The Washington times., 1922-10-12

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Burned Auto and Knife Are
cIues-EarIy Release Of
Hayes Expected.
international News Service.


NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., Oct.
12.-Evidences of friction between
the state police and the Somerset
and Middlesex County authorities
developed today in the investiga-
ton Of the murder OF Rev.
Edward w. Hall, wealthy rector
of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of st. John the Evangelist
and his beautiful choir leader,
Mrs, James Mills.
The state police began a separ-
ate investigation independent of
that county and municipal author
tiles. 1t is said to involve four
persons, all related to the victims
three men and woman.
Burned Auto Found.
1t Is reported that Gov. Edward l.
Edwards would be asked TO send At
torney General McCran to New
Brunswick to take absolute charge
OF the investigation.
Meantime Schneider, chief accuser
OF Clifford Hayes, has collap psed in
his cell in the Somerset county Jail.
He has been showing signs of mental
strain ever since his arrest as a ma
terial witness. He is under the care
Of physician, and is said to be suf
fering from blood poisoning con-
tracted with an infected hand.
New evidence has come to light in
the finding Of a blood stained DO
tato knife, and the remains of a
burned automobile.
Public feeling against the arrest of
nineteen.year-o Clifford Hayes Is
still running high here. A report was
circulated that another arrest might
be made today that would result in
the clearing of Hayes name.
The knife, which iS in the posses
sion of Chief of Police O'Conncll, was
found about $50 feet from the spot
where the bodies of DR.. Hall and
his beautiful compa Mon were dlscov-
cred on the deserted Phillips furm
on September 16. 1t was picked up
by a nine-year old boy. The authori.
ties believe that the red spots on
the knife were made by human blood,
and are not rust as at first thought
Head Was Nearly Severed.
The theory of the police Is that
this knife may have been used to
cut MIS-. NllIlS hCoh
was nearly severed from her body.
The stains are to be chemically una
lyzed.
This new evidence was turned over
TO the police by Thomas Lyons,i who
said that HIS little son found the
knife near the old Phillips farm
house the day after the bodies were
discovered. 1t was lying beside a
Ettle path connecting De Russy Lane
and Easton avenue.
The burned automobile may prove
to be important evidence or may
turn out to be the result OF co.
incidence. It was the property OF
Ralph V. NJ. Gorsline, vestryman Of
the church Of st. John the Evange'
list. He is the man who said that
Mrs. Mills tried to win his affections
some years ago, and whose move
ments on the night OF the murder
were investigated in the routine OF
the investigation.
Prominent In Church Affairs.
Gorsline was called to the court
house and interrogated. His auto
mobile was burned the next day. II
was being driven, he anid, by his
chauffeur and the burning took place
about q mile and a half from this
city. The chauffeur was returning
from Trenton whom the accident
occurred.
oorsiinc was prominent IN church
nffn.rn, On the night that Dr Hall
and Mrs. Mills were killed he had
taken Miss Catherine Bds'all.
member Of tAF choir to her home in