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In the latter case the amount OF
blood might we'll be the same as in
case OF the throat cutting being
done on the spot after death.
Tell OF Women's Screams.
The two afildavits referred TO are
now in the hands OF the authorities.
who do not seem to think very high
ly OF the afFirmstions they contain.
The story OF these two men is as fol-
lows:
On the night Of Thursday. Sep
tember II. they were driving from
Red Bank 20 New Brunswick. one
OF them having a late appointment
In the neighborhood OF Buccleuch
Park, which Is on Easton avenue.
not far from the Phillips farm.
While they were still four miles from
this town on the road towards South
River and Red Bank. they say that
as they rapidly passed a shed near
the roadside woman screamed
something to the effect, "Oh, don't
murder me: don't kill mel" The
men did not stop. but hurried on
and drove INTO and through New
Brunswick. They passed the shed
at 1890 at night. Forty minutes,
later they saw an automobile in
which a man and a woman were
visible drive past Buccleueh Park
and up Derussey Lane. They could
not distinguish faces. but the woman
wore a gray coat. The lights on the
car were burning. Twenty minutes
after that the same car. with ths
same two people visible. drove back
toward town, this time with the
lights out.
The shed referred to was under
stood to be at or near place call
ed Wetson Mills, which Is four miles
away. There are several places along
the road that might have answered
the description given. The trouble
with the story is that the murder
party with the bodies would have
had to drive right through the
center Of town TO get to the Phillips
farm with their burden unless they
took a circuitous route.
Another and more important fea-
ture is that for the murder to have
been committed IN the locality in
dicated Hall and Mrs. Mills in some
wav would have had to cross back
through town from the locality in
which they were last seen. which
was out toward the Phillips farm.
The possibility of kidnapping and
of sending for Hall to answer call
for aid remains, but the story is not
taken very seriously. especially as
the two men have taken their own
4tr,o about connfnR forward.
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rather. Eight letters and six post
cards that meant so much. These
were first.
"A crime of passion. unquestion-
ably. Whatever the relations OF the
minister and the choir singer. there
were suspicious against them. And,
added to that. intense jealousy OF
Charlotte's mother.
THE vengeance that spurred the
murderers TO the double crime was
born of these suspicions-a blind
vengeance that did not know the in
ner circumstances. The Jealousy
of her success in the church choir.
Signed ID. II. Il.
80 a fiendish impulse grew out Of
that jealousy-in horrible way
after vengeance had been served.
That is why Mrs Mills throat was
cut. I can picture that scene in the
dark loneliness OF the Phillips farm
"a knife mutilsting her neck and a
voice that was bitter with jealousy
and spuriously exalted with triumph.
THAT voice was saying: She will
not sing again'l"
Thus Miss North builds the case
against the murderers of Rector
Hall and Mrs. Mills. The sensational
wonder Heart" letters, signed with
the initials d. T. i. (meaning Define
Treue Liebe. the German for Thy
True Love- were the first important
bits OF evidence uncovered in the ef-
forts OF the woman lawyer-detectiye
to help Charlotte find justice.
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Woman La1uyer-Sleuh Says
Men Bungled Crime Solution
HIGH SPOTS

The long drawn out Hall
Mills murder mystery has had
these high spots:
The Rev. q. w. Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills disappeared from
their homes the night of Sep
tember II.
Their bodies were found by
Pearl Bahmer and Raymond
Schneider at deserted Phillips
farm September 10.
Weeks OF speculation-then
Schneider accused Clifford
Hayes.
Hayes arrested for murder
and quickly released when
Schneider changes story.
Pearl Bahmer held as witness
and her father Nicholas Bah
mer. arrested on serious
charge she preferred.
Charlotte Mig appeal to
Governor Edwards brings action
by Supreme Court to appoint
special prosecutor to corelate
investigation by two counties,
on border of which bodies were
found.
Florenos North, woman law
yer-detective, makes public
Wonder Heart" letters from
slain rector TO murdered choir
singer.
Evening journal., 1922-10-19
BY EDWARD THIERRY
NEA Service Staff Writer

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.. Oct. 10
-"Bungling OF men has delayed So
Hutton of the Hall-Mills murder
mystery. II is womans day"
Miss Florence North. lawyer-de-
tective. speaking.
Important steps in clearing up the
church crime. in which Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills. choir singer. met death, be-
gan with Miss North's disclosure of
the Wonder Heart" letters.
These came with the alliance OF
two women-or, more correctly,
woman and a girl; Miss North, rs.
! and only little while out OF law
school, and 16-year-old Charlotte
Mills. daughter OF the murdered
woman, whose letters of appeal TO
Governor Edwards first exposed the
bungling in the month-oid mystery.
Il came into the case 10 help
girl In trouble" said Miss North,
who volunteered her services with
out pay. Charlotte Is the chief vic
tim OF this double crime. She is the
tragic victim on whom the heaviest
burden falls"
To See Justice Done.
Not even Mrs. Hall, widow OF the
slain pastor, nor James Mills, Char
lotte's father, have aroused the
sympathy given Charlotte.
"She has been a Nemesis, relent-
less and pluoky. determined to sub
ordinate her grief IN order that JUS
tice be done" said Miss North. "She
To-,
yer's skill and a detectives brain. |
1 have tried to give her all of these /
IT am first a woman. with a ten |
der sympathy for her. And I am
lawyer with the instinct OF a detec-
tive. Not enough lawyers, especially /
IN lines OF criminology. understand /
that they should be detectives, toolr
Miss North, who is a New York
girl, looks very little older than
Charlotte She was admitted TO the
bar five years ago. when she was 20.
Il misstated my age-just one
year" she said with smile, "other-
wise they would have kept me out.
My heart has been in murder cases.
II love the work and the excite
ment. My first experience. while
still a law student. was with Grace
in the Ruth Cruger muir
der mystery"
Discovers Letters.
The motive2 A double one, says
Miss North-Jealousy and revenge.
''I looked first for the motive" she
explained. though when l came
into the case the officials had so
bungled IL that trails were cold, clues
were blind, and suspicious circum- {
stances covered. These prosecutors
and detectives went for weeks with =
,ut knowing of the letters OF the |
Rev. Hall 20 Mrs. Mills. Il
Il found them-Charlotte and I,
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their care vesterdav afternoon.

their care, yesterday afternoon.
Rodney Schunder was operated on
In a Wilmington hospital yesterday
when his tonsils and adenoids were
removed.
Sergeant and Mrs G. Russell
Coyle and children viii leave next
Tuesday for New York from where
they will sail for Panama. Sergeant
Coyle was notified OF his transfer
yesterday. Their hssty departure
will be greatly regretted by THAR
many friends and associates. Ser
geant Coyle and his family have
been residents of Fort Dupont for
the past three years. The Coyles
we're actively associated With ths
Methodist Church OF this place
Mrs. Frederick Moulhin. OF
swedesboro,, N. J., is the guest OF
her aunt, Mrs. Clayton Durham, OF
Clinton street.
Mrs. Vincent S. Cats and daush-
ter, Cornelia, OF Third and Bayard
streets, is spending a week with her
daughter, Mrs. Leon Vinipg. at
Salem, N. ].
Captain Eugene cullison, OF tha
U. S. Engineers cutter. "Mifiin" IL
spending two weeks with his family
here. Captain Cullison Is enjoying
his vacation ducltins and fishing.
Evening journal., 1922-10-19

llfAsSs a. w o1ON
mucous and waste matter from this
internal regions and by giving good
tone to the body generally and it has
given blessed relief in a great many
cases of catarrhal troubles.
1T Is nothing short of wonderful
the way Plant Juice relieved my
husbands catarrh." said Mrs. Jesse
Cumpston. of 1924 Kedroh street
Toledo, Ohio. during a recent cons
versation with the Plant Juice Man,
MY husband looks better than for
years and says he feels entirely diff
ferent.
THE oatarrh caused a constants
ringing noise in his ears and affected
his hearing so that he had not been
able to hear well for three years,
It also affected his stomach SO that
he often had bad pains in his left
side. He had spells Of weakness
and felt like he was going TO faint
Finally. the catarrh got so bad that
he could hardly hear anything.
"Slnce my husband took your
Plant Juice the ringing in his ears Is
entirely gone and he hears fine
we did not expect he
would ever be able to do again. His
stomach trouble has disappeared and
it's wonderful the way he eats now.
In fact. never saw the like OF ths
meals he eats and he says he never
has a bit OF trouble from indigestion,
gas or pain"
Plant Juice is sold in Wilmington
at The Miller drug store, 4o4-40s
Market street; New Castle by p.
g. Son; Newport by. c. b.
White: Newark by W. z. Brown
(Adv).
Evening journal., 1922-10-19
NEWS ODDITIES

That people will ask for medical
books more frequently on dark
gloomy days is curious fact, aci
cording TO a prominent librarian.
That lime secreting plants have
contributed more to reef building
than corals is stated by DR.. Mar
shall A. Howe IN a recent lecture
Elephants are driven Into a pit
covered with grass and branches
then killed with poisoned arrows oil
spears by the natives in the African
jungles.
The Buccaneers. who for years
harried the Spanish trade in The
Caribbean Sea and the Pacific, were
formed az an association OF sea-
rovers about 1895.
Hand-ball, similar to the play Of
today. is the earliest bail game we
find in history.
Evening journal., 1922-10-19

Grier; executive committee, Josiah
Marvel, chairman. G. Layton Grier,
L. J. Hayes, DR.. Walter Hullihen,
Everett C. johnson. H. W. Lyndall,
Alice L. Roop. John S. Rossell,
Henry P. Scott. H. Rodney Sharp,
w. o. sypherd.
Gbneral mmittee-Governor Den
ney, A. L. Bailey. Judge Henry c.
eonrad, Curtis C. Davis. Mrs. AL
fred I. DUPONT. Mrs. T. Coleman du-
Pont, Pierre S. dupont, George A.
Elliott. c. B. Evans. Mrs. c. c. Full
ton. Judge George Gray, G.. Layton
Grier. Hervey Hall. L. ]. Hayes, II.
b. Holloway. Jennings Hood. DR..
Walter Hullihen, Mrs. John c. Hut
ton, Everett C. Johnson. Arley j..
Magee, Josiah Marvel. Charles r.
Miller, Judge Hugh NJ. Morris. Row
land G.. Paynter. James Pennewill,
John s. Rossell, Harlan-G. Scott
Henry P. Scott. Benjamin F. Shaw,
II. Rodney Sharp, w. W. Smithers,
David Snellenburg, William c..
Speakman. Henry B. Thompson,
John G. Townsend. Jr., Mrs. H. B.
Waller. Mrs. A. d. Warner. ]. Pilling
Wright.
There was an enthusiastic meeting
of the mechanics of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Shops yesterday af-
ternoon. The meeting which was at
tended by upwards OF 600 workmen
was enllvened by selections by the
band OF the railroad men. II. d.
Gordon, chairman OF the shop craft
committee presided. He introduced
Mr.. johnson who addressed the men
on the objects OF the campaign. Mr..
] johnson fully explained the why's of
the campaign and showed that in
erecting such a memorial that the
state would only be doing fitting
honor to its soldier dead. His ad-
dress was well received and the in
dications are that the men will re-
spond heartily to the appeal.
The following teams for the me-
mortal library campaign 10 the mem
Dry of the Delaware soldiers who
died during the war have been COM
pleted and are in addition to the
list of teams published yesterday:
Mrs. Julia H. Ashbrook, captain
Mrs. william c. Speakman, Mrs. 70.
T. Shellady. Miss Shellady. Mrs. Ada
Roberts. Mrs. Leroy Work, Mrs.
Lois Kuhns, Mrs. John F. LeCar-
pentier, Mrs. D. c. Peters. Mrs. Dun
bar Mulhausen, Mrs. Harry Parting
ton.
James z. Stein. captain-H. b.
John A. Thoms. ]. w.
Eby, b. F.. Marean. T. c. Taylor.
D. A. McClintock, william Mask,
Jr., william NJ. p. Rheuby, Clar-
ence Lynch, James Fraser. VI. M.
Taylor, p. NJ. Arnold. Joseph n.
Knox.
Mrs James p. stein. captain
Miss Irene Allen, Mrs. James Nor
ford.
H. V. Berg. captain-Harvey Il
Gregg. Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Snyder,
Albert Lewis.
f. F. Melia. captain-willlam J.
Maloney. John McQuaid, Jr, Francis
J. Marian. william Berl, Walter
Reardon, William McVey.
]. Frank Huss. captain-E. 3.
Walton, A. J. sturgis, w. S. Williams.
Charls T. wainwright, c. w. Parvis.
H. b. Hygate. J McElwee, q. p.
Jr. r. s. Bothe. S. c..
Downs. II. Simpson Hoffecker, w. C.
Bachus.
Eugene Manning. captain-Leo
Blumberg, Earl Lind. Samuel Shall
cross. Homer Ewing, Henry p.
cleaver. Leighton c. s. Dorsey.
Ralph L. Jacobs. Harry X. Greene,
Mrs. r. r. Manning.
F. Irving Walls. captaln-Thomas
7. Mowbray. Joseph II. Maston, Guy
stollenwerck, Daniel r. Jones. Ralph
Dlnsmore, Herbert r. Smith.
George McIntire, Captain-H. E.
;navely Andrew Eliason, Mrs. L. E
-,liason
Evening journal., 1922-10-19
RINGING SOUND
IN EARS ENDED
Her Husband Was Nearly
Deaf From Dreaded Dis
ease, Catarrrh :
SAYS PLANT JUICE
GAVE HIM RELIEF

Catarrh of the mucous mem-
branes. with It's ringing in ears
deafness and awful mucous in head
nose and throat, is a dreaded dis
ease. This new herbal renSdy,
Plant Juice. combats catarrh by act%
ing as an eliminant, driving out the
Evening journal., 1922-10-19
DIED

POWELL-In this city, on October IS,
1922, Elsie L., wife of Harry r.
Powell. aged 26 years. Relatives
and friends are invited 20 attend
the funeral services, at Yeatmans
Funeral Parlors, S19 Washington
street. on Saturday afternoon, al
2 o'clock. Interment private. Z
this city, on October II.
1922, John McLucas. Relatives,
friends and members Of Star OF
Bethlehem. L. o. L., are Invited
70 attend the funeral services, at
his late residence. 250l W. 18th
street. on Friday afternoon, Octo-
-ber 20. 1922, at 2 o'clock. Inter1nent
at Mt. Salem cemetery. I
this city, on October II,
1922. Carrie A. Johnson. Funeral
services viii be held at hsr late
residence 2607 y. Van Buren, street,
on Friday afternoon. October 20, at :
o'clock. Interment private.
Evening journal., 1922-10-19
Sines and Welch
FLORISTS

ala WEST EIGHTH STREET
Cut Flowers and Funeral Designs
a Speciality
d. & A. Bs73
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-10

developed until Standard Oil triumphed
and the Corrigans went into steel instead
In steel they made money-not as much
rs Rockefeller was making, but enough TO
rise to a place among Cleyeland's pioneer
milHonaires. They still held some of their
oil interests, however, and there is an old
saying among Cleveland business men OF
the elder generation that John or James
Corrigan would never turn down tipster
who offered chance to take flyer
against Standard Oil,
James was the richer Of the Corrigan
brothers, but when his family was lost in
a yachting disaster on the Great Lakes
most of his fortune, along with Johns,
went to Johns children. And James Cor
rigan, son of John, who eventually came
into the bulk of the Corrigan millions, IN
herited them with those ranking memories
of John D. Rockefeller.
James the Second became as high fig
ure in Cleveland society as his father and
uncle had been humble in the days when
they were newly landed from the old
country. The spotlight picked him out In
his youth, when he was sued for breach
Of promise by Georgiana Young, Of Pitts
burqh. And then, some years later, Cleve-
land society was startled when James
brought home from Chicago beautiful
young bride.
Mrs. Jimmie" Corrigan Immediately
cut a name for herself as the most glitter
ing hostess in the Middle West, Dashing,
lovely, ambitious, she made no secret Of
her desire to boost the Corigan stock as
nigh socially as the Corrgan millions
would carry It,
And it didn't take her long 70 achieve
that goal-in Cleveland. Which, as Mrs
Corrigan frankly informed her friends
was by no means the half Of it. Beyond
the Alps lies Italy" And beyond Cleve
land lay, for Mrs. Corrigan, that Italy OF
all American social climbers-New York
There is in New York, society OF many
kinds. There is society that will welcome
any good fellow who will buy drink
There is society that will admit any CIR
with a Southern accent and a grandfathe
who lived in Virginia. But there Is onl,
one society with Palm Beach villas an
Newport cottages. with its box at tn
Metropolitan and it's shooting lodges Il
Westchastcr County And that society
like a safety-deposit box In d bank vault
Nobody can get in who hasn't the key.
1t would appear that the vivid Mr.
d "Jimme" Corrigan, with the Corrga
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-10

millions and her own ripe beauty and her
Cleveland conquests, had plenty Of keys
to try on the bank vault society of Man
haitian. It may be that some Of them fit
It may be that some of them didn't.
Greater locksmiths than Mrs. Jimmie
have tried to open the door to the Four
Hundred--and failed,
Whatever her degree of success, the
gossips held it significant when she sud
denly resigned her suite at New York
hotel and sailed away to London. The
folks back in Cleveland said that Mrs.
Corrigan planned to repeat abroad her
New York social victories. The folks
along Fifth avenue only smiled.
But during the past season there seems
to be little doubt that Mrs. Jimmie" Cor
rigan stampedcd British society. That is,
If the society cable news whisking out Of
London Is any criterion.
"BIrs James Corrigan, Of New York
and Cleveland, has leased Mrs George
Keppers house on Grosvenor street and
plans to entertain ex .ensively."
"Mrs James Corrigan was hostess last
night at an elaborate dinner dance. Her
guests included Ambassador and Mrs
George Harvey, the Spanish Ambassador
and his wife, Baroness Moncheur, the
Duchess Of Somerset, Lady Beatrice Pole
Carew and Viscount Churchill"
royalty honored Mrs. Jimmie Corn-
gan's opening dinner Of the season at her
beautiful house in Grosvenor street,
Wednesday night, Princess Mary Louise,
who is regarded as one OF her best friends,
attending"
"Among the American women presented
at the second court held at Buckingham
Palace was Mrs James w. Corrigan," etc,
etc.
And then, on the heels Of these an
ouncemcnts-aready causing the New
York Four Hundred TO sit up and blink
came the news that Mrs. Jimmie" was
coming homel
"She win" added the cables, take q
town house for he Winter season and
plans to launch an elaborate campaign to
complete her conquest of New York so
ciety. Her opening affair, it Is said, vii
be a musicale, for which she Is now en-
gaging distinguished artists"
musicalel There was a certain old
fashioned novelty about the idea that IN
trigued the Imagination Of even th'
haughtiest blue-bookers The prediction
was freely made that II Mrs. Jimmie
Corrigan carried out her plan--if he
Couysht lsaa by International Feature
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-10

1.-TWO Irishmen In overalls and red
shirts looked up at the placard an
nouncing John D. Rockefeller had
bought the oil plant where they worked
They looked down at their scuffed shoes
One swore. The other said:
"Fired, are we? And by Rockefeller.
4; Well, Wen fix him|
Two generations later a beautiful
woman, married to the millionaire son of
one of those Irishmen, reads in news
paper that John d. Rockefeller, Jr., will
herald his daughters debut in New York
society with musicale. And a musicale
was exactly what she had planned to mark
her own splash in the Manhattan -Four
Hundredl
The record does not say the beautiful
lady did anything so plebeian as to look
down at her slippered feet and swear. But
the cables report that she has abandoned,
at the eleventh hour, her plans for So
clety invasion and, rather than play sec
ond fiddle to the Rockefellers, will go to
India!
There, in a nutshell, are the first and
latest chapters of feud that started sixty
years ago in a greasy oil refinery and will
rage this Winter in Fifth avenue ball
rooms.
Then It was a feud Of red shirts, dirt,
sweat and dollars. Now 1t is feud OF
white shirts, orchids, perfume and social
prestige. Then the principals were Irish
Johnnie" Corrigan, with his pipe and his
pick, and John d. Rockefeller, just start
ing his fortune Now the principals are
Mrs. James Corrigan, chum of dukes and
countesses, and little Abby Rockefeller,
John DIS debutante granddaughter
Is there anywhere, save in America.
where such a changing drama could take
place in half century?
John and James Corrigan, brothers
emigrated from Ireland just about the time
the high-wheeled bicycle was coming into
It's own. Garfield ran for the Presidency
Brooklyn Bridge was being built, oil wa'
discovered in many parts of the Middle
West, and John D, Rockefeller emerged
from a cierkship in Cleveland to lunioli
partnership in Andrews, Clark q CO.. ol
operators. r,.,.o
The Corrigan brothers went TO CIeye
land They work d with their tdupa
They got Jobs in an oil refinery: me!
saved money. Some of 1t they lnveste'
In the business, They hoped and dreame'
of millions.
And then, just as prosperity seemed =
beckon around the corner, their SINAI
plant was abs ,roed by the Iewly organ
fssd Standard Oil Company along W.T.
Sose,.g of other competitors, and the C9i
rigan boys found themselves Jobless an
ali but "broke."
Those were rough-and-tumble days /
the oil business Old residents OF Clcy'
land ;ell now the Corgan brother
"squeezed" as they claimed by Rocck'
feiler, fought back; and how bitter fe'
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" TTTI "VTTTIT III
did was TO snicker.
And what It snick-
cred was: Another
round for the Rookie
feiicrsl They won
the fjrst--Ovcr an oil
refinery. They won
the second -- over a
musicale. When and
where can we see the
third?'
The New York herald., 1922-05-19
Dinner Held in Honor
of Derby Winners Owner

group Of Wall Street men rendered
dinner to Benjamin Block. owner of
Norwich. the colt which won the Ken
lucky Derby. last night at the Arrow
head Inn. More than 125 persons were
present. Moving pictures of the $4,000
classic were shown and there were
addresses by sportsmen and business
associates of the proud owner.
Richard T. Wilson, Jr.. whose good
colt Pillory won the Preakness on the
same day Norwich won the Derby. made
a short address. He congratulated Mr..
Block for possessing such good colt,
and said that Norwich had done a great
deal for the turf.
Mr.. Block said that all the credit for
the colts unbeaten record was due to
Fred Burlew. his trainer. Burlew knew
he had good horse, and knew how to
make him good and keep him good. he
said.
Mr.. Burlew said that he had trained
horses in all parts of America and in
France and England. and that the great
est thrill he ever received in his life
came last Saturday when his charge
won the Derby.
Among the other speakers who lauded
the colt, Mr. Block and his trainer, were
the Rev. DR.. Malone and Judge McIn-
tyre.