Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-20

vacation, but also speaks OF making |
trips TO Seal Harbor 10 get her letters. |
And In one OF the letters. he told Mrs. |
Mills that hie wife had expressed sur |
prise that he was only taking three
Sundays away from New Brungwick
last summer. whereas he usually took
a months vacation. The reason for
cutting short his stay In Maine. tho
rector eaid. was his anxiety TO return
To the choir singers arms
A similar tone. showing that the
couple realized that their affair wae
arousing suspicion, ran through Mrs.
Mills letters-.the ten pathetic epis,les
from the choir singer 10 the mlnlster.
who gave her simon Called Peter"
and THE Mother of All Living" to
read. Whoever killed the couple and
cut the woman's throat left these ten
letters written by the choir singer
between the two bodies. IT is believed
that the murderer must have come
into possession OF the letters before the
murder and have taken them to the
scene of the crime. Certainly. II ipI
believed. the minister would not have
been carrying such letters about In
his pocket, where his wife might have
found them at any time. and II is
difficult to understand how tho woman
would have had In her possession the
| letters that she herself had written
appointment With "Gypsy Queen.-
one OF the letters also shows. ac-
| cording to Miss North, that the rec
tor, who arrived in New Brunawick
| from his three weeks vacation shortly
| before noon on Friday, Aug. 25. made
an appointment In one Of his last let
| ters from Maine to meet his Gypsy
| Queen" NJ 230 o'clock the same after
| noon at Our road" beyond tho Parker
/, Home for the Aged, which is opposite
| the Phillips farm
Tho question as 10 who might have
| got possession of the letters Ia one
that hinges largely upon who had ac-
Cess 10 the hiding places Of both sets
| 1t has been reported that Charlotte
Mills and Miss North found the rec
tors letters TO Mrs. Mills in n sewing
bag OF Mrs. Mills hanging behind the
| door in the Mills fiat Another report
had Il that before her death Mrs. Mills
told her daughter that If anything
happened to her to take the letters
to n sister Of Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Barnhar
dy. Mrs. Mills ~ said to have shown
her daughter packet Of letters and
photographs In their hiding place
under Nlc carpet in the fiat.
Where Hall kept the woman's lot
ters to him has never been establish
ed. but II is believed to have been In
the church. He is not likely 60 have
kept them In his pocket or At home
Some place in the study or vestry
would be more To his purpose. This
probably was also the couples "pri-
vate" postof'1ce, where. rs the letters
show. they left the letters for each
other. The letters speak OF the risb
they ran In leaving letters for each
) other In this way.
? Mrs. Hall Expressed Surprise.
/, Not only did Hall write In the lot.
ters Of his wife expressing surprise nj
/ his taking three weeks instead Of four
, hut Mrs. Mills spoke Of meeting him
while she had one of her unfinished
, letters in her. hand. 40 that she had 4,
stick IL into her small change purse
and Il became Crumpled. In another
( place she told OF waiting unul he
came home 40 that she could evad'
y him and go aud leave tho letter sh'
. was writing for the minister.
The diaries that were TO have beer
exchanged between tho couple at th'
a end OF the three weeks separation
wi q the rector was IN Maine and th'
choir singer In New brunswick. mr.,
another leading point In the investi
I cation. Halls diary. which he ha,
, given to Mrs. Mills. was found witt
his love letters. and. like them. wa
, sold by Miss North TO n newspaper
;. which is publishing II. But the diar,
Mrs. Mills kept and presumably CAV
:. TO the rector has never been found
. The authorities are looking for IL. bu
have not solved the mystery OF IL
disappeara nee.
One OF the most peculiar thing
: about the letter writing IL that Hal
: apparently sent some OF his letters I
~ Carman street, the Mills home. an
that he made appointments FOR Mr'
Mills to telephone him at New. Bruins
wick -. which Is the Hall home. An
other mystery deals with the sig
?, nature OF some OF Halls letters TO Mr.
Is Mills. According to Miss North. III
IF signature was ID. T. l., which stanc
Ie for the German words meaning 9TH
4 true love" Mrs Mills was Germa
d and Hail n German student. AccorC
e ing to Miss North. Hall used thinner
s for always" and other German e,
IS pressions in some of his letters.
Miss North said that a study OF Il
10 letters and other evidence had col
Of vinced her that Mrs. Mills had bee
'e unhappy at home for some time b,