The New York herald., 1922-10-31
HALL PROSECUTION
BALKED in PROVING
MRS. CIBSON|S STORY
Tale of Girl Witness Falls
Down-Wagon Still Be-
ing Traced.
WOMAN HAS HUSBAND
Known Also as Mrs. William
P. EastOn-Origin in
Kentucky Verified.
wv L, s. CUFF LINK CLEW
Charlotte Mills Sends Appeals
to Gov. Edwards and Citi-
zens of State.
wv L. s. CUFF LINK CLEW

Special Dispatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
NEW BRUNSWICK. Oct. 30.-In view
of the acute silence of all officials &C
tive in the inquiry into the murder of
the Rev. Edward w. Hall and Mrs
Eleanor Mills it would seem that the
new prosecuting officers who came
here week ago have reached the
same stumbling blocks that Azariah
Beekman, prosecutor Of Somerset
county, encountered
Wilbur A. Mott, Special Deputy At
torney- General, is not ready to go be-
fore Grand Jury, although he has
referred to the case as being no longer
mystery. The Grand Jury ofsSom-
erset county has not been summoned
and there will be no session for sew
eral days.
Mr.. Mott was not here to-day nor
was he in Somerville. Altogether the
situation closely resembles that of
about the time Beekman had his fall
ing out with Prosecutor Stricken of
Middlesex. .
Some Of the reasons for this may
be as follows:
Mrs. Jane Gibson, who described
herself as a widow and on whose
credibility Mott must depend, is not
a widow but a Mrs. William p. Eas-
ton. whose husband lives with her
part of the time.
The wagon Mrs. Gibson says she
followed has not been located, nor has
the motor car she says she saw been
identified.
The new girl witness, who was said
to have seen some of the things Mrs.
Gibson said she saw, is not forthcom-
ing.
Girl, Unlikely to Appear.
The girl was said to be about 20 and
New Brunswick factory worker who
was in the neighborhood of the crab
apple tree with a man on the night Of
the murder, but hidden from that spot
by a row Of locust saplings. The girl.
SO the story ran, heard quarrelling and
quietly walked to a point from which
she saw woman. supposedly Mrs. Mills.
run screaming from the apple tree and
down the lane.
According to the story told by this
mysterious girl. Mrs. Mills lodged into
the bushes at the side of the road and
tried to hide from q man who pursued
her, but was dragged back to the crab
IL .t.Se 1A CD hne No
tbs body of the dead rector of the
Church of st. John the Evangelist.
1t may be that this is part of Mrs.
Gibson's story, a revised version or
something. but there seems little likeli-
hood of the new girl witness being
brought forward.
The only confederation of the Gibson
story which officials have obtained re-
lates to minor details such as the clear
ness of the moon on the night of the
murder and the time the Middlebush bus
passed the Gibson house.
Detective Knows Mrs. Gibson.
1t was only this evening that Mr.. Ma
son and the State troopers and Mr.. Mott
heard about Mrs. Gibson. On the other
hand. Detective George Totten, who has
known her seven years and is largely
responsible for the large part she has
been playing in this drama. has known
it all along, and doesn't think very
highly of the husband who is tool
maker in New Brunswick factory.
Mrs. Gibson, as she calls herself, had
said that her husband is dead and that
he was a minister. She insisted her
name was Gibson, even when II was
learned her sons nAme was Easton or
Eastman. Nevertheless William II. East
on gives as his address Box Is on Route
G, r. II. d.. and that is the tin affair
that stands before the road leading to
the pig farm on Hamilton road. On the
records of the concern for which he
works Easton Inscribed the name OF his
wife as Mrs. j. NJ. Easton" Mrs Glib
son is listed in the telephone book as
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