Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-23

did not DelleVe roDDery WdS 'uo iuotiNe
of the crime.
disappearance Of my mother. Mrs. Hall
came TO see my father" she said. 1T
was about Z A. NJ. My father asked
her IL Mr. Hall had drawn any money
out Of the bank lie thought perhaps
that II that was so. he had been at
tackled and robbed. Later. however.
Mrs. Hall told father that Mr.: Hall
had not drawn out any money and could
not have had any with him.
Mrs. Hall says that she called Mt
our house Thursday night to ask about
Mr.. Hall. but could not get in. That's
funny, as the door was open and she
could cnsily have come In md awakened
us. I was home and sleeping soundly.
"NIrs. Hall always looked on poor
people as scum but my mother" said
Charlotte, proudly, never felt any
difference in their stations in life. My
mother was educated she loved operas,
good plays, and when she read she
The last ones she ever read was Mother
Of All Living.
Wrote Sermons for Hall
"she wrote some of Mr.. Halls SER
mons and left 'cm on the desk of his
study for him.
II never heard mother mention the
Phillips farm. II she had ever been
out there. I know I'd have known
of it. She always told Of the places
she had been. When she came bacI,
from the trip to Lake Hopatcong she
took with the Halls. she told us what a
wonderf,J time they'd had. and about
them taking their lunch and finding n
comfortable place to eat it. And then
about coming back.
Eyes. | know she often went to the
Pnrkcr home with Canon Welles to sing
but never knew that she went there Mt
night. l don't believe she went tc
Phillips farm the night of the murder.
She was dragged there and killed.
II never noticed anything between
Mr.. Hall and my mother that was more
than friendship. Mother worked hard
for the church. She looked after the
music, the decorations and the little
things the rcctor's wife Is supposed
to 40;
There may have been Jealousy about
her church work on the part Of people
VINO wanted the credit ana none OF
the drudgery.
Mrs Hall taught me In Sunday
School. ] never liked her. Mother
often demonstrated with me md said
! should pay more attention t" what
Mrs. Hall said. But then Nom liked
friend of hers, Mrs. Hail dislike. iirs
'happcrs. you know. and ! am flap
per She don't understand young
girls. think.
Charlotte said her mother craved the
romance she did not have.
She loved TO watch thc sunsets ~
| rnI S1,. all
tifnl things. ] used to talk about tn,
time when we'd have better house an,
she'd say 10 mo. at isn't the hous,
you live in. Charlotte: it's the goo,
spirit that is created in It, DO somcthin,
for some one every day. II will mok,
you happy 10 help Others That wn,
just like mother She was always think
ing Of doing something for the churcl
or her friends"
Mills says that he realized ms 500,
ms the bodies were found that the,
would suspect him of the crime.
II showed them that I didn't do /, )
he snid. II have a perfect nlibi Th,,
know where was every Minute FROM
Wednesday night to the time tho hodia,
were found.
In my opinion, Jealous woman di,
II. My wife had studied music II
Now York and often picked out III,
hymns. Others in the choir were icnl
GUS OF her.
xV;ro
Nhe i'ured 10 Dea'h
hnl ! 90 nor agree that n woman
crime I 10 heiicwn 5 ",r, ,,o,a n,,''nii''rn , ln
m in !, unr,or orJ I'',u, was i"'Nc'
II think nv vito was ,nrnn n'' 49,. .,o.
in some way. She would M, 90 vnlmn'
iarily after dark, nor oven n rho yord
don't think It was tho intcntion =,
kill her. They wanted TO beat her IN
but they went so far that before The,
knew it she was dead or diving and the;
had to kill her. Then, of course. The,
had to kill him.
II am trying to find out who mad
tho two telephone calls to her that aft
crnoon. They must have been from
the same person. During the afternoon
n bill came for the balance Of the opera
tlon expenses, The original bill wa
$500. Half had been paid. can
not find the bill. That came that day
} She may have taken it out with her
: That would show that she went out I,
go about the bill"
The vestry of the Church of 81 Joh,
the Evangelist met last night nm
passed resolution rcaffirminc theI
, faith In the murdered minister and OK
tending their sympathy TO Nrs Hall
They neglected to pass n similar resn
luton sympathizinc with Mrs Mn,
bereaved family. however
Affirm Faith d, p..
r mi, ',''., !" ''"'or
: Inc resolution was worded as fol
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