The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-11
MURDER PROBE
PROCEEDS WITH
Z MORE IN JAIL
Girl and Father Held as Authorities
Attempt TO Penetrate Mysterious
HaIl-Mllis Traoedy-PubIIo
Feeling Runs High.
RAISE JUSTICE FUND"
TO DEFEND YOUNG HAYES
Crowd surges About officer but 10
Cooled off-county Detective
Says "Just Started 10
Work on Case.
by GERALD z. ovERToN.
United Press Staff Correspondent. }

tinit'u lItha otali tOTfeAponucnt.l
New Brunswick. N. j.. Oct. H.
Two more persons were in jail TO.
day as the indirect result OF the
probe into the murder of the Rev
Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs
Eleanor Mills. leader OF the choir
of the church of ST. John the Evan.
gelist.
They are:
Pearl Bahmer the l5.year.old
motherless girl and the confessed
sweetheart of Ray Schneider, on
whose story the charge OF first de
gree murder was lodged against his
pal. Clifford Hayes.
Nicholas BANNER. father OF the
wayward Pearl, who has boasted
that he went cunning" for young
Schneider with borrowed As auto.
matte on the night of September
a. when the millionaire minister
and the wife OF his church janitor
were slain. supposedly while keep.
ing tryst under a crab apple tree
on the unoccupied Phillips farm.
Authorities are frank to admit
that the arrest of the father and
daughter will give them good
chance to quiz the pair to deter
mine whether they have told all
they know OF the murders.
The girl Pearl was brought be-
fore Judge on a charge of incor.
rigibility and after hearing the
case was postponed until next week.
Pearl. who Schneider claims, was
the target for the bullets that killed
the rector and choir leader, admit
ted that she had been intimate with
both Schneider and her father with
in the last year.
Whereupon Barmer, saloon keep.
er, who admitted that he had "been
on bat for two days previous to
September Il. when he started out
after Schneider, was thrown behind
the bars ON the daughters charge
Feeling here runs high against
the detention of Hayes in jail on
the story told by Schneider. A
crowd surged about Detective Frank
p. Kirby, one of the men who
quizzed Schneider, and menaced him
for several minutes Kirby was
taken to the police station by Off
GERS who rescued him and the mob
cooled off.
A Justice fund has started in
New Brunswick for the defense OF
Hayes.
Saturday was chosen as tag
day for ''justice fund" for Hayes.
At that time every citizen in the
city will be asked to contribute to
the fund.
On one side of the tag. Clifford
Hayes Justice Fund" will be printed
and on the other side will be this
line from John Ruskin. THE truth
in ones heart does not bar the lie
on the others tongue
Two prominent citizens, according
to reliable source today, have
come forward with the information
that, shortly after the bodies of the
rector and singer were found, they
discovered a peach basket filled
with bloody rags.
According to this story, the men
returned shortly afterward to bring
in their find to the police and the
rags were missing.
George Totten, county detective
Of Somerset county, said that I'VE
have just started to work ON this
case"
He was asked il it was possible
that Schneider and Hayes were be-
ing held to divert suspicion and
answered.
"Now you're talking"