The New York herald., 1922-11-01

on the matter Of an arrest. He re-
manned in conference all morning with
Prosecutor Beekman, and with Supreme
Court Justice Bergen. At the close OF
this me .ting Mott admitted they had
peen discussing the case, but refused to
make any further statsment.
Lieut. Detective James +, Mason
spent some time in New Brunswick to-
day, starting on the "a train for New
ark. with the jocular statement to re-
porters THAI he would "call it day"
Just what his activities were he did not
say, but il Is understood that he passed
considerable time checking UP minor de-
tails of the case that have appeared in
certain testimony taken before he and
Mott We're brought into the matter.
One of Motifs aids said to-day that
the case was not at standstili by any
means and that they are well convinced
the slayers of Hall and Mrs. Mills went
to the scene Of the crime in an auto
mobile and that they hope through a
process of elimination to discover the
particular car They have more than
one description of the car in question
and admitted that ii may take several
days to locate the machine.
The matter of the Hall automobiles
is also being considered and investigated
again and the investigators are endeav-
oring to establish definitely whether the
Hall cars were out at any time on the
night of September a. between the time
of the rector's disappearance and the
arrival of Mrs. Hall at her home some
time about 2 o'clock the following morn
ing.
This is one of the matters that has
been holding up the presentation OF the
case to the Grand Jury" this inyestiga-
tor said. He added that when the iden-
tity of the car is definitely established
lot will have been accomplished and
action may be expected to follow,
Hunting for Halls Gun.
Mott and his investigating staff have
arrived at the conclusion that the slay-
ing was done with Halls own gun and
to-day was spent in trying to check up
on that phase of the case. The gun, once
reported to be in possession of the local
prosecutor, has not been found. 1t was
admitted to-day, and the search for this
Is as important as the discovery OF the
motor car in which the slayers are sup
posed to have ridden on the way 10 the
scene OF the killings.
eft is not unlikely that the murder
was a plain case of self defense, I
was stated here by Motifs aid to-day
This rather changes the general iine
OF reasoning which the prosecutors have
been following for six weeks.
"Have the authorities any one who
can identify the murderer" Mason
was asked to-day. He replied. mo,
they have not"
rhis statement, coming on the heels
or the previous statements from both
Mason and Mott that they Were fully
confident the story told by Mrs. Gibson
was entirely credible" shows mo-,
conservative attitude than the assur-
ances given last week. Yet in spite
of tf.js statement made by Mason both
he and Mott to-day reiterated that they
had the same confidence in the Gibson
statement as before.
I'VE are still looking for people who
were at the scene of the murder ille-
gitimaetly." he said. When asked If
he referred TO couple that had been
mentioned previously as corroborating
the Gibson story, he admitted that he
meant q couple. but stated that he
would not divulge their identities, al
though the authorities know who they
are. He said that names of the
couple have never been mentioned in