New-York tribune., 1922-10-10
Clifford Hayes Arrested
and Charged With MUIR
ders After Companion Is
Said to Have Confessed
Mistaken Identity
Theory Unverifed
schneider, Who Found
Bodies With Girl, Said
TO Have Named Friend,
but Crilling Continues
BY Boyden Sparkes
BY Boyden Sparkes

by bCJ0CA opo1hCS
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct.
s.--The murder of the Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills, choir singer and wife of the
sexton Of the Church of ST. John
the Evangelist, where Hall was rec
tor, remains unexplained tonight,
although Clifford Hayes Is locked up
in the Somerset County Jail in SOM
erville on warrant charging him
with the double killing.
Grim hints of "a confession from
Raymond Schneider" and report that
sthe gun and watch have been found"
put forth seemingly as propaganda by
members of the staff of Prosecutor Jo-
aeph Stricken, had not been substan-
,xistsd late tonight either by facts or
y BY authorization of the, prosecutor.
Azariah Beekman, the prosecutor of
Somerset County. where the bodies
we're found, and who is technically re-
sronsible for the conduct Of the in
Ssstigation, was uncomfortably silent.
Third Degree Continues
Damaging statements have been
made concerning Hayes by the two
youths, who were his companions on
The night Of the murder. One of these
is Leon Kaufman, a sixteen year -old
boy, who revealed that Hayes was
carrying pistol on the night. DR.. Hall
and Mrs, Mills were shot to death.
The cther is Raymond Schneider,
tgsayst#o. who discovered the bodies
Als hunting mushrooms on the
kxaAaps farm III the company OF his
sMsa.year-old 800 sweetasg Pear!
third degree examination of
Esnneider that began early Sunday
eeznoon lasted all night and to-day,
1k In spite OF an announcement BY
$Hlier in the day, that Schneider had
#dmitted that he saw Hayes kill the
1eacr and the sections wife.
/ Several days ago Governor Edwards
tsat Colonel Schwartzkopf, of the state
police, to work on the case in New
Brunswick. He is quoted as having
Aald then that he did not want the
ofiter to return until he had arrested
tshe murderer, expressing surprise at
ff8he same time that an arrest had not
! already been made.
The circumstantial story emanating
from the courthouse is partly substan-
/ tlated by the statement Of the Kauff-
man boy. He told on Sunday night of
4 accompanying Schneider and Hayes on
the night of the killing twenty four
s days ago) while they stalked Nick
behmer. saloonkeeper and stepfather
of Pearl.
Swallowed Into Park
They were under the impression that
Behmer was going to harm the. girl.
according to Kaufman. There is no
reason to doubt his story that the
girl and her stepfather were snadowed
schneider and Kaufman out George
nsfeet which follows the course Of the
xiver, and the parallel stream Of the
cana, until they disappeared into
E Buccleugh Park. N 1i''o
was then almost IL o'clock. about
sne hour that shots and screams 1uere
seard on the abandoned farm. This
aov-acre weed grown tract is hut a
sa9Ft distance from the park. Kauff-
sa. NAN leit Schneider and Hayes and
ssn. nome. The. other two continued
: roam about the park and even in
4 vicinity of the farm until 8 o'clock
Ssae me morning. This much is admitted
III sne rest the authorities appear
~ aepending on a 3o0-word state
that IS supposed to have been
E ny Schneider, under what stress
ess ei1a degree measures is not, known
lively. Newspaper men were told
sas OF those who participated sin
Sssassse rrogation of the witnesses that
ss..saer, after hours and hours OF
fsjIs'on,ng, Iii " ing, said that after losing the
y NICK Behmer and his daughter
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