Location of the Halls-Mills murders crime scene, Somerville, New Jersey
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Glass negatives -- 1920-1930
Aerial photographs -- 1920-1930
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1926
1926
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2 negatives : glass ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Manuscript note on negative sleeves: Halls Mills case location, New Brunswick, N.J.
Aerial views of the site of the murders of Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, the wife of a New Brunswick janitor, and Edward Wheeler Hall, a New Brunswick Episcopal priest, known as the Halls-Mills murders. The bodies were found at this site in Somerville near New Brunswick, New Jersey on September 16, 1922. The trial began in Somerville in November, 1926, and lasted 30 days. It garnered huge national attention in the newspapers and on radio but in the end no convictions were made and the case remains unsolved.
Negative numbers: 6589, 6590.
Hall, Edward Wheeler
1881-1922
Mills, Eleanor Reinhardt
1887 or 8-1922
Homicides
New Jersey
Somerville
Houses
New Brunswick (N.J.)
Somerville (N.J.)
P.8990.6589
P.8990.6590
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