Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-30
TWO MORE WITNESSES
CORROBORATE STORY
OF THE Pig WOMAN
Continued from page 4.


murder.
II am willing to confront Mrs. Hall
face to face" Mrs. Gibson said. II am
willing to challenge her face to face
to deny my charge that she witnessed
the murder of DIR. Edward Hall and
Eleanor Mills on the night OF Septem-
ber IA. l will defy her face to face to
deny that she was back at the Phillips
farm ut / o'clock in the morning, sob
bng over the dead bodies as they lay
there under the tree"
Religion Haits Her Talk.
Mrs. Gibson said she was rather
averse TO making any statements but
finally consented to talk.
This Is the Sabbath and / am not
inclined to discuss the case today, for
l am a woman Of God and OF the
church. / want to keep out of this
as much as possible. l have already
been threatened with n bullet for tell
| ing my story, and l don't want any
more threats. An effort to buy my
silence has also been made. While /
fear threats and shrink at these at
tempts to keep me quiet, l will tell
! the truth whatever the cost may be TO
my personal safety. / don't care how
powerful the influences are against
me.
Then Mrs. Gibson was told that sew
eral neighbors had made statements
that some of her dealings hed been
laid open TO discussion and comment,
and she said: My life will stand In
vestigation. however, hard my de-
tractors try to denounce my story,
which Judge Mott has told you Is en-
tirely credible. l know that the blood
of Judas runs through modern veins
and that IS my answer 10 neighbors
who decry nae and say l am an i'm
aginativc liar"
Here Mrs. Gibson became so in
censed over the reports given of her
by some of her neighbors. who have
Pstated that her story is entirely with
out foundation, that she became dra-
matte and said;
They have the cross all fixed foi
me and theysthihk they have mo uet
To il, but they haven't tho hapimer anC
they haven't the nails to nail me e
the cross. l will stand by what
- told the authorities"
Mrs. Gibson's Story Dramatic.
These utterances give a fair idea o
Mrs. Gibson as she is. She has som
Of the qualities OF a dramatsst and he
story has grown more and more dra
matte and more and more detailed a
she has repeated it
Her explanation of her net in with
A.. holding from the prosecutors the as
. sertton that she returned 10 the seen
/ of the crime after lapse Of hour
and saw a woman weeping at tn
side of the bodies OF Hall and Mr.!
Mills Is typical too. She said:
Il did not a, first tell the authoritie
about my return trip TO. the Phillip
= farm at o'clock in the morning. az
IT was afraid that when l got on the vii
d ness stand the counsel for the d,
IT fenss would demand to know how
d knew the woman l saw there.
planned to tell then of how, becaus
\ wa. worried by what I had seen
: De Russy's lane, ! returned 20 III
Q Phillips farm and there IN the light {
i the then risen moon made out tn
u woman at the crabapple tree, III
- same woman l had previously see
before the shoot!ngs. Perhaps if
had been. pressed l would not HAY
G withheld these details OF the secOr
l. trip ] made. but the prosecutor d
not ask me for details
es ITO those who say lie. my answ
% is that my son will bear me out as
er my having left the house a secol
On tinle.''
She Is Sorry For Mrs. Hall.
~, Mrs. Gibson's vision. which enabl
her 10 see ahead as far as the witie
g. chair, IN a case that at best will n
M come TO trial for months, is wor
al nothing. She went on TO say that s
- ~ is sorry for Mrs. Hall and is sorry NJ
sy Hall made the statement she did 81
n urday, that she was not at the Phini
20 farm on the night OF the murd
Nevertheless, Mrs. Gibson says:
at 81 will tell on the witness stand !,
ay what know and l have not disclo:
ri all yet"
Then she asked questions as TO WI
80 the Somerset Grand Jury might me
at Somewhere in the NSgro quarters
ISL this city. il developed yesterday, tn
ok. are characters who might thTow Ill
ry; on the tragedy. but they have be
~ frightened away by bungling det
tive work and important clues n
Der haze been lost. a little over a W,
A. AZ ago Negro. Alex. Williams, offe
W S for sale a watch that is said TO hs
iay closely resembled the one that 4
ed wore and which has never been fou
a' Search For Watch Now.
% Williams ives in>an alley off Bur
Ier street. The story is rather vague &
.. Is to the effect that two Negroes,
of of whom was Charlie Anderson. /
ed ing in an automobile, saw Villa
m and his wife at Monument square
week ago last Saturday night, and
to- WILLIAMS pair made, il known Z
Va had q gold watch for sale. Then,
to cording 10 Anderson, Mrs. Will!s
ace. produced "a small fiashlight and
10 clip of an automatic revolver. but
he's watch was said 10 be at the Willis
home.
- Anderson went there and says
saw the timepiece. which IS desert
Ill as "a Huntington" case affair OF S
gold and apparently Of some age.
learned that the Williams wan
r sI10 for the timepiece and exclaim