Evening journal., 1922-09-26

Friday and again on Saturday morn
ing, when he and she found the
bodies. Schneider tells the same
story he has told so often. He adds
that he and the girl stayed at the
spot under the apple tree for ten
minutes, not knowing what to do.
He did not touch the bodies and the
authorities, he says, found them just
as they were when he and the Beh-
ner girl first saw them, He went to
the nearest house that had a tele-
1 phone, called the police, and then
returned waiting for the police to
arrive. He says he had no right"
to touch the bodies.
Not only was no pistol found.
but the minister's gold watch was
missing, though he is believed to
have carried it that night, and there
was found In his pockets only sixty
one cents in change. The detectives
believed 1t vital to determine wheth-
er the murderer left the valuables
untouched and threw the pistol on
the ground, and tonight, they are,
half inclined to believe such the
case.
1t is a remarkable feature of this !
case that suspicious swing around |
from one character TO another with |
astounding precision and that a the |
DRY abandoned has to be returned
TO again and again as new develop
ments and small incidents come to /
light, and chance remarks are made
by this person or that. The contra
dictions in the case are as numerous
as the condolences and what appear
one day to be alibis are worthless
the next.
Mills has been interviewed in his
house, on his back porch, in the
street. and today he did his talk
ing sitting near the furnace in he
basement of the Lord Stirling School
of which he is the jaDitor The
nervous little man of a week ago is
almost imperturbable now and there
are no signs of sorrowl
In reply to questions he denied
that he had telephoned to Hall about
the bill of the physician for the
operation on his wife. He said
fatty that there had been no dispute
or misunderstanding about any item
of that bill. This is in contradiction
to the statement of Mrs. Hall, who
says her husband, the last time he
left home. went to the Mills house
to see Mills about something in the
bill Mills did not understand. Mills ,
denied, too, that his wife knew alv-
hing about the Ku Klux Khan. which {
has been mentioned in connection /,
with the case more than once. {
Again-and 1t is rather extraor- ,
binary with what persistence the lit /,
lie man returns to this subject-he :
asserted that he knew all about the :
etters his wife wrote. He reiterated
hat she rewrote them from books
md that he had seen them mora
han once, He again insisted they =
lever were sent to any one.
on this particular point the
laughter. Charlotte, seen elsewhere :,
nd at another time. shed additional =
light. She said her mother had h
,een reading later such books as !,
This Freedom" when Winter
'omes." The Inside of the Cup and l,
Simon Called Peter" which would
Indicate considerable taste and up N
o-dateness. -
Mills said too. that he was within
few blocks of home or near the h
hurch. all of the Thursday even a
ng. Confederation of this would be 1,
ifficult as his two children were i
way from home in the early even 1.
lg. He said he returned home and p
ly down in the kitchen, leaving a NJ
ght burning and the door unlocked. q,
IN the Friday morning he saw Mrs p
Iall at the church, he said the con- II
ersation was as follows. with him n
skiing:
Have you any sickness in your
ouse?"
mo. my husband hasn't been p,
ONE since last night" de
MY wife hasn't been home since N
st night either. What do you think 81
is, an elopement?" NJ
mo, it must be foul play. Mr.. Hall
as never out so late before. I
n going to telephone the police"
And Mills remarked as to this: Pa
II said nothing. hadn't any ca
oney to telephone the police" A.
irst Idea of EIopement mi
The idea of elopement. said Mills,
st "opped" in his head at the mo- N
ent he was talking to Mrs. Hall v
e had not thought of such thing a 4
fore and believed II it had been "
tended he would have heard of it.
gain, too, ne failed to remember
e name of the woman who told
m to watch his wife-this about
ar ago.
Mllls said he found a third and
'ange key on the ring on which he CO.,
rried the two keys to the church Tb
ter they were returned to him fol- No.
wing the Hall funeral. He gave sot
e keys to the Rev. Thomas Con- 20.
er. who arranged the funeral and -,
10 later gave them to the secretary
the Sunday School. sigvard Emil ilv
isen, who passed them on to Mrs. or
Olson Clarke. who returned them
Mills. This is the same Minna Re-
irke who has been known in the bef
Sc as Mrs. Wills warmest friend. M,
Mills asserted that he found the
tors papers had been disturbed
EN- he examined the desk in the o.,
dy on the day following the find 49,
: of the bodies. --
There is to be further questioning r.,
the Behner girl, who occasionally '