have been other than Jealousy"
No Simple Triangle
From further information obtained
from Mr.. Toolan and from Miss Sally
Peters. who spoke for the reetor's
widow. II was indicated to-nich. that n
simple triangle solution OF the mys-
terry was not necessarily 70 be expected.
Other factors. such as inherited for
tunes sometimes generate, appear in
the case with the elusive persistence
Of phantoms.
A single fact that may be revealed
by some chance remark from any one
Of n score OF persons associated with
the Mills family. the Halls or the
church is expe cted by the investigators
10 explain many t'.in2s that now seem
Lnexplainable. There arc those notes,
romantic and sentimental in tone, that
wCrc scattered about the carefully ar
ranged bodies. Written by Mrs. NILS
beyond a doubt. aid intended for the
mirister, there is nothing so far that
proves he evcr saw them. There are
many friends or the dead clergyman
who are prepared 20 take an oath he
never read ono Of them. =.
I'VE haven't eliminated anybody,
said Mr. TOolan. ave are going 70
talk 20 Mills again, going to grill him.
lie has said, | understand. that some
one-a womnn-told him more than a
year ago that he should be wntchful
OF his wife and the minister. He also
says. understand. that he has forgot
ten tho woman's name.
Widow Visited Mills Home
"We haven't checked up on the meet
incs between the sexton and the rec
tors wife after their mates had dis
appeared. Mrs. Hall has now told u'
that after she visited the church IN
company with her brother Willie Of
o'clock last Friday morning she went
10 the Mills home. She tells US there
was no light in the two-story frame
house. and so she and Willie returned
home"
THIS wns the first intimation from
any one that Mrs. Hall had gone 90 the
Mills home when sic began the search
for her husband that ended when
local newspaper informed her Saturday
afternoon tina. his body had been found
on the Phillips farm beside tha; Of an
fcestingss on pass flD