Evening journal., 1922-10-28

a stump and walked in the direction
whence had heard the shots. A
woman's convulsive sobbing brought
mo 20 a stop.
ut was now about I o'clock and
ths moon was out. I had no flash.
light. but could easily discern the
same woman had seen In the lane
earlier in the evening. She had the
same light hair and wore the same
light colored coat and no hat. She
was kneeling over two dark objects
sobbing a. though her heart would
break
"I did not know until Saturday
morning that the prone forms were
the dead Rev. Mr.. Hall and Mrs.
Mills. but the sobbing was beneath
the crabapple tree. II was evidently
she who closed the eyelids OF the
minister, a fact that has been much
commented on.
"I have not Identified the man OF
the murder party He had more
hair and was bigger than the man
under suspicion. There she named
a person who has furnished an alibi)
He had a higher forehead than an
other suspect. "a brother OF the
nan just mentioned.) Neither woman
called out oh, Henry as has been
printed In telling the prosecutor
the whole AFFAIR seemed like an o.
Henry tale. and that Is how the
name was circulated.
f~Tha man foC1red 1fEa kfrr
to me. I could have sworn he was
Niger. The prosecutors are now
working on a Niger clew. I think
# is possible the man companion OF
the woman was hired niger as
sassin.
II have been able TO identify defn-
itely the woman, because passed
her on my mule Just as an automo-
bile threw It's light full on her face.
She had very light hair. appearing
blonde by the automobile lights.
the shade which white hair would
appear by such lights. She wore no
hat, but a Ions. light colored coat.
She appeared 20 be past middle age.
She was short but rather stout.
Her chin sloped down into her
neck IN a characteristic way, could |
not forget.
The man was very large-sureiy |
over six feet. His complexion was |
20 dark that I could not distinguish |
his features, and then too. he did |
not face me as fully as the woman. |
He had a great mop OF bushy black |
hair. wore no hat and had a mus
tache."
II will be noted that Mrs. Gibson |
IN this statement calls her mule
June. while she has heretofore re-
ferred TO the animal as Jenny. II Is
o be noted too that on Thursday she
said Il did not matter whether she
was referred TO as Anna Gibson or
Gibson. These little things don't
amount to much. but they do raise
a point. whether the woman is as
particular about details as Is con I
sldered in a witness in a murder
Ease.
While the language OF the state
nent has a literary flavor hardly TO
be expected OF a farm woman. and
he statement may have been pol
shed a ltttle before publication. u
$ fact that Mrs. Gibson talks much
hat way She Is never ~ a loss for
/ word and ninety-nine times out
" a hundred gets the right word.
she has read. that is evident. Fur
her. she has read the newspapers,
hough she may pretend she hasn't.
Mrs. Gibson said yesterday that ,
he will not tell her maiden name {
o any one. for the reason that her
ather, who is eighty-four and her {
mother. who Is eighty. are still alive s
n Kentucky. and would he shocked {
o death 20 hear OF her in this con- {
lection. To one interviewer she ad- a
nitted having been in a circus; 10
mother she denied It. II Is learned
n good authority that she was c
With the Barnum circus. George
often. the detective. has known her r
or seventeen years. From all that 5
an be learned about her she has
cen in the neighborhood OF New ?
brunswick for twenty years, and her p
usband was a minister
But the neighbors in the sparsely !
ettled district in which she lives do a
OF speak we'll OF Mrs. Gibson. She I
not popular, and more than one q
onest appearing small farmer as Il
erted yesterday that the tales OF q