RECTOR’S LOVE AFFAIR
DOUBLE MURDER CHARGE. WIFE PLACED ON TRIAL. NEW YORK, November 3. Four years after the Rev. Dr Edward Hall and his choir leader, Mrs Eleanor Mills, were murdered, the trial has begun of his widow, Mrs Frances Hall, and her brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens. Mrs Mills was the wife of a sexton and in very poor circumstances until she be came interested in the handsome rector of the fashionable church of St. John the Evangelist, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mrs Hall had discovered that love letters passed between the pair, and she intercepted a telephone message on the night of the fatal tryst on September 14, 1922. She had already realised that their relations Were notorious, and the prosecution’s case is based on the assumption that Mrs Hall and her brothers shot the couple dead as they lay in each other’s arms under i a peach tree. The woman’s tongue was cut out, and her body was otherwise horribly mutilated. The hearing is likely to occupy many weeks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19947, 15 November 1926, Page 10
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