Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-10-19

es disclosed yesterday who attempt
ed to fix the scene of the murder OF
the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and
his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor
Rhinehart Mills, in an abandoned
barn in Weston Mills about four
niles from the Phillips farm where
the bodies were found.
These men made affidavits that
they had heard frantic screams and
cries of murder" issuing from the
barn at about 1890 o'clock Septem-
ber IA. when the couple are believed
to have been slain. Later, they de-
clared, they saw an automobile con-
tanning among other passengers 4
woman, with light coat, dash mp
deRussy's lane toward the Phillips
farm and then dash away again.
Two handkerchiefs-one q mana
and one woman's-and two brown
side combs were found in the barn
5v detectives, who investigated tae
story. Efforts are being made to
Identify them.
Another angle on which detec-
ives worked was the story of Al
fred Butler, a taxicab driver, that
~ the morning the bodies were
found he had driven a passenger
"a the Hall home and had seen
green automobile Standing before
the house. Edward Carpender
cousin of Mrs. HaIi. he said.
emerged with desk drawer flllcd
with papers and letters. and drove
away.
Carpenter told newspapernen
this morning he had been at the
house in his green car. but declared
the only thing he had taken away
were the minister's vestments which
he took to the church. Mrs. Minnie
Clarke, whom Mrs. Mills published
letters have shown the dead woman
regarded as a possible rival for the
minister's affections. told the au-.
thorities yesterday she had been at
the church on the morning the
bodies were found and took the.
slain minister's vestments to the un-
dertakers who were preparing the
body for burial.
Governor Edwards, due here for
political speech, had an appoint
ment with Prosecutor Stricken DUR
ing the afternoon. Whether the
question of turning the case over to
Attorney General McCran would
come up at this conference could
not be learned. The two prosecutors
asked last week for the designa tion
OF Attorney McCran to handle the
case, but later asked for suspension
OF time, declaring they were on the
verge of solution of the case.
The question of whether Mr., Han
was buried in the vestment cor
cerning which Carpenter and Mrss
| Clarke spoke. appeared to be 4 NUT
| one.
Newspapermen who put the ouex<
ton today to John ". Hubbard ths
undertaken. who had charge OF th3
| funeral. were asked to wait whi1d
he called up the Hall home. Hs
asked for Miss Sally Petcrs. CONF
/ dante OF Mrs. Mall and put the uuex
/ ton to her. After inquirfng .sara
| you certain? and ''can I say that
! then?' he came back and said that
/ Mr.. Hall was buried in his yesrrnenr.
Four newspapermen wne wera
! present when the minister's BODY
was disinterred for Autopsy declar-
! ed that the body was attirei in ths
street attire Of rector but that
| there were no vestments. Physlf-
| clans who conducted the autopsx
could not be reached.
That some of the Communities
| tons exchanged by the slain min.
lister and Mrs. Mills still are missing,
was disclosed today when The au-
| thorities learned that Mr.. Fall and
| Mrs. Mills had exchanged diaries
after he returned from i tl1rea
weeks vacation at Isleford. Maine.
The minister's diary found amonz
Mrs. Mills effects was ssld to 4
newspaper by a woman LAWYER rem
resenting Charlotte Mills the slain
woman's daughter. Mrs. Mills diary
which it was said had been given 70
the minister has not been found.