New-York tribune., 1922-10-10

pistol YOU are reported to have in you
possession :"
/ Il can't answer that" hastily OBJ
| jected Mr., Toolan.
Mrs. Mills was shot three times Ii
the head with thirty-two caliber auto
matte pistol. The steel jacketed slug!
were found inside her skull after he,
body had been exhumed. The bullei
that passed through DR.. Halls head
from the right temple to spot neal
the base Of the brain near the left ear
has not been recovered but the pathol-
ogists who made tho autopsy agresd
that it was bullet Of similar caliber
to those that killed Mrs. Mills.
| sGoat' Says His Brother
1t was learned that a single-shot
twerty-two calihre pistol with n broken
trigger and cheap blank cartridge
pistol, also twenty-five cilabre, were
seized by the detectives who searched
the Hayes home in 90 Richardson
Street Sunday afternoon. This infor-
1 nation came from Joseph Hayes, twen-
ty-four years old, brother Of the
prisoner.
"They may swing my brother for
| this" said young Hayes, "hut they
will never prove him guilty, guess
Governor Edwards action forced the
| officials here to find goat" n
Hayes said his brother was printer
but had not been following his trade.
Recently he had been working as a
| night watchman at theater, accord
| ing to statement he made to report
ers two weeks ago, when they ques.
toned him about his late wanderings
in the company of Schneider on the
night Of the murder.
l Thn oNth thar oF =.
middle age. She has heart trouble.
1--WE will fight this case" she de-
clared, tearfully. "My boy is one of
the best boys that ever lived. Well
mortgage our little house here and sell
our furniture; we will do anything to
! help him"
Later the father, Joseph Hayes sr,
and Joseph jr. visited Clifford at the
courthouse. When they met the three
men wept, the father sobbing pitiably.
My boy is telling the truth" said
him know can bank on. He'll not
lie. I've hired a lawyer for him,
Thomas H. Haggerty."
More Politics Enter Case
Mr.. Haggareyt is a member of the
| Democratic State Committee, which is
| deeply concerned with the possible
consequences of the unsatisfactory
handling of the m6rder investigation
on the approaching election at which
| Governor Edwards aspires to win the
| Senate seat of Joseph Frelinghuysen
| Prosecutor Stricken, incidentally, has
been planning to participate in the
| campaign as manager for George
| Silzer, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. To-day Mr.. Stricken admitted
there was a possibility that he would
resign this place.
At the Schneider home, 100 Sicord
| Street, even greater concern was evil
dent than at the home of young Hayes
Mrs. Edward Schneider is broad,
heavily-built woman, with flaxen hair
and blue eyes. The Schneiders, SEEM
ingly, are more prosperous than the
Hayes family. Mrs. Schneider at
tempted to tell reporters something
trying to speak her head fell back on
her chair. She had tainted.
"Do you think Raymond would have
stayed around here. all this time if he
had been in the murder?" she de.
manded. He has been just as normal
and quiet the last few days as he ever
was-playing the piano or phonograph
rand showing that nothing was weighing
ON his mind.
"You know he couldn't have been sc
carefree if there had been anything like
that terrible Hall murder on his mind
} He is my boy and love him, but if he
weren't my boy | should still know that
Ray never could have committed such
murder. When his brother, Harold
died he could not bear to look at the
body, so sensitive is he about sucI
things" A ,..s
Girl In,nortunt lE;rr,a5
Pearl Behmer remains an importan
figure in the affair. She was confrmet
by DR.. Hall not many months ago. anc
yet she has maintained steadfastl,
that she did not recognize his body
when she and Raymond discovered il
: that morning more than three weeks
ago.
81 heard means and groans comino
from the room where they were cues.
tioning Raymond in the courthouse. ,
she said to-day. Raymond lied about
me to the detectives.
Pearl is pale. Her brown hair is
bobbed,. and she is as experienced as
many older women who are her fathers
nelghbors in the squalid Hungarian
quarter Of New Brunswick. She was
not member of DR.. Halls congrega-
ton. Her contact with the fashionable
congregation of St. Johns was more
that, of an object of missionary work
on the part of DR.. Hall. Several times
before she was confirmed, according to
Nick Behmer, her father, DR.. Hall
called. to straighten out matters con-
nected with her birth certificate.
DO you know" remarked Pearl yes
terday,, "that Raymond had a pearl
handled knife? 1t was very sharp. and
he was always whiting with it.
"Two weeks after the murder he