The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-11
ANGRY CITIZENS
MOB DETECTIVE
Attack Man Credited With
Getting Statement From
Schneider
RUNS INTO BAGGAGE
ROOM FOR ESCAPE
Pearl Bahmer Placed In Jail for IncOr-
rigibiIity COnt-asiicts Schneider's
Story of Hayes Shooting Rev. Hall
and Mrs. Mills.
NGRY CITIZENS-NO /

ANGRY CITIZENSHIP /
NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j., Oct. II.
Frank T. Kirby, Middlesex county
detective credited with having obtained
the statement from Raymond Schneider
on which Clifford Hayes. 10, was charged
with murders of Rev Edward Wheeler
Hall and choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor r.
Mills was attacked by a group of indig-
nant citizens here early today. Bonn
barded with bricks Kirby escaped un-
hurt by locking himself in baggage room
at PENNSYLVANIA station. Later he was
surrounded by armed policemen in uni
form.
Prison bars closed last night on
a third important figure in the Hall
Mills murder n;ystery-but the in
generation. instead of helping clear
the labyrinthine tangle of clues and
counter-clues. served only to emphasize
the difficulties the authorities are en-
countering in their efforts to check up
the evidence on which 19-year-old Cliff
ford Hayes stands accused of the double
Staying.
The third to go to jail was Pearl
Bahmer Sne is the 15year-old girl
who, Raymond Schneider says. Hayes
thought he was Staying. with her
father when-according to Schneider $
story-Hayes pumped four bullets into
the bodies of the Rev Edward Wheeler
Hall and Mrs Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
on the night of Sept. II. beneath an
apple tree on the deserted Phillips farm.
Schneider is held as material witness.
Pearl was not officially jailed in con
Il. - l.,
charge against her - which she calmly
admitted-was ineorrigibility Prosecu=
tor Stricker, of MiddleseX county. who
has been active In the investigation aof
the Hali-Mills case, appeared = person
ally against her, however. County Judge
DAILY, before whom the hearing was held.
departed from the rule of secrecy in
/ juvenile cases and threw his court open
| because, he declared, the people have a
| right 10 know why she is being put in
| Jail"
At the end of the hearing. after she
| had testified to intimacy with Schneider
| and her father she was officially
committed for week. pending decision
! on the incorrigibility CHARGE Unoficially
/ ii was said. that she was being given a
/ chance To "think over the conflicting
\ stories she had told. An additional reason
for her Incarceration was said TO be the
| fact that she was too difficult TO find
Z
Nicholas Bahmer later was arrested
as a result of the charges preferred by
\ his daughter and was lodged in jail
| after he had been held in $4,000 bail
| following his arraignment.
Pearl. who was with Schneider when
| the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills
We're found" two days after the muir
derS on more than one occasion has
J given newspapermen working on the
| case reason To believe she knew more
than she was telling Incidentally. she
has turned against Schneider, once ad
mittedly her sweetheart. and has sought
10 convey the impression that he knew
more about the murders than Hayes
whom he accused of the crime.
| Schneider. it was disclosed yesterday
told four different stories about his
| knowledge of the slayings before he
reached the story of Hayess commission
of the crime, on which the authorities
acted.
His final story still fails to jibe will
facts about the murder brought out
from other sources notably his in
sistenee that neither Hayes nor he haG
cut Mrs. Millss throat after the shoot
ing. although an autopsy showed the
head had been almost severed.
Detectives and state troopers con
tinued their efforts to uncover more
evidence about the murders, many ot
them frankly expressing skepticism as
to Schneider's story. and indicating they
had leads which pointed to wholly diff
ferent solution of the case.