Evening journal., 1922-10-25

they believe she can identify a
least one of the murder party, o
which she says there were TIVE
members man and a woman.
In her story, too. she mentioned
the Christian name of man, and +
is the name of a man who has fig
urea in the case before. an odd in
div4dual. not a resident of New
Brunswick. This woman's story i
new before Mott, with all the avail
able details.
ssMrs. Gibson as the eyewitness is
corroborated. il was ascertained by
Nrs. Matthew Sulitz. wife OF the
Hungarian farmer, caretaker OF the
Philips farm, who lives near by
and who has made an affidavit row
inffhe possession of the authorities.
The Sulitz woman did no. see the
shooting, but she does say that she
heard shots about the time Mrs.
Gibson says s,e saw the murder
that is about $50 that night Here
fof. the first time, is an agreement
asro the time shots were heard.
-sAzariah Beekman, prosecutor or
Somerset, and Joseph E. Stricken
of Middlesex county, are lieutenants
from this time on and will figure
iiree. Mott, with James Mason, Es-
sex county detective. Totten and one
oa~rwo others will handle the case,
the state troopers aiding and more
effectively than in the past because
they will not have TO contend with
divided authority.
Two outstanding problems con-
front Mott once he has assimilated
the history of the case. They nre;
esBy whom and how was Mrs.
NiHs' throat cut7 How came let
ters from Mrs. Mills to the rector
to be lying beside the bodies2"
On the first score. the fact OF the
matter is that not enough emphasis
ms been laid. The doctor who ex-
am.ned the body insists that Mrs.
Mills throat was cut by a strong
person, whose hand did not tremble
and who used. not a razor. but a
keen knife, such a knife as might
be used for the cleaning of fish.
Only the backbone held the torso
and the head together when the
bodies were found.
Crime BY Strong Person.
1T is doubtful whether a woman,
no matter how Infatuated. could
have welded a knife so surely and
so strongly. As TO the other point.
there is much that has not been UNI
covered. The theory on which the
Authorities have been proceeding is
that the last letter Mrs Mills wrote !
never reached Hall, but e. reached !
some one else. and the finding Of /
the. additional older letters resulted.
How did this last letter reach a
person deeply interested.
Today II was learned that the
authorities who have had a woman
in mind as the bearer of the tales,
have turned their attention to man
a member OF the Church of St.
John the Evangelist, a man prom
inent in its affairs. The woman was
also prominent and both had some
reason for interest in what was in
progress between Hall and Mrs.
Mills
Mott will have to determine this |
uuestion and will probably call wit
nesses who might know about II on
Thursday. when he is to visit New
Brunswick to confer for the second
time with Stricken, whom he saw
yesterday at Somerville after he had
talked at length with Beekman.
II is possible that Mr. Mott will
want. on Thursday, TO question
Ralph V. NJ. Gorsline, vestryman
and member of the choir, who has
already been examined twice. Cor
slime e sfrad - da,tb 90 a. .-...A,-
the case has brought him and re-
fuses 10 be interviewed or to say
anything further about the burned
motor car. Like many others he IS
chagrined TO find his name figuring
in-the news accounts OF the case.
Gorsline, as has been said, re-
scented. he has stated. the advances
made 10 him by Mrs. Mills some
time back. Some OF Mrs Mills
family do not remember the incl
dent quite the same way They saw
that when the choir OF ST. Johns
met for practice 1t was customary
for the members TO assemble first
opn.the street corner between. the
Mills home and the church, ands fire.
quently Hall and Mrs. Mills would
be-the first to arrive Then they!
used to stand apart and talk until
tho others came up. The place be-
ing so near the Mills house Mrs.
Mills was very bitten the first on the
scene.
enc night the rector did not come Z
at all, and it CHANGED that Gorsline ]
and Mrs. Mills met before the others
arrived. Therefore, according to a s
relative Of Mrs. Mills, Gorsline was S
frequently earlier on the spot than S
thesothers. In some way or other the s
members Of Mrs. Mills familv 6
thought It possible an affair would '
develop between the two, but there
Is no evidence that such thing hap
pened, as the prosecutors learned {
when they questioned Gorsline. c
i may be stated that none OF those a
who has worked long on the mystery S
hold the belief that the letters found I
beside the bodies came there by &C 4
cident or were carried there By the v
rector. II is the belief of the an S
thorities that the letters were q
brnught there and left that their
S gnificance might be made apparent.
They are as sure OF this as they are !
suae that a woman's hand laid out
the bodies and arranged the clothing
of the murdered pair.
Speedy Work Looked For.
fBvents yesterday necessarily slow
ed up the work Of investigation. but /.
progress may be rapid from this on.
In his work In Somervllle, Mott
showed ability to grasp his case with !
great rapidly.