The New York herald., 1922-09-25
new WITNESS WILL
GIVE FRESH SLANT
TO Church KILLINGS
Inquiry Into Murders OF
Hall and Mrs. Mills Will
Go Over Old Ground.
BOY AND GIRL GRILLED
Lad Who Found Bodies
Tells Of His Movements
on Fatal Night.
HENRY STEVENS is BACK
Says He Had Dodged New
Brunswick OH Advice Of
His Lawyer.
HENRY STEVENS is BACK

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Sept. "a
Apparently it has been decided that
the decks shall be cleared and the in
vestigation of the Hall Mills murder
be begun again. The county detectives
spent the greater part of to-day ques-
tioning the two persons who found the
bodies of the Rev Edward Hall and
Mrs Eleanor Mills a week ago yester-
day.
AS a result they learned something
that may be of great value, though 1t
has nothing to do with the theory that
Hall and Mrs. Mills were killed by
come one who believed them to be on
terms of great intimacy and was
driven to desperation by jealousy by
this belief
The two persons with whom Detec-
tives Totten of Somerset county and
Ferguson OF Middlesex county passed
the whole afternoon and a part of this
evening are Pearl Behmer and Ray
mond Schneider. The former is in Jail
tonight, but not in connection with
this crime. Her father had her taken
into custody as an incorrigible and she
will be arraigned tomorrow.
Young Man GriIled for Hours.
Schneider, who appeared to be In the
early twenties. was griiled for hours BY
the detectives and then dismissed iIr
that he was not to leave town. His
mother 1t was learned tonight. was In
state bordering on collapse because
OF the prolonged absence of the young
man. she having understood that he was
to stay away for only a few minutes.
1t was Schneider who found the
bodies and telephoned to the police a
week ago yesterday. According to his
story then, and ne did not deviate from
1t In his talk with the detectives to-day,
he and Pearl Behmer were out looking
for mushrooms when they saw the two
bodies. He supposed them to be two
persons sleeping when he first passed.
On returning he noticed clot OF
under the scarf that covered her face.
and so Investigated further. finding both
were dead.
To-day Schneider, besides. having to
tell the story again in detail, was asked
dozens of questions as to his movements
on Thursday September IA, the day OF
the murder, and the three days subse-
quent. He told the detectives that he
had been out with the same girl, Pearl
n
O'Clock, when he left her. He then
joined two young companions from his
own neighborhood, Clifford Hays and
lad named Kaufman. and they
knocked around until late hour about
Buccleugh Park. which is at the end Of
the Easton avenue trolley line.
Accounts for His Movements.
Schneider apparently accounted for
his own movements satisfactorily. He
said after his examination that he did
not know the exact time at which he
returned home on the Thursday night.
He said:
Yes. we were out there late: not
very near the Phillips farm. but as far
out as the Parker home. 1 didn't hear
any shot or shouts or screams, and
that's what / told them. / didn't know
anything about this until l found the
bodies"
1t is not known what the detectives
learned from the girl, as after she had
been questioned she was taken back 10
Jail. She lives at 22S Nelson street.
which Is much nearer town than the
home of young Schneider who liyes at
100 Sicard avenue, near the park and
not far from the end OF the trolley line.
BY starting in at the beginning again,
II would appear, the authorities have
new witness who was near the scene of
the murder at the time at which II Is
supposed to have taken place. II may
be stated. too. that they are now pro-
ceeding on the theory that the killing
actually occurred at the spot at which
the bodies were found though for some
days this idea had been abandoned, as