The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-11
GIRL IS JAILED
IN MILLS-HALL
MURDER CASE
Being Given Chance To Think
Over Conflicting Stories
Say Officers
b ATHER OF GIRL ALSO
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
Nan Who Accused Friend Of
Double Killing Has Told
Four Different Stories

Nee brunswick, ". J., Oct. 10.--Prison
SIS c'osed tonight on a third important
gure in the Hall-N Mills murder mystery
.nu. the incaceration, instead of help
-- Gear the labyrinthine tangle Of clues
,aI counter clues, served only to en-
a,aHze the difficulties the authorities are
,7co1ntering in their efforts to check up
.s evidence on which 19-year- Cliff
1-d Hayes stands accused of the double
SAVING
The third TO 60 TO Jail was Pearl Bah
ar She is the .15-year old girl whom
RAYMOND Schneider says Hayes thought
he wss Staying with her step-father, when
according to Schneiders story,-Hayes
'.red four bullets into the bodies Of the
Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs.
rleanor Reinhard, Malls on the night Of
September a. on the deserted Philips
arn.
Schneider IS held Is material witness.
pear wa, not officially jailed in con-
7ectloa Will the Hau-Mills case. The
rhsrE. against her-which she calmly
admlttet-was incorrigtbiHty.
unofhcla,ly it was said she was being
given chance 10 "think over" the con-
rGctng stories she has told.
Nicholas Bahmer later was arrested.
az result Of the charges preferred by
owing his arraignment.
Turns Against Schneider
Pear, who was with Schneider when
the bodies Of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills
we're found" two days after the murders.
0a more than one occasion had given
acwsvapermen working on the case rea-
55g to believe she knew more than she
vas telling. Incidentally, she had turned
against schneider her sweetheart, and
las sought to convey the Impression that
60 knew more about the murders than
Hayes. whom he accused of the crime.
Schneider, il was disclosed today, told
r different stories about his know
edge Of the slayings before he reached
he story of Hayes commission Of the
ZINE on which the authorities acted
ute- he had been trapped in prevarica-
ions in the first four, said state
cooper who was present throughout the
5nc crilIing. Schneider would say:
Well, let's go back and start all over
again I'll tell the truth this time"
Doesn't Jibe with Facts
us final story still fails to jibe with
's.,- about the murder brought out from
yl .ar sources-notably his insistence thai
her Hayes nor he had cut Mrs. Mills
-lroat after the shooting, although ar
al,opsy showed the head had been almost
.ay erod.
schneider says it was about 10 O'CLOCK
r en- Hayes shot the minister and the
aoir singer by mistake" All other wit
,csses have agreed that the screams and
,a,.s which must have written finis tc
he Hall Mills romance, were heard a
,boa. IO:SO o'clock.
Ds-olte these and many other appar'
ost sonflicts in his story, Prosecutor
9es@uan of Somerset. insisted he hat
coy deac, enough against Hayes to justify
b" charge against him, and even told re
"e.. 2 believed he could convict Hayes
c.taence now in his possession. He re
SOD to disclose the nature OF the eVi'
dance aowever.
Ii7'cs. in the meantime is in the coun'
'r "a at Somerville, awaiting actor
The >omerville grand Jury, and. pro
es..aE his innocence OF Schneider
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