Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-10-04
LOPEMENT PLANS
AGAIN FIGURE IN THE
MURDER OF RECTOR
Witness Reports Woman In
Light Coat Driving in Auto
Night Of Tragedy.
JEALOUS THEORY REVIVED

by Associated Ifess TO EVERY Evening.
New Rrunewick, n. j.. Oct. A
letter, said 10 hint strongly that
elopement plans had BEEN made be-
tween Mrs Eleanor Reinhardt Mills
and tho Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall,
written the day both were murdered,
Is in tho hands OF Niddlesex county
PR eecutnre. it was learned today.
One OF the sentences In the letter
which has attracted much interest
reads
"Oh, for the tlmo when I can do
your mending"
II was stated that while on a picnic
the day before the shooting He'll tore
his trousers. The tear was meuded
by Mrs. Hall In the presence of Mre
Mills.
Another development IN the mystery
came when T.. X Sopcr Of Highlnn
Park repocted that on the night OF
the murder while driving near ths
PhilipN farm where the bodies were
found he saw another machine trnv.
cling toward him very slowly. II con.
tained woman and two mon. He
could not identify the occupants but
noted that the woman wore a light
colored coat.
1t was pointed out I'm the prosecu.
tors office that Mrs. Hall had enit
che wore a light coat Mt 2 O'Clock IN
the muning when She left her hom,
with her brother Willie Stevens II
search Of her missing husband.
Officials today said they were stil
working on a jealouey theory ant
were trying To throw light on pc.
ported love affair Mrs Mills had be
fore she was married sixteen year,
ago.
Supreme Court Justice O'Maley O,
New York yesterday afternoon elgnet
an order directing the trustees o.
Greenwood cemetery In BROOKLYN (,
permit the exhumation of the body o.
the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall. Th.
autopsy Will he performed 10 discover
with more exactitude the cause of hi,
death and may reveal wounds smila,
to the slaehings found upon the throa
of Mrs. James Mills, choir singer
murdered with him.
The order, which removes the lap
obstacle to the second autopsy upor
the body. was signed by Justice O'Mal
ley after he had read an affidavit b,
District Attorney Banton, setting fortl
the circumstances of the rector,
murder in Somerset county. n. j.. ans
saying District Attorney Beekman o.
Somerset county desired the autopsy
The order authorizes the removal o
any part. Of the body required 10 es
,sblish The guilt of the murderers an,
permits th~ evidence to he taken be
fore the trial court.
Mtcr the order was signed Il wa,
handed TO Police Lieut.. Ferguson o
New Brunswick. n. j.. who will .ery,
II upon the cemetery officials today.
Dr. r. J. Cronk. health officer o
New Brunswick, whose disagreemen
with DR.. William IL. Long. count,
| physician OF Somerset. over th,
wounds on the bodies resulted in tn,
disclosure that autopsies had not bee,
pefiWmed. said last night he expecte,
to be present at the autopsy.
Timothy y. Pfeiffer, legal adviser Z,
Mrs. Hall. widow OF the rector. con
ferred with Prosecutor Reekman q
Somerset county. in which the bodie
were found, and Mr.. Pfelffer sai,
afterward request had been made n,
behalf OF Mrs. Hall TO have a medica
representative at the autopsy. Thi
had been refused.
MIS-. Hail went TO the door OF he
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