Evening star., 1922-10-18
STRANGE WOMAN
Of silence FACES
REC7OR'S WIDOW
May Hold Key to Double
Murder Mystery, Authori-
ties Indicate.
STARES AT MRS. HALL
UNDER EXAMINATION
Attorney Describes Experiences Of
Client and Others of
Family.
BY DAN RING.
stan Correspondent. of The Sta,

NEW BRUNSWICK, y. j.. October
1S-A woman. evidently believed by
The prosecutors office to hold a key to
one gate that guards the many paths
of mystery in the Hall-Mills murder
case. sat quietly in the rear Of the
courthouse room while Mrs. Edward
Wheeler Hall. widow of the slain rec
tor, walked back and forth, clad In
the apparel she wore on the night
her husband and his choir leader were
slain.
The woman said nothing. She just
looked at Mrs. Hall and made no
comment. Mrs. Hall had been re-
quested TO take off her hat and don
the gray ulster she wore on the
night of the tragedy. Attorney Tim
othy y. Pfe!fer, retained by Mrs.
Hall TO protect her interests. reported
on what his client had told him of
her interview with the prosecutor.
)tn submitted to questions and they
We're fired at him with machine gun
rapidi;y by hungry news Gatherers
for the better part of an hour.
Summarizing III" entire interviews
yesterday. in which Mrs. Hall. Bar,
ha-et Tough, her maid: Willie and
Miss Sallie Peters. a friend of the
family. were said to have figured.
Mr.. Pfi.ffer said that he would re-
late, in SO far as he could, What took
place when Mrs. Hall and her Two
brothers werv separately questioned.
Handkerchief Inspected.
Henry Stevens was asked as to the
type of his handkerchiefs. He pulled
two out of his pocket. One had no
initials. the other had the initial IS"
Later he discovered that the non-ini-
tailed one was a handkerchief which
he had purchased one day when he
ran short o. the commodity. Incident-
ally. there has been :: rumor running
around here that the authorities have
TWO bloody handkerchief, found Oh
September II, ny some one whose name
IS With IL. but Mr.. lfieffer denied that
any handkerchief was shown Stevens
for Identification.
paratively, behind the door with the
prosecutor. This was also true in the
case of Willie Stevens. Both were
again questioned along the same line
that they had been 10 previous ex-
amina ions.
Mrs. Hall was quizzed at length.
The high point in the questioning.
II appears was the quizZins as to DR..
Halls possession of a .S2-caliber re-
volver She was asked whether she
knew of his having one. She denied
this. She went further and denied
knowledge of him ever possessing any
revolver at al.
Mrs Hall, it was said by her at
torney. SUSPECTS no one of the crime.
At this point was injected the infor-
nation regarding the silent woman.
Some woman was ushered into the
room." said Mr.. Pfieffer. Mrs. Hall
was requested to take off her hat
and put on the gray coat she wore
woman sat at the other end of the
room from her. Mrs. Hall heard her
say nothing"
Coat Not One Dyed.
The coat that Mrs. Hall wore was
not the one which had been sent to
Philadelphia to be dyed. That was
an entirely different garment, Mr..
Pfeffer said.
Questioned directly as to Mrs.
Halls belief in the letters reported
10 have been written by her husband,
Mr. PfieEer said:
Her faith in DR. Hairs integrity
is mistaken. She still believes in
him She has no information which
might lead her to believe that the
letters attributed to him are genuine.
The letters seem, however, to be in
Handwriting very similar to that of
DR.. Hall"
He declared that she was absolutely
rot hostile to Mrs Mills. but that. as
was the case with many of the women
active in church affairs in Dr. Halls
flock. she was friendly with her when
she came into contact with her in
church work.
This interview with Mr. Pfieffer was
the outstanding point of a heavy day
in the case. Seventy-five newspaper
men are on the case here.
Information indicates that the
county prosecutors do not regard the
day in the light of disappointment.
The sentiments of authorities are
,le scribed as "Sanguine" and mysteri-
ousIy there has crept into the air
an indefinable feeling that the big
news will break before another week
Is turned over on the calendar.
DIR. Halls Letters Awaited.
Prosecutor Beekman today was
waiting for Miss Florence North to
return the letters alleged to have
been written by DR.. Hall to Mrs.
newspaper. She declared yesterday
,hat she entered the case from a
purely humanitarian standpoint, and
offered her services to Charlotte Mills,
daughter of the murdered woman,
without expectation of a fee.
She admitted she sold the letters.
which gave the public eye an insight
her client. sixteen year-old Charlitte
She said it was with Charlotte's
consent that the letters were sold,
and that the money received in the
transaction would be put into a fund
for her client.