New-York tribune., 1922-11-02
Faces Score of Reporters
Alone for Hour With
Barely Concealed Scoral
as They Vollcy Questions
Denies Sht. Ever Was .Jeal-l
GUS OF Singer and Refuses
TO Talk About Divorce
tcsnslaa.d srsm pas. one,

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Tor an hour. She had posed for pho
tographers in the garden earlier in the
dag. They We're also put on time
limit which was severely kept and onl,.
,our camera men We're permitted to
take pictures, including one general
news service representative. Mra.
Hall begged the photographers not TO
bother her any more, saying that she
has been unable to leave her home or
get any fresh air hecause of their con-
tinual survey OF her movements.
AIR. Pfeiffar consented to the inter-
view and made all arrangements for it.
Ever since the crime was committed,
efforts have been made to reach Mrs.
Hall. When the interview finally came,
mutigraph machines, brought from
New York. were installed in the kitch-
en- and two stenographers took down
the interview in relays, rushing out
every 10 minutes TO have it stenciiled
and muitigraphed.
Only one representative from each
paper was admitted. Character
snalysts and special writer's were
peremptorily turned back at the door
by AIr. pfeiffer. He warned reporters
against. deiusing Mrs: Hal, with ques-
tions. One man was delegated by the
morning and one by the evening papers
to ask questions, and any one who had
anything to suggest wrote it down on a
slip Oh s.aper and handed it to the
spokesman.
Mrs. Halls mars. vas coldly gra-
cious;s her voice was st, and gently
intoned. She answe practically
every question, although may Of her
replies were monosyilabic. Her eyes
CLEANED their resistance. her mouth
limned its contempt, but she stuck
heroicalay to all requirements until MIR.
ifeiffer came in, watch in hand and an
nounced that the hour was up. She
rose with relief, drawing her scarf
close about her shoulders, and swept
from the room, the picture Of dignity.
She had been unassailable, and she
knew it. Mt. Pfeiffer was not present
during the Interview.
MRS. Hall opened the interview by
describing in detail her movements on
the night OF the crime She insisted
many times that she had no knowledge
of who might have committed the dual
murder or of what the motives might
have been. Her husband did not have
g pistol and she, personally. had never
fred a shot or handled a gun in her
life. s-
Her answer to Mrs. Jane Gibson, the
farm woman" was short and direct.
II haven't the remotest idea why she
tells this story she said. II have
never met the woman, at a rummage
sale or anywhere else
Asked If she was willing to confront
her, she said she would do anything
that the prosecutors wanted.
you have no fear in your mind
OF the outcome Of this case?" she was
asked
"No. With my absolute innocence,
| don't see that / have the slightest
thing to worry about. 1t seems to me
most mysterious that any one should
think such things. cannot under
stand it,
Describing her feelings when She
was told that the bodies were found
together, she said:
~ had no thoughts. ] didn't know
what to think. | was SO absolutely
stunned don't know what to think
now. feel as If am up against a
blank wall"
To offer a reward for the discovery
of the murders was to her an lawful
thought" She had never had any rea-
son to suspect that her husband and
Mrs. Mills were ON intimate terms,
she insisted. No gossip had reached
her ears before the crime; no letters
of an discriminating nature had been
shown to her. She had not felt Jealous
of Mrs. Mills or of any one else, she
said.
Asked first about the letters anf