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

home. at 2,45 a. m. on the night OF
the murder, and that the departure OF
the car had been followed by the
sound or feet climbing the wooden
stairway leading frcm the ground out
side the house to the second floor,
where the Millses live.
According 10 Mills, he returned from
the church at 2.20 o'clock. where he
had gone TO look for his wife, and he
would have been awake and heard an
automobile II one had come up and
stopped In front of his home at 2,45.
There wasn't any such thing" he
said
Tho source OF tho information that
an automobile stopped IN front of the
Mills house at that time on the night
Of the murder Ia Mrs. James Kelly,
who lives beneath the Mille' fiat on
the fret floor OF 40 Carman Street. II
vas learned last night that Mrs,
Kelly told the authorities that n heavy
closed car stopped in front of the
house at 2.45 a. M. and that Few
minutes later somebody walked mp
the wooden stoop leading 10 tho Mills
apartment on the second floor.
Mrs. Hall Not Disturbed.
Mrs. Hall remained I'm her Nichol
Avenue homo all day yesterday. She
was not molested by the authorities,
nor did she go downtown 10 open her
safe deposit box In n New BrunswCk
bank, Newspaper men were not al
lowed 70 see her Mise Sally Peters
who arrived at New. Brunswick from
New York several hours after the
bodies we're diecovcred. and who has
been a buffer between Mrs. Hall and
callers at her hcme ever since. said
| that Mrs. Hall was very much de
trcssed and nervous. but that she had
| not suffercd a nervous breakdown, rs
! some reports had said.
According to Mics Peters. the suf
| fering which Mira. Hall Ia experiments
! has not been caused primarily by
the renewed questioning Of her ans
| her brothers by Tho authorities. Wha'
! grleves NIns Hall and makes hcj
worry. her companion said. was tn
shock OF her husbands death. Ant
every time the Prosecutor calls he1
20 his office. or she Ia required 10 cub
NIT herself TO additional questioning
tho unhappy thoughts that followe,
her husbands death are revived n
| her memory, and she suffers.
Nevertheless, said Miss Peters. Mra
Hall wished It understood that sh'
had no objection 10 offer TO the Of
| forts Of the authorities 20 question
her IL they thought It would help eolv,
the mystery. Mrs. Hail." said he
! companion, lie willing TO 80 TO tn
/ Prosecutors office at any time and {
answer any questions he wishes 20 pu
Her friends see how hard Il IL for he
to be reminded time and timc asai,
Of her husbands death. but she
making no complaint"
Mrs. Hall is alloYed 20 read extract
from the newspapef storiee Of the cae,
Peters. The latter eaid the widow wa
still emphatic in her belief that IN
published love letters Of the mniste
10 Mrs. Mills were not genuine Oh
quoted Mrs. Hall as saving:
Mfr Hall was a digntfied man.
am certain ne could not have write
euCh letters. No matter what YOU prC
duce in the way Of letters said {
have been written by him. my reply 1,
, II Edward were here today. he woul
be able 10 make an explanation ths
would satisfy me-"
Mise Peters ls wen known in Me-
.. York as a Suffrage worker and
leader OF the League Of Women Voter
{ in the Ninth Assembly District. Mn
I Hall and Miss Peters have beon Friend
. for over thirty years. They attende
/ the same private school in New Bruno
{ wick. and Mise Peters was the ma,
S OF honor at the wedding OF Ms. Ha
2 then Frances n. Stevens) to DR.. Ha
, in 1911
The State police who have bee
watching Mrs. Halls home In Ne
Brunswick were still keeping an G,
D upon the place yesterday. 'wini,
= Stevens lives in the Hall house
- New brunswick, so that the same me
who keep tabs on Mrs. Hall are watch
2 ing him. Mills is also being watche
e as are ail other Witnesses IN the ca
2 The disappearance OF any one Of who
!, might make Il embarrassing for the a,
r 'horities in their search for inform,
o ton about the crime.
Met Often at De Russyss Lana