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The American Jewish world., 1922-10-20
TALMUD TORAH NOTES

Through the efforts of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Talmud Torah,
Study Circle has been organized. This
group will meet every second, Sab
bath afternoon. About thirty women
have already enrolled. Further, in
formation can be secured from Mrs.
BENZ. Bloom, Hyland 0655. r @
u Social Service Department
,s The first community dance of the
Talmud Torah will take place Sunday
evening, October 22nd, at $50 p. m.
The Auditorium of the Talmud Torah
has been recently redecorated and an
especially fine orchestra has been en-
gagged. 1t is anticipated that those
who attend the dance will spend
very pleasant and entertaining even
ing.
The Dancing Pageant, to be given
by the children's classes, Sunday af-
ternoon, October ,22nd, at $500 p. m.
promises to be a charming affair.
Groups of dances will be given by the
little tots, dressed as fairies, butter
flies and flowers. The Solo Dances
will be performed by Fanny Fishman,
Miss Mersky, little Esther Shapiro,
Edith ,Kaplan, Celia Grellar, Sophia
Dorfman, and Ruth Lenske. Much
artistic ability is displayed by all the
children in the Pageant. Credit must
be given to Miss Kate Taper for de-
votion to-. rehearsals and costume
planning. Tickets are Is cents for
adults, and 10 cents for children.
A Choral Society is now being or
ganized. All those interested please
communicate with the Talmud, Torah,
Hyland 2161.
Women's gymnasium classes are
now being formed at the :Talmud
Torah. A beneficial course is being
planned. All those interested kindly
call Hyland 2161 or Hyland 40O6.
T. T. Auxiliary Dance
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Tai
mud Torah. will give it's annual dance
on Monday, December 4th, in the AS
sembly Room of the Radisson Hotel.
Late supper will be served at 1880
p. m. Dancing will continue until
one o'clock. Chairman of general ar
rangements and ticket selling, Mrs.
George Cults; and chairman of sup
per committee, Mrs. M. ]. Weinstein.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
PROSECUTORS SUPPORT
INCREASES FOR JUDGES
Same Pay for "a Years in
Court Of Appeals.

Appeal was made by the District At
torneys OF this section yesterday to the
voters to approve at the coming election
the constitutional amendment calling for
an increase In the salaries OF the Judges
OF the Court OF Appeals from s13.700 to
s17,500 a year each.
The judges OF the highest court now
receive less than those of the Supreme
Court. Besides the sessions of the Court
of Appeals are In Albany. where the
Judges are required to live part OF the
year. Their last increase was given
twenty-four years ago. No allowance is
made for travelling or other expenses.
The proposed amendment has passed two
sessions of the Legislature. The total
increase would amount TO s26,f00 year
and would be paid by the State.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
SAYS SHE SAW COLD WOMAN KILL MRS ELEANOR MILLS

pursued by Prosecutors Beekman and
Stricken since September 16. when the
bodies of the murdered rector and choir
singer were found.
Aside from the direct investigation
looking to apprehension of the murderer
or murderess. Mr.. Mott will endeavor
to learn the reason for failure to men
ton the slashing of Mrs. Millss throat
in the original medical report upon her
death. The fact tht no mention was
made of this incident Is one that has
not yet been satisfactorily cleared up.
Mott and Mason are paying much at
tention to the possibility that DR.. Hall
on the night OF the murder had decided
to terminate his relations with Mrs.
Mills because of the discovery Of letter.
passing between them and because these
letters had apparently been brought 10
the attention of Mrs. Hall. 1t Is con-
si6ered significant here that all the ,at-
ters found near the body had been writ
ten to DIR. Hall by Mrs. Mills and dat
none of the letters he is knowl 70 have
written tc the choir leauer were found
there
The New York herald., 1922-10-26

him why he did not put her out OF the
house he said:
"Tf I do put her out I'd have to sup
port her anyway and then there would
he no one here to do the housework.'
Now. since mothers death. he has been
compla ming that he Is forced to do all
the things that she used TO do around the
house.
The girl has not seen Mrs. Hall since
the commission of the crime. She had
made no efforts to see her, and had
visited only one member OF the congre-
cation. Mrs. Addison Clarke, she said,
whom she described as her mothers best
friend among the women Of the congre-
cation.
Jealousy, as these dispatches have in
dicated. is being considered as the only
possible motive of the crime. and the
authorities are working on n story to
the effect that well known lecal man
may have had some share In bringing
the affair of Hall and Mrs. Mills to the
Knowledge of relatives, as was stated
yesterday.
This man, IL is said. had been spLrncd
by Mrs. Mills and as result he tried
to thwart her affair with Hall. There
Is a strong possibility that the letters
written by the couple to each other and
left in their secret depository at tho
church may have been discovered by
this man and carried to relatives of the
couple without a thought that the
murder would follow. but merely in an
effort to break UP the meetings of the
rector and choir sinser.
Significant In this connection Is the
alleged anxiety OF certain people TO re-
move private papers from Halls study in
the church after his death. Charlotte
Mills declared yesterday In corrobora-
ton Of Miss Mile Opie's story that the
day the bodies were found Mrs. Minnie
Clarke called and said that she wanted
to get some papers from the study.
This has been denied all along by
Mrs. Clarke. Charlotte also declared
that Mrs Clarke. though her mother g
best friend, showed no sympathy, but
asked, over and over, How did It hap
en7"
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
BODY OF SLAIN WOMAN
FOUND BURIED IN WOODS
Ohio Chestnutters Run Across
NeWIy Dug GraUe.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 25.--The body Of Mrs.
Henry J. Burns. 35, of this city. partially
clothed, was taken from newly dug
grave, covered with dead leaves. in a
lonely woods five and one-half miles
northwest OF Painesvile, late to-day.
The grave was discovered by two Cleve-
land dentists. DR.. D. c. Connell and
DR.. w r. Beattie, who were chestnutting.
Identification was made by Mrs. Burns's
husband here after he had seen neck
lace, wrist watch and keys found on the
body.
The two dentists saw man with
basket hurrying through the woods
They called to him, police said, but he
refused to stop. The two men ran to
the road and saw the license number Of
the machine in which he drove away.
Detectives here were at once given
this number, and tracing 1t to the west
side of the city, took the driver to Po-
lice Headquarters for questioning. He
declared he had been chestnutting all day,
police said and denied any knowledge
of the murder.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
DENBY CALLS DREAM
OF DISARMAMENT IDLE
Says America Must Keep
Navy at Treaty Ratio.

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct 25.--Secretary
Of the Navy DENLY, at a Republican
rally here tonight. called disarmament
an idle, futile dream"
You cannot take away from America
the just protection of her navies on the
seas or her armies on the land" he
said.
when you sec you can get along
without a police force, 1t Is time for
America to consider doing away with
it's police force.
but the American navy Is more than
n police force. We don't want to have
10 fght. but we have the ships and the
men to man them If we need them
II have yet TO meet the man of any
standing In the navy OF the United
States who will oppose decreasing the
navy when the treaties with foreign
countries are all signed.
when these treaties are all signed,
the United States will proceed with the
scrapping OF It's ships. We are all for IT
In the navy"
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
UNUSUAL INFECTIONS
PROVE FATAL TO TWO
Broken Bones Are Blamed in
Both Cases.

Two deaths from unusual infections.
which set In after accidents that or
dlnarily would not be regarded as seri-
Gus. were reported yesterday. Fred
erick Lorenz, 81. a chiropodist. of 453
Ridgewood avenue, Brooklyn, broke his
ankle on October 12 while bowling at
the Cypress Hills Bowling Club. EN-
bolism developed four days later. the
marrow from the break in the ankle
seepIng through into the blood stream
and finally obstructirg the action of the
heart.
Daniel Santasia. s died last night In
Mountainside Hospital. Montclair, N. j.,
OF an exceptionally rare disease caused
by what is known In medicine as the
bacillus aerogenes capsalatum. The
boy fell off a. cart while playing in his
fathers barn last Saturday and broke
his right arm. The bone pierced the
flesh and infection set in. The germ
was discovered In 1897 by DR.. West of
Johns Hopkins
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
MACK WILL DEMAND
THAT WARD BE TRIED
Prosecutor Refuses Consent to
Quashing Indictment.

John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie. who
has been retained as special prosecutor
In the case against Walter S. Ward,
under indictment for murder because he
said he killed Clarence Peters near the
Kensico Reservoir last May. said yes
terday that the prosecution will not con-
sent to dismissal of the Indictment and
will insist that the case be brought, to
trial. For three days Mr.. Mack has
been in conference with Sheriff Werner
of Westchester county and District At
torney Weeks, going over the evidence.
The case is not expected to come to
trial before December. or possibly Janu
ary Isaac n. Mills. former Justice of
the Supreme Court, who. with Allen r.
Campbell, is counsel for Ward. said that
he would move early next month for
dismissal Of the indictment.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
THOMAS f. M'CANN.

Thomas r. Mccain. aged 76. a civjl
engineer. died yesterday in his home
3Si Hudson street, Hoboken. N. J. lie
was veteran of thu civil war and was
wounded at the battle OF Gettysbure
where he won the Congressional Medal
He was formerly city engineer OF Hobo.
ken and president OF the Board of Edu
caticn. Mr.. McCann was the engineer
In charge " obstruction OF the army
piers in : Dol lyn He also drew plans
for railroad tube under the Hudson
River. but the British syndicate for
which the plans were drawn abandone !
the project He IL survived by sister
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
TRIO ADMIT ROBBERIES
COVERING TWO MONTHS
Mineola Detectives Assailants
to Be Sentenced Friday.

Thomas Marino, Paul Marino and
Frank Koerner of Rockville Center. who
have been committing holdups in Nassau
county for two months, pleaded guilty
yesterday before County Judge Smith
In Mineola to robbery and assault and
were remanded for sentence or Friday.
They We're caught Saturday night
after they had shot Ferdinand Miller
county detective. In the arm. Many
articles identified as s;oler were found
In their home in Observer street. Nine
ola.
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local prosecutor the Information was OBJ
tanned that Mrs. Gibson made state
ments and an affidavit to the authorities
to-day to the effect that she had recog-
nized Hall as one of the four persons
she saw on tne night of the shooting at
the old Phillips farm, and that she had
also positively identified the woman who
screamed to the man who did the shoot
ing. calling him by his first name.
While in Somervlle. Mason was asked
whether Mrs. Gibson would be ques-
toned and he replied "Oh! certainly"
He stated further that none OF the wit
nesses would be called for examination
to-day, and that Deputy Attorney-Gen-
eral Mott had remained in Newark to
clear up his personal business before
undertaking the actual work OF the
Hall-Mills case. Then he left by auto
mobile with the troopers for New
Brunswick.
Party Back In New Brunswick.
Some time later, longer than II should
take a car to make the trip to New
Brunswick without any stopofr. the
party arrived in New Brunswick and
Immediately, without seeing anyone or
making any comment. Mason took the
first train for Newark to confer with
Mott. At the same time some OF the
State troopers hurried to Trenton for
conference with Col Swarzkopf. re-
turning here later IN the day.
Both prosecutors disappeared and for
a time IL looked as though things were
about TO break III the whole case. Thea
came the information regarding the
statement of Mrs. Gibson identifying
two of the four persons she saw at the
- he. MI nf l1a
murder.
1t was reported in New Brunswick
that Mr. Mott had given out state
ment after talking with Mason to the
effect that he was expecting an arrest
to be made hourly and that he would
not wait for the Grand Jury to retura
an indictment, but would order the ar
rest of certain persons at once as the
result of information laid before him
to-day. A short time after this state
ment was sent broaccast it was denied
by Mott, who said that he had made
no such statement.
He will be in New Brunswick early
tomorrow morning, however. and will
take up several impor ortant phases of the
case with Prosecutor Stricken. This
conference will also be attended by
some of the local detectives, the Stats
troopers and. probably. Prosecutor
Beekman from Somerset county.
To-morrow should be the day when
action supplants the talking and bum
Cling that has marked the activities o.
the local officials ever since the two
bodies were found more than six weeks
ago. Mott appears to be worker and
the feeling throughout this city is that
he Is on the verge of making an i'm
portant step and Is merely awaiting
certain developments and some minor
information before acting on his evil
dence already in hand.
1t was stated that the police had
placed one person under surveillance
after the information regarding the Glib
son Identification statement had become
known. This person is said to be a
woman whose name has been promi-
nently identified with the case. Accord
Ing to the statements of Mrs Gibson
there was never any dou1t as TO the
identity Of Hall and the other woman.
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
One Directing Head Vow.

New Jersey officials pointed out to-
day that Mr.. Motifs entry into the case
would have the effect of placing the
investigation under n single responsible
head, but that II was unlikely TO change
the course of the inquiry as Il has been
The New York herald., 1922-10-26

time after time by innumerable persons.
there Is just bare possibility that there
might be found one fingerprint amons
them that would point to the slayer OF
the couple.
Miss Mile Opie. next door neighboo-
of Mrs. Mills, said this morning that for
more than month before her death
Mrs. Mills had been troubled and had
seldom smiled. This 1t is thought. may
dovetail with the belief that the friend
ship between herself and Hall was In
danger.
Miss Opie declared also that, during
this period. Mrs. Mills once told her she
had been thinking of suicide. ut would
get me out Of all my troubles" she
says Mrs. Mills told her. I'm ten min
utes l could go down 60 the canal and
end it ALL IL It were not for the here
after / would do H."
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
Phone spy ON Love Talks.

II was declared by Miss Opie she hal
good reason to believe that from the
time the Rev. Mr.. Hall returned from
Maine In August until the murder some-
body was listening in on ms conversa-
tions with Mrs. Mills over the telephone.
She said she believed also that Mrs.
Hall had been acutely conscious OF their
friendliness for some time and had ar
ranged number of trips on which Mrs.
Mills went along just so that the rector
would not call at her house so much
and attract attention.
Admission that her mothers life was
unhappy were frankly made to-day by
Charlotte. She pictured their life at
home, saying that she had no recollec-
ton of time when they we're happy.
Their misery was the result OF her fa-
TIERS grumbling. He seemed to BE ever
lastingly cursing his fate. she said
on one occasion, when Mrs. Mills was
about to have an operation from which
she might not recover. she told Char
lotte, according to the girls story TITS
bad enough for you now. kid. but IL
anything ever happens to me I pity
YOU"
I'VE always knew, Dan and ], that as
soon as mother was certain We could
take care OF ourselves she would leave
u.s." volunteered Charlotte Father was
never kind to us and seemed content to
let mother drudge for him. He never
even suggested that we go to n motion
picture show. He was always complain
ing to mother, and one day when ! asked
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
Her Talk Got About.

Mrs. Gibson said that the story of
her actually witnessing the killing had
leaked to the authorities through her
talking about 1t TO one or two of her
neighbors and the authorities finally
came out to see her Then she was
questioned at length and finally drew
up the affidavit which is now in the
han6s Of the authorities and WI ich hey
feel Is one OF the strongest links in their
chain OF evidence pointing toward the
perpetrators of the crime.
II haven't told II all. Wait and see.
II will all come out Mrs. Gibson
prophesied, There ~ only one way
to prove 1t. and that Is to put them on
trial"
She was asked who she meant. and
replied enigmatically wait and see"
She was asked II II wasn't possible
from what she saw that either Hall had
shot Mrs. Mills and In tNo struggle shot
himself. or that some one else had shot
Mrs. Mills and accidentally shot the
rector. She enigmatically answered
"Well, how did the throat get cutY'
Concluding her interview with gen.
eral remark directed at the various
phases and principals Of the case, Mrs.
Gibson turned slowly 70 her inquisitor
and said "A creased wagon wheel runs
smoothly"
IL IS interesting to note that Mrs.
Gibson owns the only spotted Poland
China boar in this part of the state, and
II is reputed 10 be valued close TO s4.5o0.
II is a big. heavy tusked animal, but to
Mrs. Gibson the boar is ''mama's boy"
and according to her own statement as
she patted the animal on the back, "he
loves his Mama"
The boar, her pigs, chickens. dogs and
particularly the mules are n vital part
os the daily lifo and companionship OF
this truly remarkable character.
Investigators start EARLY.
Activities OF James r. Mason. the
State Troopers, and others interested In
clearing up the mystery that has sur
rounded the case for more than six
weeks. started early to-day. Mason ar
rived In Somervile at nine o'clock, and
after a sh ort conference with several Of
the troopers. and Prosecutor Beekman,
left for New Brunswick. That is, New
Brunswick was the expressed destina-
tion but II is understood that on the
way several important persons in the
case we're interviewed.
From a source In the Office Of the
The New York herald., 1922-10-26

FOUND ANYTHING:
u so, see n It 10 advertised In the Lost and
found columns sf to-day's Nsw York Herald.
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Her Explanation of Staying.

She was then asked: DO you think
that a woman in high social position
would jeopardize her future by COM
niitting a crime like that?"
Mrs. Gibson replied: You know II is
this way. You take two people that are
married and very loving: then take other
people who are also married. When one
person Is cold andg she learns something
and that something rouses her temper
and she seeks revenge, she may go out
there Just to give them n lesson. And
maybe she goes up to the other woman
and her temper comes UP. She grabs
the other woman and says: You hussy.
why are you here with my husbandE
and she scratches her."
Here Mrs. Gibson said to the !nvesti-
gator: You know her arms were all
scratched. Maybe the other woman
slaps her face and then her temper rises
and she kills her just to give her les
SON"
The questioner said: "She saw red?"
and the woman answered. Yes. she saw
red"
Mrs. Gibson continued: Suppose
some one was in my apple tree. and
saw them and l went out and had my
gun with me and we had some words
and killed them. ] wouldn't mean to
do II, would /? You watch and you will
see what comes. II win all come out.
There are others that know and are
holding back"
Mrs. Gibson was then asked IL she
had told all OF her story to the authori-
ties and she said:
Yes, / have told them everything.
Why don't they make an arrest? you
ask. For the simple reason that my
word alone wouldn't GO"
She was then asked what had ap-
peared TO be the motive for the Staying,
or IL a notion had been apparent to her
as she sat in the darkness and watched
the whole thing take place.
"Yes. II was very apparent that the
motive was jealousy and the jealousy
was that of cold woman"
In all her story Mrs. Gibson referre
more than once to a cold woman"
Men have TO have love and svm-
pathy." Mrs. Gibson went on in phil
osophical mood. IF they don't get IL
at home they are going to get II some
where else. It is different where there
are children and where the blood has
mixed But when there is no family
II is just a man and a woman without
ties"
Then referring back to the actu-..
killing Mrs. Gibson said: II don't think
she really did Il alone" referring again
TO the cold woman in the case. II
was cultivated mind"
The New York herald., 1922-10-26
New Theory In Murder.

The possibility that the Rev. Edward
w. Hall was planning on the night of
the murder to break off his relationship
with Mrs. Eleanor II. Mills, his choir
singer because their correspondence had
been discovered by member of the
church, who reported II to his wife. is
being seriously considered to-day by the
investigators who have taken over the
case. though there Is little to justify the
theory.
Why the letters were scattered about
the bodies is a question that has long
been troubling the authorities, and they
seem to believe 1t is possible Hall had
taken the letters with him to return
them to Mrs. Mills. His exclamation
over the telephone that night, That's
bnd." is taken as indicating that some
thing had gone seriously wrong.
Plans are being made now to examine
the letters and the clothing found on the
bodies for ingerprints. Although more
than six weeks have passed since the
murder. fngerprint experts said to-day
that there might be some traces OF the
flngerprints.
They pointed out that under excite
ment the glands In the fingers open and
perspiration pours out. so that the mur-
derers might have left some trace. Al
though the letters have been handled