The New York herald., 1922-10-26
MILLS CAN SEE ONLY
HATE MURDER URGE
Jealousy He Feels Sure Prompted Slayer, Who Lured
His Wife to Phillips Farm-Still Has Faith in
Rector Despite Letters and Diary.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., Oct. 25.-To-
night Jimmie Mills sat alone in the
kitchen OF his apartment at 40 Carman
street and in conversation with re-
porter for THE NEW YORK HERALD dis
cussed the questions of the Han-Mills
killing up to date. especially dealing
with letters that Hall wrote to Millss
wife and her replies. Even tonight
Jimmie has slight doubt about the
letters. not that they are not genuine.
for he is convinced of that, but that
there was anything between Hall and
Mrs Mills that could be characterized
as improper"
You know I never knew or suspected
a single thing wrong OF Hall" he said
earnestly. IF ! had even had an ink
ling of what was going on you can bet
your sweet life that / d have gone to the
church and exposed the whole thing.
If that didn't do any good I'd have
gone to the Bishop and thered be some
action and it wouldn't go On week.
much less q year or more than that"
Mills Keeps Rector's Cards.
While Hall was writing the impas-
stoned letters and postcards to Mrs. Mills
from Maine during his sojourn there
last August he sent several postcards
to Mills on which he wrote the conven-
tional greetings from one who is away
on a vacation. Mills has kept these
yet. for he was very fond of the rector.
Even now he says:
Those letters don't sound like him at
all. But then you never can tell about
how people can change even over night.
1t seems that you can hardly trust your
self these days"
He felt in a rather loquacious mood
tonight and talked of many things as
he waited until after IL o'clock for Char
lotte to come in. He is worried about
Charlotte. for the authorities have toll
him that IL she does not become
amenable to his orders she Is liable to
find herself in serious trouble.
Jimmie talked of other days, days be-
fore he was married and days when he
was a ball player on the old Independ-
ents here In New Brunswick. He
proudly displayed three badly broken
fingers. and told how they had been
smashed while he was a catcher and
first basemen on the local ball team.
Mills Once n BALL Player.
Those were the days when we didn't
use gloves, masks or chest protectors, but
we was ball players" said Jimmie
proudly Then he went on 10 the days
when he worked in the shoe factory In
Brooklyn on the way to East New York.
and then told how ne had done jobs
here as a machinist, carpenter, janitor.
sexton and many others. As hobby
Jimmie does fancy carpentering. Some
Of his specimens were evident about the
little kitchen as he sat and talked.
Jimmie Is pretty sore about the things
many persons have said of him and his
family relations and which have been
printed in the newspapers.
"They didn't know thing about my
family until they got chance to get
into the newspapers and now they talk
through their hats" he said. What
&C they know about my family life or
about my wife to talk the way they do?
You never find out things going on
right under your nose" Jimmie said as
he discussed the fact that apparently
tr e Hall-Mills affair had been conducted
right under his unobservant eyes for
T. ore than a year.
'I don't see why some of the crowd
UP at the church. knowing about the
things as they are all saying they did
know. didn't put an end to that sort of
stuff. Now about these 'etters, why.
gee, / didn't even have an idea that
man was writing to my wife, and nat-
urally / wouldn't go snooping around
her stuff to look for any letters
And why the devil did they have to
write letters when they saw each other
almost every day at the church or some
place else. If I had an idea about that
whole damn thing this murder never
would have happened. No. sir. this
wouldn't have happened and there
wouldn't be all this trouble"
He wouldn't Shield Them.
well, what would you have done IL
you had known about the affair and had
seen the letters or known about the
diary?" he was asked.
"Why, I'd have gone right to the
church and told the vestrymen and the
est and had Hall put out OF the place"
he answered positively.
But don't you know that then you'd
have to give away the fact that your
wife was also involved and that would
bring a scandal to your family too?" he
vas asked.
Jimmy turned right around and in no
uncertain tones said:
We'll that would have to be. I'm not
the kind of guy that spares his own