Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-13
HAYES IS FREE
AS CONFESSION
PROVES FALSE
Man and Woman Now in
Jersey Lime
light
TAKES NEW TURNS
Schneider Admits Story Was Told
Only to Obtain Revenge-Detec-
tives Follow New Leads in Various
Drections-Very Complicated.

New Brunswick, n. j., Oct. ia
man and a woman, either of whom
nay have had cause 10 be jealous OF
Rev Edward Wheeler Halls atten
ti0ns TO Mrs. Eleanor Mills, were un-
Gel suspicion in the murder mystery
case today.
The little group Of feeble minded
characters from Nov Brunswck's
underworld who have been implicated
i, the tragedy on a mistaken ident-
ity" theory, have been practically
cleared of official suspicion by the
collapse of the COUNTS case against
Clifford Hayes.
Hayes was released when Raymond
Schneider retracted the statement
which caused his arrest.
Probe of the case swing definitely
lack to first principles and princi-
PIES today, and three groups conduct
irg the Observation-Disclosures
Beekman and his aidos. state troop
ers and Private Detectives now re
lcrted working on tic mystery
were in competition along the lines
cf deductive reasoninc They We're
working to establish a reason for the
nurder and follow alOnE this line to
It's logical couclusion-;he slayer.
They have abandoned for the time
being, the plan of starting with an
arrest and proving the prisoner gull
ty.
Prosecutor Beelman, in state
r,ent declared the theory of "mistak
On identity" had not been entirely
Cropped. those who were sucked up
from the mire of their unsavory
homes TO eniov the spotlight of trag-
eGy-Pcarl Rahmer. Mex. her faith
er and RAYMOND Schneider, still were
held in iail. But the county, in prov
irg HAYES innocent. D 2ctically sue
ceeded in proving innocent also. The
same facts that freed Hayes will end,
ir substantiated, in freeing Schnei-
Ger
The state of New jersey maye be
asked to take over the investigation
if the county authorities run into
many more blind alley in their pur-
suit of the murderer OF the pastor
and his pretty choir girl sweetheart.
The states district attorney is half
expected to be invitel to direct the
probe.
Tbi. bacarsa all fresh clues and
fresh doyeIonmens scarce as thev are.
noinf hack ro tbe principals in the
rssn who have been almost forgot
ton il tho Tttla flur,v created by
,,n,,;s Two accusatio, of his friend.
II now apDears thai the Rev. Ed
v.ard Wheeler Hall MAJ have had an
other love affair besides that in
wlicb he was caught and which re-
suited in his sudden Geath at night
o. lonely Phillips farm. The choir
e;neer also had other admirers than
bey nastor Investigators declared
frat there was Unquestionably
ground for establishing motive for
| The Staying.
Half of the detectives probed the
movements of a possib!e woman sus-
rect Old clues were taken Up once
r,ore The latest inventions of
science are being applied to the case
as for instance, in the matter of Mrs.
| Halls scarf and cloak. Despite the
! fact that the pastors widow had been
practically cleared of suspicion and
had sent the garments she wore on
/ the night of the murdct to the clean
c1s these are peilhg c'eihIc"hE eN-
amined for possible evidence. g., ,
Another woman, frleedly WIN me
sam pastor, whose lame mas nov
been mentioned III the case Is 'e''S