Evening star., 1922-10-11
SLEUTH M0bBED
OVER ARREST IN
DOUBLE MURDER
New Brunswick Citizens Re-
sent Arrest of Hayes and
HurI Bricks.
PRISONERS LAWYER
SAYS ALIBI is MADE
Basket Seen Near Spot Where Rec
tor and Singer Were
Slain Sought.

BY the Associated Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.. October
11.-Frank 2. Kirby. a Middlesex
county detective. credited with hav-
ing obtained the statement from Ray
mond Schneider on which Clifford
Hayes. nineteen years old. was
charged with the murders of the Rev.
Edward Wheeler Hall. rector of the
Episcopal Church of st. John the
Evangelist. and his choir leader. Mrs.
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills. was at
tackled by group Of indignant citi-
zens here early today. Bricks were
hurled at him as he found refuge in d
baggage room. where policemen res
cued him.
Hayes attorney. Thomas F. Hag-
erty, announced today he had proof
that Hayes was at home in bed at
the hour when Schneider charges he
committed the crime.
Schneider. IN signed statement.
declared Hayes shot the pair on the
deserted Phillips farm near here
tember Is. thinking them Nicholas
BANNER and his fifteen-year-old
daughter. Pearl Bahmer. Hagerty
said Hayes told him. and that his
statement was confirmed by his en-
tire family. that he returned home
at l2:45 and went Immediately to bed.
Had Been With Schneider.
Hayes admitted he had been in
Buccleuch Park that night with
Schneider, hunting for BANNER and
Pearl. the lawyer said, but denied
that he had been on the Phillips
farm at all.
Bombarded with bricks. Kirby
escaped unhurt. by locking himself
in the baggage room at the New
Brunswick Pennsylvania station.
Later he was surrounded By armed
policemen in uniform and escorted
to police headquarters. while the
crowd which had shown its resent
ment over the arrest of Hayes. dis
perSed.
The group included several mem
bers of the committee which had
offered $1,000 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the slayer of DR..
Hall and Mrs. Mills.
---.----- Detective In Surrounded.
Members of the crowd protested
of Hayes. declaring they considered
it "frame-up'' to quiet the indigna-
ton of citizens and sooth an aroused
governor. by making it appear that
the mystery had been cleared
Kirby retorted with equal candor
rapidly away from the lroad sta
tion in the direction o, lice head
quarters. Before he + proceeded
far ne found himself surrounded by
the crowd which pressed closer and
closer to him.
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but suddenly found his way blocked
by angry anu excited men. He
looked around. decided the crowd
was thinnest behind him, turned and
ran in that direction. The crowd
ran after him with threats of tar
a pile OF brick. Many in the crowd
stopped long enough to get an arm
full with which to hurl after the
fleeing officer.
Reaching ; , the station platform,
baggage room. dived inside. closed
the door and bolted it. just as lead
ers in the crowd reached 1t.
Rescued by Policemen.
For while the crowd contented
itself with throwing bricks against
the baggage room door. Then a
posse of patrolmen. summoned by
the station agent, arrived and rescued
Kirby. The crowd vanished with the
arrival of the bluecoats
Outstanding developments yester-
day included the admission by Prose-
cutor Beekman of Somerset county
that he was making no effort to de-
termine the truth of Schneider's
statement charging Hayes with the
the arrests of Pearl Bah
mer. fifteen years old. who was with
Schneider when the two bodies were
found. as an incorrigible. and of Nicho-
las Bahmer. her father. held on a crimi-
nal charge preferred by. the girl, and
the intimation by one of the chief
investigators that Hayes arrest did
we've just started to work on the
case"
Middlesex county detectives ex-
pectcd to interview Mrs Frances Hall,
widow Of the slain rector, again to-
day.
Seek Missing Basket.
attention to investigating a report
that a blood-stained basket which
was seen near the bodies of the slain
rector and his choir leader on the
day they were discovered had dis
appeared. Four persons. it was said,
saw this basket a few hundred feet
from the bodies. The basket, which
was made of wood, was filed with
rags and papers. Some Of the papers
bore large splashes of what appeared
to be blood, 1t was asserted.
During the excitement incident to
the discovery of the crime the basket
The authorities said they
could not account for its disappear
aEce. The persons who are said to
have seen the basket were UNIV iiiing
to tell the authorities about 1t before,
it was said. because they disliked the
idea Of being drawn into the inves-
tigation.
Announcement is made that a COM
mittee of citizens in the sixth ward,
where Clifford Hayes lived, would
hold '"Tag day" on Saturday for
the purpose Of raising funds for his
legal defense.