The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-18
MORE ENDEARING
LOVE LETTERS OUT
Mrs. Mills Often Calls Rev.
Hall Sweet, Adorable
Babykins''
"A LOVE NEST" ALSO
is MENTIONED
Letters Unaddressed and Unsigned =
Proposal of ElOpement Made BY Min
ister-DiscOvery of Two BlOod-stained
Handkerchiefs

NEW BRUNSWICK, y. J., Oct. IS.
A second series of the letters said to
have been written by Mrs Eleanor Mills.
wife of the church sexton and choir
leader to Rev Edward Wheeler Hall.
was made public today by the authori-
ties as they continued their efforts to
solve the mystery of the Staying of the
couple Sept. II. Unaddressed and un-.
signed. the letters are filed with terms
of endearment. In them the minister is
often referred to as Sweet, Adorable
Babykins" They speak of IA love nest
of a womans dreams of true love and
describe the varied moods of woman
loved and loving without the conyen-
tions.
The following new evidence has been
unearthed and viii furnish much of the
ground upon which the proposed arrests
are to be made:
/. Discovery of love letters written by
DR. Hall TO Mrs. Mills showing that he
was infatuated with her; that he had
been Keeping love trySts with her and
that he had proposed eloping with her
TO some foreign country;
,. Finding of witness who saw Il
woman looking over the old Phillips farm
twhere the bodies were discoyered1 on
the afternoon of the day Of the murder,
Sept. Il:
;. Discovery Of two blood-stained
haudserehiefs near the spot on the Phil
lips farm where the two bodies were
found laid out beneath Stunted crab
apple tree-one of the handkerchiefs
bearing monogram, the letter s.;
I. Finding of a witness who saw
motionless automobile standing in Derus-
sey park on the night of Sept. II. when
DIR. Hall and Mrs. Mills were shot to
death.
The witness who saw a woman looking
over the old Phillips farm on the after
noon Of Sept II has identified her from
photograph.
Chief interest centers upon two sub
| jects;
I. Identity of the suspected persons
.. Contents of the love letters that
passed between DIR. Hall and his beauti-
full charmer. Mrs. Mills.
Hall often referred to Mrs. Mills as
| My Gypsy" My Gypsy Queen and
/ My Wonder Sweetheart"
| Mrs. Mills referred to the clergyman
as Dear Babykins."
| In addition TO letters there were a
number of postcards that DIR. Hall sent
! "a Mrs. Mills while he and Mrs. Hall
were spending the summer at their cot
! tage in Isleford. Ne. That Mrs. Hall
/ knew that there was an attachment be
! tween hef husband ana the choir leader
! was indicated by frequent urgingS of the
clergyman TO Mrs. Mills not to mind
anything that Mrs Hall said
! II now develops that when DIR. Halls
/ body was found he wore tie clasp with
/ the letter &C" engraved upon il. Mrs.
| Hall was questioned about il and said
that her husband told her he had found
il in the church. From the letters found
/ belief has arisen that the clasp was really
/ q gift from Mrs. Mills and that c.
stood for her pet name. "Gipsy."
/ DIR. Hall kept a lover diary" in addi-
tion to writing letters to Mrs Mills and
it. like the letters. is filled with poetical
allusions.
Most of the letters were signed ID. Il.
L." which stood for the German express
sion, Define True Liebe'-'Your True
Love" Mention was made in the letters
to our road which is now taken to
mean Derussey lane, the isolated path
cunning through the Phillips farm near
which the bodies were found