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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1922 3 HEW LIGHT THROWN OFJ DOUBLE KILLING Sensation Coming in Hall Mills Murder Case. NEW EVIDENCE OBTAINED Facts Disclosed Point to Member of Prominent Family as One Who Slew Couple. (By Chicago Trlbun Leased Wire.) NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 19. A secret avenue of Information has been opened and is being guarded Jealously by the authorities investi gating the Hall-Mills murder mys tery, it was learned here late today. New evidence considered of great value is in the hands of the state troopers and Prosecutors Beekman and Strieker which points to a mem ber of a prominent New Brunswick family as the person who shot the minister and choir singer and then cut the woman's throat. In spite of the apparent lethargy of the au thorities today, it is known that the case is nearing a climax and that an astonishing denouement will bo made soon. Mrs. Charles Miller, who runs a tiny general store on a corner about a third of a mile from the magnifi cent estate of Sidney Carpender, cousin of Mrs. Hall, today related having heard the wild shrieka of a woman on the night of the murder. Mrs. Miller and her daughters. Margaret and Lillian, together with a neighbor, Jack McGuire. were talking in the store that night about 9:30 when they were startled by a woman's screams coming from an automobile which epeeded past the Miller place at such a rate that it had disappeared before the screen door o the store could be opened. The incident so unnerved Mrs. Miller that she telephoned another daughter. Miss Myrtle Miller, who is head usher at the Reade theater, to have someone drive her home from town, instead of walking, as was her custom. Shot Heard by Several. Mrs. Miller, one of her daughters and her sister, Mrs. Charles Wil cox, went outside to wait for Myrtle. While waiting, about 11:30 oclock, they heard a shot. The sound came from the direction of Clifton ave nue, they said. Clifton avenue turns into Ryders lane, which winds its way around the Carpender estate and into the state road. Edward Welsh, a brother of Mrs. Miller, who had retired, also heard the shot, jumped out of bed and looked out of the window, but saw no one. Mrs. Miller's store is located in the settlement called Weston's Mills, and is about BOO yards from the de serted schoolhouse mentioned by two New Brunswick men who have told the police they heard screams, believed to be those of Mrs. Mills, coming from a shed in the rear of the school as they were motoring home from Red Bank. Those who believe that, the shrieks heard at Weston's Mills were the cries of Mrs. Mills, voice the theory that she and Hall were persuaded to enter an automobile br some one who confronted them at the Phillips farm, where it is known they went after leaving their homes on the night of September 14, Solution Believed Near. It is believed the couple were taken from the Phillips farm, which is north of New Brunswick, to the isolated spot two miles south of the city; that an argument which had started when the minister and choir singer entered the car became heated and the shooting followed that the bodies were brought back to the Phillips farm because the murderer knew that was the tryst ing place of the couple, and that there Mrs. Mills' throat was cut and the bodies left beneath the crab apple tree where they were found the following day. "This office has investigated every angle of the case, said Prosecutor Strieker this afternoon. "Charlotte Mills has not positively identified any of the combs found near the schcoolhouse or elsewhere as the property of her mother, though she says one of them looks like one worn by her mother. There have been dozens of combs found and numbers of blood-stained handker chiefs have teen turned over to the authorities. Several of these are embroidered with the initial "S." Strieker declared that decided progress had been made of lata toward a solution of the crime. He said information of great value had been developed within the past week. . . Mills' Attitude Changes. "Some woman did the shooting, and she did it because she hated my wife." This was the assertion made today by James Mills, husband of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills. Mills, the unobtrusive sexton of Dr. Hall's church, has heretofore maintained silence in the case and has attempt ed to shield the memory of his wife . But today his attitude had changed "They certainly made a sucker of me," he said. His attitude since the publication of letters exchanged by Hall and Mrs. Mills Is in contrast to that of Mrs. Frances Hall, widow of the murdered minister, who again today declared her faith in her husband. "I do not believe he wrote the letters," Mrs. Hall told her friend Miss Sally Peters. "If Edward were here today he could make an ex planation of them that would sat isfy me." Mills accepted the now widely published letters of his wife and the Rev. Mr. Hall as genuine. "But, I can't take a cent of that money," he said today, referring to the sum paid by a New York newspaper for tee letters and diary found undef the carpet in the Mills home. "I will work to pay the funeral expenses until the blood runs out from under my finger nails before I'll take such dirty money." He placed all the blame on Miss Florence North, the" attorney who came to New Brunswick and volun teered her services in behalf of Charlotte Mills. Charlotte, he said. had been ill-advised by the older woman and now she regrets her mistake and has severed relations with Miss North, Mills said. I Alcohol j j i i J Get the genuine by . J TSI E YOUTH IN KEW YORK FIXED FOR SPEAKING TO GIRL. Accuser Whispers in Judge's Ear and Blushes Furiously as Complaint Is Lodged. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) NEW YORK. Oct. v 19. A five- word remark, the whispered repeti tion of which to Magistrate Sweet- zer in night court caused Mrs. Gladys Edwards to blush furiously. cost Morris Leverltz, 19, a $5 fine. or $1 a word. Miss Edwards, who writes for magazines, was walking in- Central paric witn Richard Evans, who said he Is a newspaper man, Tuesday night, when Leveritz and Emory Rash, a U. S. army private stationed at Governor's island, came by. Lev eritz smiled as the wind lifted Miss Edwards' skirt and more rash than Rash, uttered something which Miss Edwards overheard. She blew a whistle and policemen came on a run. Miss Edwards had both Rash and Leveritz arrested. When Leveritz was asked what he said that caused the. trouble, he de clared that he merely remarked: - riosh! Look at that leg." But Miss Edwards whispered In the magistrate's ear the five words she .heard Leveritz say and the fine followed. Rash was discharged. HOMESTEAD IS MARKED Place Where Court Was Held 70 Years Ago to Be Dedicated.' CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct ' 19. (Special.) Arrangements have been completed for the dedication Satur day of the John R. Jackson home stead on Jackson Prairie, where the first territorial district court was Leld 70 years ago. The dedication will be under the auspices of the Washington state historical society. Restoration of the weather-worn portions of the house has' been corn pitted by the society. , The first American ilag flung to the breeze in the present state of Washington was made by the Jack son family and was unfurled when the Washington territory was cre ated in 1853. This flag is now in the possession of Mrs. Louisa M. Ware, descendant of the Jackson family. It will be in evidence at the dedica tion. ' 40 POSTAL CLERKS N THEFTS Ring Infests Big Terminal at Council Bluffs, la. ACCUSED MEN CONFESS Boy Killed by .Tree. ABERDEEN, Wash. Oct 19. (Special.) Zeigmund G. Gregorca varge, 18 years old, was killed Thursday morning in Coates-Ford- ney camp No. 3 when he was struck on the head by a falling hemlock. Young Gregorcavarge was engaged with a crew in moving a donkey engine when a small tree was up rooted and in falling pinned him beneath it Federal Agents Uncover Looting of Mails and 25 Employes Jell of Operations. WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct 19. Detection of thefts from the mails in the Council Bluffs, Iowa, railway mail terminal and the collection of evidence alleged to involve 40 pos tal employes, were announced today by the postoffice department. Con fessions were said to have been ob tained from more than 25 of the men and warrants for their arrest, and arrest of the others, have been ordered, it was stated. After the arrest last month of Guy E. Hampton, postal clerk, on a charge of stealing money from let ters, for which he was convicted and sent to prison, postoffice inspectors, it was said, had determined that other employes of the postoffice terminal were Implicated in a long list of thefts and speedily obtained confessions from 25 clerks. The arrest of these, it was declared at the postoffice department will be made at once. The confessions, postal officials said, showed that thefts had been made from the mails of watches, re volvers, silk articles, fountain pens ana even radio outfits. - Eight postal clerks, it was added, had admitted stealing articles of minor value, such as cigars, pencils, candy, etc. According to the confessions. In eluding that of Hampton, who was sentenced to two years in the peni tentiary, it was declared, 26 postal clerks had stolen valuable articles and eight had ' taken articles of smaller value. One clerk, for whom a warrant has been Issued, It was added, had made no confession of theft, but strong evidence against him was gathered by the inspectors. As a result of the investigation, 40 employes have been suspended by the department and will be prose cuted for offenses against the postal laws. The inspectors believe that despite Increasing difficulties, they will be able to involve at least ten more clerks. There are more than, 90 clerks employed at the terminal. The inspectors, according to de partment officials, after the arrest of Hampton and his convicton, con tinued their investigation, first cir culating the information that the arrest of Hampton had cleared up conditions at the terminal and that the inspectors were leaving that point A confession was said to have been obtained soon from an other clerk and then indications de veloped of guilt of other clerks Orders have been sent from the postoffice department here to all chief clerks and others in charge of branch postoffices, directing the tightening up of supervision so that what department officials character ize as a "disgrace to the postal serv ice" may never reoccur. ber 6, when the 5 per cent penalty is added, approximately 150,000 was collected last year and it is expected a similar amount will be paid in be fore the penalty is' effective next month. One peculiar feature Is that sev eral persons who paid the first halves of their taxes, have neglected to pay the second halves.' All the holders of large timber tracts have paid their taxes in full, although there are a few individual timber land holdings on which the taxes have not been paid as yet, as well as considerable land holdings on the west side of the bay; whose owners have not settled the amounts levied against them. ALIENS MOVE WESTWARD Center of Population Drifts From Ohio Into Indiana. - r WASHINGTON, D. C, ' Oct, 19. For the first time in three decades the center of foreign-born white population of the United States moved westerly Instead of easterly in the ten years from 1910 to 1920. The westerly movement was due to the increase In foreign-born white population in California, Texas and Arizona, the-census bu reau stated today in announcing the center to be located in latitude 41 degrees1 3 minutes and 45 seconds north and longitude 84 degrees 49 minutes and 17 seconds west. , That point is in the eastern part of Allen county, Indiana, about 10 miles east of New Haven and 16 miles east of Fort Wayne. ' - In the ten years " from 1910 to 1920 the center has moved from De fiance county, .Ohio,. Just across the state line intt: Indiana. in new joy eating Walla Walla Hay Ordered. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Oct. 19. (Special.) Large orders for hay to be shipped to coast points at prices ranging from, il4 and up in the sack have been received by local dealers. .Transportation diffi culties, however, dealers said today, are responsible . for slow shipments. Officials of the Northern Pacific company reported that about 2000 tons of. hay are waiting to be moved from local points and that cars in small numbers are ; available. The demand for hay :c.is said to be heavier than for several years. 'New High School Projected. BEND, Or.. Oct. v 19. (Special.) Recognition of the need for a new high school building, if the rapidly Increasing number of pupils in Bend is to be taken care of at all ade quately, brought with it at last night's directors' meeting the au thorization for the building and grounds committee of the school board ,to study the situation with a view to bettering conditions by next year. The committee will report back to the board at an early date. The construction programme under You take a new interest in meal time, a new joy in eating once you learn how good Heinz Spaghetti is. And you find that you feel bet ter, work better, think tetter after eating this wholesome, healthful food. A complete meal just heat and serve. 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