The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-10-05
MRS. MILLS TOLD
OF FLIGHT RECTOR
AND SHE PLANNED
Sister and Neighbor Heard
Her Boast of Power Over
Minister.
$4,000 FUND IN BANK.
Flight Insurance Fund Kept
Secret by State Official
and Hall Family.
$4,000 FUND IN BANK.
Especial From a Staff Correspondent
of The Evening Worldly

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 5.-Fhe
revelation that $4,000 more in securi-
ties was found in the safe deposit
box of the Rev. Edward w. Hall than
the $4,000, the amount given out
when the box was opened, was fol-
lowed by the admission of the author
tiles that they have two witnesses TO
whom Mrs. Mills confded a few
weeks ago that Mr.. Hall was ready to
start for Japan with her whenever
she said the word" The $4,000 was
for the most part in Liberty bonds.
One of these is Mrs. Elsie Barnhart,
sister of the murdered woman, who
lives in Paterson. The other is a
woman to whom Mrs. Mills made the
same confidence in the course of a
casual meeting on the street.
With these corroborations of the
elopement story and with these con-
tradictions of the stories of Mrs. Hall
and the Mills's family County Detec-
tive Ferdinand David said to-day he
felt it time to say that much of the
narrative of the movements of sew
eral persons interested on the night
when the rector and Mrs. Mills were
last seen alive was "a tissue of lies"
At the time the safe deposit vault
was opened mention was made of
80, 900, an inheritance of the Rev.
Mr.. Hall from his mother-in law, who
died a little more than a year ago,
and it was merely given out that "the
$40, 900 was intact" From the state
ment it might also have been gathered
that a 81 900 insurance policy in IA
vor of the aged invalid mother of the
minister was only the other contents
of the box.
The peculiar lack of franlIness and
the political expediency which has
guided the officials in their conduct
of the case is emphasized by the fact
that the discovery of the additional
$50, 900 was not even intimated at by
an officer of the State Comptroller 8
office who was present with represen-
tatives OF the Hall family and the
prosecutor at the opening of the box.
From the day of Mr.. Halls funeral,
when The Evening World first told of
the understanding by intimate friends
of Mrs. Mills that she had been look
ing forward to an early elopement to
the Orient with the Rev. Mr.. Hall,
the authorities have spent almost as
much effort to discredit that report as
they have to prove that they were
really making a worthwhile search
for the murderers.
Letters from Mrs. Mills TO the
rector which indicated that she was
dreaming of their future life together
were kept secret.
1t was officially asserted that the
Rev. Mr.. Hall had no resources with
which to make such a journey with a
woman. Even now that the $40, 900
flight insurance" Is admitted, such
information as the prosecutors may
have as to how this small fortune
was acquired by the minister is with
held.
Further disclosure of the contents
of the letters of Mrs. Mills to the
rector, which she hid for him every
day in the kitchen used in connection
with the assembly room of the
church. show an intensity of feeling
and an abandonment of reserve in
some of them which would cause the
investigators to be commended for
suppressing parts of those particular
letters.
There are also answers to these let
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