Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-09-21

where than on the Phillips farm Il
held by County Detective George
Totten of Somerset. The other i.
the theory of Prosecutor Joseph f
Stricken. of Middlesex, who assert.
ed last night; This office has very
well defined suspicion as to who com
mitted this crime. We have in
formation to the effect that Mr.. Hall
and Mrs. Mills had met before and
frequently in the vicinity of the
place where the bodies were found
1 believe they were killed there.
That belief is based upon my own
investigation"
Acknowledging the possession OF
the gun referred to previously Strick-
er said last night that its caliber was
different from that with which the
crime was committed, as indicated
by the bullet wounds. He refused
to say whether the gun was taken
from the Hall home.
A part of Stricker's theory is SUP
ported by evidence obtained. Louis
Ruck. a taxicab driver. is positive
that as long ago as Sunday. August
27, he saw Halls motor car parked
beside the road in Easton avenue,
close to De Russy lane, the dirt road
off which the road along which the
bodies were found leads.
Ruck says he passed the Hall car
empty as he was driving a fare to
point beyond. Returning a few min
utes later he found the car gone but
he overlook 1t on the way into New
Brunswick. Hall was driving and
there was a woman in the car but
Ruck did not recognize her. The
story shows that the dead minister
was no stranger 10 the vicinity Of
De Russy lane and the Phillips farm.
The movements OF the minister
after he left his home for the last
time have not been traced. Stricken
asserts, however. that some Of Mrs. |
Mills's movements on the night in |
question have been traced.
The idea Is now firmly fixed in the |
minds of many that more than one
other person was present when Hall |
and Mrs. Mills were killed. The sug-
gestion is even advanced that Hall
had gone to the meeting place. not |
with the choir singer, but to protect |
her from someone else. that an
led to a fight and the
double murder resulted.
DR.. William II. Long. Coroner's
of Somerset county, de-
termined that there was but one
bullet wound in each body, the
shots penetrating the skull in each
.s H..
story that Mrs. Mills had been shot
four times. He found also that Mrs.
Mills's right arm had been deeply
from the wrist to the
shoulder.
Yesterday was marked with minor
developments and notable chiefly for
the apparent increase of activity on
the part of the two county prose-
cutors who are working on the case
in such time as they can spare from
their other duties. Prosecutor Beck
man, of Somerset county, and Prose-
cutor Stricken is managing the Sill
ger Gubernatorial boom.
Willie Stevens. Mrs. HIS half
witted brother. was examined by
Strlckler and some or his county
detectives, but the examination fail
ed to develop anything of import
ance, nor did the brothers tale as to
the doings in the Han house last
night differ from hat told
by Mrs. Hall, despite reports to the
contrary current about the Court
House after the examination.
Mrs. Hall was also examined
briefly by Detectives Fitzpatrick and
rotten with Assistant Prosecutor
roolan at the Hall home. A little
ate, in view OF the fact that the
murder was committed nearly
week ago. the detectives while at the
Hall home examined the Hall auto
mobiles. Willie helped them. They
ooked over the cars. and in them
nd around them while they stood in {