New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
Man and Woman To Be
Seized and Mystery End
ed, Officials Say; State
intervention Is DELAYED
Widows Brother
Henry Summoned
Wire Tapping Charged;
Girl Sells Love Notes
RectorWrote HerMother
By Boyden Sparkes

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct. 49,
Removal of Prosecutors Stricken and
heekman from control Of the investi
CATION Of the murders of the Rev. Ed
ward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills
was held up to-day when they sent as.
surances to Governor Edwards and Su.
preme Court Justice Parker that they
had new evidence upon which they felt
Justified in arresting a man and .
woman.
According to an unverified report
from the Prosecutors office here the
new evidence is the statement of a
man who says he saw a motionless
automobile in De Russeys Lane on
the night Of the murders and recog-
nized it as the car of persons who
have figured conspicuously in the in
vestigation.
Late this afternoon Prosecutor Beck
man of Somerset County sent word to
Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs
Frances Stevens Hall, widow Of the
murdered rector, that he wanted to
see him at once. Mr.. Stevens replied
that he would take the first train. He
is staying at La Vallette, seacoast
village forty miles from New Bruins
wick
Stevens Refuses to Talk
When asked over the telephone to-
night if he knew why he had been
summoned Mr.. Stevens replied: "l
have nothing to say" He was asked
if it was not true that he had been
instructed to report to Prosecutor
Beeknan Immediately and gave the
same reply. A state trooper has been
stationed in La Vallette since thev
were put on the case by Governor
Edwards.
Mr.. Stevens, an expert rifeman, for
merly employed as demonstrator by
the Du Points and the Remington Arms
Company, had arranged to sail for Eu-
rope a few weeks ago, but cancelled
his plans. On the night of the double
killing Mr.. Stevens, according to his
statement and that of a neighbor in La
Vallette, was fishing in Barnegat Bay.
State Troopers Ignored
Whatever Prosecutor Beekman's pur-
pose was in summoning Mr.. Stevens to
his Office, he did not take into his con-
fidence any of the state troopers who
have been working on the case. This
was learned tonight. Colonel Norman
Schwarzkopf came here for a confer
ence with his men to-day, and he has
a swarm Of them in New Brunswick all
in plain clothes. But Mr.. Beekman's
failure to inform the state troopers of
his proposed conference with Mrs.
Halls brother illustrates but one
phase of the lack of cooperation
among the various investigating agen-
cies.
In Prosecutor Stricker's office De-
tective Ferd David is at cross purposes
with Detective Ferguson. They are
rival candidates for the post of chief
detective. Stricker wants to appoint
David and County Judge Peter DAILY,
whose sanction is necessary, has de-
clined to give it. So, if the mystery
is solved within the next four DAYS. as
the prosecutors have promised it shall
be, it will not be the result of har-
monious digging"
Further foundation for the belief
that the rector and the choir leader
mad mad earlier meetings in De Rus
sey's Lane was obtained last night.
when Florence North, the woman law
yer who volunteered her services to
Charlotte Mills, admitted that she had
sold a package of letters found by the
murdered woman's daughter i'm a small
bag IN her house and smuggled away to
her aunt, Mrs. Barnhardt, of Paterson,
N. j.
Written From Bar Harbor
Mrs. North declared that thew were
written by the clergyman to Mrs. Mills
while he was in Bar Harbor last Au-
gust, and that in two of them he re-
ferred to meeting her "on FRIDAY in
our road behind the Parker home.S In
the second he changed the hour from
In the evening to z in the afte fnoon.
The letters were undated, but the law
yer apparently believed that the dav
in question was that on which the
rector returned from his vacation.
three days before Labor Day.
In the letters, Mrs. North said. the
rector on one occasion called Mrs. Mills
hls Gypsy Queen" and on another
Dear Wonderheart." In one letter he
said that he. never thought of Sunday
without thinking of her.
About the diary Miss North was non
committal, merely describing it as a
little brown book covering twenty two
days simultaneous with the writing of
the letters. She admitted that DR..
Halls name did not appear in it and
refused to tell how she knew that he
had written it.
AS for her reasons for making pub
lie the letters, the woman lawyer said
that Charlotte had authorized her to
take the step in order to keep them
from falling into the hands of her
CONTINUED on pags nIne)