Evening journal., 1922-11-17
TRACE Wagon
SEEN NEAR
MURDER SPOT
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mas told tho authorities are untrue.
Last night II appeared clear that
Mrs. Gibson will come out fir1 in
this duel and that her story will not
only go 10 the Grand Jury virtually
unchallenged but will figure as the
| principal evidence At the trial II
there i trial.
The wagon that Mrs. Gibson says
she followed on the night OF the
murder down De Russy's lane and
saw disappear along Eas,on avenue
in the direction OF New Brunswick
apparently has been found and the
name OF the owner will probably b.
made known. The discovery Is due
70 activity on the part OF New
Brunswick detective. who has not vet.
for some reason undisclosed. made
known his discovery TO James A.
Mason, chief assistant OF Wilbur A.
Mott the Deputy Attorney General
in charge OF the case. Mr.. Mott
Is 10 confer with Prosecutor Beck
man in Somerville today.
The wagon was found in Eaeton
avenue. not far from De Russy's lane.
Tho owner denied that he had been
in the ncighborhood OF the lane on
the night OF the murder.
The wagon IS an old ramshsoxle
affair that creaks and rattles a. Il
moves. In this Il exactly fts the de-
scription given by Mrs. Gibson in her
first accounts OF her ride on the mule
down the lane IN pursuit OF the
wagon, driven, she believed BY q
man who had been stealing corn
from her place. She said she traced
the wagon by the noise It made and
gave up the chase when the vehicle
turned at Easton avenue toward this
city Mrs. Gibson may be given
chance to look az the wagon and de-
termine whether Il is the vehicle
she saw.
This may help verify another i'm
portant point in the Gibson tale. Of
fcials say that they have evidence
that the man who owns the wagon
was actually IN De Russy's lans on
the night OF the murder. They re-
fuse 70 say what this evidence IL or
who owns the wagon.
Mason. without knowing anything
OF the wagon. admitted that the
prosecution has two witnesses OF i'm
portance who have not figured in
any way in the stories Of the investi-
cation 10 date. He declined 70 go
beyond that statement or 20 intimate
on what phase OF the case the evil.
dence OF these two witnesses bore. (.
It is believed that their testimony
will concern the man IN the case.
the one about whom there have been
20 many hints Of late and who did
not figure at all until about ten days
ago.
These two witnesses will, Il Is be-
lieved. corroborate parts Of Mrs.
Gibson's story. One OF them may be
the woman who has been mentioned
as a second eyewitness, but whose
Identity was never disclosed. At any
rate practically the whole OF the
case against the man will rest on the
evidence OF these two and a partial
made by Mrs Gibson.
VINO to date. has Identified three
men as possibly being the man with
he bushy hair and heavy mustsche
hat she saw on the Philips farm on
he night OF the murder The case
against the woman in gray OF which
Mrs. Gibson spoke Is much stronger
han the case against the man.
One OF the men who has figured
n a remote way in the case a yes
ryman OF Mr.. Halls church. has
old a friend that on the night OF
he murder he was in his car in the
ane with a girl and that he heard
he shots and saw the figures He
old his friend he was tempted 10
hrow on his headlights and see who
vas doing the shooting, hut he
hought'if he did so a bullet would
,e sent in his direction. So. to use ,
bout his own words. Il grabbed the ,
-irl. turned the car around and drove ,
,ut OF that lane as fast as I could go {
md back to New Brunswick.
This man has what purports to be
IN alibi and has repeatedly asserted {
hat he was not within miles OF the {
farm on the night in ques- 7
ion. c
Timothy y. Pfeiffer Is endesvoring Z
o strengthen the story of Mrs. Rus (
ell who asserts that on the night in q
.uestion Mrs. Gibson was at her &
hack between 10 and II at night. /,
'feiffer called the Russell woman t,
gain yesterday and got what he /,
onsiders important Information 10 +,
he effect that she is able to fix the !
ate by a letter she received from !
prospective employer In New York. !,
-e1lie is sure she did not lose her "
og until some days after she. had ri
AIKEN the job referred to in the let h
pr. which was mailed TO her on Sep ii
ember s. Mrs Gibson says the lost !,
og incident occurred on Septem- n
er 9. m
Wade Fl. Johns OF the Public Ser 7,
ice Corporation has given the au- ir
1orfties important information, but M
does not relae TO the lighting bills r,
, the Phillips farmhouse inasmuch II
= there are not and never have been n
nv electric lights there. Mr.. Johns b
fuses TO say what he told the de-
ctives. but describes the informa- W
on as "coincidental" and asserts &C
,at he merely called attention to m
,mething that any one in New it
runswick could have noticed The Of
ficials. he says regarded It a. Ia
-reat aid" TO their work. r.
The story Of the Plainfield couple ed
no asserted they saw Henry Stew tn
s in that town on the night Of he
q murder about midnight is be- to
z Investigated. Some officials say
at Henry Stevens's alibi appears CT
breakable. Others hold the opin- sh
4 that II may he materially weak Of
ed. The authorities have succeed an
in tracing the two men who went te,
the Hall home at night two ,Hs