Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-20
RECTOR HALLS WIFE
AND SINGER AT ODDS,
WITNESS EXPLAINS
Continued from page /.

toward Mrs. Mills. Miss North added
last night. Hall and his wife reached
New Brunswick shortly before noon
on Friday. Aug. % and the rector
was with Mrs. Mills on "our road be
yond the Parker home" near DE Rus
sy's Lane and the Phillips farm, early
the same afternoon.
Something happened In the first two
weeks after the Halls returned from
their vacation. Miss North said. that
broke the former friendship between
Mrs. Hall and Mre. Mills. They had
been warm friends last Spring, before
the Point Pleasant episode. when Mrs.
Hall returned from Maine the couple
greeted each other perfunctorily and
remained on ordinarily friendly terms
FOR a short period.
The relations between the two wom-
on were more strained than ever be-
fore on the day before the murder. ac-
cording to the story which Charlotte
has told her lawyer and which Nnss
North repeated 20 the reporters. The
day before the murder was Wednes-
day. Sept. 10. on that day a picnic
had been arranged ny the Halls for
Lake HopatCong. Mns. Mills was to
be 4 member OF tho party.
Mrs. Mills Waited for Mrs. Hall.
Charlotte hne said that her mother
dressed ana got ready TO 80 at {
o'clock, the hour appointed for the
Halls 10 como for her in one of their
automobiles. The appointed hour
"a At,s -,
, ~ 10 o'clock. Charlotte SAVE. he,
mother gave up waiting and called NJ
Mrs. Hall on the telephone at New
I Brunswick 74--the same number thai
DR.. Hall had told her 10 call up 70,
nam at certain hours. Charlotte save
her mcther told her that Mrs Hal
answered very cody when she e,o
her on the phone. but promised I,
come around soon.
For the last week or ten d,v, ho
( fore the murder. however. there ha,
been decided coldne.s between th,
rector's wife and Mrs. Mills. Mis-,
North said she had heard about thi,
/ from Charlotte. who had been he,
/ mothers Confidante IN everything
Mrs Mills had told Charlotte tha
when she came along the street an,
saw Mrs. Hall coming on the opposit,
/ side. she felt hurt that the rector,
/ wife appeared to avoid her; that II
/ former days Mrs Hall would hav,
I crossed the street and stopped 20 tall
/ 10 Mrs Mills. and that sometimes sh
turned her head away in pretensio,
that she did not see Mrs. Mills
. n
car drove up and her mother toine
the party. II included the rector. hi
wife. DR.. Halls mother, Mrs. Hall
little niece and Mrs Addison Clark,
member OF the congregation re
ferred 70 in some OF Mrs. Mills letter
as Minnie"
The party returned at the end G
the day. and Mrs. Mills told he
daughter that she had had "a miser
able day. Because OF tho delay In get
ting started they had only stayed hal
an hour at Lake Hopatcong. Hall ha
torn his trousers on barbed wiz
fence. and Mrs. Hall had mende
bhenr The next afternoon, the day {
the murder. incidentally. Mrs. Mn
wrote her tenth and last letter 70 tn
minister. referring 10 the pain whe
she saw some one else doing this Sc,
vice for him.
Charlotte says that her mother tol
: her Mrs. Hall had been very cool ;
her throughout the trip. The friend
ship OF the rcctor's wife was only pr,
tense. she said.
Miss North said that the bad feelin
between Mrs, Hall and Mrs. Mills b,
gan some time since Spring. Durin
the Summer. according to Miss Nor;I
quoting Charlotte as the source Of h,
information. letters from DR. Hall
Mrs. Mills had been delivered to h,
, mother by Willie" Stevens. the G,
, rcntric brother Of Mrs. Hall.
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