New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Halls Widow
Will Demand
jury Hearing 9
tcsnunuss from pass ems,

cautious in accepting Mrs. Gibson's
word about matter SO vital to an
tther woman"
Nevertheless, Prosecutor Mott is
making all his preliminary arrange
ments to 60 before tho grand jury,
probably late next week. He conferred
to-day with Chief Justice william
Gummere at the Essex County court
house In Newark. after which he said
that he was going to Somerville to have
q talk with the foreman of the October
grand jury. which is to consider the
murder.
It is understood that the grand
jurors will be called to meet either
next Thursday or Friday, and that the
presentation of evidence will require
about four days. Mrs. Halls plan, it is
understood, is to allow the jurors to
decide whether they want to hear her
first or wait until ali the witnesses
have appeared, and then question her.
The widow was described to-day as be-
ing indifferent as to the time when she
faces the grand jury, but as being de-
termined that she be given hearing
before an indictment is voted.
To Subpoena Barbara Tough
Z 1t is known that one Of the witnesses
to be subpGnaed is Barbara Tough, the
Scotch seamstress, who has been a
member of the Hall household during
the seven years she has been in Amer
lea. Miss Tough was angered this
morning when she read that she was to
be called before the grand jury, and
said:
II won't testify either for or against
Mrs. Hall, even II have to go to jail.
People over here don't understand the
blood of Scotchwoman."
Later she was in much calmer
frame OF mind and gave the first de-
tailed statement she has made of her
movements on the day of the murder.
She said that the reason for her pres
ence in the vicinity of the Phillips
farm that afternoon was an errand of
mercy at the Parker Home for the
Aged, which is just across the street
She said she left the Hall home at
1880 o'clock in the afternoon-it WAS
her day off-and went to the home of
Mrs. Elizabeth Anthony. They had an
appointment to 60 to the Parker home
to see Mrs. Margaret Thompson, who
Was pcut tluocH tHcIe Win du dLLaCK OIL
rheumatism.
The seamstress said they remained
with Mrs. Thompson until about $3.50
o'clock and then returned to Mrs. An
thongs house. Mr. Anthony, who is
employed at the international Motors
factory, was not home then, and they
knew that he would not be until about
o'clock in the evening. Shortly be-
fore 8 o'clock Archie Cooper, a Scot,
like Barbara, from Aberdeenshire,
drove up in his automobile and he and
Barbara drove out and got Mr.. Anthony.
They took him home, the seamstress
said, and then Cooper drove her back
nearly to the Hall house.
Some canniness which Barbara did
not explain to-day caused him to stop
not in front of the Hall home, but be-
Nelson, not far from the Hall house.
for the expensive lawn of James
She said she sat there and talked with
Cooper for about fifteen minutes and
then walked home, arriving there few
minutes after hearing a large clock
boom ten strokes. She saw no one about
the house and went directly to bed,
thinking every one else had retired
Barbara supplied the informa-
this afternoon that none of the authori-
ties had ever taken the trouble to ask
her with whom she had been motoring
that night.
Mrs. Hall Seen Near Rendezvous
1t was learned to-day from an official