The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-19
BARN SCENE OF
DOUBLE MURDER
OFFICERS TOLD
Bodies of Rector and Choir
Singer Believed Carried to
Spot Where Found in
Automobile Sedan.
(By Associated prAssl

NEW BRUNSWICK, y. j., Oct. 49,
Affidavits have ben obtained from two
mon whose identity the authorities re-
fuse TO divuige, county prosecutors said
tonight, which sets forth that the double
murder Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hail
and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills did
not occur in the Somerset county
orchard where the bodies were found
but in barn on the southern outskirts
Of New Brunswick.
investigation which followed the filing
Of the affidavits, the authorities said.
led to the discovery by the police of
the two handkerchiefs-one a mans and
the other woman's-held to be i'm
portant clues in the case. They were not
found on the Phillips farm, as was re-
ported at that time, but in the barn
which stands on the opposite side of New
Brunswick.
Two dark brown combs are also said
to have ben found on the dirt floor of the
barn. These combs Charlotte Mills is
reported to have identified as having be-
longed to her mother.
The statement which the authorities
allege they have obtained from the two
men is said to declare that they were
driving from Red Bank. n. J., about
II O'Clock on the night of September
IA. Two miles out from New Brunswick,
they said. they passed the barn.
Heard Pleas For Mercy
From this barn. the men are reported
to have said they heard screams tssu-
Ing, pleas for mercy. and then one long
Shrek, murder, police"
The men drove on TO New Brunswick
without reporting the occurrence and an
hour later We're on Eastern avenue when
they were passed by sedan going to-
ward the Phillips farm. In the machine,
they said, were a woman wearing grey
coat and a man.
That the examination Of Mrs Hall, the
widow OF the rector. in the prosecutor
office, when she was closely Bcrutinized
by woman whose identity has not been
fully, revealed, was even more mystifytng
than at first reported, beanie known in
connection with the announcement Of
obtaining of the affidavit. This woman.
the prosecutors now say, was only
decoy. Sitting directly across the room,
she was supposed to absorb all of the at
tention of Mrs. Hall while the rector's
widow was being closely scrutinized by
the two men who are now said to have
made the affidavit. The authorities have
declined to make public the result of this
elaborate plan for examining Mrs. Hall.
Notes Shed New Light
The love notes of the rector and Mrs.
Mills, which were made public today,
shed an entirely new light on certain
phases Of the case. the authorities said.
The Minnie" Of these notes, Mrs. Add
son T. Clarke. has been questioned re-
garding her movements. particularly on
the day ON which the bodies of the
rector and the choir singer were found.
She was asked whether she had ever
taken any pastry TO Mr.. Hall. This she is
said to have denied, but has admitted.
according to the authorities. carrying a
package into the church of St. John the
Evangelist the day on which the crime
became public.
The authorities said they had not
accepted her explanation that this pack
age contained nothing but the vest
ments of the slain rector.