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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-10-12

ed away.
I'VE went over towards home
/ walking kind OF slow and got there
long before midnight. l went to bee
and didn't know anything about the
}, shooting until Saturday"
II BANNER was informed that hit
son, Happy" BANNER. 17-year-old
youth with Scared face and furtive
eyes. might be called to testify.
What would he know about it7'
BANNER asked. Il haven't see him
for a long time
Pearl BANNER, In an interview in
her cell at the other end OF the Jail
from where her father Is confined,
likewise expressed surprise at mem
ton Of her brothers name in con-
nection with the case. Pearl, bright
faced. pleasant. smiling slip OF a girl,
for all the troubles 10 which she has
been subjected. is confined on
charge of incorrigibility.
The authorities went to her cell
last night and II was understood
that she was taken through search
ing questioning. Because the prose-
cutor, not entirelyf convinced of
Hayes guilt believes he may get
from the BANNER girl a lead as TO-
the slayer, he issued a request at
noon Wednesday that she be pre-
vented from giving out further In
terviews and Judge DAILY gave orders
10 that effect. Pearl, however, at
the door Of her cell was willing to
talk last night
I've told all I know except that
don't believe Clifford HAYES ala
It" she said. Il was with my father
on the night of September IA and
we went to the woods near the Phil
lips farm"
She said that for the second time
within year BANNER on that night
attempted to assault her, but that
she repulsed him and he took her
home.
MY father was very angry and
very drunk" she said. she aid not
repeat her previous account of
watching him from the window of
her bedroom as he paced up and
down IN the yard outside their home.
Tom Haggerty. counsel for Hayes. |
said his client was innocent.
1 am letting matters rest for a |
while. however" he said, because
II applied for a writ Of habeas cor
pus, Judge Parker would be pres- |
ent with Schneider's AFFIDAVIT ao-
cusing Hayes and would probably
have to nefuse my application. That /
would be the first black mark against
him, or rather would saar, 20 -
ana probably would influence
grand jury in granting an indict- |
ment. I hope the prosecution will
have a definite clue as TO the real
murderer before such indictment is
asked"
Meanwhile. attention has been al
most entirely diverted from rela-
tives of the pastor and the choir
singer.
James Mills, weak-chinned, wa
tery-eyed husband of the slain wo-
man pottered about his duties at the
Lord Sterling School across the
street from his residence. The little
church of st. John the Evangelist.
gathered dust and leaves but Mills
It's sexton declared he 'just didn't
feel like going around there now
adays"
DR.. Hall was pastor Of the church
and Mrs. Mills sang in its choir be-
fore they were murdered while to-
gether in lonely lovers rendezvous.
near the Phillips farm.
Full poignancy OF the tragedy Isl
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morning the bodies were found.
Mills also visited the church about
that time. She sought her husband;
he was seeking his wife--but they
did not meet. Mrs. Hall says her
brother, Willie Stevens was with her.
But Waterman says he saw her re-
turning home alone that fatal morn
lnr The murdered pair have been
b <ed. without an autopsy. The
mystery grows.
ACT III
Charlotte Mills, the daughter OF
the murdered woman, becomes the
pursuer; she appeals TO the governor
OF the state for aid in solving the
mystery Governor Edwards or
ders out the State police. Search for
the murderer begins in earnest. The
bodies are exhumed and an autopsy
furnishes clews. Willie Stevens is
subjected to an ali-night grilling-
without result
ACT w
Raymond Schneider appears in a
spectacular role. II Is announced
that he has made a statement charg-
ing that Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills
we're killed by Clifford Hayes, young
mistakel A case OF
identity, he says. Schnei-
der informs police that Hayes ac-
,ompanied him TO help protect Pearl
from her father. Nicholas BANNER
and that Hayes. shooting at the
pair in the meadow, thought they
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CONTINUED From First Page.)
view with the United Press, in whicl
she cried passionately for the arres
OF the real slayer.
A little child furnished investi.
gators with their first tanxibl,
clew. John Lyons, s, ran 10 his
mother one afternoon following dis.
covery of the crime, carrying a.
biood-stained potato knife he had
picked up 125 feet from the scene
CT the killing Of the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills
choir singer.
Look ma, I've got the knife that
killed the lady" he cried.
Mrs. Lyons. according to the
story She told police, did not wish
to be drawn into the affair and at
nrst planned 10 throw the knife
away. Later she decided to keep II.
and last night It was placed in the
hands Of the prosecutor. II may
serve to identify the slayer.
Grilling Of BANNER, resulted from
statements made by his daughter
Pearl BANNER, who Is locked UP in
the same jail with him, on charge
of incorrlgibiiity.
She asserted her father had often
threatened to cut her throat and
that nobody knows what might
have happened" had he come upon
any couple on the Phillips farm
the night OF the murder when he
was drunk and searching for Ray
mond Schneider. whom he accused
Of going with" his daughter.
A lawyer and a detective went to
the New Brunswick jail last night
and put BANNER through a severe in /
terrogation- Just previous TO this
BANNER talked in his cell with the
United Press and gave an entirely
new version of his moveme nts on
the night of the crime.
He now declares that he does not
know Raymond Schneider of whom
he was previously quoted as saying
he IS guilty" He added that he had
no reason to be jealous Of anyone's
attention to his daughter Pearl. He
said that on the night of Sept. IA,
when DR.. Hall and Mrs. Mills were
slain. he was al home in bed "long
before midnight
Il went for walk with my
daughter and we were followed
through the park by a couple Of
men," BANNER said.
II couldn't see who they were.
We picked out grassy spot and
sat down. They came UP back Of
US. yelled, What do you want7'
and one OF the men. said We're
looking for a place 10 lie down.
Then the gal and I got up and walk
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STAFFORD ON EDGE 4
FOR OPENING GAME
special to Tho Evening Journsa.

Special to Tho Evening Journal
STAFFORD. Oct. 1.-THE Seaford
High School football eleven. Is on
edge for the opening game of the
season, with Bridgeville. at Bridge
Vile tomorrow afternoon Coach
Lowden has had the squad out every
day this week, going through hard
practice and feels confident that they
will give the Bridgevil1e High boys
one of the hardest games of tho'sesb-
son. The Seaford eleven lineup Will
be: Ends, O'Day and Fogle; tackles,
Nevins and Morris; guards, Graham
and Ross; centre, Truitt; quarter
backs. Kenney and King; fuu-baok.
Hill.
Following this game the schedule
OF the Seaford High win be: Seaford
at Milford. October 20; Laurel at
Seaford. October 81; Bridgevilte at
Seaford. November 10; Seaford at
Georgetown, November IT; George
town at Seaford. November "a; Sea-
ford at Laurel, November 80,
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Died

ECKRICH-In this city. on october 10,
1922. Thomas Eckrich, aged e5
years. Funeral services win be
held az his late residence. 14o1
October 10. at 2.30 O'Clock. Inter-
ment at Silverbrook cemetery.
STONE-At Belvidere, Del. on October
20, 1922, Missouri Stone, aged "a
years. Relatives and friends are
iavited to attend the funeral SER
vices, at Simpson Church, on Sat-
urday afternoon, at 2 O'Clock. In
torment at Simpson cemetery.
DEAIS-In this city on Oct 10, 1922,
Margaret c., daughter OF Dennis ID.
and the late Johanna Donohue and
wife Of Herbert Il. beats, in her
35th year. Relatives and friends are
her late residence 2e07 Market street
on Friday morning, Oct. 18th at
9 O'Clock. Solemn Requiem mass at
St. Patrjck,s R. c. Church at $40.
lnterment. Riverview cemetery.
CHAAIBERLIN-In this city, on oo-
tooer H. 1922. William 7. Chamber
lin, aged GO years. Relatives,
friends, members of Lenape Tribe,
American Car and Foundry Co,
are invited to attend the funeral
services, at his late residence, 8 s.
Clayton street. on Friday evening,
ment at Trenton, N. j., on satur-
dsv
Rockland, Del. on
October II, 1922 Michael A. Kefle-
her. Relatives. friends and mem
bers of Division No. 2, A. o. n.
are invited to attend the funeral
from his late residence, Rockland
Del, on Saturday morning, at 8
o'clock. Requiem mass at st. Jo-
Eeph's Church. Interment at st.
Joseph's cemetery.
October II, 1922. Asnez
~. infant daughter OF Elmer III
and Isabelle Dawson Wilson, aged
months, Relatives and friends
are invited to attend the funeral
services at her late residence. ffIs
Pleasant street, ons Friday after
noon, at 1.30 o'clock. Interment az
Cathedral cemetery.
October II, 1929. Nora
May Barclay, aged 81 years.
Funeral services win be held at si1
w. iTwenty-hrst street. on Satur-
day afternoon. October IL, at a30
o'clock Interment at Lombardy
this city, on octohsr
II, 1922, Alethea Stevens, wife OF
the late Henry A. Bradheld. Reia-
tives and friends are invited to at
tend the funeral services. at her
on Saturday morning, October IA
al IL o'clock. Interment at vii.
mington and Brandywine cemetery.
,EVEY-At Mt. Pleasant, Del, on Oc-
tober II. 1922, Eva Marie, daughter
of James p. and Eva z. Levey.
aged years. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend the funeral
parents, at Mt. Pleasant. near
Hockessn, on Sunday afternoon, at
1850 o'clock. Interment private, al
Christana Methodist cemetery.
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Sept. is, on farm In somerse
county Just across the line from
Middlesex county, in which is locat
ed New Brunswick, the home OF The
dead rector and choir singer.
A great question mark stand
where the climax should be TO these
acts in this drama of real life.
ACT I
Early morning; a deserted farm
house; a meadow tinted with the
colors OF autumn. Through the
meadow stroll a boy and a girl,
Schneider and Pearl BANNER, hunt
ing for mushrooms In the shade
OF oush they find a man and a
woman who seem TO be sleeping. the
man with a straw hat over his face
and the woman's head covered by a
shawl Several hours later the boy
and girl pass by again, and. looking
closer. find the man and woman are
dead. Police are notified. The
dead pair are Rev. Hall and Mrs.
Mills, both shot, and the woman's
throat cut, too.
ACT II
The breath of scandal But the
slain church people are held blame
less. The mystery grows. Officers
Of the two counties make little prog
ress. Mrs. Hall and James Mills
are questioned; also Willie Stevens,
brother-in-law OF the dead pastor.
and young Charlotte Mills. 1t is
earned that Mrs. Hall visited her
church at 2 o'clock on the
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COUNCIL TO DECIDE
GARAGE CASE SOON

Sitting as a board OF appeals, the
Building Committee Of City Council
last night heard arguments in favor
Of the appeal taken by residents OF
Eighteenth street, between River
view and Greenhill avenues, from
the action of Building Inspector
Preston granting permission for
erection of a private garage by
George P. Bissell.
President Ward, of Council, as ex-
officio member of the committee,
presided over the hearing. At its
close it was announced that its de-
cision would be given later. It ap-
peared probable, from the general
attitude of the Councilmen, the ap-
peal would be refused. In that
event the protestaDts under the
law, could carry their appeal to the
Mayor. who could name three ref
erees, comprising an architect,
builder and business man, to review
the case and give decision.
Notice was given by representa-
tives of the Professionals that they
intend carrying the case into Chan
Gerry Court, If necessary.
Mr.. Bissell. whose residence is
at Oak Road, seeks to erect
$4,000 garage on a lot he owns in
street, between River
view and Greenhiil avenues. AL
though he plans to set it well back
from the building line and use it for
his own cars only, residents of the
protest it will depre-
ciate the value OF their properties, |
as the section is purely residential |
The protesting residents were rep
resented last night by John E.
Krauss, Harry P. carlin and George
: Charles
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were Pearl and her father. Hayes,
arrested on a murder charge. denies
his guilt. Pearl and Schneider are
held as witnesses. and BANNER Is
arrested on a serious charge made
by Pearl
ACT "
This is the last act-but It has
not been written yet. A question
mark stands here-,many question
marks. such as these:
How could Rev. Hall and Mrs.
Mills be mistaken for BANNER and
a 16-year-old girl at three-foot
ranger
Why was Mrs. Mills throat out at-
ter the shooting?
Where are the pistol and knife
and the rectors' missing watch7
Why were the bodies arranged
carefully in the meadow, with the
hat and shawl hiding the faces?
How could Hayes attempt TO kill
Pearl when Schneider himself says
they sought 10 protect her from her
father?
Why should Raymond Schneider
Join another man in a murder from
ambush and then. knowing a mis-
take had been made, take Pearl TO
the scene?
Why were letters of Mrs. Mills
scattered about the place OF the kill
ing?
And the big question: Who DID !
kill Rev. Hall and Mrs. Miils7
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Miss Mills Doubts Hayes Killed Her Mother and Rector Friend


Just being brought home 20 Mills
At his home. the second story OF {
frame house near the church, h,
sits much OF the time. apparent,
dssed.
In scrawling characters he hal
written on the wall BLESSED be tn,
departed q.
Charlotte. his daughter, is now the
little mother OF the Mills house.
hold. A baby brother and her be-
wildered father demand much OF her
time Her iife's ambition TO go &c
college has been shattered by her
mothers death. She said without
bitterness, that Mrs. Hall wife OF the
pastor had not communicated with
her in any way.
"She was my Sunday school teach
err" Charlotte said. 81 haven't seen
her though and 1 don't want to-"
With regard to Hayes. Charlotte
said:
He never did; they got the wrong
person. What reason would he
have had. From what 1 know he's
a good clean boy. The murderer OF
my mother was somebody else"
at the Hall home, a different scene
was enacted. Mrs. Hall, autocratic.
declared by friends TO be suffering
greatly through her bereavement
was on the luxurious ground floor of
her large house carrying an arm
full Of the latest papers with details
Of the investigation.
Il have nothing to say she re-
peated, parrot-llke. in response to all
questions.
Neither had Brother Willie" Stew.
ems, Mrs. Halls brother, honorary
member OF the towns volunteer
brigade who sat summing himself be-
fore the engine room door. The
first train OF investigation that prob
ed the movements of Mills, Mrs. Hall
and Brother Willie on the night
of the murder has not been entirely
dropped. according to the county
prosecutor. He admitted, however,
that suspicion for the moment point
ed to one OF the underworld char
acters now held on various charges
here and at Somerville.
a potato knife and burned auto
mobile are new clews in the mystery.
They succeed the bloody peach
basket said to have been picked up
near the spot at which the bodies
were found and which mysteriously
disappeared within an hour or so
after its finding.
rafot. 49,.
lad OF years on the Sunday after
the bodies were discovered. II is in
the hands. not of Prosecutor Azaria
II. Beekman and his colleague JOS
eph Stricken but OF the local police,
who heretofore have been out of the
case entirely. There IS a report about
New Brunswick that the police are
to take a hand in solving the MUIR
der and that their entry may be
made within twenty-four hours in |
another sensational manner.
Mrs. Hall. widow of the murdered |
rector, is to go to Atlantic City for a
rest in a day or so. With her will go |
Willie Stevens, her brother, and the |
household. including Miss Sallie |
Peters. who has been her spokes-
man. How long their stay at the
shore win be Is undetermined. The
shock of the crime, her examination
by tho Prosecutors and the publicity
have. it is understood, quite unnerved
Mrs. Hall.
Prosecutors Stricken and Beck
man, as well as the detectives who
are active on the case. now assert
there are no letters in their pos
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session from Hall to Mrs. Mills and
I that they have seen no such letters
All the letters they have seen. they
assert. were written by Mrs. Mills
This is direct contradiction TO in.
formation obtained from as high q
source as the prosecutors them-
selves. The information referred to
was TO the effect that Beekman and
Stricken had seen and handled two
letters from Hall to Mrs. Mills.
Drawing herrings across the trail
which New Brunswick believes re-
suited in the arrest of Clifford Hayes,
charged with the murder, has
brought into the case the whole
family OF Nicholas BANNER, saloon
keeper. But 1t has not brought the
mystery one step nearer solution.
The belief is growing that there are
influences at work to prevent the
clearing OF the case.
The knife the police have IS a
small affair. There are stains on It
that will be analysed. II was found
not very near the place where the
bodies lay by Johnnie Lyons, who
took II to his mother. His mother,
after looking the knife over, so she
said, threw it away. It was retrieved,
however, and toda,NThomas Lyons,
the father, drove 20 police head
quarters and turned II over to Po-
lice Chief Michael O'Connen.
Vestryman Owned Car.
According TO the youngster, he
found the knife about a quarter of
a mile from Derussys lane, toward
Bound Brook.
The burned automobile may prove
to be more important matter, or
may again be a coincidence. It was
the property OF Ralph V. NJ. Gors-
line. -vestry1nan OF Halls Church of
St. John the Evangelist He is the
man who said Mrs. Mills tried to
win his affections some years ago
and whose movements on the Thurs
day night of the murder the prose-
cutors thought It worth while TO in
quire into.
Gorsline was called to the Court
House on Saturday and examined.
His automobile was burned the next
day.
1t was being driven. he said, by
his chauffeur and the burning oc-
about a mile and a half out
Of town. The car was an Appersonl
'Jackrabbit." in which he drove
about a good deal. On the evening
of the murder Gorsline took TO her /
home Miss Catharine Rastal. mem
Der OF the choir of st. Johns. ac-
cording to the story he told Beck
man and Stricken.
Gorsiine's story was that he left |
the Y. NJ. c. A. at 1918 o'clock and
met a member of the choir. He took /
her home in his car, then went 10
his own home. In this story he is
corroborated by Miss Rastall.a very
pretty girl. She said she left a NOV
ng picture house at 10 o'clock and
hat Gorsline saw and called to her
.aking her home. She arrived at
about 1920 o'clock, she said, and I
Torsline told her he was going right
home.
Gorsline was in bad luck. At Liv-
ngston Park the automobile took
ire when the chauffeur was return
ng from Trenton. The fire must
have been a bad one. for the car
vas virtually destroyed. What re-
mains Of It, and that is not much.
$ now in lot near the place where
he FIRE occurred. Ii
Pursuing the theory that Ray
nond Schneider, the accuser of ]
Hayes. may know more than he has 4
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Br ROn DORNfAN

(NEA Service staff Writer)
NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j.. oct. ~
WHO will write the last act In the
tragic drama of the famous Hall
Mills murder mystery?
II watts the skilled and ingenious
hand of master playwright
uper-detective, a superlative sher-
lock Holmes.
Tangled threads tie together these
chief characters in the drama:
REV. e w. HALL, rector of a
New Brunswick Church. one Of the
victims in the double killing.
MRS. ELEANOR MILLS. choir
singer in Rector Halls church, the
other victim.
MRS. FRANCES HALL widow Of
the murdered man.
JAMES MILLS, husband OF the
murdered woman.
WILLIE STEVENS. brother OF
Mrs Hall.
CHARLOTTE MILLS. ie. daugh-
ter OF the murdered woman. who has
taken the role OF Nemesis OF the
murderer.
RAYMOND SCHNEIDER, 81. in
former and jailed as a witness.
PEARL BANNER. is, held as a
witness.
CLIFFORD HAYES. 10. Jailed on
charge of murder.
These people all appear In the
scenes OF the drama already enact
ed. The tragedy had its opening
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400 p. @. DIVIDEND BY
STANDARD OF JERSEY

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Direotors
OF the Standard OIL Company OF
New Jersey voted yesterday to IN
crease its authorized common stock
from s11o.oo0,ooo to 1928. 600. ooe
and distribute approximately $780,
100000 of the new shares TO It's COM
mon stock holders in the form OF a
400 per cent. stock dividend.
Cash divtdeids on the increased
stock will be paid for the present at
the rate OF 81 share yearly. which
will be the equivalent of maintain
ing the existing rate Of SIS share
annually on the common stock now
outstanding
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WARNER 90. DIVIDENDS.

The quarterly dividend of tx %
per share on the first and second pro-
ferred capital stock Of the Charles
Warner Company OF Delaware, has
been declared. This dividend is pay
able October 2s. TO stockholders of
record September 80.
A dividend OF SO cents per share
on the common capital stock Of the
Charles Warner Company has been
declared. This dividend Is payable
October 16 to stockholders OF rec
ord September 80.
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girls are brought each week from
Philadelphia.
Mich BANNER and his daughter
lived the sordid lives OF the neigh
borhood. their statements reveal
Schneider. according to his state
ment, was an habitue of the various
dens of the district.
clifford Hayes. however, has yet
to be connected with any discredit-
able act of this underworld commu-
nifty and It is this that stands con-
spicuously in his favor in the eyes of
the townspeople who believe him In
nocent.
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lin msmortam

In loving memory Of my dear hus,
oand, Walter A. Blackway who died
four years ago, October ~. 1918:
In my heart your memory fingers,
Sweetly. tender, fond and truei
There is not a day, dear Walter,
That I do not think Of you.
Sadly missed by HIS Wifas
In sad but loving memory of our
caring little daughter and sister,
Bertha L. Wright, who PASSED ayav
October II. 1918, four years ago todayt
Keep her Jesus, In Thy keeping,
TIL We meet on that bright shore,
Then, Oh Saviour. may / have her,
Keep and love her as before7
Her Loving Mother and Sister Rosea
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DUPONT SOCCER

DUPONT High School soccer team
IS practicing for its second game of
the season on next Tuesday. The
Middletown High School eleven will
oppose the Kennett pike aggregation
on the dupont Field.
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Sines and WEIGH
FLORISTS

cf2 WEST EIGHTH STREET
Cut Flowers and Funeral Designs
a Speciality
D. & A. 5e72
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Card Of thanks

Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Dean desire To
express their thanks to their relatives
and friends for their floral offerings and
also their machines during their re-
cent bereavement at the death OF their
beloved son, Layfield.s