Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1926, Page 19

TRALRVALS THAW " CASEINTHRLLS Frailty of Woman and Thirst | for Revenge at Root of ! B Both Murders. i BY DOROTHY DIX. Spectal Dipatch to The Sta SOMERSE’ r vember 3 s there been a murder at | romises to be so full of thrills, £0 much that on, as does the ich’ begins today in merville. 566 »oth the d t wealth position, outstanding figy - communities in which they ders belong to the ty) neh eall “erime Both had their » voman and the lust wth were inspired | ierce that their thir onld only ed in ¥ 11 the little ty of ‘And | wlitter of ) with a thousan on, while the | hots that ki Wheeler Hall | anor Mills were fired by some | mknown hand in the dark in an a Toned tield Mystery Piled on Mys AMystery bLus be n the four years thut cdy, until st to the tas worrified eye: ~d upon my have er it | plot of the | story seem | hild’s riddle. of Rev. tor of the | John the inger, ) nd retold a hun- | <, bt Iet us repeat its salient background in your Brunswick, and the C 1imost feu: oW rpender families live in an W environment, for they iy speaking, hudf of the ¢ them the wheels of its fuctories turn, for them its real estate brings in a golden harvest. Hundreds of its inhzbitants are its employes. Family Proud and Dignified. An interesting family famil Thoroughbred as Proud, intelligent, dignified, conserv. tive. It goes back to the ecarliest plo- neer American stock. It numbers imong its members one who took part in the Boston tea party, was a major general in the New York Militia and an aide to the ) quis de Lafayette. "here was another who was a famous i admiral in the United States Navy. One cous! is president of the New ock Exchange. nder in the Nav first German War. He w ©O. medal, George, and the D. S. upon_him by Presldent W A big family with fa tions. A dist! nish one. and interm ousins, until f 3 \Imost an obcession with them ‘amily tradition of loyalty a religion. Let us stop first at the little Epis- »pal Church of St. John the Evan- gelist. It is half covered with vines, ind the thought comes to me that it ooks as if it were trying to veil its ace from the shame that has been brought upon it. For here, in the very house of God, he recreant clergyman defiled his own | breast m by King stowed | gear shifting in | way { unspen] altar and kept his trysts with his affinity. Here, behind the Bibles and the hymn books, they cached their passionate love letters. . Frivolous Mrs. Mills. A few blocks away, in a cheap frame tenement, In a flat on the second floor, lived Mrs. Eleanor Mills with her hus- band and two children, a_half-grown #irl and a younger boy. The husband was the janitor of the church, and Mrs. Mills was the leading singer in the little choir. She was a pretty, light, frivolous woman, weary of her insignificant, ineffectual little husband, rebellious at her poverty and narrow way of living, avid for romance, ready to meet half the amorous parson’s making. A few minutes’ ride on the broad wded street and we come to the £ Mrs. Hall, she who was Stevens and who is accused of having slain her husband and hi sweetheart. It is a beautiful, stately, colonial house of red brick, set in the midst of large grounds, aded with fine old trees and with flowers grow- ing about its doorstep. It is a house | as equally removed from the vulgar display of the new rich as from the squalor of the hovel of the poor. very stamp of mid-Vietorfan res bility is upon it A woman's home is so o of her, It comes so Inevitably to press ber p dlity, that you can a most construct her character frem the house she lives in Cuvier could reconstruci an ! from a single bone. Suffering and Strong. Looking at Mrs. Hall's house, T could vi her “suffer being as our gr used to T could see her sitting behind her closed blinds enduring the torments of the damned as she faced ing a man much vounger than herself, a man who had only married her because of her money and social position, who had not even pretended to be faithful to her, and who had put upon her the ible humiliation of having af- irs with servant girls that were the kitchen gossip of all New Brunswick. I could see her in her drawing room idst the antique furniture that is part of her family history, wearing a smile that defied alike spying curl- osity and pity, while her heart was torn with & thousand jealousies of the young and pretty woman who had taken her husband from her. But 1 cannot visualize the woman who lived her quiet orderly life in that quiet orderly house as fleeing from it, as she is accused of doing, mad for revenge, and carrying with her the weapons with which to commit a bloody murder. From Mrs. Hall's house we go to love- | 4o part | the De Russey lane, on the outskirts of New Brunswick. Four years ago, at the time of the Hall-Mills tragedy, it was a secret, wooded country with trees that met above it and it's pathway was soft to the feet of the lovers who trod it. Today, the trees have all been cut away for a_new subdivision that {s being opened up, and it is a raw gash of red Jersey mud and sto that seems sar- | that many” have traveled since that | fatal night in September when they | parked their cars for petting parties for the last time along what used to be known as Lover's lane. De Russey’s lane led to the old | Phillips farm, which had been aban- doned, and on which was a gray old farmhoure, long untenanted. Close about it grew up a thicket of small bushes, among them a crabapple | tree, and upder this crabapple tree |4 boy und a girl, gathering goldenrod {on the morning of September 15, 1922, {found the bodies of a man and a { woman who had been dead two days. The man had been shot squarely in the top of tne head, and he lay with one hand resting on the woman's shoulder and the other hand folded across_his breast. The woman had | been shot three t:mes and her throat slashed. f Covered Wound. 2 the wound her scarf had Wd. About the bodies of the | murdered two were scattered the torn- {up love letters that they had written 1 | to each other, and propped against the ! man’s foot, in ghastly, ironic ident! | fication, was his visiting_card. So dicd Rev. Edward Wheeler [fall and Eleanor Mills, and who slew then. | I is a8 much’ of a raystery now as it 4 when the crime ‘ere they Killed by un outraged wife, crazed with the wrongs that | had been committed against her, or b ved hushband, avenging his 1honor? Did some ji »us lover of the { pretty choir si woman, once loved and then scorned. land deserted by the clergyman? Or were they the victims of a disordered brain, that offered them up as gacrifice to family pride? It is to answer these questions that the ponderous machine of justice h: been set in motion today in Som | ville. { (Copyright, Public Operator Ilrli;i Town Phoneless. —The entire village of Jasper, near here, has been without telephone serv- ice for a week because its lone tele- phone operator is 111, it was discovered last night when attempts were made | to obtain election returns from that community. 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