New-York tribune., 1922-10-01
Man Whose Cows Craze
Farm Where Bodies Of
Rector and Singer We're
Found QuHzed 5 Hours
Edwards's Action
Spurs Investigation
DIR. Cronk Says Assailant
Was Strong and Stood
Over Pair as He Struck
By Boyden Sparkes

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., Sept. 30
Spurred by Governor Edwards. the off
Gals OF Middlesex and Somerset coun-
ties resumed their investigation of the
Hall-Mills murder to-day with, some
thing like enthusiasm. 1t was lust two
weeks almost to the hour since the find
ING OF the bodies when the detectives
started out TO search for Matthew
Sulltz, who grazes his COW on the old
Phillips farm.
Matthew, who eats garlic as vege-
table and has wide, luxuriant mus
tacho, was brought to the office Of
Prosecutor Stricker about /: 80 this
afternoon. 1t was 6 o'clock before he
was taken back to his home, which is
half mile from the spot where the
murdered Clergyman and choir singer
were found. Before returning Matthew
to his peaked house, which is
about the size of Fifth Avenue coach
the county detectives got ladder, en-
tered by an attic window and eansacked
the place, for what reason they would
not say.
Matthew Processes Ignorance
The Interrogation of this man at
this late date is characteristic Of the
entire investigation. Like the autopsy
performed yesterday, it should have
ocurred the day the bodies were found
because Matthew, in return for per-
has been acting as caretaker for Sam
Levin, the real estate man who says
he owns it. Mtthew, however, seems
to know absolutely nothing about the
affair
His wife, Mary, who goes to work
in a cigar factory about the time
each day that Matthew driveJ the
COW across Long Brook to the farm,
says her husbandn ever goes out at
night. Neighbors satisfied reporters
that be did not possess weapon by
recalling that when the man wanted
to shoot sick dog some time ago he
had to borrow gun. Nevertheless
the detectives became interested in
Matthew to-day. ~
Reporters standing in the corridor
outside the office Of the county de-
/ teetiYes wal ting to learn whether an
+ T. arrest mad en allaNe swere cautioiled d
fhys ii,stsctly aottoh, of Somerset
County, that they had better go down
stairs.
Totten Cryptic to Reporters
"ou might hear something YOU
wouldn't like" he said.
1t was assumed he referred to the
manner Of their Interrogation of
Sulitz. About six o'clock the man was
returned to his home,
As far as could be learned to-day
the state troopers sent here by Gov
ernor Edwards are going to work in
r. ri oF
ing for Stricken and Reekman. Ser
geant Lamb, Frank Spearman and
Henry Dickman, the troopers assigned
to the case, visited the farm, but there
is little hope of even Sherlock Holmes
finding clues there now, since the place
has been visited daily by hundreds of
motorists, some Of whom have come
from New York.
Dr. E. I. Cronk, New Brunswick IS
health officer, pointed oua to-day,
though, that chemical analysis of the
soil on which the bodies Law when
found ought to show whether they
died there. He said that much blood
must have come from the wound in
Mrs. Mills's throat, even if the slash
was made after she had been shot to
death. He said the cut was from left
to right, and in his opinion was the
work of strong man lsing a razor
or sharp knife.
Says Slayer Stood Over Pair
"The assailant in my opinion" said
DR.. Cronk, "stood above the couple
when he shot them"
1T has been learned that the out
side of the lenses of Mr.. Halls spec
tacles were spattered with blood. This
is responsible for an official theory
that bullet that passed through DR..
Halls head struck Mrs. Mills, and that
it was her blood that splashed his
glasses.
1t was learned to-day from an au-
thorltatlve source that the pockets of
the minister contained letters from
Mrs. Mills which established, to the
satisfaction Of the officials, at least,
that the clergyman and the choir singer
had been meeting clande stinely. From
the same source it was learned that the
letters left no doubt as to the purpose
of those meetings. None of these let
ters gave any clew, it was said, that
would lead to the perpetrators of the
murders.
Dr. William Long, the Coroner's
Physician in Somerset County, admit
ted to-day that he had opened Mrs.
Mills's abdomen when the bodies were
brought to Somerset soon after the dis
covery. Yesterday DR.. Long denied
that he had made anything but q su-