Evening journal., 1922-10-28

being robbed OF corn and pigs are
exaggerated 10 say the least.
However Mrs. Gibson's new story
may have been dressed up there f.
authoritative information 10 the eff
feet that Il contains most important
statements that she had not pre-
viously made to the authorizes and
did not make 20 Mr.. Mott. who talk
ed 70 her for an hour yesterday
morning at the courthouse and then
at her solicitation sent state troop
er 10 guard her from curiosity seek
ers. she has apparently withheld
important information from the
prosecutor. or else she IL now draw
ing heavily on her Imagination.
dressing up her story as she inds
she Is making a hit as a semi-public
figure. II may be that Mrs. Gibson's
latent literary sense IL developing.
Mott Sure He Has Case.
But Mr.. Mott feels that she with
such evidence as he has been able 10
get oorroborating her statements Is
suffcient 10 give him case. He IN
dicated as much late yesterday Just
before he started for Newark, and at
the same time. made II clear that in
hts Judgment there are a few real
alibis IN this case up 10 the present.
He was asked first: Are you fol-
lowing any lead but that in which the
Gibson woman's story iguresf and
replied. I'm following every lead
anybody has given me-
The next question made clesr that
the move he will be making WITHIN
a few days will not bring an arrest
Immediately.
when in your judgment the time
comes for decisive action, Will you
order an arrest or take the case 10
the Grand Jury first?'
"I don't know. but unless there
should he some extraordinary de-
velopments I should he inclined 10
take the case 10 the Grand Jury"
with an eye witness statement
which you have characterized as
credible. what corroboration do you
regard as necessary
f'None Is legally necessary, but
still it IL open to a question OF per-
suasion."
isn't It a fact that you have been
Informed there was another eye
witness out there?'
"NJo 4" was the emphatic answer
when you find that an alioi IN
this case stands up. will you make
statement 20 that effect?"
"Now that raises a hypothetical
question depending on a contingency
and I don't want to answer IT,
an your judgment does an un-
statement by a person
,oost interested constitute an alibif
"That Is a question entirely Tor
,uhn,lsslon 10 a jury on facts. An
,Iibi as I understand II Is the pro-
,uctIon OF indisputable evidence
hat a person was at SPECIFIC place
n a specific time 70 prove beyond
loubt that he was not at another
place at the time"
This is a most enlightenlng answer
or the reason that only Henry SIZE
ems has other witnesses TO prove
,,s whereabouts on the night or
-bursdav. September u. OF all those
vbo have been mentioned In con-
lection with the case, a. far as II
.nown.
Have you any corroborating
tatement as 20 the whereabouts OF
ames Mills on the night OF septem-
er 14?"
I'VE are not 80 much Interested In
statements as In the
reaibilitv OF the witnesses we pro-
nee" sad Mr.. Mott. Then he went
n 10 say that in Ncw Jersey the
vstem Is different ana simpler than
, New York. He hazarded the
pinIon that Il is simpler to try such
case as this In New Jersey than In
lew York
lie was then asked Have you any
orroborating statement as 20 the {
OF Mrs. Hall between ]
m. and 2 a. mfi on the night OF ]
eptember IA and 1872"
Mott hesitated quite a long time. 4
erhaps significantly, and then re-
lied
"I have evidence detailing Mrs.
all's whereabouts for a consider !
bic period OF time before a. m. {
seemed that II was this answer 7
lat Mr.. Mott considered OF the first
Importance. In concluding this IN q
rview he said he did not think that {