New-York tribune., 1922-10-18
BrothersAlso Disturbed as
They Quit Courthouse: !:
Officials Think Rector's S
Family Hides Something
Prosecutors Cover
Up New Evidence
Charlotte Mills's Attorney
Ordered to Return Love
Notes Sold for $1,000
From. q star Correspondent

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4 From the mass of conjecture, some lor-
icsleand much nothing but the widest
/ guessWork, one fact developed in the
I! happenings here to-day. That was the
plainly indicated circumstance that the
prosecuting authorities who have CHARGE
OF the investigation into the Hall-Mills
tragedy OF September ID have returned
to their original theory that the mem
bers OF, the murdered clergyman g
4 household have some knowledge of the
crime which they have not yet shared
/! with the Investigators.
Early to-day the net was cast at the
Hall house, and Mrs. Hall, Miss Sallie
/ Peters, her friend and confidante; viii.
lie Stevens and Barbara Tough, the
housemaid, were taken in closed car
4 TO the courthouse. Detective David
accompanied them. Henry Stevens al
ready was there. He had arrived ear
lier and alone, coming from Lavalette.
where he has summer bungalow.
/ Detectives Hold OF Reporters
The Hall party was headed into the
.SAAAeh SSSAA ehoucS Dy uSbeCtiVeS, Sn0A Sprang
TO protect them from the crowd Of re-.
porters. They first essayed an entrance
by the basement door, but this was
locked, and they had to run the CANT
4 let Of the curious around the court
4 house steps and enter through the
main door. They were taken to the
1 Office of Prosecutor Beekman. ON an
/ upper floor, and detectives were posted
4 outside the door to keep the newspaper
men at bay.
1 The Hail rarty arrived at about
1880. At noon Charlotte Mills ar
rived, accompanied by state trooper.
She also was taken to the prosecutors =
!, Office
4 1T was 1880 before the examination
was completed and the interested par
j ties released from the prosecutors Of
! fice, Mrs. Hall, wearing the double
black veil which she has affected in
1 all her public appearances since the
1 tragedy, came first leaning heavily on
sthe arm Of Miss Peters. AT her side
1 was Timothy N. Pfeiffer, of New York,
Her counsel. Mr.. pfeifFers presence in
thes room had not previously been
4 known. He had not been officially
i told Of the projected sweep upon his
client and her friends, and The arrived,
after the examination had been going
4 forward for some time. He threw his
i raincoat around Mrs Halls head to
4 protect her from the pointing cameras
4 and helped her into the car which was
waiting at the curb.
Appears Near Collapse
Mrs Hall slumped down into a cor
/ ner and her head dropped on her
4 shoulder Every line Of her attitude
Indicated distress. She had<the appear
4 arce Of woman who has undergone a
i severe ordes and was near,to. collapse.
Behind her came her maid Barbara
i Tough. Her two brothers remained in
] the courthouse until after Mrs Hall
had driven away &M
! Henry and Willie Stevens came out
Il few minutes aftcrward, separately.
They both refused to discuss their eek
1 periences in the prosecutors Office and
4 both appeared to be somewhat per-
turbed. This was particularly notice
Il able in the case of Henry Stevens, who
j Is asbig man, with the iovial disposi-
ton which goes naturally with his
i physique.s To-day he seemed worried
4 and y answered questions abruptly and
in ] monosyllables. Willie Stevens,
whose habits are eccentric, seemed up
| set chiefly because there was no car
awaiting him. He, too. declined to
discuss the Interview with the prose
cutor.
Charlotte Departs Last
| q II was 2:30 before Charlotte Mills
appeared. She again was accompanied
/ byS state trooper who refused to per-
j NIT. her to be questioned.
Later in the afternoon Prosecutor
Bcekman, prefacing his statement by
| the sremark that he was feeling III and
had not stime to bother with reporters,
igsued this brief official report Of the
occurrence:
| Frances N. Hall and her brothers, Wii-
4 liam and Henry Stevens. These exami-
nations were prompted. by some new |" "
/ information received which cannoc pc
disclosed. We do not intend tne ar
rest 9of any person to-day ana any
! other statement than the above IS un-
Finally between and - Mrs,
lHaH,a counsel, Timothy Pfeiffer, held
court in the lawyers room in the court
house. where he submitted to strenu-
Gus scross-exanination by the reporters,
1.-THE subject being the interview pc,
tween his client and her family and
] the prosecutor. Mr.. Pfeiffer was
friendly but comnittal. He IN
slated that he had no theory as to who
| committed the murder. that Mrs, Hall
had none. and that mo arrest IS con- ~
1templated, at any rate among any mem
bers OF the Hall family ~ MT. Pfeiffer er
added that he had no knowledge OF any
lnew information which Mr.. BeekmaA
! {eeatiaued on pase thrss)