Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-09
by Associated Press to Every Evening.

By Associated Press TO Every Evening.
New Brunswick, ~ j.. Oct. 9.--Clif-
ford Hayes, 10 years cid. admirer OF
Pearl Bahmer. who found the bodies
OF the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
choir singer. was arrested today and
formally charged with first degree
murder for the elayings.
Raymond Schneider. who was with
the Bahmer girl when the bodies were
found. was held as material wit
ness. Prosecutors Beekman and
counties say Schneider signed a SOC
word statement accusing Hayes OF the
crime.
According 20 SChneider's statement
the double Staying was the result ot
mistaken identity. He had gone out
with Hayes on the night OF the 'mur-
ders. he said trailing a man who ac-
compan!ed thJ Bahmer girl. Seeing
a couple beneath a a"crabapple tree. he
said. Hayes opened fire. Formal an
nouncement of the arrests was made
at li.s5 by Prosecutor Stricken.
The announcement, issued Jointly
by Prosecutors Stricken. of MiddleseN
county and Beekmsn. OF Somerset
county, read:
Upon information In the prose
cutor's office, obtained from Raymond
Schneider and other witnesses. we fee
obliged, under the circumstances, e
prefer a charge OF murder agains,
one Clifford Hayes. Raymond Schnei-
der viii he held as a material witness
awaiting further developments in the
case.
Process will be issued out oi
Somerset county. where II appears the
crime was committed. Consequently
the prisoners will be detained in the
Somerset county Jail"
The prosecutors would not say
whether the arres; OF Hayes had
eliminated the Hail. and Mills families
from further consideration.
No further arrests are contemplated ed
tNA Nt'f liAfrtiN. ADfe sHiN
I, is said that Schneider confessed
at 3 o'clock this morning after a Ions
gr.lling, when he said that he anC
clifford Hayes had murdered III,
couple.
Hayes fred four shots into them.
he said, and stole the minister's golC
watch"
Il don't know anything about tn.
murder" Hayes denied. 1t wa
Schneider who took the watch"
Hayes. who had been questione,
hu, hastily during the night, earl!
today was put through a racking thir,
degree. Before IL is over the authori
ties expect a story which may diffe
in essentials from that told b.
Schneider. who broke under the SAM
sort Of cross-exsmination that Taste,
eight hours without a moments re
spite.
The murder. according 70 Schnei
derls story. was the resul, OF mistaser
Identity. and the robbery of the min
ister's body an afterihought.
The announcement that Schneide
and Hayes were under arrest was no
made until 3 o'clock this morning b,
the group OF officials assembled in tn
Office of Joseph +. Stricken. prosecute
OF MiddleseS county.
The formal arrests followed the ex
animation OF the two men held a
principals in the brutal crime and tw
other persons. Pearl Bahmer. Schnei
der's sweetheart, and Leon Kaufman
is years old, n friend Of all three.
Kaufman and Hayes have not an
peared before in the story Of the Grim
committed AT the Phillips farm, tw
miles from New Brunswick. on Sep
tember ID. II was Schneider an
Pearl who found the bodies Of tn
minister and the choir singer unde
gnarled crahapple tree in a patel
of goldenrod. Saturday morning. Sep
tcmber 1s.