The Washington times., 1922-10-31
Staying
EVIDENCE NOW
IN, SAYSF[YNN
Detective Declares Killing of
Rector and Singer Should
Lead to Two Arrests.
BY WILLIAM j. FLYNN
Famous Detective and Former Chief
United States secret Service.

Service)
NEW BRUNSWICK, ~. j.. Oct.
31.-The net Of evidence In the
flaming drama OF human passion.
motivated by the Illicit love OF a
married minister for the pretty
wife of the church sexton, today
has been drawn so tightly that the
notorious dual murder OF the Rev.
Edward w. Hall and Mrs. Flea nor
Mills is no longer matter for
detectives.
The recent mystery of New
Brunswick is now at stage OF
development where the search for
tile ,nici .iotters whom evidence
shows to be headed by woman
need go no further afield.
The case passes from the realm
OF solving u murder mystery TO
melting out punishment to the
guilty. II Is at a point where u
jury OF twelve men must say def.
nitely what shall be done to those
whom an eyewitness and tangible
evidence accuse OF having pcrpe.
trated a cOldblooded. double muir
der.
Now Up to Prosecutor.
With an eyewitness swearing
dark OF night under crabapple
tree near the deserted century-old
farmhouse, naming man and
woman as involved in the Staying
with much corroborative evIdenc"
in the hands OF the prosecution.
with the motive for the crime be.
lieved definitely established, nOfh.
Ing Is TO be gained by any further
delays in submitting the case for
action to a petit jury.
Postponement Of having the case
pass from the hands OF the proseCu.
ton into those OF jury will only
lead to the cnCoura cement OF
sinister influenCes-already seen at
work-that may reach out and de.
stroy or remove important links in
the chain OF evidence gathered after
six weeks work. While al Of those
TO whom the evidence in hand points
are under surveillance and canno:
escape, the community undoubtedly
will brea he freer II II knows that
the suspected murderers are behind
Jail bars. The net has been drawn
tightly and a woman is "ensnarcd"
II Is not a matter Of urging
precipitat" aCtiOn-I am opposed TO
any hasty step-but | believe that
with the motive already established
and the testimony now collected. the
case is in shape TO be presented to
Il jury for final disposition.
Jealousy the Motive.
l have said that the motive for
the staying was jealousy. think
that even those who hitherto have
held other theories have now been
convinced of this ny the overwhelm-
ing mass OF evidence accumulated
and much of which l brought out
in my investigation.
1t is possible that jealousy as
motive was complicated in this case
by the religious fanatiCism OF the
woman suspected, who may have
been led by a fervent exaltatlon to
regard herself as chosen bv heaven
to avenge the straying of the minis
ter from the straight and narrow
path by sacrificing his life. Even
II the information I have just re-.
Ceived tending to establish this Is cor
rect. the jealousy motive would not
be changed. There would simply be
presented to the jury a powerful sec
Ondary influence instigating the kill.
ing.
eart-chilling terror must displaCe
the wrath of fancied security which
the six weeks of investigation doubt
lessly kindlCd in those whom the
State within a few DAYS at most Is
justified in asking a grand jury to
indiCt for the murder of the rector
and his choir singer sweetheart, or
whom II has enough evidence TO war.
rant arresting them.
Time TO Act Now.
I have previously indicated that n
woman was either one OF the actual
slayers, or present at the killing.
The scattering of the love letters
written by Mrs. Mills to the rector
over the dead bodies was one proof
of this. The fact that the minister's
eyelids had been closed as though
with loving care, was another. TO
mention only two.
The eyewitness. Mrs. Jane Glib
son, who. riding mule toward
the field OF golden rod where the
Staying took place, saw the murder
beneath a rising moon and starlil
sky. confirms this with visual tes.
timony. 1t was she, who several
hours after she says she saw the
violent deed committed, returned
to find the woman she had pre-
viously seen at the death scenc,
bending, weeping over the bodies,
and II was probably at this stage
that the last tender attentions seem
to have been paid the minister
with the closing of his eyes and
the arrangement Of his clothes.
Investigation and detection is
practically over.
What was n battling mystery OF
double murder, which through it's
unusual features gripped the on.
tire country with a fascinating in.
terest. is now complex dual kill.
ing case with evidence gathered,
details placed together and the cor.
roborated testimony Of an eyewit-
ness
With the case in such shap".
justice demands that proceeding
b" initiated against those suspected.
tQr unless justice is swift It may
he defeated.
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