Evening journal., 1922-10-30
Find Cartridges on Hall Mills Murder Spot

have been lost. A little over
} week ago a Negro. Alex William
. offered for sale a watch that
said to have closely resembled IN
one that Hall wore and which ha
never been found.
Williams lives in an alley of Bur
net street. The story is rattle
vague and Is to the effect that tw
Negroes. one of whom was Charli
Anderson riding IN automobile
saw williams and his wife at Monu
ment square a week ago last Sstur
day night, and the Williams pal
made II know they had no golt
watch for sale. Then, according Il
Anderson, Mrs williams produced
small fiashlight and tho dip OF al
automatic revolver. but the watch
was said TO BIO at the Williams home
Anderson went there and says h,
saw the timepiece. which is describ-
ed as "a Huntington" case affair OF
solid gold and apparently OF some
age. He learned that the Williams
wanted $40 for the tlmepiece and
exclaimed, That's altogether too
much watch for me-" Mrs. williams,
he says, told him then that she got
tho watch in a trade with q refa-
tive in Newark.
Anderson works in a candy store
and told another empioyo there,
Otto Won Till asking II he wanted 20
buy watch. When he heard the
story Won TIL communicated with
Detective Ferguson, who went 10 see
Mrs. williams. telling her. in the
Straightforward way. IN which most
detective work is done around these
parts. that he was detective. She
said her husband had the watch and
was out. She told him also that
her husband got the watch In skin
game, according TO Anderson.
Pawned Watch With Negro
Last night Mrs. Williams said her
husband got the watch from a white
man who pawned It with him for SIS,
and It is really worth about $40.
She denied having a clip for an auto
matte pistol but Acknowledged hav-
Ing a hashlight. OF course, there
is now no way OF proving that the
ten dollar watch was the one offered
to Anderson for s11O.
william o'Rourks. a contractor
who lives at 16 Central avenue. has
told the prosecutor that on the night
Of the murder, about o'clock, he
and his wife were driving into New
Brunswick to attend the late per-
Torrance of motion picture house
and saw Hall and Mrs. Mills. He
places the time come time between
s. 80 and Q o'clock.
O'Rourke says that he knew Hall
well by sight. as he had done some
work for him at various times both
at the church and at the Hall home.
He also knew the Mills family by
sight. having worked on several
houses in their neighborhood. He
did not know Mrs. Mills particu-
Iarly, but said that her description |
and pictures have tailed with the
woman he and his wife saw walking
with Hall beyond the far end OF |
Park the night of Sep
.ember IA.
As the O'Rourkes drove toward
New Brunswick. they crossed the |
river bridge at Landing lane. turn /
ing toward Easton avenue and fol- /
lowing that road toward New Bruns-
wick. II was close TO Landing lane |
and Easton avenue, a few hundred |
feet from the entrance TO De Russy
lane, that the couple were walking.
In the direction OF the lane. They
were much absorbed in each other. /
O'Rourke says. and although he
would not make any direct state (
ment It is understood that the wo-
man was crying bitterly. In her
hand she carried a paper package,
and was dressed exactly as the de-
scriptions OF Mrs. Mills stated.
There Us no doubt in O'Rourke's
mind that the man was Hall. for he
knew him well. Hall did not have
IN the usual Roman collar ne wore
'bout town, o'Rourke says.
THE woman particularly attract
ID my wife" O'Rourke said, but I
10 not want TO say how. and I don't
want to talk about that part OF Il.
tou know we might have both seen
all few minutes later" he said.
eferring 10 the shooting. Further
han that he would not talk.
1t was ascertained that the au.
horities have not only established :
nat Hail rode in a trolley car TO
he end OF the line on the night NJ .
he murder, but they know also that ,
ne car was the one following the ona '
n which Mrs. Mills was seen bv the {
notorman, Coyne. at about $50 !
nus Tor the first time. the mystery
: to how the clergyman reached {
ne Phillips farm Is cleared up.
norman r. Tingie. clerk who
YES in the neighborhood OF De
'ussy Lane, has told the authorjties {
nat he and his wife were sitting on
ne porch of their homo for ouits !
Whlle during the evening OF Sep. .
,mber IA. II was pleasant. clear
ight' and the stars and clear skv :
lade vision for quite a distance !
lie places the night by the fac, >
nat II was a Thursday and hA bad "
snalned home 10 make soma "a. E
airs. The time he fixes by the foc, :
nat ne looked at his watch in an a
wer to a query from his wife. ana \
'id her 1t was o'clock. A. She S
nd Mrs. Tingle were sitting on the /
orch OF his home. they noticed a
liiing star and Mrs. Tlngle re- J
iarked that was sign that some S
ne was about to die. He laughed
her and told her she was super- {
itious. J
They sat there for little less than a