Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-30
MRS. HALL APPLIES
FOR JAIL RELEASE;
PLEA is UN0PP0SED
Continued from First Pace9

wealthy New Jersey family, esti-
mated worth sl,5oO.o00 in her own
right.
James Mills. husband of Mrs. Mills.
small. timid. discourag ed, formerly
worker in n factory.
Charlotte Mills. 6 years old At the
time of the murders. independent and
bobbed haired. now employed as
stenographer in an office.
Willie" Stevens. so at the time of
the murders. with the mind of
child. and a weakness for attending
fires.
Henry f.. Stevens. another brother
of Mrs. Hall. formerly exhibition
marksman for Remington Arms Co.
and du Pont Co.
Henry de la Bruyere Carpenter,
New York broker, first cousin OF
Mrs. Hall.
Jane Gibson, 1.-THE pig woman" So
called because she raised pigs.
Louise Geist, downstairs maid in
Hall home.
Arthur s. Riehl. who married
Louise two years ago.
Barbara Tough, upstairs maid in
Hall home.
Prosecutor Francis Bergen of Sem
erset County, who succeeded the late
Azariah NJ. Beckman.
Pearl BANNER. Is years old. who
said she and a boy found the bodies
while gathering mushrooms.
Raymond Schneider 10, who was
with Pearl at the time.
John Toolan. prosecutor of Middle
sex County. who was assistant pros
ecutor under Joseph f. Striker at
the time of the murders.
Robert II. McCarter. former attor-
ney general of New Jersey and
counsel for the Public Service Cor
poration of New Jersey, retained yes
terday as Mrs. Halls chief of counsel'
Double Inquiry Begun.
With the discovery of the murders
a double inquiry was begun in Somer-
set and Middlesex Counties. Love let
tiers had been found beside the bodies.
To authorities who questioned her.
Mrs. Hall said her husband had gone
out about $50 in the evening, follow
ing a telephone call which he had
told her was about doctors bill for
Mrs. Mills. At 2:30 in the morning,
alarmed because he had not returned,
she said she rose and dressed and,
with her brother. Willie. went to the
church. 1t was dark and locked. They
went to the Mills home, and it, too,
was dark
They returned home. In the morn
ing. she said. she telephoned the po-
lice 10 learn If any accidents had been
reported. and was told there were
none. She went out in her car and
met Mills, and asked him if her hus-
band had been at his house the pre-
vious evening. He said he did not
think So and added that his wife was
missing, too. Mrs. Hall said she then
telephoned Mr.. Halls sisters to come
to her. and met them at the train
about noon. Then she telephoned her
attorney. who said he would go to the
police. In the afternoon she was told
the bodies had been found.
Love Letters of Both Found.
The letters found beside the bodies
and u diary of Mr.. Hall We're full of
passionate protestations and endear-
mentS.
Mrs. Hall declared she had had no
suspicion that her husband was over
friendly with Mrs. Mills and that she
did not believe it.
Mills, however, said he had heard
gossip, and had gone to DIR. Hall with
1t, and the clergyman had tod MN III
had no foundation. Mills believed him,
he said.
Owing to the double jurisdiction
there was much confusion in the
early stages of the inquiry. AT one
stage Charlotte Mills wrote to the
Governor of New Jersey begging him
to do something. The bodies OF DR..
Hall and Mrs. Mills were exhumed
| in an effort to get clues which might
have been overlooked.
A queer incident of the investiga-
| ton was the testimony of Mrs. Jane
Gibson, who said that when riding
her Jenny mule near the scene of
the murder that night she had seen
a woman in gray and a. man with
| bushy hair bending over the bodies
of Mr.. Hall and Mrs. Mills. The
woman was sobbing bitterly. Mrs.
Gibeon's testimony was not believed.
Louise Geist and Barbara. Tough
gave the Investigators no information
| of Importance.
When taken before Justice Sutphen
| he asked her II she wished to make
q statement. but cautioned her 1t