New-York tribune., 1922-11-03
Papers Drawn
For Arrest of
Hall Slayers
stcens'aued from pas. ono,

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sible for them to have seen the flashes
OF the murderer's pistol, and by day
hght they could have seen The bodies.
PendinE action in the case many of
the Investigators are. engaged in at
tempting to shoot holes in the state
ments made since the murder by Mrs,
Frances, Stevens HaIl-4and with some
success. Besides Mrs.IJan Gibson. the
iarm woman, whp swears she saw Mrs.
hall ct the Phillips farm twice on the
night 5ofthe murder, there are at least
TOUR others who are prepared to deny
some OF the statementsyof Mrs. Hall.
Mills Contradicts Widow
The first Of these is Mills. The 9TH
ers are the college watchman, Phillips:
a. II, Befnett, one of Mrs. Halls neigh
pore, and Charlotte Mills, daughter of
the rector's sweetheart.
Mills insists that when. he saw Mrs.
Hall at the church on the morning after
his wife and the rector disappeared she
expressed the, conviction that the two
had met, with foul piayH after he had
suggested that they might have eloped
Mrs. Hall denies that she said anything
about foul play or that Mills suggested
an elopement
In one.of her earlier. statements Mrs.
Hall fixed the time of her return to her
home. after visiting the church in the
company OF, her brother, Willie Stevens,
at 2:so o'clock. She has said that when
she to the church she also went
around the block tofthe Mills home
but fotnd; it dark. Mills has said that
ne had a light burning in the home
practically al night, but he has changed
his story about that several times.
Mrs. Hall also i;en1ed in her inter-
view that She had gone to Mills home
about $50 o'clock on. the afternoon of
September Is, the day after the. mur-
ders.
about noontime she came to nv
house and walked up the side steps
said Mile to-day. "I; said. 4 haven't
heard anything She replied, Il haven't
either and walked away.
Mrs. aHall is wrong when she says
she didn't come here at $500 that after
noon. I remember that | had Just re-
turned with some ice and was putting
it in the ice box. had to chop it OFF
because dit was too big. She only
stayed a minute, that time
~ saw. her again about Z o'clock
when went to her house. ! asked her
If she had any news and she said she
had not. | stayed there a little while
and talked. She did not take it nearly
MS hard as l. did"
"Did you. see Mrs. Hall on Satur-
day." he was asked. g
Eyes, | saw her twice. / went to her
house about $3.50 Saturday morning to
see if she had any news. She looked
very much worried. At that time a
young lady who was sitting on the
porch said to me: you have daugh-
ter, why don't you put her to work p
Mrs. Hall was there and heard that re-
mark" : -
Mrs. Hall denied any recollection of
this yesterday. Continuing, Mills said:
II did not see her again until after the
bodies had been found.
Says He tainted at Hall Home
II went to tell her about it, but she
was not nearly SO broken up as / was.
! had a fainting spell while was there
and she got me some aromatic spirits
of ANN onia." M
This was the FIRST time Mills had re-
ferred. to this incident and Mrs. Hall
never has spoken of it; but, then, Mrs.
Hall has volunteered very little in
form alton.
What was your impression of Mrs
lEtall s. statement TO the reporters as a
whole ?" Mills was asked.
II haven't read all of it," said Mills,
Shut Tshave seen several things in it
with Which /. DO not .agree. She said
she notified the police, before she saw
me on the Friday morning following
the disappearance Of the rector and my
wife. i first saw MIS-. Hall at $3.50 that
morning, wheh she came into the
church while / was there. 1t was not
at Z o'clock, as she said in her inter
view with reporters yesterday. know
it could not have been earlier because
the children had already gone to
school. She told nae that Mr.. Hall had
not been home the previous night. I
replied; my God! neither has Ell
eanor. Maybe they have eloped'
Suggested Calling Police
"Then she said No, it must have
been foul play and'd suggested chat
she telephone the police. She said
that she would, but she did not say
anything about already having called
the police, and I don't think she had
called the police up at that time. She
told me later in the day that she had
telephoned to the police and told them
that Mr.: Hall and Mrs. Mills We're
missing"
oase before in discussing that con-
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