Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-18
DOUBLE MURDER FO|LS
DETECTIVES OF 2 COUNTIES
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who had been missing since early
Thursday night. Her husband. she
said, had come home shortly before
6 o'clock Thursday afternoon from
a church meeting, had supper, made
a phone call to somebody whom he
described as a painter, later re-
ceived a call over the telephone and
shortly after z o'clock that night
left the house. saying he was going
ever to his church to attend to a
bill incurred by the church when
Mrs. Mills was a patient in the
Middlesex General hospital last Feb
ruary.
This bill Mrs. Hall explained was
incurred by the church because
James Mills. the husband. who was
the church sexton, was unable 70
meet 1t. 1t was agreed, Mrs. han
said. ry the church vestry that the
bin should be paid in installments
nv her husband with church FUNDS
through his checks Mills was to re-
nav he church by services rem
dered.
Failure on the part of her nus
hand to return at a late hour lhufs-
day night resulted in her
IN en- 10 the church, Mrs. Hail SAID
she peing of the belief that he hao
fallen asleep in his study. Never
hefora she said. had her
saved out as late as that without
teIephoning her to let her know.
Mrs. Hall told Prosecutor Beeh.
rran of Somerset county, tina she
was accompanied by her brotnet'
willie when she went to the churcii
shortIv after 2 o'clock Friday morn
ing in search of her HUSBAND. WI
lie refused to comment on MS se
ter's statement, according 10 rePoI.s
in police circles. neither aoniitsins
nor denying that he was Win nei.
The story told by william Ihl,iipo
watchman at the New Jersey oolleSS
for Women, which is tne
Hall home, is to the erect that We
Hall was alone when ne saw ~
nm down the street and go into her
hn,,sa about 3 o'clock Friday morn
ing Allen Bennett, another witness
taSI. the same story emphasizing the
fact that Willie was not with MS
sister. r.u l.,
Nothing was said by Mrs. Hall IN
her statement to the detectives, on
seeing the husband of the
woman when she visited the church,
although, according to a Stationery
nade by Mills, he was at the church
looking for his wife at the same
time. He said he lighted up the
church upon his visit to 1t. MIS-
Hall said the church was IN darkhess
when she got there.
According to Mills story lie awaR-
ened shortly before 2 o'clock FRIDAY
morning and wondering If his WIG
had returned home asked his TWO
children. Charlotte. sixteen. ano
Dan. nine, If they had heard then
mother enter the apartment. Ihel
said they had not. Mills said, an.
he then went to the church to loon
for her. believing it possible she hat
beer taken i'll while performing mel
duties there. He a there was NO
BODY around the church.
All Z o'clock Friday morning, &C
cording to Mills, Mrs. Hall called II
his house and asked him II he nae
seen her husband. She said Mr.
Hall had not returned home, Mill
told the prosecutor, and he told Mrs
Hall that his wife also was missing
A possible explanation of the re-
mark made by Willie Stevens. SRI
day, to a fireman that something
big was going to happen was sug,
gested this morning when it was said
he might have referred to a suspect,
ed elopement of the minister AM
choir leader when 1t was found tina
neither had returned to their respec'
tive homes Thursday night.