Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-10-27
SAYS WIDOW
AND BROTHER
GUILTY ONES
Big Farmer Accuses Mrs.
Hall and Stevens of
Double Murder-StOry
Story COrroborated.

New Brunswick, N. j., Oct 81.
= (By Associated Press. - Spe-
cial Deputy Attorney General Mott
stated today that he had found a.
person who corroborated the story
told by the farmer woman, Mrs.
Jane Gibson, who witnessed the
Staying the night of September IA
OF Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and
Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills.
New Brunswick, N. j., Oct. 27.
Wilbur A. Mott, special deputy
attorney general, who has taken
over the inquiry into the Hall
Mills murder mystery, expected to
interview a prominent church man
today in an effort to corroborate
statements of Mrs. Jane Gibson,
eye witness of the double Staying.
Mott indicated that he intended
to cause the churchman' arrest
unless he agrees to become a wit
ness for the prosecution. Failure
of the man, said to have been near
the scene of the murder, to ac-
quaint the authorities with his al
legged knowledge of the affair has
laid him liable to arrest, Prosecu-
tor Mott believes.
Mott is said to be in possession
of data showing that this same |
man had discovered the letters of |
Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
slain choir leader, to the Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall.
The mans car IS said to have
been parked near the crabapple
tree on the old Phillips place and
its headlight made it possible for
Mrs. Gibson to see the battle that
ended in the death Of DR.. Hall and
Mrs. Mills.
Attorney Timothy N. Pfeiffer,
Mrs Hall, denied last
hight that either Mrs. Hall or her
Henry Stevens, was pres
mt when the clergyman and his
,hoir singer were killed.
Names Widow and Brother.
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, w1q- /
wv of the slain rector of the Pro-
estant Episcopal church of st.
Iohn the Evangelist, and her
brother Henry Stevens, have been
FAMED in the sworn statement OF
Mrs. Jane Gibson, self-styled eye
witness of the double Staying of
he Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall
md Mrs. Eleanor Rinehardt Mills
IN the night of September Ia last.
This announcement was not
made by the authorities, but be-
anne known last night through
he issuance of a statement by /
1rs. Halls attorney, Timothy N.
'feiffer, denying the facts of Mrs.
aibsons account and declaring
hat neither the rector's widow
lor her brother were on the Phil ,
ips farm on the night of the dou-
lie Staying.
One Maid Reported Out.
''Mrs. Gibsons statements are
ontrary to the facts" Mr.. Pfeiffer '
aid. MRS. Hall was in her honi. !
II evening. Barbara Tough, one [
t the maids was out that night [
nd Louisa Geist, the other maid, (
vas on the back stoop. There was t
% one else but little 7year-old c
iece in the house with Mrs. Hall. &
Tut there may have been one yisi- /
Or. q
Henry Stevens Identification
s one Of the quartet seen on the 1
arm is also contrary to fact. ;
Ienry was at Lavallette, N. j., all i
nat night" III
Mrs. Gibson, in her statement 1t H
as known, declared that she had
zen four persons on the night OF II
he murders under the crabapple
zee, where two days later the
odies OF the rector and the choir
niger were found. ii
Mrs. Gibson also said in her
.atement that she heard the man
HON she alleged she saw fire
sries Of shots at the rector unc
he choir singer, addressed by his
III