Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-10-19
WOMAN s CRY
MURDER CLUE
New Developments in Murder
Mystery to be Disclosed in
Short Time
QUESTION HENRY'S STORY
Charlotte is Through With
Miss North-- Expect Arrests
This Week

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 49,
Interest in the Hall-Mills murder
mystery turned yesterday afternoon
to Lavelette, the summer home OF
Henry Stevens, brother of Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the
slain rector. Inquiry of residents in
that fishing town resulted in infor-
nation being obtained showing that
the last seen of Henry Stevens on
the night of the murder was be-
tween and 9 o'clock. He was again
seen in Lavelette about $3.50 o'clock
the next morning. it is declared.
A garage man in Lavelette is said
to have furnished the Investigators
with information that he installed a
new speedometer in Henry Stevens
automobile on the day before the
murder, it being set. at zero. On the
day after the murder. this garage
man is said to have told authorities
the speedometer registered 122
miles, this being about the distance
from Lavelette to New Brunswick
and return.
Captain Albert Applegate. of Law
elette, told newspapermen yesterday
afternoon he and Henry Stevens had
fished on the night of the disappear
dlSS VI HAL diIu hlS. MILLS Until
between s and o'clock. No check
of Henry's actions between that
time and $3.50 o'clock the next morn
ing could be made.
Mrs. William Taight. whose home
is on the Lavelette beach told
newspaper men her son, John met
ing at $3.50 o'clock who gave him
fSb heads for rra n halt
It became known this morning
that Charlotte Mills. daughter of
the murdered woman, and Miss
parted company" as the result OF
the publication in a New York pa
per of certain letters written by Hail
to Mrs. Mills.
Charlotte this morning told news
paper men she was entirely dis
gusted with the action of Mise North
and is now thoroughly convinced
that she came here and worked On
my sympathies and emotions for her
own benefit and not for that
of the Mills family"
The Mills girl said she opposed
the sale Of the letters written by
the rector to her mother frcm the
start, but Miss North insisted they
be turned over to the New York
paper, telling Charlotte the pt oceecs
would be used to further her edu-
cation Finally. Charlotte said, she
consented 10 the sale of the letters
The price paid for them is said te
have been $1,000. but it is reported
that failure on the part of Char
lotte to receive this full amount
cr even a large part of it. resulted
IN tho breach with her attCrney
Detectives began today to inves-
tigate the newly developed report
that the Rev. Mr.. Hall rector OF
the Episcopal church of ST. John
the Evangelist and Mrs. M3is Were
murdered in a shed at Weston Mills
a settlement several miles from
New Brunswick and about foui
miles from the Phillips farm where
the bodies were found on Sept. 16
Affidavits containing this new in
formation were made public by the
police yesterday almost at the same
time that DR. John F. Anderson
chemist, reported to the authorities
that an analysis of the bloodsoaked
ground where the bodies were found
ed him to believe the murders took
place there.
The two men who made the affi-
davits said they heard a woman's
screams and her pleas for mercv
as they passed the Weston Nils
shed about 1880 p. m. on night the
rector and Mrs Mills were slain.
They sail they continued on Their
way and that soon after l O'Clock
the morning an automobile whizzed
past them towards the Phillips
farm.