The New York herald., 1922-10-26

family If they are wrong. Shed nave
to stand whatever was coming to her
If had known it and made II pubic:
| wouldn't have gone for Hall and
shielded her. No Stree I'm not that
kind of guy. l say let the guilty take
what's coming to them. That's me. Let
the law take it's course"
Then Mills went on to talk about the
recent developments, the eye witness
the story of the persons present at the
time of the shooting. the promised ar
rests and the new turn the case is tax
ing. He Is in accord with the theory
that the whole thing was planned, was
moved by a woman's jealousy and that
the bungling of the authorities was
about $3.50 so far as mistakes and other
things are concerned.
Mills Gives His views.
Then he went on to elaborate on his
theoi les. saying:
"You know when they took the clothes
off the bodies the first time after they
had found them. they didn't even know
that my wife's throat was cut. when the
whole head was nearly hacked away
from her spine. That wouldn't look
like blackmail.
That's the work of someone who
hated my wife like poison or worse
and wanted to cut her up for spite.
Well the whole thing as far as ! am
concerned is all darn funny and / don't
understand a lot Of these things that
are being said and done.
II know one thing. that it's tough -
find out the things I did about man
like Hall. when 1 was sure he was my
very best friend and wouldn't double
cross anyone for anything. That Is the
tough part of 1t all.
yet 1 don't believe yet that they were
entirely wrong and as bad as most PEI
pie think. but you never can tell"
Here Jimmie got up to look at the
clock. which registered 11;30 and Char
lotte was not home yet Jimmie is
having his hands full with his job and
his hobby and his daughter, who is
much puffed up by the prominence the
case has brought her.
Believes Wife Was Lured.
lured to the lonely spot on the Phillips
farm and repeats how she feared the
dark.
why she hated to even go out on
that back porch there when it was after
dark" he said. He repeated that he w "a
sure that something other than a secret
tryst with Hall had been the incentive
for his wife to go to the Phillips farm
at night. But then as Jimmie says:
you never can tell and lots of things
come out that you never suspected.
There is something wrong about those
letters" he said. "I don't mean to say
they are not genuine, but | mean that
when people read those things they think
something was very worng between my
wife and Hall.
Maybe il was so, but | can't think so.
know my Wife better than some OF
these people who are judging her now
and i still think that there was nothing
so bad as what they are thinking. But
then you never can tell.
I'm sick and tired Of these people
saying that my home life wasn't happy
that my wife was always nagging that
we always quarreled that she didn't
want to live with me, and all the rest or
the bunk they are handing out
LAS matter of fact she was differ
ent from me in many ways. She had
fbetter education than a lot OF women
who have gone to college. She could
ge. up there land pointing to chair
as though his wife might be making
stump speech from it) and make
speech or sermon better than lot of
men and women and preachers you ever
heard
Mrs. Mills az n Preacher.
"She'd take u text from the Bible
and in no time she'd have pretty
clever sermon all framed out OF II. and
wo, Id be preaching away. She had
good vocabulary Of the English Ian
guage. She was ..lways reading and
had dozen books around the house.
l have no time for that sort of stuff.
but she was crazy over II"
Every now and then Jimmie would
diverge from the case and It's aspects
and his own domestic life to tell little
incidents that had Just popped into
his mind. For Instance he talked for
q time on old Johnny -Shake-t -the-Stick,"
/ a character who used to live in hay
stack near Spotswood. This Idea in
trigued Jimmie greatly and he dwelt On
II for some time.
Then again he talked of other people
who lived by themselves and no ore
ever knew anything sbout them. These
stories apparently were TO illustrate the
idea that you never could tell about
man. Then he would apply this to Hall
and the murder case.
Jimmie has made up his mind that
whatever happens, whatever develops.
or whatever comes along In the future
his best motto is. You never can tell"
him why he did not put her out OF the