Evening star., 1922-10-30

| TSi fdgtp
| places woman answering the de
scription of Mrs. Hall on the spoJ
at the time of the tragedy. Mrs.
Hall denies she was there.
! Compared to this angle everything
else in this case has assumed the
| relativity of chaf to wheat. T."
case seems now to stand upon the
statement sworn to by Mrs. Gibson
New Clue Hinted.
| Deputy Attorney General Wilbur \
Mott and Detective Lieut.. James +
Mason, his aide. had arrived here d
| noon today and this opened specu-
lation as to the possibilities of their
4 running down q new clue while tn"
Gibson statement is being held up
as a smoke screen to cover the real
activities.
AS things now stand, it would seem
that the prosecutors have the word ol
! Mrs. Jane Gibson, who says she wit
! messed the killing of Mr. Hall and Mrs.
| Mills. against the word of the WIDOW of
! the rector. Mrs. Gibson SAYS that when
she returned to retrieve a mocrasin at
] O'Clock in the morning, after the
| shooting. she saw a woman. whom she
| identified as Mrs Hall, bending over the
! bodies.
| Denied by Mrs. Hall.
| Mrs Hall denies this. As far as COT
| roboration i'm major points of the test
mony of Mrs. Gibson goes. the author-
| ties are willing TO admit that they have
none. Mrs Gibsons word then stands
against Mrs. Halls.
! Mrs Gibson is known 10 have been
| in circus at some time or another dur
/ ing her life, and to have become a pig
| farmer. Mrs. Hall comes from a family
we'll known in the state. Her past. she
points out is an open book. Her reputa-
tion has been of the highest. And sh"
! asks: Doesn't a persons past count
| for anything"
Rumors definitely state that it was
| this situation which caused a split BE-
tween the two prosecutors, Beekman
and Stricken.
Weather, Records Searched.
| Newspaper men occupied most Of
! this morning checking up on stale
ments of Mrs. Gibson and upon Ter
general attitude. Two points were
! uncovered.
| The first is that her story OF seeing
| Mrs. Hall bending over the bodies by
| / o'clock in the morning may possibly
| be backed up by the weather records.
! But weather records dispraye ::.e
/ fact that sufficient light was present
/ at $40, when the murder is be-
! lieved to have been committed. f"r
| any one to have seen clearly what
| was going on at a dist lance of 100 feet.
| According to records of the Trenton
weather observatory. the moon didl
| not rise on the night of the murder
until 1926 standard time. Daylight
saving time was in effect here then
and by the local clocks the moon did
; not come up until 1926. The night
was cloudless, but the stars. accord
| ing to Chief q. II. Noyes of the Tren-
/ ton observatory. did not give sutii-
| cient light to distinguish forms at
| any distance more than a few yards.
"A person standing 100 yards of in
| the starlight of cloudlesS night
! here" declared Chief Noyes, would
| be unable to discern a figure unless
| it was moving, and then it would he
only mobile shadow.
| Photographers Mistaken.
As far as Mrs. Gibson's knack at
| identifying persons the following is
| related. A photographer named
| Ready, from New York. who speaks
with a slight Irish accent. visited her
! at her home on last Wednesday. He
| tried to sneak a picture of her by
snapshooting. He succeeded, and a
| quarrel followed with the woman, she
damaging his camera. The next day
| another photographer named BauIner.
| who Is of entirely different makeup
| from Ready, visited her. He speaks
with a slight tinge of German ac-
cent He is different in features and
| complexion from Ready. He wore a
| brown coat, whereas Ready wore a
| green-mixed one. He has a mustaches
| and Ready. has none. Nevertheless
| the woman emphatically stated that
| he was. the same man who tried to
| take her picture on the day preceding,
/ and for half an hour conducted a yer.
bal TRADE against his personality.