Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-19
MURDEREDPA|R
SLAIN IN BARN,
IS NEW THEORY
Affidavits Taken From
Motorists I'm mplicate
Woman in Light Coat.
Handkerchiefs Regard
ed as Valuable Clues;
Love Letters Barred.

New Brunswick, N. j.. Oct. 1S.-(By
The Associated Pressl-Affidavit
have been obtained from two men
whose identity the authorities refuse
to divulge, county prosecutors said
Wednesday night, which set forth that
the double murder of the Rev. Ed
Reinhardt Mills did not occur in the
Somerset county orchard where the
bodies were found, but in a barn on
the southern outskirts of New Bruins
wick.
Investigation which followed the
filing of the affidavits, authorities said,
Jed to the discovery by the police, two
handkerchiefs-one mans, the other
q wOman's-held to be important clues
in the case. They were not found on
the Philips farm, as reported at that
time, but in the barn which stands on
the opposite side of New Brunswick.
Two dark brown combs also were said
to have been found in the dirt floor
of the barn. These combs Charlotte
Mills is reported to have identified as
having belonged to her mother.
The statement which the authorities
men is said to declare that they were
driving from Red Bank, n. j., about
IL O'Clock in the night. Two miles
from New Brunswick, they said, they
passed the barn, deserted, dilapidated
structure plastered with advertising
posters, which stands in a field close
to the highway.
Motorists Heard Screams.
From this barn, the men are report
ed to have said, they heard screams
issuing, pleas for mercy, and then one
long shrek, "Murderi The police!"
The men drove through New Bruins
wick without reporting the occurrence,
and an hour later were on Easton ave-
nue., when they were passed by Sc
dan going toward the Phillips farm.
In the machine, they said, was women
wearing a gray coat and a man.
The affidavit is said to state furth
er that the men were on Iaston ave-
nue., near the park which adjoins the
Phillips farm, for nearly half an hour
and that they saw the sedan returning
at high speed. 1t turned from Easton
avenue near the park and disappeared.
The county prosecutors, in an eff
fort to shroud their investigation in
a secrecy which they declare to be es-
sential to a successful solution of the
mystery, have removed their head
quarters to the town of Boundbrook,
N. j., where they were in conference
Wednesday night.
In certain quarters, the statement
of the two signcrs of the affidavits is
not being accepted unqualifiedly. ThesG
persons point out that it contradicts
evidence already taken from persons
living in the vicinity of the Phillips
home that they heard the screams and
shots on the farm on the night of the
double Staying.
Mysterious Woman Summoned.
That the examination of Mrs. Emma
Hail. the widow of the retcor, IN the
prosecutors office, when she was
closely scrutinized by woman whose
identity has not been fully revealed,
was even more eerie and mystifying
than at first reported, became known
in connection with the announcement
of the obtaining of the affidavit. This
woman, the prosecutors now say, was
only a decoy. Sitting directly across
the room, she was supposed to absorb
all of the attention of Mrs. Hall,
while the rector's widow was being
closely scrutinized by the two men who
now are said to have made the aftI- !
davit. The authorities have declined
to make public the result of this elabor-
ate plan for examining Mrs Hall.
The love notes of the rector and
Mrs. Mills. which were made public
today, shed an entirely new light on
certain phases of the case, the author
tiles said. The Minnie" of these
notes, Mrs. Addison r. Clarks, has
been questioned regarding her move |
ments, particularly on the day the !
bodies of the rector and the choir sim
ger were found.