Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-11
BANNERS, F a t h er and
Daughter, Held iii Jail
Today
MYSTERY DEEPENS
Feeling Runs High Against Deten-
b tion cf Hayes on Ground of Schneid-
er's StOry-Detective Kirby is
Threatened by Mob.
OBy United PreSs.l

New Brunskick, n. j., Oct. 1.-Two
more were in Jail today as the in
direct result of the probe into the
murder Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. leader
Of the choir of the Chuch of st. John
the Evangelist.
They are: Pearl BANNER, 15-year-
old motherless girl and confessed
sweetheart of Raymond Schneider, on
whose story the charge of first degree
murder was lodged against his pal,
Clifford Hayes.
Nicholas Bahmer, father of the
wayward Pearl, who has boasted that
he went cunning" for young Schneid-
er with a borrowed AS automatic on
the night of September II when the
millionaire minister and the wife OF
his church janitor were slain, sup
posedly while keeping a tryst under u
crab apple tree on the unoccupiee
Phillip farm.
Authorities are frank 20 admit that
the arrest Of The father and daugh-
ter will give them a good chance to
quiz the pair to determine whether
they have told all they know abou,
the murders.
The girl, Pearl, was brought be
fore a Judge on a charge Of incor-
rigibility and after hearing the casr
was postponed until next week.
Pearl. whom Schneider claims wa
the target for the bullets that killed
the rector and choir leaGer, admitted
that she had been intimate with both
Schneider and her father within the
last year.
Whereupon BANNER. saloon keeper
who admitted he had "been on bat'
for two days previous to September
If when he started out after Schneid-
er was thrown behind the bars on the
daughters charge.
Bail was set for $4,000 which au-
thcritics believe, viii be impossible
for him to raise.
This means that both father and
daughter can be quizzed on q moments
notice concerning any new phase of
the case.
Feeling here runs high against the
detention of Hayes in jail on the
story told by Schneider
\ crowd surged about Detective
Frank P. Kirby, one of the men VINO
quizzed Schneider and menaced him
for several minutes.
Kirby was taken to the police sta
ton by officers who rescued him and
the mob cooled off
A "iustice fund" has started in New
Brunswick for the defense of Hayes.
Saturday was chosen as tag day
That time every citizen in the city
will be asked to contribute to the
fund.
On side of the tag "Clifford Hayes
Justice Fund" will be printed and on
the other side will be this line from
John Ruskin:
"The truth in ones heart does not
fear the lie on the others tongue.
Two prominent citizens, according
to a reliable source today have come
forward with the information that
shortly after the bodies OF the rector
and singer were found, they discover
e da peach basket filled with bloody
rags.
According to this story, the men re-
turned shortly afterward to bring
in their find to the police, and the
rags were missing.
George Totten, county detective OF
Somerset county, said that eve have
lust started to work on this case"
He was asked if it was possible
that Schneider and Hayes we're being
held to divert suspicion and answered:
"Now, you're talking
Totten hinted that the Rev. Hall
and Mrs. Mills were killed before
/ a. m, as some authorities are led
to believe on the basis Of the story
told by Schneider.
what were they doing out there
at ! a. m. wten it was their habit to
return to their homes of evening
hours earlier?" he asked.
'T know the murders were before
/ o'clock"