Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-20
DEVELOPMENTS IN MURDER
 OF MINISTER AND SINGER

New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 19.-(By the A. P.)-Discovery of the pistol with which the Rev Edward Hall, rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, and his young choir leader, Mrs Elean- or Reinhardt Mills, were slain, brought the investigation of the mysterious double murder near it's close tonight.
 While officials of Middlesex and Som erset counties, who are cooperating in the case;8 refused to repeat earlier opti- mistic predictions of an arrest within 8 given time, it was learned that the eus- todian of the small county jail at Som erville, Somerset county. had been .n- structed to prepare for the receipt of at least one prisoner
 County Detective David, of Middlesex. who found the pistol, q black automatic refused to say where he had gotten it. or whom he suspected of being it's owner. Ownership Of the Weapon was being traced. he said, and an arrest might be ] expected as soon as that procedure had been completed
 Earlier in the day. detectives had come 1 into possession of a woman's handlser- ] chief, pierced with what appeared to he bullet holes. The handkerchief had been ! picked up near the spot on the abandoned l Phillips farm in Somerset county, where ltf1e body of the rector and Mrs Mills were found. Ownership of this lace bound square, if it can be established may furnish valuable evidence in sup- port of the theory that a man and wo. ! man, together surprised the minister and l Mrs. Mills. and that one of the duo slew them after struggle between the two l women.
 Nearly all day long. save for briei 1 respite while they attended the simple 1 funeral of Mrs Mills-the slain woinan,s
 husband, James Mills, and her daughter
 Charlotte. were closeted with officials 1T l Prosecutor Sticker,s office undergoing z 1 minute examination. When they were l dismissed shortly after four o'clock, As sistant Prosecutor Toolan and Detectiv, David said that Mills was definitely ou l of It" and was under no suspicion what
 ever.
 Mrs. Hall wealthy widow of the slail I clergyman, and her brother, William
 Stevens had been summoned to appea
 after Mills and his daughter, but the,
 later were informed they need not com l until they were communicated wit I again. When examination of this pal is resumed, it Is understood Mrs Hal
 and Willie he is commonly know Twill be quizzed especially as to thei
 movements last Thursday night and earl,
 Friday morning. t was in this perio
 that the slayings were accomplished Mrs. Hall already has told the author
 tiles that she was "the woman in the pol
 coat who witnesses say entered the Hal residence about -2.45 o'clock Frida morning. She had been to the churc
 with Willie" she said to see If her l,us
 band was there. Mills says ile visite
 the church about the same houh, / i | y-rl1 nfs 11ir
 nothing of Mrs. Hall or Willie"
 Mrs. Hall also was to be asked wha she was doing at the Pennsylvania sta
 ton between Il and 12 o'clock Frida . forenoon, -Remsen Comenhaven, Lawyer told the authorities today that he ha
 seen Mrs. Ha1i come to the static
 somewhat disheveled'' looking eagerl labout for few minutes and then depart ed
 Grand juries of both Middiesex an Somerset counties were prepared by tn l presiding judges today to receive eyidenc , in connection with the. slaylngs. Tn l was because. 1t had not been definitely e. [ tablished in which county the killing 5 occurred. Although the bodies wei 1 found in Somerset. 1t was generally b. { iieved by the authorities that they ha I been carried to the spot after death.
 Testimony of witnesses living near Il 8 Phillips farm, however, indicated u s pair were killed in that vicinity, # not . < the actual spot where bodies were disco, n cred Several persons were found VI T told of hearing screams of two wome t punctuated by four pistol shots, short t before midnight on Thursday.
 : That the rector and Mrs Mills had
 trysting place in the old Phillips hous
 and that they had been tracked there ar
 slain, was one theory advanced tods
 I wher 1t was disclosed that the hous ' though long vacant, was fully furnisht
 and gave indications ofsrecent occupanc The house Is but a few hundred feet fro t the field of golden rod where. beneai : an apple tree, the bodies were four
 Saturday-laid out as if for burial.