Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-11
THOMAS BROWN WILL AID
IN THE DEFENSE OF HAYES
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S~chneider's counsel said today they
had abandoned plans to seek his
release, as they feared a move to
obtain freedom for him woul re-
suit in his arrest on a murder charge
as an accomplish.
Prosecutor Beekman, of Somer-
set, said this fear vas well founded
as he was ready to take such steps.
Schneider admitted in the state
ment on which Hayes arrest was
based that he had been in Hayes
company for several hours before the
murder, having invited him to help
him find BANNER, whose attentions to
Pearl were Objectionable to Schnel-
der. Z
The authorities turned part of
their attention to checking up new
stories told by the incorrigible girl
today. She sought in her latest story
to turn suspicion on her father who
she asserted had more than once
threatened to cut her throat. Mrs.
Mills throat was cut and the story
told by Schneider Of an attack by
Hayes failed to explain this fact.
The girl said that after she had
walked with her father as far as
Buccleuch Park on the night of
Sept. IA, and had had the encounter
of which she told earlier with
Schneider, Hayes and Leo Kauf-
man. her father took her home and
told her to go at once to bed. This,
she said, was around 10 o'clock.
Looking out of her window. she de-
clared, she saw her father walking
about and muttering to himself.
A partial check of his record
showed BANNER had served a prison
term for highway robbery and a
term in the workhouse for mali
cious mischief.
The verbatim statement of Ray
mond Schneider accusing Clifford
Hayes of the murder of the Rev. Ed
ward w. Hall and Mrs. James Mills,
as given out, reads:
Statement of Raymond C. Schnei-
der, made in the presence of County
Detective Ferd David, Deputy Sheriff
Frank p. Kirby and State Police
Trooper Dickman on the morning
of Oct. 2, 1922:
az and Clifford Hayes left the RI
wolf theatre about 1885 p. m. Thurs
day night and followed Mr.. BANNER
and his daughter Pearl, up George
| street to Hamilton, then to College
avenue, up College venue to Nc
Cauley's Lane and thence to Easton
avenue, where we lost track of them.
Hayes and I went through De Rus
| sey's gulley and when about three
quarters of the way up we came
across a man and woman. Hayes
| said to me, There they are and
pulled a gun from his pocket and fir
ed three or four times.
II was about four feet away when
Hayes fired and 1 then started to run
| forrovd To p,tccubc lana nyhiah ryoe
a short distance away, and on arriv-
ing at the lane I started to walk to-
ward the Easton avenue road, where
I met Kaufman with a machine,
who asked me to take a ride down.
1T told him that Hayes was com
ing and we waited Shortly Hayes
Games along and we all three drove
down to Buccleuch, when Hayes and
I got out, Kaufman going home,
Hayes and I remained together a
short time and we parted, Hayes go
ing home and 1 too.
"The next morning, which was
Friday, I again went out looking for
mushrooms, along with Pearl BAN
mer, and again on Saturday when
we came across Mr.. Halls and. Mrs
Mills's bodies. I Immediately ran to
the house of Mrs. Striker and tele-
| phoned to the police. On the night
that Hayes shot Mr.. Hall and Mrs
Mills I knew a mistake had been
made. I did not touch the bodies
but Hayes pulled Mrs. Mips's scarf
that she had worn owe her face
and Mr.. Halls hat partly over his
face.
IT do not know what became OF
the gun after the shooting. And all
I am sorry for now is hat I did not
report this sooner"
Signed by
RAYMOND C. SCHNEIDER.
Witness: FERD DAVID,
FRANK P. KIRBY.
Former Senator Thomas Brown,