The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-02
STATEMENTS OF
WIDOW ATTACKED
BY JAMES MILLS
Husband Of Slain chorlster Declares
Untrue Mrs. Halrs Declaration
That She Had Not Talked
About Foul Play.
DETECTIVES POINT TO
ALLEGED DISCREPANCIES
Declare Interview Did Not Check Up
With Story of "other Wltnesses";
Gibson Woman Also Attacks
Mrs. Hall's story.

New brunswick. n. j.. Nov. D.
James Mills. husband OF the slain
choir singer. today declared untrue
several statements made by Mrs.
Frances Noel Hall. the rocior's Wild
ow IN her Interview with ncwspa.
pormen yesterday concerning the
double murder =
Detective James Mason declared
that discrepancies existed between
statements OF Mrs. Hall and those
of other witnesses" while Mrs.
Jane Gibson who claims to have
witnessed the dual murder. stimuli.
tancously attacked declarations
made by the late rcctor's wife who,
she charges. was present at the
slayings.
Mills. laying aside the meek de-
mcanor he has assumed since the
crime. took issue with Mrs. Halls
assertion that she notified police OF
her husbands disappearance before
she saw him the morning after he
left home.
Il met Mrs Hall about $3.50 FRI
day morning at the church and she
told me Hall had not been home the
previous night" Mills declared. II
said My God. neither was Eleanor,
maybe they have eloped"
"'No, It must have been foul
play" she replied 81 myself sug-
gested calling the police and she
said she would telephone them and
did not intimate she had already
called them Later in the day she
told me she had notified them that
Mrs. Mills was missing"
Mrs. Hall yesterday. repeatedly said
she had not talked with Mills as to
the possibilit yof foul play or an
elopement.
"They can't catch the murderers
any too quick to suit me-" Mills
continued. "lf | had any money
I'd offer it to quicken the solution"
81 an not indicative, either, but
| want to see those people pun
ished."
Mills also insisted despite Mrs.
Halls denials that he saw her four
times Friday, the day after the muir
ders. lie repeated that he saw Mrs.
Hall at $3.50 Friday morning.
Mills also declared he saw Mrs.
Hall twice Saturday and added:
"She looked very much worried"
81 did not see her again until af-
ter the bodies had been found.
went to tell her about it but she
already knew She was not crying
and was not nearly so broken up as
was. | had a fainting spell while
was there and she got me some
spirits Of ammonia
Mills declared he certainly still
had confidence in his wife and
Hall"
There may have been friendship
between them but it was friendship
of the mind" he said. Mr.. Hall
was fine man and know my wife
would not have done anything
wrong"
Mills asserted he thought it "pe-
culiar that Mrs. Hall should not
wish to offer a reward for the mur-
derers."
The first time Mrs. Hall came to
he Mills home on Friday morning
after the disappearance, the first
question she asked was, WAS any
one sick at your house last night?"
according to the church janitor and
afterward spoke about foul play
Mills said he had seen fac SMILES
of one of the letters Hall is alleged
to have written his wife and that
he was satisfied it was in the rec
tors handwriting.
"All these theories about black
mail and robbery are all rot. 1t
was jealousy and | think her throat
was cut in spite against her sing
ing"