Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-16
MURDER
RESULT OF JEALOUSY,
/. DETECTIVES ASSERT
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IT have followed the caSe only A.
private citizen. in tho Same manner
as most other people havc, and have
made no special Investigation OF 1t.
Tho work OF tho Attorney General Is
not along those lines. And I have 1uris-
diiction In criminal matters only
through an order ISSUED by Juetice
Parker directing me to investigate the
case
"It would be impossible for mo to
say now whether I would continue TO
work with Prosecutors Beekman OF
Somerset and Stricken of Middlesex
and their staffs. together with the
State police. Tho whole point Ia thai
/ have not been called in and therc-
fore cannot talk about It,"
Stricken said yesterday that there
is\. no friction. no dLsscnsion and no
conflict OF authority between Beck
man and himself and has not been.
He mentioned the fact that Juliue
Braun, a private detective from New
York, has been here. supposedly in
the employ OF Charlotte Mills. and
that Braun believes no has q now
lead that will bring about q solution.
fDTdun mas ptCil NOihtDRs tl ~
stood. among tho Hungarian residents
of this town with whom Willie Stew
ems. Mrs. Halls brother. WAS wont
to associate. II Braun develops a now
theory these people Will probably f1g-
ure in II.
Troopers Follow Many Loads.
Tho State troopers arc wording on
a half dozen or moro leads, checking ur
all sorts OF things and really paytns
little attention for the time at least
10 the jealousy theory, which thoy
and others believe 10 about played out
On the other hand. George ID. Totten,
the Somerset county detective, - stick.
ing 10 this theory with great persist
ency and for days has had four mcm.
bers of the Ncal police force helpins
him through the courtesy OF Chiet
OConnell. Totten II the man who
should know more about the case than
any one else. az he was tho first or
the scene and the first man 10 ques
ton nearly all the important figurc-
In .he case. This Is what Totten has
TO say:
From the moment ! saw the differ
ent consideration with which the dead
bodies had been treated-the eyes OF
the minister lovingly closed and his
glasses placed on his nose and the
woman with her head almost cut of
and her eyes etarinE--I knew l was
not on the trail OF any blackmailer or
rohbcr or ordinary criminal
Il have had four men working on
that lead for three weeks and working
so quietly that nobody but myself has
known what they have been doing
Within few days now every body Will
know and Will be satisfied we have not
been wasting time or bunglinH"
Tottcn Is Sure Of solution.
Totten Is sure tho mystery Will be
solved and expects 20 continue work
Ing on the case regardless OF Judge
Parlers action. which Nigh; put Tot
tens superior. Beekman, out OF the
matter entirely.
The State troopers on the other
hand arc not nearly so optimistic.
They have not made enough progress
10 satisfy themselves and while they
are working hard and virtually all Of
the STAFF OF $50 mon are available for
use IN connection with the mystery.
their leads have not developed any
thing OF great moment.
Occupying about the same situation
in Niddlesex that Totten occupies in
Somerset, Detective Fred David holds
different views, for he says: 1T IS
true that this case has been bungled
but the fault is not IN Middlesex
county. The case did not come into
this office until noon of Monday. Sep
ternber is. forty-eight hours after the
crime had been discovered By thai
time the Phillips farm had been made
show place and the bodies had beer
carried of 10 Somerville. Neverthe
less. we have gathered q great amoun
Of evidence and ! believe We are get
ting nearer the truth every day"
Morbid Sightseers Turn Out.
More than thousand automobile
stopped on Easton avenue and De
Russey lane yesterday while the occu
pants visited the mysterious old farm
house and the now famous crab appl
tree. This tree incidentally will 500
be no more. for sightseers have broke
of not only twigs but whole branche
as souvenirs. They have pretty we
wrecked some parts OF the farmhous,
too.