Evening journal., 1922-10-27
May Be Man Witness to Dual Murder

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high. reaching 10 the mules ball,
and tho niEht was somewhat dark
Seeing. but unseen. Mr~. oie~on has
been able 20 tell what trsnspired-
Entering the field of golden rod
from Esston avenue, whence she had
chased the man she believed had
been stealing corn from her farm
nearly two miles away. Mrs, Gibson q
attention was attracted 90 ewo fiR-
ures walking slowly up De russy's
lane. which borders the nsld on ths
side. when the CLEAN OF an ANTONIO
bile headlight fell fun on the pair,
Just for a moment or 90.
This automobile had arrived By
Easton avenue and the driver used
the entrance of the lane TO turn hls
car about, go THAI he ran IN and out
again. almost without peusinE. But
his lights had shown % the woman
on the mule a woman and q man
walking. and she had. she thought.
recognised tho woman.
AS the couple went on up the ans.
Mrs Gibson believed II unlikely that
the woman Ehe thought she reoog-
nized would be IN suoh LOCALITY at
such a time, 80 on the mule she fol-
lowed along = parallel line through
the field and saw the ooupls turn
and enter the lesser used road ITO
ward the Phillips farm house which
has come 20 be known ~ Lovers
lane, and at the further end OF which
Is a crab apple tree and lone pine.
Thus she moved in the interior OF a
rectangle while the man and the
woman moved along two sides Of Il.
Heard Quarreling Begin.
The couple arrived al tho two
trees. Mrs. Gibson saw the fash OF
light as a pocket fash was turned
on the second couple. Hall and Mrs.
Mills. She heard voices. She heard
these voices rise and quarreiing be-
gin. She saw the four figures In
a melee and abe heard shouting fol-
low the qtarrshng. Then abe
heard a shot and saw the nam from
pistol.
Then a slight pause. Then . voaos
in agony. a womsn's voice;
oh. II Please, please, pleasei-
Then quickly In rapid succession. !
four more shots and four more lit
tie flames through the darkness.
That with the names Of those
who we're seen. all four, is the frag-
ment OF the puzzle that he's been /
missing. II takes the place Of the !
strange improbable tale Of Raym ond T.
Schneider that he and Clifford .
Hayes crept through the darkness
TO the tree In search OF Nick Bah /.
mer and his daughter. Pearl, and Il /
forever ends the theory that Hall .
and Mrs. Mills may have been kill
ed elsewhere and carried TO the spot |
where the bodies were found
II ends the talk OF hired asszssins /
and OF possible blaokmail, and Il .
removes any suspicion that a mid .
little sexton may have seen red for |
once IN his drab and colorless life. |
It IS. as Mrs. Gibson said to The .
New York Herald representative. 4
the key TO the whole situation.
Behind this story. and the Details
OF It are as enhancing az the best I
Of Stevenson tales. there lies evil 4
dence OF another character, sspe-
cially the letters that were found
beside the two bodies. the letters OF
Mrs. Mills 70 Hail which disclosed
their relations. It IS significant that
when he was asked particularly
about these letters Mr.. Mott. the
special prosecutor. said rather
sharply though his manner had
been quite otherwise:
Now you are getting entirely too
,lose."
In the end the letters probably
Will clinoh the case. just as. possibly.
hey clinohed the case arafrst the
nan who received them.
Who drove the automobile whoae
headlights first guided the woman
m the mule and what was he doing
n the neighborhood? Was he alone
md was he a frequenter OF that part
u New Brunswick's outskirts with
IS questionable reputation? Did ne
urn about and head for home by ,
nance, or had his headlights shown
I'm, too, more or less familiar .
igure2 And II he knew anything +,
Why has he not come forward and ,
old what he knew These are oues-
N-AR %%-ANN AAANN sui ~ ne answered d.
S far as the public is concerned.
Mrs. Gibson has said she saw an
utomobile OF apparently expensive
make parked along Easton avenue
n the far side, nearly opposite the
ntrance TO DeRussy lane. Whose
his was may have to be determined.
here IS talk that It was an old
ashioned sort OF automobile. such
s was mentioned by Soper Of High
md Park, but there appears little
round for belief in this story.
Mr., Mott shows no indecislon or 4,
ncertainty in tackllng the case. He a
GEMS bound to clear il within the /,
hortest possible time. saying in an a
iterview today:
The time is not yet opportune d
nd my policy has always been 10 n
repare a case so thoroughly as to y
e ready to go right 10 trial i'm
Iediately on Indictment. There Is a o
II OF difference between arrest and &
1nviction, and that Is what l mean p
hen I say the time does not ap-
ear TO be opportune just now" r
Mr.. Mott, with blue eyes twiDkling "
nd scanned face breaking into q
niles, faced a battery OF questions a
: all sorts direct, indirect. sensible.
nd sometimes foolish. To all he n
ade as direct answers as appeared G
ossble in the circumstances. In "
me instances he refused to d.
ilge his information or plans. show
e that this could not be done in
.irness 10 the case. He gave the :,
1pression that he would make no =,
lrried decisions nor act without an =,