The New York herald., 1922-10-08
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and they tried several, Willie reacted
quite normally. Several little traps had
been prepared for him, but he avaded
every one OF them. with the utmost nat
uralness. His examination was a dis
tinct disappointment to some Of the ex-
aminers.
Family Finds Willie Gone.
Willie had been taken from his home
without the family knowing anything
about It. He was missed late in the
evening. his absence not being noted
earlier because q social affair was in
progress, strange though that may seem
in view OF the recent death of Hall.
When he was missed the police were
telephoned to and great excitement re-
suited.
Willie was brought back to his home
about 8 in the morning. none the worse
for his experience, and apparently will
ing to spend the rest of the night with
his questoners Then when the news
paper men, after somewhat fruitless
chase to Somerville and back, went to
the Hall home, they were met by Mrs.
Halls friend. Miss Sallie Peters. who
admitted that Willie had been taken
away for some time, but had returned.
Mrs. Hall, she said, had not been out
of the house.
Miss Peters. in the meantime. had
telephoned to New York to Mr.. Pfeiffer.
whom she had brought into the case.
Pfeiffer lost no timo In saying what ne
thought of the manner In which Ste
vens had been examined. He said:
MY interviews with all the prose-
cutors have been on the point that at
any time they wanted to communicate
with anybody in the Hall family not
only were they entirely at liberty to do
so but j would cooperate in getting
them at the quickest possible moment
and would not ask to be present.
although II is nearly three weeks
since the murder was committed De
tective David went to the back door or
the Hall home at o'clock last night
and sneaked out with William Stevens.
He made no statement to anyone con-
cerning his movements or anything else
and kept Mr.. Stevens at Somerville
until o'clock in the morning.
THE nearest words that l can use
are that he kidnapped Mr.. stevens.
The family did not know that Mr.
Stevens had left the house until some
time later Miss Peters telephoned both
prosecutors offices but could get no
reply. so notified the local police.
"In questioning Mr.. Stevens they used
the third degree methods and then
stopped just short of force. nave
been to the prosecutors office to pro-
test against such procedure. Mr.. Beck
man suggested that l put my protest
into O written order that II may pc
made a matter of record.
ct said I hoped similar action would
not be taken regarding Mrs. HAIL MT
Beekman said that they would not use
the same tactics with n woman My
impression is that stupidity having fallen
fat they are now resorting to- orutai
methods.
During his examination Mr.. stevens
was repeatedly called liar. ana tnere
was a considerable amount OF PROFANITY
in the epithets hurled at him by Mr'
Toolan. Mr.. Stricken apparently wa
not present. The questioning was oono
by Mr.. Beekman and Mr.. Toolan.
"The detectives had typewritten copies
of previous statements made by Mr.
stevens. and they all went over ana
over previous answers he had given
They dwelled particularly on the occa-
sion when he accompanied Mrs dsli 10
the church on Thursday night.
"They even questioned him rs TO my
connection to the case. They went about
llke a bunch OF Turks with battle axes
III had any misgivngs as to any OF the
Hall family you can be sure woufd noe
be giving out a statement attacking 'no
prosecutors"
When tho Pfeiffer statement was
shown TO Beckman he smiled ana con-
mentcd: "Does this statement iooN i,,so rno
the cooperation Pfeiffer promlseu ""''o
Ill 1sau tafv hf
when Reekman was asked whether no
had covered the same ground In the sec
ond examination OF Willie as had Deen
cfvered I'm the first he replied:
would rather not answer that question
That Is what the Halls would IKE "
know" Both Beskman ana DeteclNe
David intimated that they had obtained
some information of value from w lilie,
and as to the latter's attitude Dasiu
said: when we took him home' no was
almost ready 70 kiss me.
The examination of Stevens caused a
sensation here, where the townspeople
have been demanding moro aggressive
~ ectics for some time. Second only In IN
terest was the statement made By Gov
Edwards regarding the case. the Gov
ernor said:
.'The murder OF Mr. Hall and Mrs.
Mills must be cleared up. There has
been too much time lost solving TINS
mystery. | sent Col Swarzkopf TO
New Brunswick TO get the murderer
and not come back until he did. want
the murderer arrested, whoever IL Is,
and I expected there would be an ar
rest made yesterday. 1 was surprised
that there was not.
",rhis murder must be cleared up. The
daughter of Mrs. Mills appealed to me
for help and the people OF that section