The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-11
MOB SLE|UTH
WHO CAUSED
BOYS ARREST
Indignant Citizens Take Hand
In Police Probe of Hail.
Mills Murders
GIRL is DETAINED
Stepfather Also Held Upon
Criminal Charge To
.. 0nfervinxv WsIo,,,
GIRL is DETAINED
(By the Associated Press)


! New Brunswick N. J. Oct. H.
Frank P. Kirby, Middlesex county
detective, credited with having OBJ
tanned the statement from Raymond
Schneider in which Clifford Hayes,
10 years old, was charged with the
murders of the Rev. Edward Wheel,
er Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt
Mills, was attacked by group of in
dignant citizens here early today.
Bombarded with bricks Kirby es-
capped unhurt by locking himself in
the baggage room at the New Bruns-
wick Pennsylvania station. Later he
was surrounded by armed policemen
in uniform and escorted to police
headquarters, while the crowd which
had shown its resentment over the
arrest Of Hayes, dispersed.
Kirby was met by the group Of
citizens as he emerged from the sta
tion on his return from Somerville
where he had sought unsuccessfully
to obtain a confession from Hayes.
The group included several members
of the committee which had obtained
the offer Of a $1,000 reward for the
arrest and conviction of the slayer
of Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills.
Members of the crowd protested
angrily to Kirby against the arrest
of Hayes, decalring they considered
it "frame-up" to quiet the indig
nation of citizens and soothe an
aroused governor by making it APP
pear that the mystery had been clear-
ed.
Kirby retorted with equal candor
at first, at the same time walking
rapidly away from the railroad sta
tion in the direction of police head
quarters. Before he had proceeded
far, he found himself surrounded by
the crowd which pressed closer and
closer to him. An excitsd man block
ed his way. He looked around, decid-
I'd the crowd was thinnest behind
him, and turned and ran. The crowd
followed with threats Of tar and
feathers.
Outstanding developments yester-
day included the arrests of Pearl
BANNER, Is years old, who was with
Schneider when the two bodies were
found, as an incorrigible, and of
Nicholas BANNER, her father, held
on a criminal charge preferred by
the girl, and the intimation by one
Of the chief investigators that Hayes
arrest did not solve the mystery that
in fact "we've just started to work
on the case" =,
Middlesex county detectives ex-
pected to interview Mrs. Frances
Hall, widow of the slain rector again
today.
The authorities today turned their
attention to investigating report
that a bloodstained basket, which
was seen near the bodies of the slain
rector and his choir leader on the day
they were discovered, had disappear
ed. Four persons, it was said, saw
this basket a few hundred feet from
the bodies. The basket which was
made of wood, was filled with rags
and papers. Some of the papers bo-e
large splashes of what appeared to
be blood, it was asserted.
During the excitement incident to
the discovery of the crime the bas-
ket disappeared. Announcement was
made today that committee of citi'
zens in the Sixth ward, where Cliff
ford Hayes lived, would hold tag
day" on Sunday for the purpose Of
raising funds for his legal defense.
The lawyer declared he was con-
vinced of Hayes innocence.
That many of the residents of New
Brunswick share his belief has been
proven by announcement of plans tor
a "tag day" Saturday to raise de-
fense fund for the prisoner.
The authorities turned part OF
their attention to checking up new
stories told by Pearl BANNER. She
sought in her latest story today to
turn suspicion on her father, who,
she asserted had more than once
threatened to cut her throat. Mrs.
Mills throat was cut and the story
told by Schneider of an attack by
HAYES fails to explain this fact.
The girl said that after the walk
with her father the night Of Septem-
Der IA and had had the encounter of
which she had told earlier, with
Schneider, Hayes and Leon Kauff-
man, her father took her home and
told her to 20 at once to bed. This,
she said, was around 10 o'clock. Look
ing out of her window, she declared,
she saw her father walking about
and muttering to himself.