Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-11

New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 10-(By the A P)-Prison bars closed tonight on third important figure ia the Hall- Mills murder mystery-but the incar- ceration, instead of helping clear the fabyrinthine, tangle of clues and counter | rclues, served only to emphasize the a. faculties the authorities are encountering | in their efforts to check up the evil | dence on which nineteen-yeaE-old Clf- i ford Hayes stands accused of the double staying,
 The third to go to jail was Pearl Bah kmer.. She IS the 15-year-old girl whom l.Raymond Schneider says Hayes thought he was slaying, with her father, I'when-aecoriing to Schneider's story Hayes pumped four bullets into the bod ies of the. Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills. on the night of September 14, beneath an apple treeson the deserted Phillips farm | Schneiderfis held as a material witness. | Pearl was not officially jailed in con-
 nection. with the Hall-Mills case. The
 charge against her-which she calmly
 admkted--was incorrlgibility. Prosecutor l,Stricker, of Middlesex. county, who has
 been active in the investigation of the
 HaD-Mills case, appeared personally I.against her. however. County Judge Da- rly-, before whom the hearing was held, trdeparted from the rule of secrecy in }juvenile cases and threw his court open 4 because, he declared, the people have
 a right to know why she is being put | in jail.''
 At the end of the hearing, after she had testified to intimacy with Schneid- 5 CT and her father, she was official s1 ly committed for week, pending a de-
 cision on the incorrigibility charge. Un-
 officially. it was said that she was being given a chance to think over" the con flicting stories she has told. An addi- : said to be the fact that she was too diff
 ficult7to find when she was wanted. for
 questioning.
 t Nicholas Banner later was arrested as 3 s- result of the charges preferred by. his n Daughter and was lodged in jsi : after he had been held in i1e.eeo bail
 following his arraignment
 Pearl. who was with Schneider when the bodies of Mir Hall and Mrs. Mills } were found two days after the murders y on more than one occasion has given n newspaperment working on the case req
 son to believe she knew more than she
 was telling. Incidentally. she has turned e against Schneider, once admittedly her K sweetheart, and has sought to convey the ' impression that be knew more about the . m Tders than Hayes, whom he accusei '' of the crime.
 Schneider it was disclosed today tolt l four different stories about his know tf ledge Of the slayings before he reached e the story of. Hayes commission of ths r l'crime on which the authorities acted f After he had been trapped in prevari It cation in the first four said a stat.
 trooper who was present throughout thl
 long grillinS Schneider would say: e Well let's go back and start all ovei d 'again. Tn tell the truth this time" d His final story still fails to jibe witl y facts about the murder brought ou.
 fro mother sources-notably his ins.s
 tence that neither Hayes nor, he ha, n cut Mrs. Mills throat after the shoot 'f ing although an autopsy showed thi '0 head had been almost severed ie There are almost as broad discrepan
 cies in his story of his whereabouts o, the night of the murders and that toll E. of Pearl Bahmer. Schneider said he Wa l. with Pearl for several hours that nigh IT before he saw Pearl going out with he |, step-father and started trailing the pal
 with Hayes.
 Pearl first said he was with her un h. til about nine o'clock. Then she said h A was not with her at all Detectives sa of they have practically established ina b. he was not with her, and they are fry
 ing to check up on his movements be
 tween and II o'clock, the period i r. which the murders are known to hay th been committed
 nd Schneider says it was about one o'cloc at when Hayes shot the minister and tn m choir singer "by mistake" All othc
 witnesses have agreed that the scream
 and shots which must have written fini H. to the Hall-Afills romance, were hear he at about 1O:sO o'clock
 re Despite these and many ether appar ed ent conflicts in his story. Prosecute pd Azariah IN. Beekman, of Somerset ir ,t. sisted he mad evidence enough again.
 Hayes to justify the charge aGains. hin re and even told reporters he believed | al could convict Hayes on evidence now of his possession. He refused to disclose th he nature of the evidence. however. IT, Hayes. in the meantime, lay in th ng county jail at Somerville. awaiting a,
 tion by the Somerville grand jury an
 protesting innocence of Schneider of charge He adhered to hls story that ! of and Schneider had come upon the bo, ,e ies' of the slain pair while hunting fc es Pearl and her step-father; that Schnei, a. CT had stolen the minister's watch. an ed that they had both decided to say nctl
 ing about their find.
 Detectives and state troopers cout;r IT. ued their efforts to uncover more ~ on dence about the murders, many of the at expressing sqepticism as to Schneider ad.ii story and indicating they had Ieal nd which pointed to a wholly differtnt 2, he lution of the case
 no Disbelief in Schneider's story appa-en ny ly has gripped hundreds of citizens
 New Brunswick. many of whom have or
 enly expressed conviction that the al
 thorities were on false scent. The TIT was a report today that several leadir
 business men planning to start rubI
 fund for Hayes defense, but this cou .l,, not be confirmed.
 ,rt Walter c. Sedan, counsel for Schnei ls- CT, announced today that he would al hi. pear before Supreme Court Justice Ba ay CT m trenton Ihursaay. seeking his q nd ents release on pan. He said Schnei ew CT coulo raise oail 1T 1t were fixed at n