Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-19
RECTOR AND singer
MURDERED IN BARN;
NEW CLUE IS FOUND
Charlotte Mills Identifies
Combs as Once Being
Mothers Property.
NEW JERSEY CRIME
TAKES SUDDEN TURN
Unidentified Witnesses for
Prosecution Tell of Hearing
>Shrieks in Clubhouse.
LAST WAS MURDER. POLICE.
M-n Say s-dnn Pns.ed Them Going
in Direction of Phillips
Fnrm.
NEW JERSEY CRIME
TAKES SUDDEN TURN
LAST WAS MURDER. POLICE.
Hen Say Srdnn Pnssed Them Going
In Direction nf Phillips
Farm.
IBy Associated rress.l

10y ?SSoCilttQ IEcSS.
NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j. Oct IS
-ANGavtts have heea obtained :-o:c
two :3eH whose identity the autAo-:-
ties refuse To G!vr!se. count" pros
ecutors said tonight. which sets :o:th
that the double murder OF the Rev
Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Flea
nor Rr.nhardt Mills did not occur In
the Somerset County orchard. where
the bodies we're found. but in barn
on the southern outskirts OF New
Brunswick
Investigation which followed the
alag OF tho afidavitS. the artho-!-
ties said. lead TO the discovery ot the
police ~ two handkerchicts-one
mans and the other womans-
held 10 h. important clues In the
case.
They were not found on the Philips
Farm, as WAS reported at that tinc.
but ~ tn" barn. which stands on the
opposite side of New Brunswick. Two
dark brown combs also are said to
have been found on the dir, floor OF
the barn. These combs Charlotte
Mills Is reported to have identified
As having belonged to her mother.
The statement. which the authori-
ties allcEe they have obtained from
he TWO men. Is said to declare that
they were driving from Red Bank. y.
-. aphut q CLOCK ON the mig or
September "a. Two miles out from
New Brunswick. they said. they pass
ed the barn. a deserted. diiapidat~d
structure plastered with advertising
posters. which stands In a field cloSo
to the highway
Shriekx Heard From Darn.
From this barn. the men are re-
ported 10 have said. they heard
screams issuing. pleas for mercy, and
then one long rhriok. murder" "the
police" The men drove through New
| brunswick without reporting the oc-
currance. and an hour later were on
! t:aston Avenue. when they were
passed hSrH Sedan going toward the
Phillips Fran. In the machine, they
said were woman wearing grey
coat. and n man. -
TiIs affidavit Is said TO state fur
thcr~ that the men were on Easton
Avenue. near the park which adjoins
N" phillips Farm for nearly half
an hour. and that they saw the Sc
dan returning at high speed 1t
turned from Easton Avenue ncar''the
park and disappeared
The county prosecutors. in an ef-
fort To shroud their investigation in
a secrecy. which they declare to be
essential 10 n successful solution of
the mystery. have removed their
headquarters to the town OF Bound
Iiro9k. y. J.. where they were in
close conference tonight.
In certain quarters the statement
of the two signers OF the affidavit
is NOT being accepted unQual!hedly.
These detractorS point out that IL
rontradIcts evidence already taken
from persons living In the vicinity
of the Phillips home that they heard
the screams and shots on the farm
on the night Of the double slay-
ing.
Charge Contradictory Evidence.
That examination. Of Mrs. Hail. tho
widow OF the rector. in the prose
Cutor'S Office. when she was closely
scrutinized by woman whose iden-
tity has not been fully revealed was
even more cerie and mystitying than
at first reported, became known in
connection with the announcement
of the obtaining OF the afdavits.
| This woman. the prosecutors now
say. was only n decoy. Sitting -d,.
rectly across the room she was sup
r"scd to absorb all OF the attention
OF Mrs. Hall. while the rector's
widow was being closely scrutinized
by the two men who are now said
tn have made the affidavit The au-
thoritics have declined to make pub
lie the result OF this elaborate plan
for examining Mrs. Hall
The love notes Of the rector and
Mrs. Mills. which were made public
today. shed an eptiraly new light ON
certain phases OF the case. the au-
thor:ties said The Minnie" of these
notes. Mrs. Addison r. Clarke. has
been questioned regarding her move
mcnts. particularly, on the day on
which the bodies, OF the rector and
the choir singer were found She
was asked whether she haS, ever
taken any pastry To Mr.. Hall. THIS
she is said to have denied but has
admitted. according TO the authori-
ties. carrying package into tho
Church OF ST. John the Evangelist,
the day on which the crime became
public.
The authorities said they had not
Continued on Rage 2. Col. Il
----------,-- >------