The Washington times., 1922-10-10
SAN3MEN,
2 WOMEN,
bA 7 TIE IN
DARkLANE
Aged Inmate of Home Over
looking Scene Of Tragedy Up
sets Case Against Boy.
by International News Service.

BY International News Service.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,
Oct. 10.-A new witness who
claims to have seen Rev. DR..
Edward w. Hall, wealthy rector
of the fashionable Protestant
Episcopal Church of St. John the
Evangelist, and his beautiful
choir leader, Mrs. James Mills,
killed in "a battle between a
man and a woman on one side
and two men and a woman on
the other side," was found today.
The new witness is a woman.
Inmate Of Aged Home.
The self-claimed eye witness Of the
mysterious midnight tragedy, which
has baffled the authorities more than
three weeks. is an inmate OF the
Parker Home for the Aged, which
Is just across the road from the old
Phillips farm where the bodies of DR..
Hall and Mrs. Mills were found side
by side beneath a stunted crabapple
tree on Saturday. September 16.
II the woman's statement is veri.
charge against nineteen-year-old Cliff
ford Hayes. who is held as the result
Of a story told the authorities by
Raymond Schneider.
This woman, whose name is with
held, said that on Friday morning,
September Is, about half an hour
after midnight, while lying in bed,
she awakened and heard screams
and cries. Getting out Of bed, she
went to window, where she saw a
woman and two men fighting a man
and a woman at the corner OF De
Russey's lane and Easton avenue,
both of which pass either through
or by the old Phillips farm. The
struggle. she said. was terrific.
Presently, the woman said, she heard
several shots. This frightened her
so much she jumped back into bed
and hid her head beneath the covers,
1t is understood that corroboration
of the fight has been obtained from
other witnesses.
Boys Story Doubted.
The two youths now in Jail, Cliff
ford Hayes, charged with first de-
gree murder. and Raymond Schnei-
der, held as a material witness,
spent a comfortable night. Both
are held incommunicado SO far -
reporters are concerned.
Public feeling is growing here
that Schneider's confession that he
and Hayes trailed Hall and Mrs.
Mills to the isolated farm on the
night of September IA and that
Hayes fired four bullets into Hall
and Mrs. Mills in belief that they
were his sweetheart, fifteen.year-
Pearl Bahmer. and her stepfather,
must be accepted with doubt.
Hayes denies that he killed Hall
and Mrs. Mills. Thomas s. Hag-
erty. counsel for the nineteen.year-
old boy. said he Is convinced that
young Hayes is telling the truth.
Admit Case Not Cleared Up.
Hayes, nevertheless, is held on a
charge of firstdegree murder and
Schneider is held as a material wit
ness. But the two prosecuting at.
torneys handling the case today adj
mitted that the Hall murder was
not yet cleared up.
Outstanding points which were NC
cleared up by Schneider's al
confession were:
Why was the wOman's
cut from ear to ear, the
vein being severedf Tb
little blood on the grop
the bodies were found, n
ries heretofore espresso
tlves and attorneys conf
the case were 10 the
bodies were carried, a.
der. to the spot wi
Why was a pacl
placed between
minister and his
/ Why was the
card propped u
so as to be cas-
Schneider's All
| Schneiders al
was to the effed
who was armed,
Pearl Bahmer, with
' er was infatuated
girl. aged sixteen.
Of holding tryst
man. The couple
by Hayes and Schneid
said, to the abandoned
in the darkness, ira
was lost. In the en-
a couple was seen and
| ly Hayes started firins
was not even supposed
fatuated with the girl.
couple was killed the
identity was noted.
| So, residents here are
what interest did Hayes hav.