Evening journal., 1922-10-03
DRAG WELLS,
Hope To GET
MURDER GUN

yet. so far, nothing has been done
TO apprehend the guilty party or
parties.
II know you win not waste any
time in clearing up the mystery sur
rounding the murder of mother.
Therefore. l appeal TO you to
como TO New Brunswick at once"
A copy OF the letter was sent TO
Prosecutor Stricken, one OF those
who questioned Miss Mills after she
appealed 20 Governor Edwards.
John Hart. excavations expert Of
South River. n. j., was summoned
here today TO plumb the depths OF
! two oisterns and a we'll on the
| Phillips farm In an effort 60 find the
| pistol with which the Rev. Mr.. Hall
and Mrs. Mills were shot. Local au-
| thorities did not probe the we'll until
after the work was started by re
porters yesterday.
Searching probe of a grand Jury
Into the mysterious murder was
| planned today. The grand jury ses-
sions. It was predicted, will resemble
town meeting.
!
plans to have the jury summon every
person who could possibly throw any
light on the mystery.
Members OF the immediate fsni-
lies OF the Rev Mr.. Hail and Mrs.
Mills are 70 be summoned as well es
many members OF the church OF 81.
John the Evangelist.
Gossip that Mrs. Minis and her
pastor were infatuated will be sifted
to its source. This Is to be done
in an effort TO determine what per-
son or persons would desire through
Jealousy to see the coupls KILLED.
While the State Troopers assigned
to the murder mystery went to work
to learn all they could about the
Phillips farmhouse, near which the
double murder probably took place.
and conducted a thorough search for
the automatic pistol that the muir
derer used. county detectives who
have been at work for two weeks
and have found nothing OF import
anoe went into OBSTACLES over the
fact that Mrs. Hall had had some
murder was committed.
clothes cleaned and dyed since the
At the Hall home Timothy Pfeif-
fer, recently engaged as counsel
confirmed the report that Mrs. Hall
had sent clothing TO Philadelphia
TO be dyed. He said that on Sep
TENDER 20 Mrs. Hall gave 70 a friend.
Mrs. @. Bearman, a long brown ul-
ster and a scarf, asking her to have |
both dyed black by the Philadelphia /
firm. Since then, Pfeiffer said. Mrs. )
Hall had not heard OF the matter
and the clothing had not been re-
turned TO her.
The troopers have not finished /
the fact that there was no weapon
hidden in either OF the wells near
the Phillips farmhouse. They also
have learned that no weapon was
throwDdnto the heavy locust thicket
lying between the farmhouse and /
the place where the body was found. /
They are convinced that the stains
on the mating in one OF the upper
bedrooms OF the house was paint
and not blood. In ascertaining these
things they had the aid OF reporters.
but not OF the county detectives.
They have also examined very thor
oughly the clothes worn by Hall.
Sergeant Lamb. IN charge OF the
troopers, has been busy outside Of
New Brunswick. There IS reason TO
believe that within another day or
two he viii question some OF the
mysterious individuals whom the
colnty detectives have been limiting
a. wr-14 !
reported TO have left town since
the murder. One or two OF these
individuals. who are merely sus-
poets and against whom there IS. as
yet, no evidence of any value. Is
known TO have been IN nearby towns
for the last ten days.
Apparently spurred to increased
activity by the presence Of the
troopers. the subordinates OF the (
two county prosecutors, Stricken and {
Beekman as well as Beelman. him
self, tried TO make Roadway yester-
day. Charlotte Mills was called to ,
the court house ana gave the off, {
riais piece OF her mind. Two MEM
bers Of the Carpenter family were ]
examined, and so was Mrs. Addison ,
Clark, or Minna Clark. as she has !
been more frequently called. I
What was regarded by the prose- (
,utors as the most important lead I
vas the discovery that Mrs, Hall I
wife OF the murdered rector, had I
sent some clothing 10 Philadelphia I
On September 20 to have cleaned {
md dyed. on the strength of this 7
Beelman sent one of S
strlcker's detectives, Charles Col 4
ms to Philadelphia and sought the ]
lid of the police there. This is the {
irst time a man has been sent out
" the county in connection with i
his case.
Collins got Sergeant Belshaw OF o
he Philadelphia Homicide Squad c
md Detective Shelter and visited the q
cleaning establishment. He found h
here that a package OF clothing had o
,een received from Mrs. Hall on i
20. The girl behind the Il
ounter said the clothing had been
xamined before the cleaning began, v
nd that there was nothing unusual v
bout Il. The clothes were return- q
d to Mrs. Hail on September "a. I,
,ollins did not find out whether II q
ad been Mrs. Halls custom TO have b
leaning and dyeing done in Phila- G
elphia. The suits of Mrs. Mills Il
rother, william Stevens, which Il
rere cleaned the day after the muir Il
Ell, were cleaned here, but the order p
anne TO the cleaning establishment
rom local clothing firm from h
rho stevens, had brought a new W
iit. Il