The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-18
RECTOR'S WIDOW
FACES NEW TEST

New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. H.
Prosecutors seeking to pierce the bar
riers of uncertainty about the muir
ders Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills. the
wife of his sexton, more than month
ago, today turned from a search OF
theoretical bypaths and massed an at
tack against the center Of the drama
the families of the dead man and
woman.
The Hall family trio, Mrs. Hall and
her brothers, Henry and Willie Ste
vens, were examined one by one in the
court house, Mrs. Hall for full hour
and the others for shorter periods.
Each was examined alone. Only on
cials were present and the results
were guarded.
But one eerie aspect Of Mrs. Halls
questioning was made known by her
counsel, Thomas N. Pfeiffer.
Mrs. Hall was seated at the end OF
a long room alone, Attorney Pfeitfer
saws. She was asked to remove he1
hat and to put on the gray coat she
saws she wore when, at two in the
morning on September Is, she went
TO search for her husband. She put
on the coat.
Then the door opened at the end o.
the room, and woman of foreign as
pect. poorly dressed, and alone. en-
tered and sat staring at Mrs. Hall
her attorney says. For minutes SIT
looked at the widow Of the slain rec
tor, turning her head this way an
that. Then without saying word, sh
left the room. Mrs. Hall was permit
ted to 60 soon afterwards.
| Whether the unknown woman ider
{. tilted Mrs. Hall or not. was not NJ
+, nounced. The description of the $
| lent figure tallies in many points Wit
) that tof the peasant woman who's
home Is near the old Phillips farT
long mortgaged, was cleared OF obi
cations by a recent entire paymcu
The peasant woman was brought IN
the case yesterday when she spol
r Of having seen, several days prev1o,
y to the murder, a woman searching t
fields near the spot where the coup
70 were later found.
~ Prosecutor Beekman Of Somers
q county today made public some OF
It letters found on the body Of the =.
y ,1r.isss Jaez 3 'sta; sss;.,' Y 8 ]
one of fhefh ss-a critical spil9e
~ . book the rector is said ts h'
fd ,iven Mrs. Mills-"The Mother
e. an Living" by Robert Keabie'
'n' scribed as love story OF AFRICA,
vet otic in atmosphere, and frank
treatment. -,
no "Dearest," the letter says, II
III fact read. remember, too, no
MS mine, what a lot there is to talk al
'ck after read this book-we must
got Il with us when we ride and talk al
els It especially the marked parts.
IL Keable certainly knows hearts
aS' sweet but nothing compared 10
'he II don't want to read sucn %
over again. Why? You know.
make me yearn for what perha
missed in this life. And to think
now and hereafter I shall never
iced cane this longing until our SOUS
stee one at last"
the "Dearest, dearest boy of mine,
e in mornin," another letter D.
lndi- "What ioy and peace is ours
IN. and strangth, and how gracious
". &c to privilege us to know this
iovous. greatest blessing al
nan INV knees. darling, looking up
noble man, worshipping, al
h.r Wonder of wonders, that ioV
oher even more than yesterday"
Prosecutor Beekman attache
~ nortance to third letter in WI
found: "Honey mine, was n
.nmel YOU as only you know, but n
~ here and so said not to come
: nor Henry Stevens was question:
p .ordine to Attorney Pfeiffer,
iro bis alibi for the night
~ S.oth murder. when he said he ma
~. 1ol hunting near Layallette, n.
'u announced today that his p'
Many trip nao pe. T,rone as h,
said, but stated arrangemen
been cancelled. :,
Officially, the results OF too
' animation were not made
Once more a new drive has bee
E been ed; vaguely, it is believed q
in No evidence has been uncovered
w. H. -, from the scattered
; l.. L. ths noassed attack today is
|. Bates w. hive definite action. Nc
o, petit ..,ora ~ wade.