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Before the Daily Mirror was born, before Philip Payne became its managing editor, there was the double murder beneath the crab-apple tree. The first investigation ended without indictments; the case was hushed...
Last December Editor Payne suddenly decided that New Brunswick had not bared its bosom of all it knew. From the Mirror staff he despatched confidential investigators. Able Reporter Herbert M. Mayer became "sick" and left the office to direct the activity from an uptown Manhattan hotel. A county detective, George Totten, was engaged...
...July 16, Editor Payne cracked his whip and the Mirror started galloping. A full-page wash drawing showed the bodies of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills as they were found beneath the crabapple tree. The headline bleated : "HALL -MILLS MURDER MYSTERY BARED." The story insinuated that Widow Hall and her deficient brother "Willie" would be the storm centre of the new investigation...
That able trade journal, Editor & Publisher, has told of the crafty Mirror's strategy...
...Mirror itself, purposely, Payne said, let the story die down a little on July 27 and 28. In the masthead of the paper this question was published: 'Can Members, of a Wealthy Family in New Jersey Commit a Crime and Get Away with...