New-York tribune., 1922-10-04
State Troopers
Assume Charge
OF Hall Inquiry
Local Authorities Yield
to Consiables for Sake
of Political Expediency;
James Mills Questioned
Charlotte in New Appeal
Daughter Asks Burlington
Man Hunter to akeHand:
Rector's Autopsy To-day
BY Boyden Sparkes

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct. g.
Political expediency has forced Off
cials of Middlesex and Somerset coun-
ties to surrender the role of investi-
gators of the Hall-Mills murder to the
efficient state constabulary. In New
Brunswick to-day the county detectives,
except for one who went to New York
on an errand in connection with the
autopsy to be performed on the body
of the Rev. Mr.. Hall, were seemingly
Inactive, while three troopers were un-
ceasingly busy.
Prosecutor Joseph Stricker, who is
campaign manager for George Silzer.
Democratic candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, went to Trenton to-day
md conferred with Colonel Norman
5chwarzkopf, in command of the
troopers
Corporal Frank Spearman and
Trooper Henry Dickman spent hours
nth James Mills, husband of the laur-
dered woman and sexton of the church,
n which DR.. Hall was rector and Mrs.
Mills was q choir singer and conspicu-
ous worker. They were entirely sym
pathetic with the stoop- -shouldered
title man and he talked to them freely.
-Afterward he said:
Troopers Don't Bulldoze Him
"Its good thing for me ! had a
.rong alibi or these county bunglers
tould have had me in Jail sure. Now
hese state troopers are different. They
idn't try to bulldoze me or imply that
was guilty of this horrible crime. They
,sked many questions ano noted down
Ill my replies. They told me they were
ad killed my wife and DR.. Hall, or
lse that a jealous person had inspired
ne killing. Pll be glad to do all | can
20 help them"
Mills's daughter, Charlotte, fifteen
year-old high school senior, has cast
1erself for the part of Nemesis in the
tragedy. Disregarding her natural
ceiling Of shame that her mother
should have died under such compro-
missing circumstances, or at least have
eeen placed in that situation after
death, the girl Is delving shrewdly into
the investigation.
Her letter to Governor Edwards
pleading with him to spur the county
revelation that there had not been any
autopsies performed, the factor that
brought the troopers into the county.
To-day she wrote two more letters.
One was to Ellis Parker, County Detec-
tive of Burlington, appealing for his as
sistance in the search for her mothers
assassin.
81 am appealing to you to come to
New Brunswick to arrest those re-
aponsible for the murder of my moth
err" she wrote to Parker.
Nothing Done in Two Weeks
"More than two weeks have elapsed
since the crime was discovered, yet
nothing has been done to apprehend
II know that you will not lose any
time in clearing up the mystery sur
rounding the cruel Staying of my dear
mother. Therefore l am appealing to
you to come to New Brunswick at
once"
Charlotte also wrote to Prosecutor
Stricken, inclosing a copy of her letter
to Parker, who has solved and gained
convictions in about ninety murder
cases. and urged him to enlist the serv-
ices of the Burlington man hunter. In
this move Charlotte has as an ally
"The Home News" the only paper in
New Brunswick. Editorially this after
noon the newspaper advocated that
Parker be brought here, saying: "a
failure to see justice done in this case