Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-10

New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. s-(By the A P.)-Clifford Hayes, youth of nine teen, was held incommunicado in the | Somerset county jail at Somervine to- night on a warrant charging him with l the first degree murder of the Rev Ed 1 ward Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor | Reinhadt Mills, on September l4.
 But if the authorities who caused his arrest have any evidence which would show logical motive for his alleged act they have carefully withheld it. ,i The explanation of Raymond Schneid- | II ner, 22, whose accusation caused Hayes | arrest, was that it was a case of mis- | taken identity. Hayes. he said, thought l | he was shooting 15-year-old Pearl Bah mer and her step-father, Nicholas Bah : mer.
 But the only motive he>advanced for the crime was a sort of Quixotism on 5 Hayes part-a desire to right a sup posed wrong done friend. Schneider, l who, although married, admits he Is in ! love with Pearl.
 Hayes retort was that Schneider was
 "a damned liar, He admitted going to . the deserted Phillips farm, where the : bodies were found, in search of Pearl r and her stepfather. They heard shots and screams. he said,
 and ran toward the crabapple tree from where the shots seemed to come, obSery- 7 ing an automobile dash away as they f ran.
 : Beneath the tree, he declares, they = found the minister and the choir singer
 dead and-he added-Schneider bent
 down and stole the minister's watch. This Schneider -hotiy denied during the r all-night grilling to which both youths J , were subjected. He in turn. accused l. Hayes of committing the theft One of the most glaring discrepancies
 in Schneiders story is his assertion that
 neither he nor Hayes touched the bodies. z except for the filehing the watch-of :. which he accuses Hayes.
 . It has established by a beIated au- " topsy that Mrs. Mills throat was cut
 from ear to ear, and her head almost |. Il severed. Schneider could not explain this o- Neither could he explain how the bodie: n eanse ta hs laid out carefully. side bs vi side, as if for burial =. on He was equally unsatisfactory as tt
 how the love letters written by Mrs
 Mills to the minister came to be scat h. tered about he scene-or who proppe. cki one of the minister's cards against thu ng sole of his shoe, as If to make sure O se Identification.
 D. His story does tally remarkably, how
 ever with the first statement attribut
 ed Mrs. Hall after the murders wer e., were discovered.-that her theory of tn lS- lrNo0biS cids Ati6 WAS HnSldhtu iuenklLf 'tyi This statement later was repudiated b, an Miss Sally Peters confidant Ssf Mrs
 Hall, who said the rector's widow coul
 imagine no motive, except possibly tha he of robbery. for the murders. sw Although they openly expressed con 4.- fidence that the case had been practi in- cally solved. the authorities were stii
 hard at work tonight trying to reconcil
 all the tangled kein of evidence wit Hafdarse fa 11-r '=k to further admissions which woul rn- make his story more plausible. He va of subjected to repeated grillings throughou
 the day.
 A part of schneiders story-as muc of as she could have been expected to kno- ed was corroborated by Pearl Banner. Ia On the night of September 14, she sai he she was out with Schneider, remainin ic- until about o'clock. When she return
 ed home, she continued, she found he step-father on the porch, intoxicated an TOT consented to go with him while he al 'iF tempted to walk off the effects of hi 'n- drinking.
 ne They passed Schneider. Hayes and Ie It Kaufman on a street corner she sal LII and the three youths followed them Afts
 they had walked some distance she sai, she became tired and wanted to retur ,nS home. but her step father seized her b o-, the arm and insisted that she continu ore She began to cry. she said and the tri his rushed up. Schneider doffing his coat an
 expressing his determination to beat Bal
 mer.
 ,.rI The encounter ended without blow ,k however she said, and she and her ster led father returned home.
 -ge Schneider's story tallies with hers pe ,as fectly up to this point. except that Schn, ed- ider said Pearl and Banner walked Q
 toward the Philips farm.
 Kaufman left them then, he said b1 ill., he and Hayes determined to follow o dy. Hayes showing him g calibre pist ad- and assuring him there was no danre rg Suddenly. he said. they saw a coup Ter beneath the crab apple tree and Hay, m- whipped out his pistol and began to fir ge, exclaiming, There they are-Fll fix 'em
 After the struggles of the pair beneai
 the tree were stilled.~ he said. he sto forward, struck a match and cried Hayes:
 an. My God. man. you've made a terr ho- ble mistake"
 a-s. Hayes then snatched the rninister and watch and they both fled, he declare 1ls- Schneider was quoted as telling il
 authorities he had taken Pearl 10 Il
 scene on Saturdsy-two days after il sed shooting-7artly out of morbid curiosi as and partsy because he wanted to sho He'd her how nearly she had come to beil win slain for her walk with her s,sr-f..h.
 
 the It was. Schneider and Pearl who fir at- discovered the bodies and notified Il or police
 Pearls version to the reporters tod,
 was somewhat different. orn "Raynond saw me Saturday and i
 sisted that we take a walk" she sai & '&aA He took me up De Russy lane It VI sa 'ss the first time we had ever been up tn , "n way. We sat down in the grass near t apple tree to talk. I looked over al
 saw, the bodies and said to Raymor
 there arc two people lying down sa "swhy don't you attend to your os
 bus'-sss 2" he replied. ,ooi '-Then. walked over and saw they VIC rcd all bloody and ran away frightened Tn ,ior we told a policeman"
 The girl said Schneider had appear
 worried ever since the shooting. and dea two occasions had asked her. to go ,es- Perth Amboy with him. mt Did you know Raymond had a pei jeer handled knife in his pocket that night ical Peal also showed reporters a note s res had received from Sehneider's young VI ess- on the Monday following the finding fires the bodies. Ii read
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