New-York tribune., 1922-11-03

Yersaticn Mills said that Mrs. Hall has,
saia she was going to notify tho no.
'slce, but that actually It was fors,e p
senator William Florance, Mrs. Hall,a
lawyer. i, who notified the police of DR.
nali disappearance. Both Mr.. Flor
anee and Chief of Police O'Connell are
IN accord that the lawyer did not re-
p9rt I9 the absence of Mrs. Mills. Mr..
.!ioIanee !.. told reporters early in the
that he did not know that
Slrs' Mills was missing when he re-
heFted the case of Dr.. Hail s;noo
shen .Tn Mrs. Hall, through her friend
MSS sally Peters, has said that she
haa told the lawyer about Mrs. Mills
walch makes one more Discrepancy 10
be cleared up. "
Incidentally, Chief of Police o,Con-
heil never has disclosed how he did
iearn that Mrs. Mills was missing.
Saw iir Four Times Friday
Although I saw Mrs. Hail four
lines a mat Friday" said Mills yester
usy. White was awaiting the return
asleep, Mills explained. II had LETT
the light burning, expecting her rae
tufn. The light awakened me at 2.1o in
y, Lhe morning. When found that she
mad not returned I thought that sbe
might have been seized with n faint
ing. spell at the church and thai no
body knew it
II went around the corner To tbe
Gnurch, but whensI did not see anybody
II, returned home and put out the light.
mat was at $3.50 o'clock
Fhllilps, the watchman, and Bennett
Mrs. Halls neighbor, both fix the time
n n n 1S.,,- 4.
at 2;l0 in The morning. Mrs. Hall now
says she did not get back until $40
put n she says she went out only once.
Mfs. Hail says there was no light burn
ing IN the Mills home when she went
ihere after finding the church locked.
put IT Phillips and Bennett are right
about the time they saw Mrs. Hall
return then she must be mistaken
ABOUT there having been no light burn
ing IN the Mills home, because the sex
ton is positive that the light burned
IN ms house until 2:30 o'clock.
>, rms is one of the phases of Mrs.
Haifs statement that some of the off,
Gals believe they will find easiest to
attack. 1t is admitted by Mrs. Halls
lawyer, Timothy Newell Pfeiffer. that
taere is no one who can support the
Widows statement that she was in
her room all that evening. She says
she was there and the authorities now
are bending their efforts to establish
beyond the shadow of doubt that
she was not.
Thinks Gibson Story Credible
Mills was asked this afternoon if he
believed the story told to the author;-
ties by Mrs. Jane Gibson.
There are good many things about
Mrs. Gibson's story" he said, chat
made 1T look as though it might be
true"
Detective Mason, chief investigator
for Special Deputy Attorney General
Mott, spent a few hours in New Bruins
wick to-day and then went to Newark.
He had little to say about the case
except that he was still convinced as
to the truth of the story of Mrs.
Gibson,
This woman raiser of corn and pigs
made another statement to-day in
which she said that Mrs. Hall told an
untruth when she said that she had not
been on the Phillips farm since she was
girl.
That's lie;" said Mrs. Gibson, when
she read that part of Mrs. Halls inter
the people in the Parker Home for the
Aged saw her there"
The matron in charge of the Parker
Home denied this tonight, and pointed
out that two months ago--the time
specified by Mrs. Gibson-it would have
been impossible for any one in the
grounds of the home to see through the
thick vegetation that then sheltered
both places. The matron also said that
Mrs. Hall never had called ut the home
as far as she could remember, although
until about six mouths ago Mr.. Hall
and Mrs. Mills sometimes came there
to visit some of the inmates.
William Freis and Thomas BOYLE,
residents of New Brunswick, were
highly excited to-day when they found
a thirty two caliber automatic pistod
shell within dozen feet of the man
gled stump of the crabapple tree on
the farm. They, took it to the Court
House and surrendered it there. 1t
was not. however, one of the shells
from the murderer's gun, even though
manufactured by the Peters Cartridge
Company, as were the others found
earlier.
This shell was one of several fred
yesterday by state trooper as part
of an experiment to see how far away
shots of that caliber could have been
heard. The experiment showed that
the people in more than half dozen
houses in the vicinity should have
heard the shots if they had been home
and awake.