New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Pearl BANNER
|AndF FatIlerHeld
In Hall Murder
tcsntlsusd from pass ono,

VINO TOOK this basket IL believed to-
| night to be of tremendous Importance.
II lends strength to the belief that
the clergyman and the choir singer
were murdered elsewhere than at the
/ farm and their bodies conveyed there
in automobiles.
/ The officials, however, seemingly
were continuing to work tonight on a
beflef that the minister and Mrs. Mills
were shot through mistaken bellef on
| the part Of the merderer that they
were Nick BANNER ard his daughter,
Pearl. To support this belief they are
| possessed Of statements from Schneider,
Leon Kaufman, Peari Bahmer and Nick
that while Schneider was stalking the
girl and her father that night BANNER
was looking for Schneider. In some
fashion, which the officials do not at
tempt to explain, they profess to be-
iieve that one of the stalkers came
upon DR.. Hall and Mrs. Mills and fired
at them by mistake.
A significant development of the day
was the resignation of Prosecutor Jo-
seph Stricker Of Middlesex County as
campaign manager for George Silzer,
Democratic candidate for Governor.
The reason for the resignation was
that the Prosecutors connection with
the campaign WAS believed to be injur-
ing the candidates cause, because of
the public clamor directed against the
handling OF the investigation of the
mr. raer
Mr.. Stricken issued this statement to
acco.nt fi3f his action:
81 am this day rendering my resigna-
tion as campaign manager for George
Slzler, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. This is done in justice to him,
as since the Hall-Mils murder | have
devoted all my time, thought and
energy to assisting the Somerset pros
ecutor and his staff in trying to bring
about the conviction of the person or
| persons responsible for it. Under the
circumstances | have ben unable to
! give any service to the campaign.
| although this crime, from all the
! evidence available, was comm;.tei in
another county, still in the circum-
stances my duty, as see it, is to give
| in the future as have in the past, my
undivided attention to this case as If
the murder had taken place within my
I jurisdiction.
II am taking this course fully realiz-
ing that my official duty is paramount
to any personal desire on my part to
my friend, associate and confidant for
period extending over the last
| twenty-five years"
1t was late this afternoon when
Pearl BANNER was taken before County
Judge Peter F. Daley. Prosecutor
! Stricken, who had been questioning her
| for several hours about her movements
on the night of the murder, was with
| her.
Judge Daley told newspaper men that
proceedings effecting a minor ordinar-
lily were held in camera, but that in
tEis instance he felt that the public
was entitled to know precisely what
action was taken and why Then he
began to question the girl.
Pearl, in a light blue sweater, was
frightened by the proceedings, and her
light brown bobbed hair was tossed
from side to side as she stole glances,
first at the judge and then at the
others in the room, listening to his
questions and her replies.
How old are you, Pearl?"
Seventeen"
"'How long have you known Raymond
Schneider"
"About three years"
Others questions and answers that
| followed dealt with the character of
their relations, and then the judge be-
gan to question the girl about her
stepfather, Nick. She described ex-
periences then that caused the judge
to issue warrant for the saloon
| hCCpCl. CdIl Sdlu tIldt uci StSpidluST
objected to her going with Schneider
or any other man for selfish reasons
that were not concerned with her own
welfare.
81 am going to reserve decision on
your case for a week." said Judge DAILY.
"You will be kept in the women's
quarters Of the Jail, and l am sorry
to say that know you will be better
off there than in your own home"
Pearl was taken across the court
yard to the Jail then, and Judge DAILY
issued warrant for the arrest of
Bahmer.
Immediately after the warrant was
signed the entire staff Of county detec-
tives, the men who have been working
on the Hall-Mills murder case, to the
exclusion of other cases, set out to
fnd Bahmer Chief of Police Michael
O'Connell soon afterward was asked to
send out general alarm for the ap-
prehension Of the saloonkeeper and so,
about o'clock tonight, while a score
of loafers who frequent Nick's So
called near-beer saloon were vowing to
lick any one who came to arrest him,
Policeman Joseph Curran found him
riding an an automobile that he pur-