The New York herald., 1922-09-17
RECTOR AND SINGER IN HIS
CHOIR SLAIN IN N. j. WOODS

| both We're apparently so deeply inter-
ested being a little more than a stones
throw from either home. They saw each
other almost daily.
Hall was rather short and dumpy, was
quiet in demeanor and the sort of man
the ordinary observer would regard as
far removed from contact with anything
resembling romance, especially romance
OF the sordid variety. He was highly
thought of and his congregation. num-
bering about 500. was of a rather high
class. Some of the highest class people
In New Brunswick belonged to his
church. which he had served for ten
years. He was "A years old.
h Girl Died of Broken Heart.
Hail. when he came here ten years
ago, was reported TO have had love
| affair and Ii Is said that the girl died
later of broken heart This Is. how
ever, just one OF the rumors that have
followed the killing and there Is no sub
sanitation to be found.
! About seven years ago he married a
Miss Frances Stevens and the pair had
three children. AS far as the neighbors
and members of the congregation knew
they were entirely happy. though Mrs.
Hall is now said to be of a rather
tactiturn disposition.
Mrs. Hail Is wealthy. Rough esti-
mates Of the amount the Stevens family
are worth run as high as S1.500,000.
mostly made in hosiery. and Il lis said
that to Mrs. Hall was left recently about
sl75. 900 by a relative. Verification OF
any facts regarding the Hall family was
impossible to-day, for visitors are not
even admitted to the Hall home.
Mrs. Hall Is said to be In a state
"a
New Brunswick people and two brothers
and some other relatives have been at
the house all day.
One striking feature OF the case Is
the difference in the environment of the
two principals. The Hall home. hand
some though not pretentous two story
and a half frame house on fashionable
Nichols avenue, stands well back in Its
own well kept grounds, with broad lawns
in front. Its whole appearance is that
of a well kept residence OF the type
OF which there are comparatively few In
New Brunswick. The Mills family lived
in the second story of tumbledown
wooden house which has not known
paint for years. at Abeel and Carman
streets, opposite the Lord Stirling
school, Mills is janitor of the school
as we'll as sexton of the church.
Inc C1uTCn Is ~ SIIldil oht VI oii>n
and ivy covered I'm George street. be-
tween Commercial and Throop avenues.
1t has lawn in front and an iron
railing 1t is a pretty structure. The
Mills home is about three blocks
away toward the northeast.
After Totten had examined the ground
and the bodies, he ordered them taken
first to the morgue here and then to
the county seat.
Doubt ms to Bullets Fired.
DR.. Long, the county physician. said
it would require hours for him to pre-
pare the bodies properly and then ex-
anime them thoroughly so that his find
ings would be worth while. He was
even in some doubt as to the number
of bullet wounds in each.
Totten went to the Mills home and
found Mills, thin, anemic man of mid
die height and scared appearance. wide
eyed with misery. That is the way Mills
has looked ever since he learned what
had happened. and his brother said to
him: And you never knew that this
was going on. Good God, you must
want house TO fall on you TO wake you
up
The county detective examined Mills
for hours driving about town with him
! in an automobile. After six o'clock to-
night he told Mills to go home and. in
fact, drove him home. He will question
him again tomorrow. but does not ex-