Evening star., 1922-10-13
CITIZENS TOG|VE
HAYES OVATION
Mass Meeting Plans Follow
Release in Jersey Mur-
der Case.
OFFICIALS UP IN AIR
Probe Turns to Clues Involving
Family Names and
\ Alibis.
OFFICIALS UP IN AIR

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., October
12.-While state and county oftici Is
sought snxiously today for something
tangible on which to proceed In the
inquiry into the murder on September
IA Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall.
rector of the Episcopal Church Of st.
John the Evangelist, and the choir
singer, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills.
friends Of Clifford Hayes went ahead
with preparations for a mass meeting
today to celebrate Hayes release yes
terday.
His release and the collapse Of the
case Of mistaken identity made out BY
authorities followed the admission by
Raymond Schneider that his accusa-
ton Of Hayes was false. Schneider
still was held in the Somerset county
Jail today. although no new charge
had been lodged against him. He was
locked up as material witness some
days ago after he had made a state
mcfft charging Hayes with killing
Mrs. Mills and DR.. Hall.
Authorities were admittedly ''up in
the air" again. They turned anew
today to clues pointing to the fam
lilies Of the slain rector and Mrs. Mills,
and detectives were engaged In run.
ming down numerous details discarded
WI en- officials accepted schneiders ac-
cusation as solution of the mystery
The fawn-colored coat and scarf
which Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall,
widow OF the rector. had dyed in
Philadelphia a few days after Dr.
Hall was murdered, were in the
fotF oh CT
today for analysis. the action being
ordered by Prosecutor Joseph Strick-
er of MiddleseX county.
Statement Retracted.
Schneider suffered a nervous col
lapse yesterday. then sent word to
Prosecutor Beekman of Somerset that
he had something more to say. When
Beekman entered, with a stenogra-
pher and three newspaper men,
Schneider blurted out with tears
streaming down his face. that his
earlier statement was "all a lie."
He had told the story. he said. to
get revenge on Hayes, who. he be-
lfeyed, had told stories tending to In
yolve him in the Hall-Mills case.
Beekman Immediately went before
Justice of the Peace Sutphen. who
had held Hayes for the grand jury.
and asked that the murder warrant
against him be dismissed. The re-
quest was granted without delay.
Hayes then was bundled into the
automobile Of his counsel and driven
tn his home. The news had outsped
the automobile. however, and when
he arrived he found himself the CEN
ter of a cheering crowd OF several
hundred. ..
confidence in his innocence from the
tart. staggered out to meet him
and flung herself into his arms.
1aves helped her tenderly up the
porch steps. Both he and his motner
thar had played in disclosing the
faisity of the charges against him.
s..r.,der,s Father Collapses.
At the height of the celebration
1ohn schneider. father Of Hayes ac-
cuser. rushed up onto the Hayes
norcb embraced the youths mother
and exclaimed:
"My God. My God! am glad it
is all q lie."
No then collapsed and was taken
me Hayes home, where Hayes
mother. mot father. relatives and close
tIiet tIi.t and congratulated him over
a1a RAYMOND schneider.s popularity ap-
,esred to go down in proportion as
RsHes. had gone up. There were
mutterings in the welcoming crowd
against scnnsider' and and several Ssg nr~es were
,;e.L nIL ras "too small to hold him."
WIZ author of the four-day sensa-
,,on stiil is in the Somerset jail as
prosecutor Beekman refused to say
vhv he stiIl was held after he had
w.nuaiated his entire earlier story
"a Heclared that neither he nor
Haxes was even on the Phillips farm,
~hsra the bodies were found on the
,.ixhf of ffa murQeTa