The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-09
MAY CLEAR
Up MURDER
STERY
19 Year Old Youth Is Named
As Slayer in New Jersey
Sensation
INTERNATIONAL NEWS sERvIcEl

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERhtGEl
NEW BRCNSMICr y. j.. oct ?.
In a sensational soo-word statement
which he dictated and signed in the
county prosecutors office here to-
day, Raymond Schneider declared
that ne had been an eye witness to
the murder of the Rev. Edw ard
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills, and ramed a f9year-old
youth, = chum of his, as the slayer.
Schn g asserted that the tragedy
vas du, 20 ease of mistaken
identity" lie said that the youth
he named was after another man
when he came upon DR. Hall and
Mrs. Mills under the big crab apple
tree on the Phillips farm just out
side the city, where the murder oc-
Cured.
Schneider told Detectives Totten
and David and State Trooper Dyck-
man. who did the questioning, that
he and the youth haI followed Pearl
Rahmer. the 15-year- old girl who
was with him when he discovered"
the bodies on the Saturday follow
ing the tragedy. out in the direction
OF the farm around IL o'clock on the
night in question. Sept IA. Nearing
the farm house. he slid they came
upon a couple under a tree, which
the youth Immediately took to ne
Miss Rahmer and this other man"
There they are. Let me get at
them he quoted his companion as
shouting. At the same time he said
the youth leaped forward and open
ed fire Three shots were fired"
AS the last died away. they rush
ed upon the bodies. Schneider said
he (Schneider) realized at once
that a terrible mistake had been
made"
That's not them" he said he cried
to his companion. You have made
a mistake
The slayer agreed that such was
the case and together they fed from
the scene Schneider says he has
not an idea hat his chum did with
the murder PISTOL.
Il did not see him throw it away"
he protested
The accused youth is being de-
tained as a material witness and an
announce mont of an arrest is ex-
pected soon Schneider is also be-
ing held His statement. which the
authorities hail as the beginning
of the end Of the sensational pro-
longed investigation" came a s the
sequel TO a grlling which lasted
virtually throughout the night.
Schneider, in fact. has been under
Interrogation with brief recess since
l o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
he was taken to the county court
house After he had been question
ed for several hours. detectives
went 70 the home of John Hays on
richardson ave. and got his 10
year-old son, Clifford. and took him
to the prosecutors office He, too.
was grilled for a good part of the
night. Still another youth ques-
toned was Leon Kaufman. Is.
compa nion OF the other two youths.
Kaufman was questioned for more
than two hours.
Schneider told several conflicting
stories before he made the state
ment which he declared to be the
true story of the n.o-der. In his
first account of his activities ON the
evening of the shooting, Schneider.
who is only 81 years old, revealed
that he had heard tho shots, which
ended the lives OF the rector and
Mrs. Mills and he saw two men and
a. woman running from the scene
He stuck 70 this story for hours.
Finally he broke down and named
his companion IS the actual slayer,
afterwards putting his statement in
TO writing and signing it
After completing his final state
ment'' Schneider was confronted
with the youth he had named. He
accused the youth to his face OF do
ing the shooting
Il saw you do it," he shouted
"If you say I did II, you are
iarn' was the prompt retort.