New-York tribune., 1922-10-27
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Hall Murder
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4 Btes ss0S ~ ~ tuAiIaaEe b8te some Tim
before the crime, but the witness /
sure that the woman does not know he,
Il went home and tried to forge
everything. Until they arrested Clif
ford Hayes ard charged him with TIL
murder ! did not intend to say any
thing about IT, the affidavit concluded
The persons being sought as cor
roborative witnesses are the occupant
Of the automobile, the lamps OF which
were thrown 81 spotlight on tn.
j couple who were on their way to con
front the sections wife and the rector.
| When this happened Mrs. Gibson
astride her mule, was In che same fieic
In which DR.. Hall and Mrs. Mills soog
were to be killed.
She wac at the corner at Eassor
Avenue and De Russey's Lane, however
and the victims were at that time con
cealed from her view in the far cor
ner of the field. The car that flashed
light on the man and woman moving
un the lane had come out Easton Ave.
nue. from New Brunswick. The driver
either was seeking seclusion in the
toou Va else AaQ merely reAEeeg n
decision TO turn around and return to
town. At any rate he turned into the
lane, ran up few yards, backed our
and then went on lack to New Bruns-
wick. These arc the "key" people in
the melodrama now.
Scene Fast In Her Memory
MRS. Gibson, alert anyway because
she was scouting after corn thieves,
prodded her mule into run. Photo
graphed on her retina was an indelible
memory OF the appearance of the man
and woman who had been exposed to
view by the automobile headlights.
The mules three unshod hoofs as she
re-entered the lane had no part in the
cadence Of the solitary steel shoe that
,clinked on the gravel. Jennie and her
rider were indistinguishable from the
night shadows, but they could see the
intermittent flashing Of an electric
torch carried by the. man and woman
who were hunting two Of their kind.
The fashlight showed when this
man and woman left the lane and
turned into the dirt road that used to
serve as driveway to the old farm
house. Mrs. Gibson halted her mule
with gentle pressure on the reins.
She saw the electric torch sending a
cone of yellow light into the shrub
berry on either side and then she saw
within its glare s covering couple,
and Mrs. Mills were at bay.
1t was an entirely normal and human
curiosity that held Mrs. Gibson there
at the juncture of the driveway and
Ike lane. She heard the bitter words
of the woman she had seen in the au-
tomobile's radiance; then the fright
ened expostulations of the other; she
both saw and heard some of the scuf-
fling between the two men; then the
frst shot; then cries from the woman
ihe had recognized; then screams and
three more shots. That was where
Jennie started for the Gibson farm
nearly two miles away over the rocky
ard rutted bed of the country lane.
officials Accept Story
The authorities express themselves
s satisfied with Mrs. Gibson's story;
she has made an undeniable impression
On unofficial Investigators, and Timo-
ehy Newell Pfeiffer, Mrs. Halls lawyer,
Is frankly interested in her story.
III Mrs. Gibson says she heard a
woman cry the name of a man, as has
been reported" said Mr. Pfeiffer this
afternoon, "it would be of great benefit
20 our success Of the case"
He did not elaborate on this state
ment, but it Is believed that he re-
ferred to the alibi offered by Mrs.
Halls brother when the authorities
asked him to account for his move
ments on the night of the murder.
Il hope" said Mr.. Pfeiffer, just be-
ore leaving for New York late this
eyewitness, because it might provide
some clue on which we can work"
In response to another question Mr..
Pfeiffer said:
Mrs. Hall was in her home the en-
tire evening Of September H. Any
other statement to the contrary is
without foundations"
Mr.. Pfeiffer is attorney for the mem
bers of the Stevens family, including
Mrs. Halls brothers-Henry, of Laval
lette, and Willie, who lives with Mrs.
Hall.
Rector's kilograms Denied
Concerning some kilograms sent by
DR.. Hall few weeks before his death
to Henry Stevens at Lavalette break
ing an engagement, and another to an
as yet unidentified woman in New
York, Mr.. Pfeitfer said:
Joseph Eagan, assistant counsel of
the Western Union, advises me that he
has had an official search made of the
records of the New Brunswick Office
OF the Western Union for the period
from August II to Sptember Z, and he
informs me that the search disclosed
that no kilograms were sent or re-
ceived by DR.. Hall during that period"
From another source newspaper men
learned that all of the telegrams sent
to or by the Hall family during a Pc
riod of ebout six months prior to the
murder OF the rector have been sent
TO the New York Offices of the Western
Union ON orders from officials there.
The purpose of this was not disclosed,
but the messages are no longer. it is
said, within the State of New Jersey.
Before Mr.. Pfeiffer entered the sta
tion of the Pennsylvania Railroad TO
get aboard the train for New York the
other persons waiting there had an ex-
cellent opportunity to study tho
changed appearance of Charlotte Mills,
the daughter of the murdered choir
singer.
Charlotte Improves Wardrobe
Charlotte and Florence North, a New
YORK woman who is acting as Char
lotte's attorney, were having their
shoes polished By negro bootblack on
high stand just inside the waiting
room door.
As the boosblack brushed the high
school girls hat-heeled, brown. low
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