The Washington times., 1922-10-23
BIG SENSATION
IN HALL KILLING.
seen BY FLYNN
Should Come in Mysterious
Case Within Three Days,
Detective Says. Z a.
BY WILLIAM y. FLYNN.
Famous Detective and Former Chief Of
the United States Secret service.

Famous Detective and Former Chief Of
the United States Secret service.
Copyright, 1s22, by international
News Service.)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Oct.
2a.-snsational developments are
certain to- take place in the next
fortnight or seventy.two hours In
the Hall-Mills murder case. II every
phase or some new clues in my pos
session today turn out. after inyestl,
CATION. to be founded upon truth.
am basing this assertion upon
evidence gathered, which NAV not
DE revealed at the presnt momnt, IN
II is possible to verify this evidence.
the denouement Of the double mur,
DR. OF the rector and his fayorite
choir singer will equal In surprise
even the finding of the two bSdies
lying under a crab apple tree on a
deserted farm.
As continued my investigation,
many OF the additional facts uncoy-
,red lend weight to my deduction
that the motive of the staying was
jealousy and that the theories that
the killing may have been comm [.
ed from motives of robbery, black
nail. or some other cause are no
niger tenabie.
A Psychological Study.
An interesting speculation. which
al trying to check up Is one
which takes the investigator far
nto the fields Of the new psychol.
gy. II IL that the crime was com
nitted by a person or persons who
wanted to avengc themselves upon
Mrs. Mills for having been the re-
cipient Of DR.. Halls affections. and
not by some one seeking primarily
10 wreak anger or vengeance upon
DR.. Hall. That is proved TO me ty
the three bullets fired at Mrs. Mills,
the rector being killed by one bull
IL. and by the slash in her throat.
A systematic verification of such
evidence as has come to me is being
made today. Meanwhile. another
kind OF evidence IL piling up. which
he experienced detective cannot at
ford to disregard. l refer particular
" to the subtle. sometimes almost
imperceptihle. change which has
come over some Of the principals in
the case, especially over those who
have been questioned by the au-
thorities.
Widow q Mystery.
Mrs. Hall. widow Of the slain rec.
tor, intensifies the isolation she IL
said TO have maintained always at
her home. and which. to a greater
degrees, she carried on after the
bodies were found.
. I learn that she IN not as strong as
she, Is generally believed to be, !
think that at the present moment
she is near a nervous collapse. That
she cannot stand any shock or ex.
citement Is seen by the admitted fact
that Mrs. Hall Is not allowed 70 read
the whole story Of the case In the pa.
pers-only excerpts.
Why Mrs. Hall, a little while after
the murder became known, replaced
her family lawyer, then acting for
her, with one Of the most noted Grim
inal lawyers In New York-no charge
ever has been made against Mrs.
Hali-remains a mystery within a
mystery.
A Changed Man
James Mills. while to q casual NIB
server the same man that he was
before his wife was 80 traglcally
slain, Ia in reality q changed per
son. Mills. who used to get along
on the best of terms with his
daughter. Charlotte now Is disa'
greea able to her. He has even beaten
the sixteen. n.year.old girl recently,
while about the house he Is irri-
table, nervous, sullen by turns, vent
ing his spleen on his daughter or
his neighbors. He goes about Ills
d,,tt.. and althou0h neyAr given
to gossip over much. he appears to
have acquired a tactiturnty which
is arousing comment.
While in a technical building up
of the case these psychological de.
tails will not figure at all. II closely
studied these traits in hSman
beings will often reveal. II they are
not covering some secret locked in