Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-09
MYSTERY OF TWO
AUTOS IN DOUBLE
Staying CLEARED

New Brunswick. n j., Nov. s.-By
A. P)-The mystery in the presence
OF the two automobiIes-one an old
fashioned high-back model, the other a
small roadster-in De Russey's Lane
near the Phillips farm on the night
when the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills were MUIR
dered. has been cleared up in the prep
arations to place the entire case be-
fore the grand jury, authorities said
tonight.
The lifting OF the veil which has
shrouded this angle OF the case, it was
said by Special Detective Mason, finds
the story told as all eyewitness by
Mrs. Jane Gibson, farmer woman, un-
changed. Her statement to the au-
thorities that she saw two men and two
women in noisy argument under the
apple tree where the bodies of the
rector and the choir singer later were
found, and saw a man nre several
shots, still stands, the authorities as
sert.
More, it is said that her account is
materially strengthened in several as
poets by the bringing to light of new
evidence contributed to the case by
two men who were near the lane on
the night Of the murder. Mrs. Glib
son, in support Of her claim that she
could identify the characters in the
drama, had said that in turning about
the narrow lane the headlights of one
of the automobiles accidentally flashed
upon a powerfully built man with
bushv moustache and a woman in
grey coat.
Authorities declined to make public
the identity of the new witnesses or
divulge other details which they said
led to clearing up the mystery of the
automobile. Detectives expressed
doubt that this angle of the case
would even be revealed to the grand
Jury. as the force of Introducing 1T as
brand new evidence at the trial. which
it is hoped will result from the work
of the inquisitorial board, is considered
of the highest Importance.
Deputy Attorney General Mott spe-
cial prosecutor for the state. is expect
cd in Somcrvillc tomorrow to confer
with supreme Court Justice Parker ana
Alfred &. Gibbs, head of the grand
Jury. on the matter of presenting the
case to the jury. Three indictments
if is said, against a woman and two
mon. will be asked The jury probably
will begin it's inquiry on Monday
The announcement that the pro-
secutors hoped to procure holct-
ments against two mon and woman
revealed that the state investigation
of the double murder has been paseu
largely on the motive of jealousy
One of the men under suspicion IS
said to be a man prominent III the
affairs of the slain rectors church.
The belief OF the authorities is thal
he was spurred to the crime by
woman and that the Notwithstanding
occurred on the revelation OF the
of Mrs. Mills with MI
Hall. The second man is sad 70 De
implicated in the case Tor assisting
the other man and the woman 10
ESCAPE from the scene of the crimes.
The detectives III Wolh NILS VII 'iii'
theory, it was said, have traced
series of telephone calls which oc-
CURED shortly after the two tele-
phone communications which called
the rector and the choir singer from
their homes on the night they were
The last telephone calls,
it is alleged. were made for the pur-
pose of assembling the three persons
now under suspicion.