Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-09-27
MILLS OPPOSES
BODY EXHUMING
Ccoatinued From First Page,

tor OF Somerset. announced that the
authorities "are closer than ever
before" to the solution of the mys-
terry. However, persistent rumors
of a forthcoming arrest proved
groundless. as did reports of an ar
rest and n confession.
This latter report followed The
examination OF Mills, who was called
to the court house and remained for
/ hours. Departing he went back to
Z the school. of which he is janltor,
resumed his overalls. and went
about his duties. He was inter-
4 viewed again, but told nothing Of
/ Importance. lie contends stoutly
/ TO his interviewers:
1 81 don't know any more about
J this than you do. l have been over
the story again and again. and 1
haven't changed It any. I'm irpo-
cent and they can't put anything
over on me-"
Mills neighbor Miss Mile Ople.
of 81 Carman street, told OF a row
she overheard six months ago in the
Mills home between the church sex
ton and his wife in the course of
which Mrs. Mills said. according to
Miss Opie:
II care more for DR.. Halls little
finger than for your whole body"
Mills said later:
II don't remember that"
The fact that Mills was examined
again and at length. is considered
proof that the authorities are not
making great Roadway. Mills dis
cusses what he knows is in the
minds OF his interviewers quite read
lily and seemingly without fear. lie
called attention today to the fact
that Mr. Hall weighed about $50
pounds, contendlng that II would
have required two men to overcome
him. Mills himself IS short and thin. !
and not the sort OF man who ordi-
narly would make much of show
ing in a fight.
Two detectives have examined |
Minna Clarke. wife of Addison !
Clarke. who is generally understood |
TO have been Mrs. Mills closest ,
friend. but on the day before the /
killings was one of the party the /
Halls drove TO Lake Hopatcong The
Clarke house Is In Redmond street.
a little distance from the Hall home
and In the same general direction
Hall would have followed on his last
trip toward the downtown district of
New Brunswick.
Halls Last Trip
This last trip of Hairs II was
stated unofiicially, has been partly
traced. 1t appears that he probably
walked several blocks to the trolley
line and then rode downtown as far
as the postofiice. 1t is stated too.
the authorities have been informed
that at his home the belief is he
changed from his clerical clothes
Into a business suit and in such an
ordinary cut that It might have pass
ed along the street unnoticed. He
wore a shirt with a stif bosom.
The erectors of theories and the
county detectives assert that the con
dition of this shirt when the body
was found shows conclusively there
was no fight prior to the shooting
Of the couple. That there were no
blood stains on It is taken by some
II the same theorizers as showing
hat the pair were shot where they
we're found.
BY processes such as these. Il has :,
been determined. but with the time ,
table qualification. Subject to ,
change without notice." that the I
occurred at the spot
where the bodies were found at :
O.4O in the evening, and that the
'air must have been killed from am 7
lush. 1t may be stated. however. !
hat though the locust thicket near \
he old apple tree, where the bodies a
we're found. is pretty thick, there /
vas not the slightest indication of +
m ambush there, when the crime I
vas discovered. r
There has been a lot of official y
Iigging around the spot during the h
asst two days. the purpose of which. /
eemingly, is to determine whether C
bullet entered the ground after e
'asslng through the head of one of
he victims. There has been a Il
earch for the gun, too. and an old ]
ever which runs through a gully &
ear the abandoned Phillips farm Il
Iouses had been torn up. No gun {
as been found. &
The guns the authorities have n
hey refuse to say anything about, Il
ut Mills admitted that they had
ingle shot % cal bre rifle of his q
hitch he has owned for years. and n
sed last on the Fourth of July to C.
boot his patriotism. The photo u
raph of Mills on the back porch of W
is second story fiat on the Fourth 81
{ July firing a 20 caliber rifle is n
thoroughly consistent picture of n
his man. q
Through the discovery that Hall ~
$4,000 in negotiable Sc ~
irities. the blackmail theory has %
1me to the front again. The Sc
Irities We're linked up, too. with .,
lie wholly unconfrmed report that :"
all contemplated clipping with
RS. Mills to the O-ient. Just where
reese securities are is not known, :.
1t the family are convinced that
lie stocks and bonds have nothing
do with the murder case, though N
by they are so certain is not "a
lown. a.
According 10 Judge Wicks. who on
tiled the estate of Mrs Halls GA
other. Mrs. Stevens. in January, en-
i21. $4,000 was left to Hall. The vi.
III gave similar amount to Mrs. an
enry stevens. wife of Mrs Halls m,
other. $4,000 each TO Henry and A.