The Nome nugget., 1926-12-04
False Clues" were an Unusual development
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spMERvII4LE, N. d., November AY-The false clues" were unusual development In the investiga- tion Of the staying of Rev Edward w. Hall and his choir singer Mrs. Eleanor MilIs They were called false clues because the prosecution rejected them af ter Investigations which gave some of them national attention.
 Among the outstanding rejected clues the confession of Henry Nelson convict in the Illinois penIteniary. who said he had taken part in double killing New Brunswick Records showed that on the night of the he behind ,h'. hars in in San Francisco.
 A bottle. washed upon the Jert.y Manasquan, contained the alleged "saion of Henry Wells. and gave Brooklyn addres lie said he was stowaway on the steamship Levathan, that he com mited the murders and that he jumping into the investigation in Brooklyn yielded no trace of anyone who admitted knowing him.
 A pistol of Spanish manufacture surrendered to Philadelphia police by chauffeur the theory that it might have been the weapon with which .he minister and his chorister shot, Simpson charged that it had been planted by the defense in order sidetrack his investigators.
 A dairy was found in an ash in Washington which purpOrted to he that of woman whose hus band, the night of the killing, gambling the crabapple tree beneath which the bodies found Detectives noticed that the figures 1922 were blurred in each reference to the in which the slaying took place. Then discovered that 1926 had been first written and then erased while in reference the original 1928 had been allowed to stand
 From the start. Mrs. Hall insisted that ahe knew nothing of her husbands interest in Mrs Mills and that she did not believe reporta to that effect. A month after the slayings. she demanded that the bunglng in the Investigations and through her counsel she called Governor Edwards to name outstanding investigator. Wilbur A. Mott, of East Orange named special prosecutor supersedng the prosecutors of Somerset and Middlesex countries. Shortly thereafter announcement made that Mrs. Hall had undertaken a private investigation at her expense.
 Meanwhile, a witness had come forward in the person of Mrs. Jane Gibson, who raised pigs small farm about mile and . half from the crab apple tree She had been annoyed by petty thefts and reported that while trailing thieves, astride her mule "Jenny". she upon encounter the Phillips farm.
 Mott would not discuss her testimony and she was 50 harassed by unoaciai investigators that she turned shotgun . photographer Reports had 1t that she had recognized Mir. Hall and another and later 1t said that she woman sobbing beside the bodies.
 When the grand jury convened. Mrs. Hall de- manded that she be taken before that body and tioned. This request not granted and Decem- bsr 1s jury dismisssd without taking action. With the exception of State Trooper Henry D. Dick man. other investigators gradually abandoned their search and early in 1898 Mrs Hall went abroad. Re- turning in April 1ss4 she announced that she had been attempting to trace clues. While she was abroad. Dickmsn disappeared leaving two months salary bshiad him.
 Ramors of new leads cropped out from time to time but he vas not until July II. 1888 that Gov ernor A. Harry Moore rsvseIed that had ordered State Police and Jersey City detectives to reopen the case Disclosures alleging corruption of ohcias and the wholesale payment of hush money were made ia sn