Evening journal., 1922-10-26
Mys. Gibson VIII Tell Name of Slayer
fcontinued From First Page)

off and she thought she could follow
mgr easily without being heard
snsr troiied behind the wagon to-
w.ras Eastcn avenue until it came
TO 90 end OF Derussey's Lane and
turned down Easton avenue toward
New Brunswick.
Mrs. Gibson decided the driver
couldn't be the thief so she turned
out in Easton avenue and decided 10
60 back home through DeRussey IS
Lane. About twenty feet from Easton
avenue she saw a man and woman
standing by an old fashioned auto
mobile. The woman had on a light
coat. light colored. three quarters
lefrrh. Just about this time an
other car turned into DeRussey $
Lane.
BY the headlight OF this car she
saw the couple standing at the side
of the road and Identified them. She
saw them cut across helds toward
the direction of the crab-apple tree
on the Phillips farm. After turn
ing back up the lane she lost
moccasin and had to dismount 10
get II. she heard voices and sounds
of struggling in the direction OF the
crab-apple tree. A man and woman
were ouarrelling with another cou-
pie. The man flashed light
Then a shot rang out. one OF the
women exclaimed. "oh, Ga mans
name) please, please, please" the
~ shots IN
rapid succession. She put the spurs
to the mule and fastened back up
DeRussey's Lane because 'she did
not want 20 get mixed up in such
scene.p She said she was about
sixty feet from the group when the
first shot was fred. She decided to
forget all about. the incident until
the arrest Of Clifford Hayes. Then
she went to the prosecutor with her
story II is claimed.
Wilbur A. Mott, deputy attorney
general, charged with running down
the murderer arrived in New Bruins
wick today and began active work
upon his investigation.
Mott was accompanied by Detec-
tive .'Jimmy" Mason. and the two
prebsred to call before them a long
list Of persons connected with the
killings.
The scene Of the finding OF the
bodies was visited by the prosecutor
and his aide and II was expected that
Mrs. Frances Hall, widow OF the
pastor. members OF her family and
the Mills family. would be called to
the court house later.
The prosecutor promised fearless
action" in the case.
L could make an arrest now, but |
I prefer 10 wait until the case is
clinched." Mott said.
I'VE have a definite line TO fol-
low" Mott said.
Il know OF no reason why we
should discredit the story told by
AIr% Jane Gibson who says she was
an eye witness of the killing.
I'VE are seeking witnesses TO cor
roborate certain portions OF her
story. We have also statements OF /
many other witnesses, some OF them 1
pertinent as Mrs. Gibson's.
There is a difference between an |
81 and a conviction"
cprefer to wait until we have
Jsing evidence in hand. so we
- sto right ahead with the trial as
oon as possible after the arrest is
ade."
A sensation was promised by the
prosecutors statement he would |
question possible suspects and an |
alleged eyewitness in a group con-
fronting the woman in the gray coat. |
charged by Mrs. Jane Gibson with |
the crime. with her accuser.
Mrs. Jane Gibson, the unusually |
picturesque woman of the farm near
the spot at which the bodies were I
found and who is said TO have been /
an eyewitness to the shooting Of Hall |
and Mrs. Malls, gave a lengthy inter-
view yesterday TO a woman inyesti-
gator TOR The New York Herald in /
which she made the first open state
m e1f1s regarding what she had seen /
on abe fateful night OF September II. I
To the woman investigator she un-
burdened to a certain extent some OF /
the panorama OF murder which pass
ed before her startled eyes as she /
sat astride a shaggy mule on a rise |
OF ground. looking down as in an
amphitheater on the stage where
the tragedy was being enacted.
81 hold the key 10 the whole solu-
ton, I saw It done, she said to the /
investigator.
you did actually see II done9"
she was asked. and replied: Yes, 1
saw II done"
"Oh. but weren't you frightened to
witness such q thing?" she was asked
and answered.:
sa0f course I was frightened"
::irY-ou saw"
j couldn't say who did IT,"
1T just seems as though God had
sent me there on that errand that
night TO see justice done" she said.
''What your two eyes see (here she
pointed dramatically to her own
eyes), land your ears hear you know
is so
She was then asked: do you
think that a woman In high social
position would jeopardize her future
by committing a crime like that?"
Mrs. Gibson replied: You know Il
is this way. You take two people
that are married and very loving;
then take other people who are also
married. When one person is cold
and she learns something and that
something rouses her temper and
she seeks revenge, she may go out
there just to give them lesson. And
maybe she goes up TO the other wo-
man and her temper comes up. She
grabs the other woman and says:
You hussy why are you here with
my. husbandY and she scratches
her,