THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1922
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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.
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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
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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. -
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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.
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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
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$1,552,795 TAXES PAID
$329094.45 Yet to Be Collected
In Clatsop County.
ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.)
A report issued by the sheriff's
office shows that up to the present
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