Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-17
ARREST TO BE MADE FOR HALL
 MILLS MURDER WITHIN a4 HoURi

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 New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 1e (By the A. P.)-Cessation of all actiEdes to turn the investigation of the dotfble murder of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Rhinehart Mills. over to state authorities, it was learned tonight has followed promises by the Middlesex and Somerset county author ities that definite action, eliminating in the arrest, will be taken within the next twenty-four hours
 - Citizens of New Brunswick, who have been most oaustic dn their criticism of the handling of the entire case. which has resulted in several instances of open hostility, have apparently aocept- ed the promise in good faith and speak cptmistically tonight of early acd1on which will go far toward clearing the mystery surrounding the double shy- ing.
 A close race, having as its goal an arrest, which will stand the investiga- t5on of the grand jury, has developed Between the count yauthorftieS and the three state troopers who have been working independently on the case, at the direction of Governor Edwards The county prosecutors of MiddIesex and Somerset counties declined. to inti-
  ton, or what newly discovered evidence had led them with surprising swfftress from a point of view that they would welcome any and all aid which the state could give, around to the convic- tion that the situation was rosy again" and that full light on the case was only matter of hours
 The latest clues brought into the case | the New Brunswick police said to- night, we're two handkerchiefs found on the Phillips farm on the Sunday | following the discovery of the two bod ] ies. One of them is said to be man s l large white linen handkerchief. It had no Identifying marks. The second was srralber. lace trimmed, and bore the ini- tiaI 'S"
 Charges of wire-taEutns by Ms. Hall, widow of the slain rector, the county prosecutors and Ralph H. Gors- line, a vestryman in the rector's church who was questioned two weeks ago by the police are being investigated The ten letters which Charlotte Mills daughter of the slain woman, an- nounced through her attorney were in her possession and which she said proved that the friendship between her mother and the. rector was only ''pla- tonic" are dated from Islesfcrd, Maine and bear dates of last August, it be- came known today.
 'The authorities have not seen these letters" said Julius Braun. private de tective retained by Charlotte, "and we do not intend to disclose their contents lnow. We are holding them until the , proper time, when we expect to produce them to some pu4pose."
 The ten letters, it has been learned definitely from another source, how. yer, contain in detail the plans for a tour of Europe and later the Orient, by MT. Hall and Mrs. Mills. One of the letters deals frankly with making of to live in an ,EpiEopahan home while waiting for the rector to obtain a d. vorce.
 In Germany, the letters show, tn, couple planned to study art Then they planned to devote themselves to travel Most of the letters said to have beer written by the rector to Mrs. Mills bea the saautation My dear Gypsy
 This saMaEion-"G ytpsT'-has a di rect bearing on one of the main clue of the case. the police believe. . Whel the rector was murdered he was wear
 ing a gold tie-clasp, which 1t is sai was given to him by the choir singer
 It bore the single initial e."
 The county prosecutors, it was learn l ed tonight, have summoned Henr Stevens, a brother of Mrs. Hall, to Ne, Brunswick for questioning The broth : CT makes his home in Lavallette, N. The Somerset county authorities, i searching the countryside for vii
 neSes, said tonight that they ha.
 found living on a little rocky fatn
 ecroas from the Phillips place a peas
 ant wouian, who came from the sout l of Europe several, years ago, and O the death of relatives in New Brun: 2 wick moved on to the little farm, whic 7 She began to buy under a heavy nor
 gage.
 . This woman has informed detective that on the day preceding the doub r murder she saw a woman walkin . about the Phillips farm and apparentl . studying the maze of lanes and trai
 which lead into it from the main thol
 oughfare of Easton avenue Their ir
 formant, the detectives said, told the, v she became interested in the woma . and went to thefence Of her farm I order to see who she was She ha never seen her before but several da,
 after the murder she said she saw ti
 womans picture in a New Brunswic newspaper where she was referred
 as one of the prominent figures in u
 HaEMdlls case" Further inquiries, tf
 det ectfvesi declared, revealed that tt mortgage on the little farm has bee