Evening journal., 1922-09-25
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REASONS FOR
dual KILLING
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; said TO have been love epistles had
been stolen by the blackmailers and
were to have been delivered to the
Rev. Mr.. Hall for a sum of money
he is known to have had on his per-
son.
2. That the crime was commit
ted by a jealous woman who resent
ed the attentions that Mr.. Hall was
paying to the pretty wife of the
church sexton.
3. That the two had gone to the
farm and had been surprised by rob-
bers, who after a struggle, killed
the pair and robbed the clergyman.
Apparently It has been decided
that the decks shall be cleared and
the investigation of the Hall-Mills
murder be begun again. The county
detectives spent the greater part of
yesterday questioning the two per-
sons who found the bodies of Hall
and Mrs. Mills.
AS a result they learned some
thing that may be of great value,
though 1t has nothing to do with the
theory that Hail and Mrs. Mills
were killed by some one who be-
lieved them to be on terms of great
intimacy and was driven to des-
peration by jealousy by this belief.
The two persons with whom De-
tectives Totten. of Somerset county
and Ferguson. of Middesex county,
passed the whole afternoon and a
part of the evening were Pearl Beh-
mer and Raymond Schneider. The
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ton with this crime. Her father
had her taken into custody as an
incorrigible.
Schneider, who appeared to be in
the early twenties, was grilled for
hours by the detectives, and then
dismissed with the understanding
that he was not to leave town. His
mother. 1t was learned was in
state bordering on collapse because
of the prolonged absence of the
young man, she having understood
that he was to stay away for only a
few minutes.
1t was Schneider. who found the
bodies and telephoned to the police
a week ago Saturday. According to
his story then, and he did not devil
ate from IT in his talk with the de-
tectives he and Pearl Behmer were !
out looking for mushrooms when !
they saw the two bodies. He sup |
posed them to be two persons sleep !
ing when he first passed.
On returning he noticed a clot of !
blood on the side of Mrs. Mills head. !
under the scarf that covered her
face, and so Investigated further,
finding both were dead.
Yesterday Schneider, besides hav-
ing to tell the story again in detail,
was asked dozens of questions as to
his movements on Thursday, Sep
tember IA. the day of the murder,
and the three days subsequent. He
told the detectives that he had been
out with. the same girl. Pearl Beh-
mer, on Thursday evening until 9
o'clock, when he left her. He then
Joined two young companions from
his own neighborhood, Clifford Hays
and lad named Kaufman, and they
knocked around until a late hour
about Busselugh Park, which is at
he end of the Easton avenue trolley
line.
Schneider apparently accounted
'or his own movements satisfactor-
ly. He said after his examination
hat he did not know the exact time
It which he returned home on the
Thursday night. He said:
Yes, we were out there late; not
'ery near the Phillips farm, but as
ar out as the Parker home. I didn't
lear any shot or shouts or screams,
md that's what I told them. :
lidn't know anything about this
Until found the bodies"
1t is not known what the detec-
ives learned from the girl, as after
he had been questioned she was
aiken back to- jail. She lives at 22S
Jelson street, which is much nearer
own than the home of young Sch
Ieider. who lives at 100 sicard ave-
ue, near the park and not far from
he end of the trolley line.
BY starting at the beginning again,
. would appear, the authorities have
new witness who was near the
Gene of the murder at the time at
rhich it is supposed to have taken
lace. 1t may be stated, too. that
ley are now proceeding on the the
ry that the killing actually oc-
urred at the spot at which the
odies were found, though for some
ays this idea had been abandoned,
s there is much that makes 1t seem
Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs
all, who lives at Lavallette and
HON the County Prosecutors Office
as been seeking for almost a week,
lme to New Brunswick. 1t appears
lat William e. Florance, former
tate Senator and counsel for the
all family, told him to go to New
ork and keep away from here.
It was Florance too who advised
sainst the Hall family having any
ling to say for publication. but
hose advice was disregarded on :
lturday.
Stevens readily gave a detailed ac-
unit of his movements. He also
ade It clear that he considered un- -
lse his course in keeping out of III
sht and that he might have saved
mself and the Hall family much 1
pheasant notoriety had he re-
aimed here and accessible. He is |
vial. sunburned man of about so.
. said in the interview: Ii
''I have nothing to hide. Most of /
g week 1 have spent in my New
,rk home packing furniture pre-
ratory to moving in accordance
tn previous plans TO spend the
nta,. in Eurone NV wife has been Il