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We‘are sometimes led to
belicve: that the dalliances of the

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y love and murder

Edward Hall became rector of
the Church of St. John the
Evangelist in New Brunswick,
New. Jersey in 1909. The
handsome 27-year-old minister

was the hit’ of the
community. Two ycars
later, the reverend
married Frances
Stevens who, although
seven years Edward's
senior, compensated for
the age difference by
bringing cold hard cash
tothe. union. The
Stevens family was one
of the wealthiest and
most respected in that
part of New Jersey,

For years the Halls
got along swimmingly.
Frances tended to
those gentee] dutics
which are the lot of a
minister's wife, while
Edward ministered to
the spiritual needs of
his parishioners.

ELEANOR MILLS was a married
mother of two when she began an
iN-fated affair with her minister.

simply not true. From time
immemorial, men of the cloth

} have been enticed to stray from
the straight and narrow.

All that changed in
1922 when Eleanor
Mills, a 34-year-old
blonde who sang in the
church choir, and Rev.
Hall teamed up to make whoopee.
Eleanor wasn't exactly footloose
and fancy-free. She was well-
married to a rather boring man who

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was sexton at St. John’s, 8. The, Mills
had two children,

Who knows how it begany
Some say. the reverend’ came
across Eleanor weeping in.a pew
one day, He placed his am around
her shoulders as any

had also failed to return home.
When Frances Hall) was

Wednesday, December 4, 1991 iH

darkness. i
They had

d, she infc police
that her husband had Icft home at
7:30 pm Thursday evening and
had never returned. She had

minister would, to comfort a
distraught member of his ‘flock.
Comfort graduated to caresses,
which led to activities of.a more
intimate nature right there in the
house of worship. Well, I declare!

Thereafter the lovers: took
advantage of every opportunity to
be together. The church was the
focal point of their illicit affair,
although they were not above
making love in the woods and
fields surrounding — .New
Brunswick.

On Sept. 16, 1922, Raymond
Schneider and Pearl Bahmer, were
picking mushrooms in an apple
orchard just outside New
Brunswick when they came
across a sight which would
remain with them forever.

There, laid out under a
crabapple tree, were the bodies of
Eleanor Mills and Rev. Edward
Hall, Eleanor’s head rested upon
the outstretched arm of Rev. Hall.
Both had been shot in the head. In
addition, Eleanor’s throat had been
slashed so viciously that she had
been almost decapitated. The
bodies had been neatly arranged
and letters had been scattered
around them. The letters found
with the bodies were love letters of
the most intimate nature written by
the reverend and Eleanor to each
other,

Eleanor’s husband was
questioned by police. He told them
that on Thursday night his wife had
left their home at about 7:30 pm.
When he asked her where she was
going, she replied, “Why don’t you
follow me and find out?”

He went to bed around
midnight, but awoke at 2 am to
discover that his wife had not
tetumed home. Mr, Mills dressed
and went to the church looking
for his wife, but the church was
locked. He retumed home but at 9
am., feeling uneasy,again went to
the church. This time he met
Frances Hall. She told hi, that her

husband had not returned home '

the previous night. Upon hearing
this, Mills remarked that his wife

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ported him missing to police.”

A. night watchman came
forward and told police that about
3:30 am on Friday morning, he

ce
which was also in, darkness., She
didn’t wake up the Mills family,

agninst Frances Hall and ‘her ff
brothers Henry'and William,
ging them all with’ double

but d to her owu resid
It was she the night watchman

had observed going into.

her house.
There matters stood.

had seen a woman enter the Hall's
home. When Frances Hall was
told.of the watchman’s statement,
she admitted that she too couldn't
sleep that night. At 2:30 am she
had dressed and fetched her

REV. EDWARD HALL was a cleric
who enjoyed the pleasures of the
flesh — until they cost him his life.

Someone had hated the
minister and the choir
singer enough to murder
them and display their
bodies and love letters
in a manner‘ which
would only, bring shame
and disgrace to them
both.

Then, unexpectedly, a
woman came forward
stating that she had been
in the orchard on the
night of the murders.
Jane Gibson lived with
her 20-year-old son
William on a farm a few
miles from the scene of
the crime. They raised a
little corn, which they
fed to their pigs. The
press of the day coined
the phrase “Pig Woman”
and that’s what Jane
Gibson was called
during the several
months she shared
headlines with the main
characters of the double
murder.

The Pig Woman said
she had discovered a
thief in her com patch
on the night of the
murder. She had
followed the thief on
her donkey into the
crabapple — orchard,
where she had heard
three men and two
women arguing. The
quarreling had been
followed by pistol shots
and screaming. The Pig
‘Woman said one of the

“her' stariling evidence, a Grand

Jury failed'to indict anyone in the
murder of Rev. Hall and Mrs.
Mills.

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brother William. Together they
went to the church to find her
husband, but the church was in

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surfaced for years. Frances
vacationed in Italy for almost a
year. She returned to take her
place in the community.

In 1926, four years after the
murders, a special team of
prosecutors and investigators were
appointed to delve into the
unsolved crime. These sleuths
came up with information which
led them to believe that the
powerful Stevens family had hired
detectives at the time of the
murder to destroy evidence which
might implicate Frances. A special
grand jury was summoned, As a
result, indictments were retumed

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murder.
‘On Nov. 3, 1926, Frances ard &

her brothers stood trial: for the fag

murders of her husband ‘and his
mistress. The Stevens family
employed the top lawyers in land F
to defend them.

A startling witness for the
prosecution was Dr, Otto Schultz, B
who had' performed autopsies on 6
the victims. He graphically
illustrated with the use of a
mannequin, that the killer or killers
had not only slashed Eleanor's #

throat, but had cut out the upper fy

part of the windpipe, . the larynx and
tongue; in other words, all the
organs used in singing. This was an
amazing revelation and injected a
macabre element into the trial.

Several witnesses testified to
the passionate relationship which
had existed between the lovers,
They had evidently confided in a
few close friends. Love letters §
were read from the witness stand. §
Maiden aunts blushed: at the
intimate details which were
admitted into the record.

The star witness for the
prosecution was Jane Gibson, who
was at the time, suffering from
cancer. She was transported to the
trial by ambulance and gave her
evidence from a portable hospital
bed, ‘She told the story of
following a com thief which she
had told so many years earlier. She
now identified William Stevens,
Henry Stevens and Frances Hall as
the three individuals she had seen
on the night of the murder. The Pig
Woman's evidence coming as it
did from a dying woman, was very
convincing.

One by one, the defendants took
the witness stand, Henry Stevens
claimed he had been miles away at
Lavallette at the time of the
murders, His evidence was-in
direct contrast to that of several
people who swore they had seen
him in New Brunswick on the
days preceding the murders,

William Stevens admitted to
owning a .32 calibre revolver the
same type of weapon that was
used to dispose of Eleanor and
Edward. He claimed he had last
used it to fire blanks on the
Fourth of July. William led

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his sister waking him to go to the
church in the wee hours of the
moming, and continuing on to the
Mills" home before returning
home. He had no. guilty
knowledge of the murders.

Frances Hall told her life story
from the witness stand. She
claimed her marriage had been a
happy one. She was aware
Eleanor Mills wrote her husband
letters because he had often
shown them to her. Mostly they
had concerned church business.
While many knew of the torrid
affair being carried on by the
deceased, she had been totally
oblivious of the fact that they
were anything other than warn
friends. Eleanor repeated her tale
of searching for her husband, but
vehemently claimed she nothing
of the murders,

There you have it folks. Did
the jury believe that the minister's
wife had found out about her

labour,” said presi-
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Ken Georgetti.

“We want an equal say on key
issues and challenges facing us.We
are confident that we can sit down
with our new provincial govern-
ment, at least, and address the chal-
lenges facing us and be treated as
equal partners. We are not at all con-
fident we can do the same thing with

“Brian Mulroney
has again put us in
a position where
we can't ignore the
constitution. ”

— Ken Georgetti
B.C. Federation of Labour

tion’: s annual convention Monday,

husband's affair and
the murders with the aid of her
brothers?

The New Jersey hurry retired
for five hours before bringing i ina
not guilty verdict conceming <=
three defendants. No one has ever
been convicted for the murders of
Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills,

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