The New York herald., 1922-12-01

wife was murdered This time las:
year she cooked what he called "a
bully dinner" for the then happy little
household. To-day he struggled through
the preparation OF chicken and apple
pie, ianked by dish of celery and
few almonds. Jimmie and little
Danny were alone. for Charlotte lef:
the house early to spend her Thanks
giving elsewhere.
His Letter To Senator Edge.
Mills was clearing away the dinner
dishes from the kitchen table as the
reporters visited him. When he started
talking all OF the bitterness and sorrow
which have been pent up with him for
weeks burst forth. He criticized the
Grand Jury and the officials. He spoke
OF having read in a newspaper of a
debate in the Senate between Senator
Edge and Senator Mcclellan OF Ten
nessee in which references were made
to the fact that the Hall-Mills case was
dragging on and that justice was not
being done. This moved him to take
out a battered old pen, and he wrote
the two letters sitting at the partly
cleared kitchen table. His letter ITO
Senator Edge was:
MY DEAR SENATOR;
Il
on the Senate floor about the crime,
will YOU please continue the investiga>
ton of the Hall-Mills murder case?
There was no indictment and the public
at large think that this case should be
looked into
''Mr. Edge. It has been lonesome
Thanksgiving Day for me and my child
rem. but II might have been brighter
holiday for the family il the Grand Jury
had brought the guilty ones to justice.
1.-THE townsfolk tell me it is shame
to let things drop.
"Sorrowfully Yours,
JAMES Mills
The setter to Mr.. Beekman was virtu-
ally the same, without the reference tc
the debate IN the Senate.
Mills told how the neighbors speak to
him every time he goes out and tell him
Justice must be DONE
Its shame" said Mills. Here /
am all in a mess and my wife dead
and the guilty persons getting Off
and nothing being done about it.
I'm not going to stand IL. but what
can | do? Maybe my writing to Sen
ator Edge and Mr.. Beekman may do
some good, But you never can tell. 1t
looks to me like II will never be solved
but you can't tell me that 1t was done
by hired assassins or robbers. They
don't commit their crimes in that way"
Young Danny ardently wished for
"s100, 900 so that he could hire some
one to solve the murder Of his mother"
He misses her badly, he said. but he
admitted that Paw sure cooked one
good meal to-day"
The State troopers are still at work
on the case with Lieut.. James #. Mason
and will be here for some time.
Wilbur A. Mott. Special Deputy At
torney- General. had nothing to say on
the case but will meet Thomas f. Nc
Gran, Attorney General. on Monday.
AS Mott expressed it on Tuesday, fol-
lowing the Grand Jury action. he is
''in a state of suspended animation Mr..
Beekman has made no announcement
about his program. although the Grand
Jury recommended that he continue in
vestigating.
Little in the way of any action. Of
fetal or private, is looked for before
next Monday. Then the Somerset Prose-
cutor Is expected to begin the case
anew and Mr.. Pfeffer will continue his
work for Mrs Hall. aided by Detective
Felix Demartini. The consensus among
the townspeople here is that the case
will die slowly as the result of the
Grand Jury action unless some unusu-
ally important information is uneagthed.
There is a feeling on all sides that
something should be done. but the
townspeople are open in saying that
they believe certain stumbling piocks
will never permit OF any real action.