The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-06
NEW CLUES in
DOUBLE MURDER

New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. g.
The possession of new facts bearinf
on the killing Of Rev. Edward Hal
and Mrs. Eleanor Mills lea the inves
tigators to order the reexammation y,
many persons who had been previous.
ly interviewed. They expressed the
belief that there was every likelihood
that the mystery was being solved.
New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. 5.-Au.
thorities investigating the double mur.
der Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
and his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor f.
Mills, today claimed to have discov.
cred the secret "postoffice" used b,
the couple in exchanging Iove notes
This proved to be an old packing box
musty and dirty, in the little USED
cellar of the church of st. John the
Evangelist.
Two weeks ago James w. Mills, sex.
ton and husband of the murdered wo-
man, claimed to have the only key 20
it. He said he went there only ia
tend the furnace. A trap door to the
left of the altar opens into the eel
lar, put there are 10 stairs leading
down and the only entrance is from
the Inside, through door below the
window of the pastors study.
Finding of the box came almost 81
multaneously with discovery of letters
written by Hall to Mrs. Mills. County
Detective David pointed out that these
letters were the first which showed
the minister had replied to love notes
from the woman, and proved that he
reciprocated her affection.
Beside the secret "postofficc" de-
tective today announced they had dis
covered an elopement fund, which in
vestigators believe the minister in
tended to use TO finance trip to the
Orient with Mrs. Mills.
The detectives said they had found
untrue reports that the pastors pri-
vate safe deposit vault contained only
$4,000, inherited from his mother-,n-
law and 1000 insurance policy
naming his mother as beneficiary.
Cached away in the vault, the investi-
gators said, was $4,000 In securities
convertible at short notice.
Detectives working on local clues
waxed enthusiastic over their prog
ress and indicated that. one or more
arrests might be expected with 4s
hours. They called reporters into
! Yrosecutor sStricker,s sofnce- ~ room
thereto barred to newspaper men
and read extracts from one letter
written by Mrs. Mills and found in
Halls pockets.
II love you so much,' it reads, II
love you. love you so much"
Detectives who admitted that until
now they had spared the feelings of
many witnesses indicated they in
tended to be more severe. Some alibis
proffered, the Investigators said,
sounded like "a pack of lies"
An autopsy performed today on the
cxhumed body Of Mr.. Hall in Brook.
iyn established that the, minister was
slain while sitting or lying down, the
authorities were informed tonight.
Death was caused, the doctors re-
ported, by 32 caliber bullet which
entered the right temple and emerged
at q point about three and one-half
inches lower at the back of the neck
on the left side. There was no other
bullet wound.
Slight abrasions were found on the
back of the left hand and on the left
wrist and there was an abrasion also
on the right leg but the doctors were
inclined to attach no Importance to
these. Authorities here said they
might have been caused in moving the
body after death, one theory being
that the murders were committed
elsewhere and the bodies transported
in an auntomobile to the spot where
they were found.
Charlotte Mills, daughter of the
slain choir singer, received today a
letter from County Detective Ellis II.
Parker Of Burlington county in re-
sponse to one she wrote him criticisine
the work of Middlesex and Somerset
counties and asking him to come here
and solve the mystery. He assured
her that the local authorities were
doing all in their power to solve the
case and said he regretted he could
not come at this time because of tbs
press of his own duties. He would
be glad to come later, he said, if he
was invited by the local authorities
James Mills, husband of the slair
woman, received an anonymous note
today, saying:
"Let your conscience be your guide
Unless you tell all you will be sorry.
He expressed the belief it was the
werk Of a crank.