Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-11-13
-NECRESS WHO REFUTES
MRS. GIBSON FIGHTS
WITH HER OVER Pig
Says Mrs. Gibson Was With
Her at Time of the Double
Murder.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. ia
physical encounter between women
witnesses in the Hall-Mills murder
mystery was the latest Developments
In the case today.
Mrs. Jane Gibson. who raiGes pigs,
and says sine saw the murder. and
Mrs. Nellie Lo Russell, negress, who
keeps COWS and says Mrs. Gibson
could net have seen the murder be-
cause she was at her house at the
time, had an alteration Yesterday
over a zig. Mrs. Russell admitted
the encounter today. but declared
she was the aggressor adding that
she haroored no ill will towards
Mrs. Ginsen.
Mrs. Russell declined % discuss
her affidavit made public yesterday
by counsel for the rector's widow, in
which she says she was positive Mrs.
Gibson was at her home at the time
suhe pig woman swore she was IA
uswitness to The double murder She
sal she na1 been warn Il rot 20
talk about the case to re 1ortcrs.
The negress lives In a one-room
shanty built on hills in the middle
of the field, not far from Mrs. Glib
sons home. She keeps five COWS,
housing them in a dilapidated barn.
with no roof.
Patrick Thornton, a farmer, who
lives in the vicinity and Louis Saphyr
WIN boards with him, declared today
thai the negress told them her story
about a. week ago. Both admitted
they paid no attention to it at the
time.
John Sylvester, a dairy farmer,
living at Three Mile Run, also Mrs.
Russell had told him her story re-
Gently and that he had advised her
to tell the prosecuting authorities.
He said he could not remember the
exact time Mrs. Russell told him
about it.
Mrs. Gibson laughed today when a
state trooper acting as messenger for
newpapermen. showed her copy
OF Mrs. Russers sworn statement
THAT doesn't interest me-" was
the answer she gave the trooper Tor
the waiting reporters. Il haven't
ANYTHING to say about it-yet."
s;pecial Deputy Attorney General
Wilbur 4. Mott changed mis- plans
for today.
Instead OF coming to New Bruns-
wick to question several witnesses
he wilt go to Somerville tc consult
with 4he county authorities, The
proere IS cl the investigation was
about TO be complicated by another
story. told by Mrs. Anna ltaplon OF
Queens Wills ge, l.. l.. and printed in
a Brooklyr paper, when Mrs HAN
Ion repEd.ated it last night and
Asaid she was never in New Bruns-
&wick. ,.,.
On Saturday Timothy N Pfelf-
fer. Mrs. Halls counsel. hlnted at
something he was holding back that
CihCnn
water" 1t was told by Mrs. fus-
sell. He took a copy OF the am
dayit to MI. Mott in East orange
Yesterday. but the only statement
Mr.. Mot. made, later to newspaper
men was:
''Mr. Pfeiffer came to my home
this afternoon and turned over 10
me an affidavit such as you ue-
scribe. I'll have it investigated. Mr..
Pfeiffer has perfect risnt 70
conduct his case as he pleases ana
/ to conduct my case as | see nj.
Mr.. Mott refused to say whether ne
thought the affidavit AFFECTS uae
credibility of Mrs. Gibson.
II am not going to say anylniis,
about the credibility of any witness,
he said. II have saio tnat lepea
edly.'' -
He would not even admit having
said he ever believed in the credipn-
ity of Mrs. Gibson, or that her story
stood up" asserting that ne naq
been quoted "for lot of things
never said"
Nor would Mr.. Mott say anything
about the attack of Mrs. Halls raw
yer on William Phillips. the Watcn-
man at college near the han no'ne
except that it would be looked nv.
Mrs. Hall has said that when me-
husband failed to come nome .n
night of the murder she couid ho'
+ eileen and with her brother. Wlilam,
went to the church in search for hlm
! IN the early morning hours. return
ling home about $3.50. Phillips says
she returned alone about 2:l5 a. m.
Mrs. Russell's denial of the Gipson
story came as a result not of any OF
ficiai Investigation but through her
own yolition. She made 1t so late,
She told Mr.. Pfeiffer, because she
had not believed the prosecution
really INTENDED to take MRS. Gip.
sons story seriously. AS soon a. IL
was evident Mrs. Gibson.s story
might become the basis of grand
i,rv action. she said, she wrote to
Mrs Hall as follows, under date Oh
! November Z:
ssMrs. Frances Stevens Han.
"Dear Madam-In regards to
September IA, Mrs. Jane GIBSON was
NOT at the Phillips farm at ~
O'clock. as 1 live back of her and
She came over at 10 or a little be-
fore to tell me that she had took
nv dog from a man on Hamilton:
"She sat on the steps of my, little
shanty awhile and gave her
dollar for keeping my dog. Then l
went with her home and got the
dog. We talked awhile and l came
home about IL o'clock. Sne toid
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