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identity them. One of these combs
she said looked like one her mother
owned, but she was not certain
Two men who gave sworn statements
TO Chief of Police Micnael O'Connell
took sharp issue with Nc. Stricken.
They still insisted to-day to news.
papermen who saw them that thev
heard woman scream, Help! Murderi
police!" Don't murder me-" "Oh. oh,
don't murder me-"
Deny Hearing Shots
There was long, piercing shrek
followed by another which became
mutfied before it was completed" said
one OF these men to-day. "Our story
was not correctly told yesterday with
regard to shots. We heard no shots or
! we would have notified the police. I'm
pretty sure other persons in automo-
b1les headed for New Brunswick heard
the screams, too.
1T is quite possible that an automo-s
bile could have been parked some dis.
tance up Clancy's Lane and off tho
state highway without our seeing it.
We did not tell the police about OUT
experience until last Friday. and when
we had told our story plain clothes
we found the two andkerchiefs. The
woman's was not stained with blood.
put the mans was. 1t was raining at
the time, and we could not see any
blood. The handkerchiefs were under
an apple tree about forty feet from
the state highway. The tree is on the
opposite side of the lane from the old
school building"
Newspaper men who examined this
abandoned schoolhouse to-day were un-,
able to find anything that might link
it with the murder. It is a one-room
structure, half gray brick and half
frame.
Women Confirm Screams >
Prosecutor Beekman said that he was1
not disregarding the story. In this cons
nection it was recalled to-day that
when Mrs. Hall was brought to thes
courthouse on Tuesday she was SUBJ
jected to the gaze of a Hungarian
woman. Mrs. Stricken said yesterday
that the woman was the wife of Mat
thew Suliz. caretaker of the Phillips
farm, but Matthew denied that his wife
had gone to the courthouse and insisted
that she was working at her bench in
cigar factory on the afternoon of Sep
tember Ia. At that time Hungarian
woman, wife Of a farmer, was supposed
to have seen g woman in a gray coat
exploring roads s'in the vicinity of the
murder" and evidently watching for
someone.
The property on which stands the
apple tree beneath which The blood
stained handkerchief was found is ten
anted by Leo Bassino, a Hungarian.
Neither Leo nor his wife was at home
to-day. The property he rents is
owned by Max Lacerer, who lives q
short distance away. Partial confirma
tion of the story Of the screaming was
given to-day by Mrs. Charles Miller
and Mrs. Charles Wilcox, of the Little
Candy Store at Weston Mill, to-day
With them on that September night
was Charles Mcclure and some friends
from Newark.
Cries Came From Auto
1--WE heard screaming about 9:30-at
least, that's about the time we judged
it, was" said Mrs. Miller. "The
screams were coming from an auto
that whizzed past the store. Before
we could get the door open to look out
it was gone, but we heard the screams
plainly. While we were standing in the
road we heard shot. This awakened
my brother, who got out of bed to see
what was the matter. Since the bodies
of DR.. Hall and his choir singer were
found more than four miles from here
we never connected the incident with
the murders until we heard that there
was some doubt as to their having
been killed where they were found"
At the time the crime was discov-
cred Phillips Farm was regarded as an
isolated spot, but In the five weeks
that have elapsed since the murder so
many people have come forward to tell
of hearing outcries, shots. pouncNag
and screaming in barn, etc, that it
is quite possible Sam Levin, who owns
the farm, could cut the 159 acres into
building lots and populate the place
with so-called eyewitnesses. One thing