The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-19
Was BARN DEATH
SPOT FOR PASTOR
and MRS. MILLS?
New Evidence Is Bnearthed in
Double Murder Case.
Find Combs and HandkerchiefS
Belonging to Woman.
REPORT BODIES WERE MOVED
REPORT BODIES WERE MOVED
Cries of Help From Lonely
Barn Four Miles Away.
Officials in Doubt, But Investi-
gate Every CIew.

New Brunswick, n. J., Oct. 19.-
That the love of Mrs. Mills for her
husband had died long before the
double tragedy which claimed her
life and that of Rev. DIR. Edward w.
Hall, wealthy rector of the fashion
able Protestant Episcopal Church of
st. John the Evangelist, was revealed
today by Miss Florence North, counsel
for 16-year-old Charolette Mills,
daughter of the murdered choir
singer.
The lawyer said Charolette told her
that her mother remarked shortly be-
fore the murder that her life with her
husband was merely an existence"
and that she endured it only for the
sake of her two children.
New Brunswick, n. J., Oct. 19.-
New evidence indicating that Rev. DR..
Edward w. Hall, rector of the Protes-
tant church of st. John the Evange-
list. and the choir singer, Mrs. James
Mills, were murdered in lonely barn
four miles from the spot where the
bodies were found. was being checked
up by the Somerset and Middlesex
county authorities today.
Two side combs and two handker-
chiefs stained with blood were fo Ind
near this barn. The combs are said
to have been identified by 16-year-old
Charolette Mills as belonging to her
mother, the slain woman
Two witnesses have been found who
told the officers they passed near the
old barn about 1890 o'clock on the
night of September IA and that they
heard the agonized screams of a
woman pleading for her life.
The new witnesses, both men, were
driving from Red Bank to the city
and the road they followed took them
near the barn where the double mur-
n q NJ o n
mitted.
Heard Cries for Help.
Cries of help. help! murder! holy!
policei for Gods sake don't kill me!
came from the vicinity of the barn.
1t was so dark the motorists could not
distinguish the persons in trouble.
The same night the same two men
were said to have seen large high
powered motor car dashing at top
speed thru Derussey lane which
flanks the spot where the two bodies
were found stretched side by side
under a little crab apple tree on xhe
morning of September 16.
Still later on the same night, the
two men were reported to have
seen the same automobile speeding
towards New Brunswick with a man
and a woman in the front seat.
There have been so many false re-
ports and misleading evidence" that
the latest version did not excite much
comment even in official circles.
County detectives, however, said they
were running down every clew.
May Appeal to Governor.
The murder was committed five
weeks ago, but SO far there has not
been single arrest in direct connec-
ton with the crime except the false
arrest of Clifford Hayes. Public feel
ing is running so high over the in
ability of the detectives to. solve the
double murder. that it was anticipated
a personal appeal would be made to-
some high and competent official to
direct the inquiry with dictatorial
powers.
Mrs. Hall and her brother, Stevens,
have already been questioned regard
ing the story told by the two men that
they heard woman screaming for
help in the deserted old barn four
miles from the Phillips farm. 1t is
evident they were unable to throw
any light upon this new development
in the investigation. Mrs. Hall, thru
friends of the family. said she had
still further her isolation since the
publication of the passionate love let
ters that passed between her husband
and Mrs. Mills.
Widow Doesn't Believe 1t.
Even yet Mrs. Hall refuses to be-
lieve her husband could have de-
ceived her while carrying on clan
destine love affair with Mrs. Mills,
friends of the Hall family said.
A diary revealed the method pur-
sued by Doctor Hall to keep his wife
from learning of his correspondence
with Mrs. Mills when he (the clergy
mani and Mrs. Hall were spending
the summer at Isleford, Maine. Doctor
Hall had Mrs. Mills direct her letters
to a postoffice in a village half a mile
away, while he got his ordinary busi-
ness letters at the IsIeford postoffice.