South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-04
BY JAMES MILLS.

NEW BRUNSWI " J.. Nov g.
II read en- detail the stenographic
report Of the interview that reporters
had with Mrs Hall about the muir
der Of my wife. Not only did 1 read
her answers 20 the questions asked
but also the description Of how
calm and seemingly Indifferent she
was about the crime that disrupted
my home. left my children mother
less and made her a widow. She IS
calm while my heart aches at the
thought of my loss and the fear that
the murderer may never be captured
because Of the stupidity Of the Off
Gals at work on the case.
/ do not. I cannot understand her
calmness. I cannot understand her
Indifference. Is the woman made OF
stone not 10 feel what feel and have
felt since that terrible day when they
told me Eleanor had been brutally
murdered
Some of her statements are untrue.
and 1 wonder why she made them.
She said TO the reporters that she
had not said anything of conse-
quence 10 me the day after my wife
and DR.. Hall disappeared That IS
not true and she knows IL. She told
me that she suspected foul play
when her husband and my wife did
not appear that day
Everybody talks and the reporters
write about it,; they investigate and
then talk some more But no action!
There is no move TO arrest and ac-
cuse EleanOr's murderer.
From what 7 hear they are more
interested in the effect this case mas
or VIII have on the coming election.
The officials talk pretty words about
justice and law and investigation and
punishment. but that is all they do.
Pretty words ia all I get and my
heart is torn with the fear that Il
viii end with the pretty words end
that no one will ever have 10 ar
swer for the crime of murder'lg
Eleanor.
My daughter. Charlotte, telegraph
ed Gov. Edwards asking him 10 bring
his personal influence TO bear upon
Pros Mott to force an arrest OF
the suspected person because Mr..
Mott and other officials have re-
peatedly said they have sufficient
evidence with which to ask for in
diCtments from a grand jury, but the
governor ignored my daughters tele-
eram as he ignored other requests
10 make certain that my wlfe's MUIR
derer be caught and punished. The
governor has no time 10 answer
Charlotte; l guess he is too busy
with politics
Terrible DisilIusiOn.
What a terrible establishments
this affair has been to me who had
believed that justice always prevails.
7 have now learned that it IS not so.
Politics always prevails. the i'm
prisOnment or the freedom Of the
perpetrators OF murder, I have now
learned depends upon the effect it
viii have on politics. What a ter
rible Indictment that is against the
citizens of a great state who permit
such things 10 be.
How long must this so on? How
long must I. my children cry for
Justice? Crime and murder. and
the loneliness of my home and chill
dren-must they be only pawns in
the hands Of men who play politics,
is justice and right stepped upon
and made farce? No one answers
me. Mr.. Mott is silent; Gov. Ed
wards is silent, too busy I suppose.
making speeches about law and or
der
The longer this thing goes on the
more 7 fear that the officials do not
I intend 10 act. II seems to me that
they want the case TO drag on and
on until the reporters so away and
/ 81 IS finally forgotten
. And after that these officials VIII
continue TO talk more pretty words
about law and order and justice.
while EleanOr's murderer viii walk
/ the streets free person that is
f what ] am most afraid Of"