Joseph E. Stricker (?-1926) was the Middlesex County, New Jersey prosecutor who was the first to investigate the Hall-Mills murder.[1]
The sixth death to occur among persons intimately concerned in the investigation of the Hall-Mills murder case came this morning when Joseph E. Stricker, former prosecutor of Middlesex County, who was the first man to direct the investigation four years ago, succumbed to peritonitis following an operation for acute appendicitis a week ago. ...