Lovers' Lane: The Hall-Mills Mystery (A Treasury of XXth Century Murder)

(June 2012)

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Lovers' Lane: The Hall-Mills Mystery Bibliography (Table of Contents: 7)

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State of New Jersey Middlesex and Somerset Counties 1922 (Table of Contents: 8)

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Part I: Under the Crabapple Tree (Table of Contents: 11)

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Raymond Schneider; Pearl Bahmer; Edward Garrigan; James Curran; Albert Cardinal; Leon Loblein; Edward W. Hall; Bogart F. Conkling; George Totten; William H. Long; Edwin R. Carpender; Samuel Sutphen; Eleanor Mills

Synopsis

In New Brunswick, 1922, the dead bodies of Rev. Hall and Eleanor Mills are found lying in a park with love letters strewn around.

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Bucceleuch Park; De Russey's Lane; Easton Avenue; Middlesex County; New Brunswick; Phillips Farm

Part II: The Victims (Table of Contents: 12)

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Edward W. Hall; Eleanor Mills; Frances Hall; Willie Stevens; James Mills; Charlotte Mills; Daniel Mills; Minnie Clark

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The story of Rev. Hall and Eleanor's love affair is revealed.

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Buccleuch Park; Johnson & Johnson; New Brunswick; St. John the Evangelist church

Part III: The Search for Evidence (Table of Contents: 13)

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Edward W. Hall; Eleanor Mills; Frances Hall; Willie Stevens; James Mills; Charlotte Mills; Daniel Mills; Azariah Beekman; Joseph E. Stricker; Frances Voorhees; Louise Geist; Millie Opie; John Meany; Agnes Blust; Cedric Paulus; William Phillips; Harry Kolb; Runkle Hegeman

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The police begin an investigation into Rev. Hall and Eleanor's deaths.

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Buccleuch Park; De Russey Lane; Easton Avenue; Ku-Klux Klan; New Brunswick; St. John the Evangelist church

Part IV: The Case to Nowhere (Table of Contents: 14)

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Raymond Schneider; Pearl Bahmer; Edward W. Hall; Eleanor Mills; Frances Hall; Willie Stevens; Charlotte Mills; Azariah Beekman; Clifford Hayes; Leon Kaufman; Nick Bahmer; Thomas McCran; Henry Stevens; John Anderson; Wilbur A. Mott; James F. Mason; Jane Gibson; Henry Carpender; Charles Parker

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The murder investigation becomes a media circus as false accusations and glory-seekers emerge, while others sell evidence to the newspapers instead of submitting it to the police. The police are unable to build a case.

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Buccleuch Park; De Russey Lane; Easton Avenue; New Brunswick; Phillips Farm; Raritan River; Somerville

Part V: Four Years Later (Table of Contents: 15)

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Frances Hall; Willie Stevens; James Mills; Charlotte Mills; Louise Geist; Henry Stevens; Jane Gibson; Henry Carpender; Charles Parker; Arthur Riehl; Peter Tumulty; Philip Payne; A. Harry Moore; Alexander Simpson; Robert McCarter; Frank Cleary; Otto Schultze; Francis Bergen; Clarence E. Case; Ralph Gorseline; Catherine Rastall; Elsie Barnhardt

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After four years of inactivity new evidence prompts the case to be re-opened. This time Rev. Hall's wife is prosecuted for the crime along with three men from her family, but a jury finds them not guilty.

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Daily Mirror; De Russey Lane; Lavallette; New Brunswick; Phillips Farm; Somerville

Part VI: Who Did It? (Table of Contents: 16)

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Raymond Schneider; Edward W. Hall; Eleanor Mills; Frances Stevens; Willie Stevens; James Mills; Charlotte Mills; Minnie Clark; Jane Gibson

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Various theories for the unsolved murders are considered.

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Buccleuch Park; De Russey Lane; Ku-Klux Klan; New Brunswick; Phillips Farm

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