Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-14
MRS. HALL, Wife OF
MURDERED RECTOR
CLOSELY GUARDED
The Object, it is Said. is to Pre-
.snt Further "Bungling
Stupidity"
APPEALS TO THE GOVERNOR

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
Jersey City, n. J.. Oct. 14.-County
Prosecutors Beekman Of Somerset
and Stricken Of MiddleseX today Joined
in an application to Supreme Court
Justice Parker to designate Attorney
General McCrsn 10 take charge Of the
investigation of the murder Of DR..
Hall and Mrs. Mills.
New Brunswick. y. j.. Oct. IA
Stung by the charges Of "bunglirg
stupidity" hurled by counsel for Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hail. detectives
working on the HallMills murder
! struck back today.
I'VE have not eliminated Mrs. Hall
! from cur investigation and we have no
sign yet that We can do So. declared
| County Detective Totten Of Somerset
Il have been saying all slong-why
| has Mrs Hall retained a lawyer T.
protect herr"
Lawyer Pfeiffer Is on guard at the
/ Hall home. and Mrs. Hall has pro-
lection day and night" eaid Datec-
tive David OF M:ddlesex. Why =
| IT."
Reporters who. checked up Davld's
assertion about continuous guard
found Il to be true. Timothy y
Pfreiffer, Mrs. Halls lawyer. spend:
the day at the Hall hcme; Mrs. Selfy
Peters, close friend and confldante o.
Mrs Hall is in charge in the eve
hinge. and throughout the night pri
vate detective. retained by Mr.. Pfeif
fer. is on the Job.
The explanation. at the Hall house
is that the guard is 70 prevent fur
ther "bunsling stupidity"
Detective Tooten declared today
ii had been definitely established tina
the double staying was perpetrate'
between CSC and 10.15 o'clock on tn
night of September IA. 1t also ha
been established. he said. that III
slain rectorie eyes were closed whel
: the body was found. Much import
snce was attached 70 this as an in
dication that some one with a measur
OF affection for the minister took par
in the murders.
Timothy n. Pfeiffer, counsel 10
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hail.. wife {
the dead rector. has asked Gov. Ed
wards OF New Jersey TO turn the IN
- vestigation over 10 competent an
:. fearless officer Of the state. who wi
+, not be subject 10 county limitation
a political entanglements or petty dii
), putee between rival detective force
. Raymond Schneider has been "a
q rested charged with perjury and In
a pairing the morals Of Pearl Bahms
/. Bail was set at $4,000 on the f'r
count and $4,000 on the eacond Seine
der was taken to the Middlesex coun
= jail last night instead of the prison
= Somerville. Somerset county
\ Arrangement of Schneider brougl
!, out two interesting points, the pape
' in the perjury charge revealing tn
% the officials have abandoned the bell
. that the murder was committed aft
midnight on the night of Septemb
IA, and that they admit they have n
- determined whether the killing o
:. CURED where the bodies were found
70 Meanwhile. there is decided cham
y in public sentiment here, and the gu
gestion that blackmsil may have be,
the motive Is now TO be heard wher
ever the case is talked of, and tn
means everywhere. There is also
disposition TO show leniency towa
- - Hall and TO admit the possibility tn
- he may have been maligned, and h
relations with Mrs. Mills not so bad
they seemed.
,el The old Phillips farmhouse has be-
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