Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-10-27
EYE WITNESS
QUESTIONED
BY mott TO-DAY
Mrs. Gibson, Who Claims to
Have Seen HaII-MiIIs Mur-
ders Questioned.
SEARCH FOR CARS
Automobiles Near De Russy
Lane on Night of Murder
Are Important.
SEARCH FOR CAR

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. p.
Following a personal inter
view with Mrs. Jane Gibson, eye
witness to the Hall Mills muir
ders, In Prosecutor Stricken
office here this morning, Spe-
cial Deputy Attorney General
Wilbur A. Mott announced that
her story "was very satisfac
tory and that '.the state has
confederation of Mrs. Gibson :
statement. :" Whether the state S
confederation covered the entire
statement of Mrs. Gibson or
whether it confirmed only parts
of it could not be learned from
Mr.. Mott.
Asked if it was time to act when
confederation of an eye witness to &
murder has been secured. Prosecu-
tor Mott replied:
1T is a question of Judgment
Mr.. Mott told newspaper men this
afternoon that he is in possession o.
information, not reaching him
through Mrs. Gibson, which bears
out her story. He said Mrs. Gibson
would not be called in again by him
for questioning.
With reference to the cars which
were at the Phillips farm on the
night of the murder. the deputy at
torney general said he has a very
definite description" of two of the
cars and that series of license
mum bers are also in his possession.
Although admitting the murder
furnished a problem difficult of So
;ution, Mr.. Mott was optimistic 50
! TO his ability to secure the evidence
necessary for an arrest and said he
believed he would go to the gran d
jury with sufficient material in Is
hands TO make an iron bounG
case Of it.
Mrs. Jane Gibson. the widow farn-
er woman, who lives near the Phil
| lips farm, the scene of the HalI-Aills
murder, and claims to have been an
I eye h1lAGSS ~ tie II d6 C0>ss NdS ILLS
morning in the Office of Prosecutor
Joseph E. Stricken being further
questioned by Special Deputy Atter-
ney General WILDER A. Mott and the
Middlesex county prosecutors. Som
erset County Detective George Totten
| brought Mrs. Gibson to the court
| house for the examination.
The story told by Mrs. Gibson
| that she has identified q man and
| woman present when Rev. Mr. Hail
| and Mrs. Mills were slain On the
Phillips farm last month was being
tested today. 1t was generally I'M
derstood Mr. Mott would go over the
| witness story with her point by
| point.
Prosecutor Stricken this afternoon
said Mrs. Gibson had dsn.ed the
newspaper reports stating that she
! was not received when she FIRST
! went to the prosecutors Office with
her story. Mrs. Gibson had bean
| quoted as saying the prosecutor
was too busy to see her." so she
went away again.
1t became known today that Mr..
! Mott had ordered the seizure OF an
| dom seen now, which Mrs. Gibson
asserts she saw in De Rnsss 5 lane
the night OF the shooting.
i According to Mrs. Gibson. the wo-
man in gray whom she seentified
as having been present Eitf the
slayer was standing beside this an
cient car when another nsFchln1o
turned into the lane and threw ttz
headlights upon it. All night state
troopers were searching garages IN
New Brunswick and vicinity but no
seizure had been reported az noon.
Mr.. Mott Indicated today he Was
not ready to accept without a care
full recheclzing the aiibi Established
by the man named by Mrs. Gibsen
as being present when the douhl1
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