Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-10-13
SEEK FOR NEW
CLUES IN BIC
MURDER CASE
State and County Officials
Seek to Find Some Tangible
Clue on Which to Proceed
MRS. HALLS CLOTHES
Now Being Examined by Ex-
pert May be
Known in Short Time

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 10
While state and county officials
sought anxiously today for some
thing tangible on which to proceed
in the inquiry into the murder on
Sept. IA of the Rev. Edward Wheel
er. Hall, rector of the Episcopal
Church of st. John the Evangelist,
and his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor
Reinhardt Mills, friends of Clifford
Hayes went ahead with preparations
for mass meeting tonight to cele-
brate Hayes release yesterday.
His release and the collapse of the
case of mistaken identity made out
by authorities, followed the admis-
sion by Raymond Schneider that his
accusation of Hayes was false.
Schneider still was held III the SOM
erset county jail today although no
new charge had been lodged against
him. He was locked up as a mate
rial witness some days ago after he
had made a statement charging
Hayes with killing Mrs. Mills and
DIR. Hall.
Authorities were admittedly up
in the air. again. They turned
anew today to clues pointing to the
families of the slain rector and Mrs.
Mills, and detectives were engaged
in running down numerous details
discarded when officials accepted
Sckneider's accusation as a solution
OF the mystery.
The fawn colored coat and scarf
which Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall,
widow of the rector, had dyed in
Philadelphia few days after DR..
Hall was murdered was in the
hands of New Brunswick chem
icf Ityci afinv, he
ing ordered by Prosecutor Joseph
Stricken of Middlesex county.
Detectives thrown off the trail
temporarily by Schneider's false ac-
cusations turned again to their
original theory that the double sIay-
ing was prompted by jealousy nd
that a woman was one of the par
Elephants in the crime.
Detective Totten, who Is respon-
sible Schneider's retractfon of his
charge that Clifford Hayes killed
Rector Hall and Mrs. Mills told to-
night how he brought it about
Totten. incidentally, never did be-
lieve that Hays was guilty. He said:
'I had been questioning the
Schneider boy with James Major
After Major left 1 turned out the
smoking. In few minutes
Schneider came through and told
me that it was an lie: that he
had wanted to tell the truth from
the time in the afternoon he saw
Mrs. Hayes her husband and her
other son Joe come to the jail.
Mrs. Hayes bringing a pie for
Cliff.
HE saw them through the win
dow and he told me he said to
himself My God this is an awful
thing I've done. I've been pals with
this boy for years Then later.
when he heard Mrs. Hayes crying
and sobbing he made up his mind
to tell the truth"
records building this morning that
Frank Kirby, the deputy sheriff
who is accused by many friends of
Hayes of having been in league with
Schneider to place the guilt upon
Hayes shoulders in order that they
might secure the $1,000 reward Of
fered for the arrest of the murderer,
will be discharged this afternoon as
janitor of the county records build
ing by the freeholders at their
meeting. Kirby is the man who was
mobbed by an angry crowd of
railroad station here two days ago.
Prosecutor Beekman of Somerset
county announced early this after
noon that he planned to have
Schneider brought back to Middle
sex county today. Walter G. Suy-
dam, Schneider's attorney. has been
active in his efforts to have the |
court fix bail In Schneider's case.
If Schneider is brought back to |
Middlesex it is a question whether |
he will be released as material |
witness or whether the charge of |
perjury will be made against him |
because of the false charges he |
made against Hayes.