The New York herald., 1922-10-25
WOMAN BACKS TALE
LAID TO EYEWITNESS
OF Staying OF HALL
Says She Heard Shots at
Same Time as Other Re-
ported Murders.
MOTT STARTS INQUIRY
Expected to Make Progress
and Probable Arrest
Friday.
MANS JOB Is DEDUCTION
Belief That His Female Aid
Scattered the Letters About
i'm Revenge.
MANS JOB is DEDUCTION

Special Dispatch 20 THE NEW York HEssLp.
NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j., Oct. "a
Two new figures came to-day into the
case of the Hall-Mills murder mystery
Wilbur A Mott, Special Deputy At
torney- General, heavy, stoop shoui-
dered, elderly man, and Mrs. Annie
Gibson, middle aged and stocky.
If the mystery is to be solved 1t VIII
be solved by Mott with the aid of Mrs.
Gibson, for she is the woman of mys-
terry, the eye witness about whom the
whole Of the prosecution case Will
revolye IL the lines that have been
followed are continued to the end. she
has told the authorities she saw ykhe
murder, and they believe she can
identify at least one of the murler
party, of which she says there were
two members-a man and woman.
In her story, too she mentioned the
Christian name of a man. and it is tho
name of a man who has figured in the
case before, an odd individual, not a
resident of New Brunswick. This
woman's story is now before Mott,
with ali the available details.
Backs story of Mrs. Gibson.
Mrs. Gibson as the eyewitness is
corroborated. II was ascertained to-
night, by Mrs. Matthew Sulitz. wife OF
the Hungarian farmer caretaker OF
| the Phillips farm. who lives near by
| and who has made an affidavit now in
the possession OF the authorities Tho
Sulitz woman did not see the shooting,
but she does say that she heard shots
about the time Mrs. Gibson says she
saw the murder, that Ia about $3.50
that night. Here, for the first time. -
an agreement as to the time shots
were heard.
| Azariah Beekman, Prosecutor OF
Somerset, and Joseph f. Stricken OK
Middlesex county are lleutensnts from
this time on and win figure little. Mott.
with James Mason, Essex county detee-
tive. Totten and one or two others VIII
handle the case. the State troopers aid
ing and more effectively than In the
past because they will not have to con-
tend with divided authority.
Two outstanding problems confront
Mott once he has assmilsted the history
| of the case. They are:
by whom and how was Mrs Mills's
! throat cut? How came letters from
| Mrs Mills to the rector to be lying
beside the bodiesy'
on the first score. the fact or the
matter is that not enough emphasis has
/ been laid The doctor who examined
| the body insists that Mrs. Mills's throat
4 was cut by a strong person. whose hand
/ did not tremble and who used not -
.azor. but a keen knife. such knife
as might be used for the cleaning OF
| fish. only the backbone held the torso
and the head together when the bodies
were found. -
Crime by strong Person.
II is doubtful whether a woman, no
matter how infurIated. could have
welded a knife so surely and 80
strongly. AS TO the other point, there -
much that has not been uncovered
| Tho theory on which the authorities
have been proceeding Is that the last
letter Mrs. Mills wrote never reached
I Hail but reached some one else. and
| the anding OF the additional older ief-
ters resulted How did this last letter
reach a person deeply interested
| Tonight IL WAS learned NtldA Nnt tu-
| thorities who have had woman In
mind as the bearer of the tales. have
| turned their attention 10 a man. mem
! ber Of the Church OF st. John the Evan
/ gelist, a man prominent In Its affairs.
/ The woman was also prominent ana
both had some reason for interest IN
what was In progress between Hall and
Mrs. Mills.
Mott will have to determine this aues-
ton and will probably call witnesses
who might know about Il on Thursday.
when he is 70 visit New Brunswick TO
| Stricken, whom he saw to-day at Somer-
vile after he had talked at length with
| Beekman.
Tonight. TOO. there was a vague
rurnor OF possible arrest, to be made
fairly soon. but probably not in New
Brunswick. This report is not con-
\ firmsbtp at this time. The authorltie--,
eyery one connected with the case--sre
remaining exceptionally quiet TO catch
| Nd with what Is now the older part o.
the story. TO give him a chance TO show
| II nc can do better than Beekman and
Stricken. He has had only four or
Eve hours on the case so far. and thus
his statements to-day were OF ncces-
sity innocuous.
II 1. possible that Mr. Mott Will ware
| on Thursday to question Ralph V. VI.
Gorsline the vestryrnan and member OF
the choir, who has already been ex-
| amined twice. Gorsline Is tired -
death OF the trouble the case has
brought him and refuses TO be inter-
viewed or TO say anything further about
his burned motor car Like many
others he Is chagrined TO find his n3nns
figuring In the news accounts OF N
case.
Gorsiine. az has been said. resented.
he has stated the advances made 10
him by Mrs Mills some time back. Some
OF Mrs. Mils's family do not remember
the incident quite the same way. They
say that whe,. sha sbolr OF st. John .
met for practice u was customary Cor
the members 20 assemble first.on the
street corner between the My homo
and the church, and frequently fiall and