The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-10
Declares the Charges Made by
Pal Are Untrue.
Did Not Kill Pastor and Wom-
an Choir Leader.
ARRAIGNED IN COURT TODAY
Detectives Question Schneider
for More Details.
Find Woman Who Declares
She Saw the killing.

Somerville, n. J., Oct. 10.-Nine-
teen-year-old Clifford Hayes, OF New
Brunswick, today pleaded not guilty.
of numbering the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall, and Mrs Eleanor
Reinhardt Mills, and was held by
Justice of the Peace Sutphen without
bail for grand jury action.
Authorities who announced with a
show of confidence upon Hayes ar
rest yesterday that the Hall-Mills mys-
terry had been solved evInced less sat
isfaction with their case today. Ono
of the investigators said another lead
was being worked upon. which if veri-
fled, would change the entire COM
p1exion of the case
This lead, he added, pointed. away
from young Hayes and appeared to
provide a motive that would explain
the mad slashing of Mrs. Mills throat
in addition to her bullet wounds.
New Brunswick. n. J., Oct. 10.-k
new witness who cleims to have seen
Rev DR.. Edward w. Hall. wealthy
rector of the fashionable Protestant
Episcopal church of st. John the
! Evangelist, and his beautiful choir
leader, Mrs. James Mills. killed in a
battle between a man and a woman
on one side, two men and woman
on the ether side, was found today.
The new witness is a woman.
| The self-acclaimed eye witness of
the mysterious midnight tragedy
which las baffled the authorities
more than three weeks, is an inmate
of the Parker Home for the Aged
which is just across the road from
i the old Phillips farm, where the
bodies of DR.. Hall and Mrs. Mills
We're found side by side beneath a
stunted crab apple tree on Saturday,
september 16.
| Arraign Hayes Today.
rested yesterday charged with
the first degree murder of the
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and
his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Rein
hardt Mills. was scheduled for ar
raignment in court today. With his
friend, Raymond Schneider, 81 years
old. arrested as a material witness,
Hayes spent the night in the county
Il jail. Hayes was held ddncommunicaio
while Schneider vas subjected TO an
lother questioning during the night by
detectives in an effort to obtain
further details.
/ Hayes has steadfastly denied the
allegation made by Schneider that the
double Staying was a case of mistaken
Identity, the intended victims being
1b-year-old Pearl Bahmer and her
stepfather, Nicholas BANNER The
only theory so far advanced by the
, authorities for Hayes motive was a
desire to right supposed wrong done
friend, Schneider, who altho mar
RED, admittedly was very friendly with
the BANNER girl.
1t was schneider and Pearl Bah
mer who announced to the police that
they had discovered the bodies of tie
minister and Mrs. Mills under a tree
: on the farm.
Officials at the local prosecutors Of
flee said Schneider was not mentally
/, strong.
Bahmer Says He Was Sober.
Nicholas BANNER. father of Pearl
, took exceptions to the story she told
yesterday to the effect that he was
intoxicated on the night OF the muir
der. He insisted she was perfectly
sober and was sitting on his porch
when Pearl came to him and asked
him to take a walk. During their
: : walk. Rahmer said. Pearl complained
= to him of Schneider's attention. He
: told her he had bought a As calfbes
pistol and would project her.
:; Pearl said today she was sure Cliff
. ford Hayes did not kill the minister
and Mrs. Mills.
Promises Real Story. fss
IF they take me before the proae.
cutor again." she said. 'rll tell a rea
story
!, Pearl went for an automobile rid,
last night and was seized with ar
epileptic fit She was taken to tn,
= Middlesex hospital and released aftei
e several hours treatment. rr-
y Recently she jumped into a cana
: and was pulled out in an unconsciopi
K condition. She left note on the banl
: reading:
Ray Schneider is the cause OF thii
( act"
4 Don't Believe Either Guilty.
!, Charlotte Mills, the 16-year-oit
u daughter of the murdered woman
| said:
You will never make mS believi
: that Clifford Hayes shot my mothe
and Mr.. Hall. / know Ray Schneide
. and 1 don't think he had sens
: enough to do it,
= She said she wanted to go ava,
, from New Brunswick and make nes
! friends. She has had many proposal
of marriage since her mothers death
q, she said, but she turned them down
Il am going to form a man -haterI