Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-21
GRAND JURY HEARING
 HALL-MILLS EVIDENCE

Somerville, N. J. Nov 2o.-CBy the A. P.)-The case which special Prose cutor Wilbur A. Mott, has woven out the. mystery surrounding the murders of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills had its first official air ing today, when 12 persons told their stories to the Somerset county grand jury.
 Mr. Mott expects tomorrow to offer the evidence of ten or more witnesses. Three women are sitting on the grand jury.
 The proceedings today were well guard ed. A squad of state troops patrolled the court house and surrounding grounds. They established dead line" around the jury room, conference room on the ground floor with French windows reach ing almost to the ground, and beyond 1t no one was permitted.
 Women, scores of them, came early. They hung over the dark rallied balcony which is built inside the court house on the second floor. in the vain hope that Mrs. Hall. widow of the slain minister, or Mrs. Jane Gibson, who raises pigs and has become the most important wit ness in the case, would appear.
 At the, opening session Mir. Mott. a6- sisted by Azariah Nj. Beekman, prosecut- tor of Somerset county, outlined to the grand jury the salient features of the case. A. J. Cardinal New Brunswick news paperman, was called to tell. how the bodies of the murdered pair lay when he first saw. them stretched out under a crab-apple tree on the lonely Phillips farm. As Cardinal testified, his ges- tudes could be seen through the low win
 dows. His story was to the effect that ; he picked up letters and cards about the baIl &to | rived Dr. E. L. Loblein, a veterinarian, ! succeeded him on the stand.
 By that time, Mott has discovered that | his witnesses coul dbe seen from with out. So the position of. the stand was
 changed and later the curtains were
 drawn Dr. TLoblein, an acquaintance oi MT: Hall, was the first to identify the
 body of the dead man as that of the min ister. --. l A stir was caused when Pearl Bahmer
 who was with Raymond Schneider wher | the bodies were found, came through ar underground passage from the jail to ths
 grand jury room. She was on the stand | about 15 minutes. ,-.- In the hall as she emerged from tho 1 jury room, she met Schneider for, the frs !, time since she became a star witnes. 1 againhim on a charge of attacking her
 She nodded, but Schneider, sitting be
 tween two detectiYes, did not ackncwi edge the greeting.
 | Dr. William P. Long. the Sonaerse
 county coroner's physician who failed t report that Mrs. Mills throat had beer cut, was the next called. He fidgetet with the door knob as he entered but one
 before the jurors hi sstory was soon told While the grand jury was fin session [ New Brunswick newspaper printed a let
 ter from Mrs. George Sipei. the wife O a farmer of 31ddlebush, which brough
 a new character into the already over crowded case. The letter said her. hus
 band. George Sipel, knew nothing of tn
 murders. but declared that Mrs. Gibson , the pig woman was trying to bring hin ] into it. -.
 Sipel admitted to reports tonight tha
 Mrs. Gibson had talked to, him about tn
 case. He declared. however! that all h knew was that he had seen a wogan o'
 Easton avenue the night of the shooting Last Saturday he said. Mrs. Gibso
 acked him to swear to something bu |, he answered her she was talking to tn i, '.wrong type of man."
 Tomorrow Drs- GTonk, Haserman an Smith, who mad6 the autopsies on tn bodies of Rev. -Efall and Mrs. Mills. vii be. questioned. The police who guarde . the bodies until the county authoritie
 appeared and several minor witnesses al 7 50 are scheduled to appear. s-,-