Evening journal., 1922-10-26

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sci for Mrs. Hall. did not arrive here
| yesterday, although he had been ex-
pected. Due TO tho late arrival OF
Pfeiffer's private detective Mrs Hall
was unable to have her usua. nf-
ternoon walk in the garden in the
rear of the big homo on Nlchol
avenue.
! While Stevens appeared and walk
ed in the street for a few minutes.
but scurried to cover when no saw
two photographers approach. Miss
Sallie Peters and Barbara Tough
were the active persons about the
! Hall home and alternated in re-
eelving the reporters who came for
statement OF some sort and who
returned from their visit empty
handed.
More than one or two persons will
be taken in when the drag net starts
to close. 1t is generally believed here.
There are more than merely two or
three principals in the case and the
background OF the double killing is
filled with petty intrigue and Incl
dental talk and small action. which
indirectly or directly set the stage
and started the principal figures on
their different paths on the fatal
night.
There are the tale bearers, the
letter carriers. the others who did
various informing at various times
to be accounted for. and the au-
thorlties have several of those per-
sons listed. There are other figures
not yet made clear by tho develop
ments or the information given out
who are also a part OF the tragedy
but who will also find the spotlight
upon them when the case has as
sumed other proportions and Is
ready 70 go before twelve good men
and true.
These little ends, many OF them OF
the utmost Importance in one way
or another, must all be taken care
of. These strings must all be tied
before any direct or violently sud
den action can be taken by the new
prosecutor or any OF his aides or
deputies. II Is understood here
that when the bait Is properly sea-
soned the trap xii be sprung, and
the authorities hint at more than
when the step Is ultimately taken
which will deprive Of liberty those
who VIII be charged with the muir
der of Edward W. Hall and Eleanor
Mills.
The possibility that Mr.. Hall
was planning on the night of the
murder 10 break off his relationship |
with Mrs. Mills, because their cor
had been discovered by
a member OF the church. who re-
ported It 10 his wife, is being seri- |
ously considered by the Investigators I,
who have taken over the case. !
though there is little to Justify the |
theory.
Why the letters were scattered !
about the bodies is a question that !
has long been troubling the authori- |
ties, and they seem TO believe II is |
possible Qall had taken the letters /
with him to return them TO Mrs
Mills His exclamation over the tele-
phone that night. That's bad" is
taken as indicating that something
had gone seriously wrong.
Plans are being made now TO ex-
anime the letters and the clothing
found on the bodies for flngerprints.
Although more than six weeks have
passed since the murder. flngerpriDt
experts said that there might be
some traces OF the fingerprints.
They pointed out that under ex-
element the glands in the fingers
open and perspiration pours out. so
that the murderers might have left |
some trace. Although the letters
have been handled time after time |
by innumerable persons, there is just
a bare possibility that there might |
be found one hngerprlnt among /
them that would point to the slayer
of the couple. /
Miss Mile Ople. next door neigh
Dor OF Mrs. Mills. said that for more |
than month before her death Mrs |
Mills had been troubled and had /
seldom smiled. This. It Is thought, |
may dovetall with the belief that the
between herself and Hall /
was In danger.
Miss Ople declared also that, dur
ing this period. Mrs. Mills once told
her she had been thinking OF suicide.
1T would get me out OF all my trou-
bles." she says Mrs. Mills told her.
In ten minutes l could so down to
the canal and end IL all. II # were
rot for the hereafter ] would do it,"
a H.. al
had good reason TO believe that from
the time the Rev. Mr.. Hall returned
from Maine in August until the muir
der somebody was listening in on his
conversations with Mrs. Mills over
the telephone.
She said she believed also that
Mrs Hall had been acutely conscious
OF their friendliness for some time
and had arranged a number OF trips
on which Mrs. Mills went along just
so that the rector would not call at
her house so much and attract atten-
ton
Admission that her mothers life
was unhappy were frankly made by
Charlotte. She pictured their life at
home, saying that she had no recol-
lection of time when they were
happy. Their misery was the result
II her fathers grumbling. He seemed
10 be everlastingly cursing his fate,
she said.
on one occasion. when Mrs. Mills
was about TO have an operation from
from which she might not recover,
she told Charlotte. according TO the
girls story: IT'S bad enough for
you now, kid, but II anything ever
happens to me I pity you"