The New York herald., 1922-11-17
Vehicle Fits story.


The owner denied that he had been in
the ncighboriood OF the lane OH the
night OF the murder lie will be ques-
toned at greater length tomorrow.
The wagon is an old ramshacile af-
fair that creaks and rattles as it moves.
In this it exactly fits the description
given by Mrs. Gibson in her first ac-
counts OF her ride on the nuic down
the lane in pursuit of the wagon. driven.
she believed by 4 man who had been
stealing corn from her place. She said
she traced the wagon by che noise II
made and gave up the chase when the
vehicle turned at Easton avenue toward
this city. Tomorrow Mrs. Gibson may
be given a chance to look at the wagon
and determine whether 1t is the We
hicle she saw.
This may help verify another impor-
tant point in the Gibson tale. Officials
say That they have evidence that tn
man who owns the wagon was actually
In DE Russy's lane on the night of the
murder. They refuse to say what this
evidence is or who owns the wagon.
Mason. without knowing anything Of
the wagon. admitted that the prosecu-
ton has two witnesses of importance
stories OF the investigation TO date. lie
declined to go beyond that statemca:
or 10 intimate on what phase OF tho
case the evidence of these two Witnesses
bore. II is believed that their testi-
inony will concern the man in the cas-
the one about whom there have been 80
many hints OF late ana who did aot
figure at all until about ten days ego.
These two witnesses VIII. II is he
lieved, corroborate parts of Mrs. Glib
sons story One of them may bo the
woman who has been mentioned as ?
second eyewitness, but whose identity
was never disclosed. At any rate prac
tically the whole OF the case against
the man will rest on tho evidence
these two and partial identificatlo
made by Mrs. Gibson. who TO date. has
Identified three men as possibly bein~
the man with tho bushy hair and heav
mustache thai she saw on the Phillips
f. ryn on the night of the murder. Tn
case against the woman In gray Of
which Mrs. Gibson spoke is muci
stronger than the case against the man
One OF the men who has figured in r
remote way in the case. a vestryman
Mr.. Halls church. has told n frieu
that on the night OF the murder he wa
IN his car in the lane with girl ant
that he heard the shots and saw IN
figures. He told his friend he wa
tempted TO throw on his headlights and
see who was doing the shooting, bu
he thought IL he did so a bullet woulf
be sent In his direction. So. to use
about his own words. II grabbed .h5
girl. turned the car around and drove
Uut OF that lane as fast as / could &c
and back 10 New Brunswick.
This man has what purports 10 he an
alibl and has repeatedly asserted that he
was not within miles OF the Phillips
farm on the night in question.
Timothy y. Pfeiffer Is ondeavorng 10
strengthen the story OF Mrs. Russell,
who asserts that on the night in question
Mrs. Gibson was at her shack between
10 and II at night. Pfeiffer called on
tho Russell woman again to-day and got
what he considers important informa-
tion 10 the effect that she is able TO fix
the date by a letter she received from
o. prospective employer In New York.
Nellie Is sure she did not lose her dog
until some days after she had taken the
Job referred 10 in the letter which was
mailed to her on September 3. Mrs
Gibson says the lost dog incident oc-
CURED on September 3.