Evening journal., 1922-10-04

very fond of Mrs. Mills IN . some
what boytsh fashion.
II has become necessary. too, tc
straighten out the difference between
the statements OF Mrs. Hall as to her
nocturnal trip to the church In
search of her husband, and the
statements of Phillips, the watch
man at. tho New Jersey State
College for Women across the
street from tho Hall home.
Phillips IS positive that Mrs. Hall
entered the ground and her nome
alone toward o'clock IN tho morn
ing, while Mrs. Hall clfnss to 1t that
willie was with her on the trip to
the church and returned with her
to the house. The whole case pre-
SCENTS no more dificult contradiction
than this.
Mr.. Mills said that Corporal
Spearman and Trooper Dickman
took him over the same ground ne
! had covered with the prosecutors
when they questioned him yesterday,
and that they told him they had re-
ceived no information from the coun-
ty detectives as TO the story he had
told. Ho said there was ono big
difference in the way they talked
to him.
They didn't ssem to imply that I
had done IT, ne said. They said
they simply wanted to get all the
facts"
did they say whether they were
working on any particular story?"
Mills was asked.
well, they said they believed It
was jealousy and therefore done by
a Jealous person, or men hired by
Jealous person or persons"
Mills thought some one must have
been awful mad" TO cut bis wife's
throat in the way in which II was
cut It wag quite beyond his COM
prehension that men could be hired
to do such brutal work. He fully
realizes his own position, for he
saidi 'rrhis is a mighty lucky thing
for me that I've got good abb.
II wasn't able TO account for every
minute of my time that night, and
II they couldn't check that up by
reputable people. ia be behind the
bars this minute. AS It is. they don't
know where they are going any
more than do"
The weight OF the world has fellen
on Mills. He Is a very miserable
man. The excitement has died down
for him and only the sorrow and
trouble remain. He Is quite e pitia-
BILE figure and thinks he is being
treated badly. Nobody in the
church has written TO me or come
to see me-" he said little miser-
ably. 81 am still the sexton, but
no one talks to me. They just
pass by. On Sunday opened the
I closed It long after It was dark. so
that I wouldn't run across anybody.
It begins to look as though they
didn't want me around much"
Mills was asked about a claim
made by some spiritualist down in
who has written that he
was in communication with Mrs.
Mills and told her she was going
to meet a sudden and violent end
ing. Mills said the man might be
telling the truth, but that he has
found no letters from him to his
wife.
The search of -the house of mys-
terry" as the Phillips farmhouse now
Is being called, has been completed |
by the State troopers. ALI the ground
about the place where the bodies
we're found has been examined.
Charlotte Mills has written Park
pr, the detective, asking him to come
here as an investigator, and she has
also written to Stricken, asking that
Parker be engaged to work on the
Ease. ~
Parker came here once, but un-
officially. He looked over the ground
With deep interest. The methods fol-
owed go far in the investigation,
however, are so vitality different from
he thoroughgoing methods that he
oursues in such investigations that
he would labor under great handi-
zap. In Toms River tonight he said:
I am extremely busy with several
hundred witnesses together on var
Gus cases in which I am concerned
hat don't see how could do much
IN the New Brunswick case, in the