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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
EX-HUSBAND AIDS \
ACCUSED WOMAN
New Chapter in Case Of Mrs
Laura p. Bowman Charged
With Plot to Kill
HELD FOR mentality TEs'
BY Associated Press


Huntington. w. Va, Sept. 16.-Mrs
Laura Price Bowman was taken To th,
Huntington State Hospital for the In,
san for observation today after she val
bound over to the Cabell County Grand
Jury on a charge OF plotting to kill hel
husband. l.. F. Bowman. I'H
A third chapter of a vivid love 10.
nance, involving two men and Mn.
Bowman. was written today In The
county Jail here.
Husband No. 1, James X. Price, Of
Corbin. Ky, has come to Huntington
determined, he said, to place his mease1
resources at the disposal Of the woman
whom he divorced a year ago that shs
might marry i. F. Bowman, a local
business man. Bowman was named a
respondent in the suit.
Bowman Is letting "the law take u
course us he said after a neetipI
with Price. But the latter, forms|
newspaper man, who claims he gave "a
young woman every dollar he had whsy
he divorced her, is ready to take hsn
back.
"She may be insane: wouldn't
surprised, but she is the mother Of ~
two children and ! haven't forgotten To
old love-" said Price.
The arrest of Mrs. Bowman cam
as a consequence of statement MAD
to the prosecuting attorney by Robe
Hinchman. local detective, aI
Charles Ripley. n railroad shopman.
According to the statement OF Htnc
mand and Ripley. Mrs. Bowman ga
the former q note for $4,000 to shc
Bowman from ambush. Payment
to have been made upon collection
Bowman's life insurance, said to ~
$1,000. it was charged. The detectiN
who was introduced by Ripley to NJ
Bowman as gunman. as sworn 70
the statement, declared he arrans
an "ambush.
Bowman, who, it is understood, N
told Of the alleged plot. approach
the place where Hinchn.nn and nv
Bowman were hiding. Then HlncX
man, disclosing his identity. took
woman into custody and made bis
port to the prosecuting attorney.
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woman lay with their heads toward the
east. In the woman's head were four
bullet wounds
One bullet had ended the life of the
clergyman, there being but one wound,
through the head from the back of the
neck q little to one side. Over the face
of the man his own straw hat had been
placed. apparently with care. Over the
face of the woman lay her scarf, long
affair." with a pocket in the end.
In the Judgment of the police the two
had been dead for at least thirty six
hours.
There Is slight discrepancy in the
stories told as to what was found be-
side the bodies, but as to one point there
is no question. A thorough examination
of the ground for many yards around
established the fact that there was no
weapon of any sort nearby. This dis
posed at once Of the theory that the
man might have shot the woman and
then committed suicide.
Nor was there anything to show how
the two had reached this particular spot.
There were no tracks Of motorcars, nor
markedly trampled grass. Nor was
there the slightest sign that any one
had been in hiding or waiting nearby,
nor any evidence of struggle.
In fact there was nothing Immediately
available to show how or why the crime
had been committed.
Love Letters Are Found
Scattered about the ground when
police arrived or found in the pockets
of one or the other of the pair were
several papers that gave abundant proof
of the relations existing between the
two. The papers were letters from the
woman to the man, her handwriting
having been identified last evening by
her husband. Mills.
Mills says his wife had these letters
in the pocket of her scarf. Dut Totten
in the pocket of her scarf. but Detective
Totten says the police found them in
Halls pocket. In any event il is clear
that Mrs. Mills wrote the letters and
that Hall received them.
Girl Died of Broken Heart
Hall. when he came here ten years
ago. was reported to have had a love
affair, and it is said that the girl died
later of broken heart. This is. how
ever, just one of the rumors that have
followed the killing, anO there is no
substantiatiOn to be found
Mrs. Hall is wealthy. Rough esti.
mates of the amount the Stevens family
are worth run as high as 81 200. 900,
mostly made in hosiery. and it is said
that to Mrs. Hall was left recently
about $175, 600 by relative.
One striking feature of the case is
the difference in the environment of the
two principals. The Hall home, a
handsome though not pretentious two
story and-a half frame house on fash
ionable Nichols avenue, stands well
back in its own well kept grounds, with
broad lawns in front. Its whole appear
ance is that of n well-kept residence of
the type of which there are compare .
lively few in New Brunswick. The
Mills family lived in the second story OF
tumbledown wooden house whicn has
! not known paint for years, at Abel and
Carman streets. opposite the Lord Stir.
ling school. Mills is janitor Of the
school, as we'll as sexton of tbc church.
The church Is a small one Of brick
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
MUSHROOM HUNTERS
FOUND TWO BODIES

New Brunswick. y. j., Sept 1S.-
The bodies of the Rev. Edward Wheeler
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found
by Raymond Schneider and Pearl Bah .
mor, two young people who had gone
gather mushrooms. Young Schneider tel .
cphoned the police. Two policemen,
Edward Garrigan and James Curran,
were rushed to the scene. They took
charge OF the bodies. although they
realized Mt once that the case was not
in the!T jurisdiction. as the vacant field
happened to be just over the border
line between Middlesex and Somerset
Counties. Hence they sent word to
the County Prosecutor at SOmerville
He with two assistants. drove over tC
tho scene OF the crime.
What is known as the Phillips farm
extends along the southerly side of
Easton avenue, about two miles out of
the center of town. Turning from it at
right angles is De Russey's lane. mar
row earth road. 4 quarter Of mile
from tn" turn along the lane is an earth
road turning Mt right angles toward the
farmhouse. THIS road and Faston ave.
nue. are parallel and the road in 1ues.
tion lies between them, just now n mass
of goldenrod.
About three hundred feet to the cast
from the land the field is bordered by a
few pine trees, some underground and q
gully. Where this row of heavy vege
tation meets the earth road Is a single
apple tree. sickly half-wild tree per
haps ten feet high.
In the heavy grass beneath this tree
the two bodies Wero fOund Rrush the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
# the slain pair in that vicinity that

of the slain pair in that vicinity that
night.
There are three automobiles in the
Hall garage and none was out the
night Mr.. Hall disappeared. according
to employees around the house, The
path leading to where the boGies were
found is inaccessible to AUTOS. To get
the bodies there it would be necessary
to carry them at least 100 yards. The
police will not say that it is their be :
lief that the murder was committed
where the bodies were found. nor will
they deny it, But the general theory
seems to be that the killing took place
on the Phillips farm.
The funeral Of Mrs. Mills has been
set for tomorrow. 1t is planned to bury
the woman In her choir vestmcnts from
st. Johns Church.
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WE'D. DIVORCED. TO REWED
Lancaster Couple, First Cousins,
VIII Be Remarked In West

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Bair. who
were married last March and divorced
last Saturday. have left for the West
where they will be remarricd.
The interruption in their marital hap
piness was caused by the untimely dis :
eovery month after the wedding thar
the State law forbids the marriage Of
8rst cousins.
Mrs. Bair. who was Mrs. Anna NJ
Hare. Of 270O North Fifteenth street,
and Mr.. Rair. who is sixty y-cight years
old and lived in Lancaster, went to
Lancaster to live after the marriage.
When they learned Of the law they
decided on divorce and rcmNrriagc in the
West where such marriages are per-
missibe. Mr.. BARS first wife died
three years ago. He has one daughter
who is a nurse of this city. The bride,
who was widow. has several children.
Che is forty five years old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
MRS. HARDING MUCH BETTEF
Condition So Far Improved Tha,
President Plays Golf

Washington, Sept. 1S.-(By A. P.)
Mrs. Harding was reportcd as greatly
improved today at the White House. her
condition being so satisfactory that the
President for the first time since she
became critically i'll ten days ago. left
the executive grounds for exercise.
Departing from tho White House
about I o'clock. he went to his ia :
vorite golf course for a round before
taking up governmental affairs, chief of
which was the soldier bonus.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
9 WOMEN ON GRAND JURY
Delaware County Investigating Body
to Consider 500 Cases

Nine Of the seventeen members of the
Delaware County Grand Jury, which
convened Mt Media today. are women,
the first time in the history Of the
county when most Of the grand jurors
were women.
Nearly one half Of the 300 bills I'm
for action are concerned with narcotic
drugs and liquor Harry Barker, n
magistrate Of Lansdowne. is foreman,
and Miss Florence Mixcll, Wallinr.
ford, Is secretary OF the Grand Jury,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
Deaths of a Day
MRS. ELIZABETH M. MOORE
Morton, Pa, Woman Was Ninety
Years Old

Mrs. Elizabeth VI. Moore, formerly
Of Ashland, Pa. died yesterday at the
Perpetual Help. Morton, Pa, Of which
her son. the Rev. John l.. Moore, has
been pastor for a number of years.
Mrs. Moore, who was horn in Ire
land ninety years ago Easter Sunday,
had lived many years in Pennsylvania.
She came to Morton when her son was
placed in charge of the parish by the
late Archbiship Prendergast.
She is survived by a daughter in ad-
dition to Father Moore. Services will
be held at the Church of Our Lady OF
Perpetual Help. Morton. at 10 O'Clock
Wednesday, and at st. Joseph s Church
Ashland, at 10 o'clock Thursday.
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LOVE NOTES DISCOVERED
WHERE BODIES WE'RE FOIJND

Endearing notes were found by the
bodies of the Rev. Edward Wheeler
Hall, murdered New Brunswick clergy
man, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, sexton S
wife and choir singer. who lay slain
beside him. The Charlotte" and
Don" mentioned are Mrs. Mills chill
dren.
One note read:
dearest: There isn't man who
can even make me smile. As you said
today, our hearts are as true as steel.
I am not fretting. ] know there are
girls with shapely bodies, but | do not
care what they have, have the great
est Of all blessings-a noble mans deep,
true and eternal love. My heart is his,
my life Is his, all that ! have is his.
Poor as my body is, scrawny my skin
may be, but am his forever"
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licious gossip now going around con-
cerning my beloved husband. "
At this point in his narrative. Mills
bro ke down. His collapse was as real
as It could be. The mans nerves were
wrought to such an extent he could
not 60 on. His daughter, weeping, too.
tried to calm her father.
Don't cry. daddy" she said Don't
cry, we are here with you" Mills
seemed to brace and then went on With
his story.
MY wife was sentimental She liked
to read romantic books. and I want to
add that she was well educated. too.
Those letters that we're round meant
copied out of books. They never were
in the mail. and it was never intended
that they should be.
My wife. wrote many such letters.
Some Of them she carried in the pocket
of her scarf, the scarf that she had
around her neck when her body was
found cold in death out in that field.
knew she had them. read tl,em when
she wrote them. and I never took any
from her because she always gave them
to me to read, saying that she merely
wrote them to pass away the time. |
never gave thought that they meant
anything.
'As choir leader my wife was always
active in chuch work. and TO link her
name with Mr.. Halls because Of her
association with him in the church is
not fair.
Hall Offered to Aid Family
only n year ago when | was des-
perately i'll. Mr.. Hall came TO our house
and told me that he would gladly lay
down his life for me or any of my fam
ily. Several times he spent tho whole
night at my house when was
i'll. and placed ice bags on my brow and
helped my wife care for me. Several
months ago. my wife took up tho study
Of sermons and wrote several. Sh" re-
.errcd them to Mr.. Hall. and sometimes
he used as his theme for his sermon
ideas that he had obtained from Mrs.
Mills writings"
Mills grew indignant when hc was
asked If it was true that he had gone
10 the minister about eight months ago
and asked him If there was any truth
In the gossip that hc was unduly
friendly with Mrs. Mills.
THAT is lie he said. II never
had any reason to suspect either Mr.
Hall or my wife. Their friendship was
simply one thar grew with their church
work. Both were deeply interested in
their work. and for any ono TO even in
innate that there were clandestine meet
ings IA beyond me. Such !ntimations
are slanderous.
How do you account for the fact
that your wife's body was found along.
side OF the man whom she was helping
in his church work." was asked Mills.
.'Why ask rne?' he replied. II am
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
DELAY IN MAIL HOLDS UP
ACTION ON DRINKING CUPS
Park Board Won't Act Until Letter
From Or. Furbush 10 Received

Alan Corson. chief engineer of Fair
mount Park, will remove public drink
ing cups from the park IL hc receives a
letter from Health Director Furbush in &.
closing a copy of the Stat" law on the
subject.
This was Mr.. COrsons comment on
the controversy between DIR. Furbush
and the Park Commission The Direc-
tor of Health says The common drinking
cups endanger health.
Thomas s. Martin. secretary Of the
commission. and Mr.. Corson both said
today they have received no word from
the Health Director, although DR.. Fur
, bush insists hc wrote tho commission
urging prohibition of the cups.
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and ivy covered in George street. be.
tween COMMERCIAL and Throop avenues.
II has a lawn in front and an iron
railing. It is a. pdetty structure. The
Mills home Is about three blocks away
toward the northeast. :.
After Totten had examined the ground
and the bodies, he ordered them taken
first to the Nrorgue here and then to
tho county seat.
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Crosses Cared on Tree
Near Murder Bodies

Two crosses carved in cedar tree
look down on the spot where the
bodies of the Rev. Edward II. Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were found,
two miles from New Brunswick.
The crosses were found yesterday.
Whether they were put there by the
murderer or by some morbid person
who visited the place Is not known.
Detectives. however. believe the
crosses may have an important bear.
ing on the solution of the mystery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18

Another letter. addressed to "AIy
Dearest Darling" read in part:
II love you most when you love me
as you. did today, not physically, but
prayerfully." '''
Still another read:
"You are true priest. You see in
me merely your physical inspiration.
You the priest. Was Pan religious ?
God wants His people to enjoy ali
things deeply"
A pencled note said:
please don't laugh at this. know
I'm n crazy cat, hut | cant be differ
ent. Charlotte talks and then Don
asks questions then he annoys me, so
how can ! write?'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
FRENCH NOVELIST
HELD BY KIDNAPPERS
Pierre esnoIt, "eest Seller" Author
Suddenly vanlshes

Paris. Sept. 1S.-(By A. P.)-
Pierre Benoit, author Of France,
modern 'best sellers" was kidnapped
Saturday in downtown Paris and is nov
held prisoner somewhere In the heart o.
the city, according to letter received
by his fiancee. which she has turned
over to the police.
The young woman also produced
preyious messages from Benoit to prove
the romantic story that he was kid.
mapped in the Place Vendome a week
ago, and taken to a monastery, where
he was held prisoner several days, being
released only last Friday. He did not
experience, she explained, because he
feared ridicule.
The authorities are making strenuous
efforts to locate the novelist. but the
newspapers find much amusement in the
story, one describing it as ''Benoit' g
latest romance"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
Funeral Of Charles r, Davis

Funeral services will be held at s 80
, o'clock Wednesday morning Tor
Charles Il. Davis. who died yesterday
N his home. 5S46 Washington avenue.
The service at his home will be fol-
Church of the TRANSPORTATION at 10
o'clock. Burial will be In Holy Cross
Cemetery. Mr.. Davis was contractor
and builder He had been seriously i'll
for two weeks. lie is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mary II. Davis, and son,
Joseph, and daughter, Helen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
DR.. HENRY c. MUNRO
Head OF Smiths Landing Almshouse
Dies at Sisters Home Here

Or. Henry c. Munro. of Plcasantville.
n. j., died yesterday at the home Of
bis sister, Or. Effic Paul, 1880 North
Seventeenth street
DR.. Munro vas superintendent of the
Atlantic County Asylum and aImshous":
at Smiths Landing. and the son OF
the Rev. Henry c. Munro, Baptist
clergyman at Whitehall, near Williams
port, Pa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18

taken Ill and had gone into the church
10 rest. That is why | went to the
church. 7 did 60 there and I turned
on the lights and looked around. then
came home. and since that time have
not slept n wink.
"Mr. Mills. is it true that Mr.. Hall
had been in the habit of calling your
wife on the telephone, and that, after
receiving such calls, she would go
out?'
"Mr. Hall has called my wife on
the telephone. but these calls simply re-
tcrred to work about the church,
Ut is reported that not so long ago
YOU searched the study Of Mr.. Hall in
the church in quest OF letters that
might have been sent him by your wife
Is that true?'
That is not so. As said before,
hundreds of times, ] had complete con.
tidence in both Mr.. Hall and my WIFE"
"What about the diary your wife is
said to have possessed containing many
notations and love passages! It is said
that you tore this up in struggle
to get possession Of it, and that your
wife aftcrward burned it.
THAT is one Of the several lies
don t think MY wife kept diary"
At this point in the interview Mills
again showed signs Of collapse and the
daughter begged that he be excused
Daddy wants TO talk. He has moth
ing TO hide,' said the child. "but he
Is physically unfit to say clything now.
Please excuse him, won't you?'
80 authorities have the stories told
by Mrs. Hall and Mills IN hand, and are
busy checking them. Both admit they
went to St. Johns Church after
clock Friday morning last. Both
were alarmed because in one case the
wife had not returned homo and In the
other the husband was missing.
Search Where Bodies Lay
Last night Detective Totten began
search in the vicinity of tho spot
where the bodies were found.
One man is said TO have declared
that he heard seven shots fired, some :
time after midnight Friday, but So
far this man has not been located. The
nearest house to the place where the
bodies lay is about a quarter mile dis =
tant. These people heard nothing. The
crew Of the trolley which runs to within
a mile Of the spot have been interro
gated, but none can recall seeing any
one answering the description Of either
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
URGE HARnlNG tn ACT
IN NEAR EAST CRISIS
Time for Militant Public Sentiment,
Saw Baptist Ministers


The Baptist Minister'S Conference
of Philadelphia this morning approved
n telegram to President Harding md
Secretary Of State Hughes. demanding
immediate action" to end the Turkish
massacres in the Near East and "meas.
ures for the deliverance and security of
Christian peoples.
In discussing the resolution to send
the telegram the Rev. Samuel Zane
Batten declared: "If there is anv Chris
tianity in Europe Mt the present time il
will undoubtedly sweep from Office the
politicians responsible for this horror.
mpnt."
The Civic Righteousness Committee
adopted a resolution commencing Judge
Monaghnn's courageous fight" against
the illicit traffic In narcotic drugs in
Philadelphia.
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LOST AND FOUND

LOST AND FOUND
CARD CAsE-L9si. ladies' silver card case
Hs T''o or 'S on y sriwsIk, H,sn,io Gi,5 'f3" Rs
ward. 03l, Ledger Office. --------------
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THE NIRD-NIAN

compotes with the birds. Flies through the
tells Chss w Duke about his recent sue.
cesses with s!idsrs Read this wondsrful
Pusiio LEposR, tMsks Il Habit "-Adv.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18

.-..uv.>D SCHNEIDER
PEARL BANNER
Both Of New Brunswick. \. J.
They were hunting for mushrooms
when they discovered the bodies of
the Rev. Edward w. Hall and Mrs.
James Mills under an Apple tree
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18

plenty Of them advertised In the Heip
VENTED columns today on pages 25 and 90.
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DEATHS

THE SHERWOOD. 3sth st. above Chestnut
. rooms and bath: also 3 rooms and bath
private hall, furnished American plan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18

CARD CASE--Lost. ladies' silver card case
with initials T.. A. II. f., in Haddon
Hall or on Boardwalk. Atlantic city. Re-
ward. p 03l, Ledger Office. -
The Delta independent., 1922-12-15
A GENERAL TAX

William Gibbs McAdoo. the self
confessed financier who deserted his
post at the time the national finan-
with the suggestion that the tariff
beneficiaries should pay the soldiers
bonus. 1t would keep Mr.. McAdoo
pretty busy between now and 1924.
when he hopes to capture the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, if
some one would give him the job
counting those beneficiaries. When
he had concluded he would find that
his total was something like 107 ,O00.-
000-the population Of the United
States.-Marion Star.