South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-19
new EVIDENCE
NOW FOUND IN
MURDER CASE
Affidayits Assert Pastor and
Singer We're Slain in Sc
cluded Barn.
NEW LIGHT SEEN IN CASE
Question Minnie of Love
Notes Governor to Visit
New Brunswick Today.

NEW BRUNSWICK. ". j. oct. IS
-CBy a. P.)-Amdavlts have been
obtained from two men whose iden-
tty the authorities refuse 20 di-
v1lge, county prosecutors said TO-
might. which sets forth that the dou-
N-e murder OF the Rev IS heeler Hail
and AIRS Eleanor Eheiuhardl Mills
d.G not occur in the Somerset coun-
ty orchard where the bodies We're
found, but in barn on the southern
outskirts of New Brunswick
Investigation which followed the
sling of the anidavL the author
ties said led 90 the discovery by the
police OF the two haudkerchiefs-
one a mans and the ether a wOm-
Iu's-held 90 be important clues i'm
the case. They were not found Ola
the Phillips farm, as vas reported a.
that time. but jim the barn which
stands on the opposite side Of New
Brunswick Two dark brown combs
also are said TO have been found on
tne dirt floor the barn. These combs
Charlotte Mus is reported 10 have
Identified as having belonged TO her
mother
The statement which the authOri-
ties allege they have obtained from
the two men is said to declare that
they were driving from Red Bank,
". j.. about II o'clock on the night
90 sept. IA. Two miles out from
New Brunswick, they said, they
passed the barn. "a deserted. dilapi-
dated structure plas-eIed with adj
~. u. T.
field close TO the highway.
Tell of Hearing Screams
From this barn the men are re
ported TO have said they heard
screams issuing. pleas for mercy and
then one long shrek. murder, the
police" The men drove through
New Brunswick without reporting
the occurrence and an hour later
were on Easton avenue. when they
were passed by sedan going to-
ward the Phillips farm In the ma
chine, they said, were woman wear
ing a grey coat and a man.
The affidavit is said TO state furtL-
er that the men were on EastOn ave-
nue.. near the park which adjoius
the Phillips farm. for nearly half an
hour and that they saw the sedan
returning at a high speed. L return
ga from Eas-On avenue near the
park and disappeared.
The county prosecutors i'm an ef-
fort to shroud their investigation I'm
a secrecy which they declare to be
essential to a successful solution Of
the mystery have removed their
headquarters to the town of Bound
brook. n. j.. where they were I'm
close conference tonight.
In certain quarters the statement
OF the two siEners Of the afldavit is
not being accepted unqualifedIy
These detractOrs point out that b.
contradicts evidence already taken
from persons living in the vicinity
% the Phillips home that they heard
the screams and shOtC on the farm
on the night OF the double staying
Woman Decoy.
That the examination OF Mrs
Han. widow of the rector. in the
prosecutors office. when she was
closely scrutiuized by woman
whose identity has nol been fully re-
vealed. was even more eerie and
uystigyinE than at first reported
became known in connection with
the announcement OF the obtaininE
Of the affidavit.
The woman. the prosecutors now
-1v. was only decoy- Sitting di-
~ city across the room she was sup
posed 90 absorb all OF the attention
~ Mrs Hall while the rectors
widow was being closely scrutinized
bv the two men who are now said 20
have made the AFFIDAVIT. The auth
critics have declined 90 make pub
lie the result OF this elaborate plan
for examining Mrs. HalL
Mrs Mills which We're made pub
tic today shed an entirely new