New-York tribune., 1922-11-09
Pistoi Expert
And Mrs. Hall
To Be Named
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who was in her mothers confidence to
an amazing degree, also is to be aues-
TONED before the grand jury as to any
thing she may know about the quarrels
her mother may have had because Of
the affair with DIR. Hall.
Mr.. Mott, it is understood, will in
form the grand jurors that the killing
OF DIR. Hall and Mrs. Mills was the re-
suit of plot that did not originate on
the night of the killing, but which had
been carefully worked out for weeks,
perhaps even months, before Septem-
ber ID.
At least dozen witnesses who have
tried, according to the officials, to
withhold information about the murder,
or at least about the affair between
the rector and Mrs. Mills. are to be
questioned before the grand jury. Some
OF these people might reasonably be
accused of wishing to shield surviving
principals in the tragedy, but when
they enter the grand jury room they
will be offered the alternative Of tell
ing what they know or Of going to Jail.
In the opinion of the authorities the
Lake Hopatcong automobile trip on the
day before the murders was arranged
not so mucn to give Mrs. Mills and
Mrs. Addison Clarke, supposedly her
indcfatigahle work in the church as 70
give certain person who was a mem
Der of the party an opportunity to OBJ
serve the actions of Mrs. Mills and the
rector, a person who already was in a
highly emotional state because Of bit
ter jealousy.
To Trace Note and Phone Call
Mrs. Addison Clarke, who is the per-
son referred to by Mrs. Mills in one of
her letters, in which she said "Minna
gets the crumbs" was member of
that motor party and on the day of
the murder went to see Mrs. Hall and
talked with her in the kitchen of the
Hall home. Mrs. Clarke is to be sub
panaed before the grand jury. She
has made long statement to the
officials, but when she is in the grand
jury room she will be asked if she car
ried to Mrs. Hall that afternoon note
from Mrs. Mills addressed to DR.. Hall
The next witnesses to be questioned
it is understood, will be Louise Geist
and others who are in a position to
testify about the telephone converse
ton between Mrs. Mills and Dr. Hail
on the night of the murder. Mrs. Mills
telephoned about 1880 and thes rector
agreed to meet her about 8:15 o'clock.
Louise Geist will be asked among
other things if it would not have been
possible for some interested person to
have listened in on that conversation.
Dr.. Hall used the telephone instrument
that is on the second floor of the Hall
home. There is an extension down
stairs.
Louise also will be asked to answer
questions that she declined to answer
few days ago when investigators
sought to learn whether DR.. Hall had
ever become unduly familiar with her
during her employment in the Hall
household.
Between that telephone conversation
at 1880 and the firing Of the shots that
ended the lives of the lovers at 1920,
there is gap in the states case. Dur
ing those two hours and fifty minutes
the grand jurors will be told the per-
sons who assisted or participated in
the murder were summoned together
and started out on the expedition that
was to end with the dramatic scene
that, the state will contend, was wit
messed by Mrs. Jane Gibson.
But the testimony which is expected d
to overshadow all others is still to be
'oiced by man and woman who are