Evening journal., 1922-11-28
MRS. GIBSON
TELLS JURY
HER MURDER
NIGHT STORY
CONTINUED from First Pase)

OF the grand jury entrance. without
a sign of emotion. She appeared
almost affable as she chatted with
Miss Peters and her lawyer. Varl-
Gus officials conentced with the in
vestigation all of whom know Mrs.
Hall by sight, passed in and out Of
the jury room at intervals. They
paid no attention TO the widow, new
er glancing in her direction. Mrs.
Hall returned the compliment ignor-
ing everybody.
Mrs. Halls first attempt TO secure
a hearing was made when Prosecu-
tor Beekman emerged from the
jury room.
May 1 see you now, Mr.. Prosecu-
tori" asked Mrs. Halls lawyer.
mo. you can't see." replied Beck
man, hurrying on.
Opinion is divided about equally as
TO whether indictments will be
found. Those close 10 Wilbur A.
Mott, Special Deputy Attorney-Gen-
eral, believe that two bills will be
. voted. Others say they can see no
reason why the grand jury should
take such action. Minor events yes
terday during the session OF the
grand jury led many to believe that
the result will be negative.
Mr.. Mott has not put before the
grand jury a witness whose tale had
not been told and retold before the
grand jury took up the case. Mr..
Mott examined Mrs. Addison Clarke.
also known as Minna Clarke, for less
than five minutes. Detectives said
that Mrs. Clarke knows much more
than she could have told in the time
she was in the jury room.
Mr.. Mott with his chief aid lieu-
tenant. James F. Mason. left Somer-
vills yesterday at $40 o'clock. an
hour and ten minute before grand
jury adjourned, .Azariah Beekman,
Somerset county prosecutor. had
been doing most OF the questioning.
Two brands OF stories have fol-
lowed the grand Jury hearing. One, |
from semi-official sources. is that the |
evidence has been detrimental to the |
interest of the woman in gray that /
Mrs. Gibson says she saw on the I
Phillips farm the night of the muir |
der: the other brand, from various /
sources. all interested, Is 10 the ef-
feet that nothing worth recounting |
has been revealed.
Nineteen witnesses were examined /
yestrday. Chiefly their testimony had
20 do with the affair between Hall
and Mrs. Mills and the general
knowledge OF II. Occasionally and in
ferentially the grand jury was given
-. Ia Taf 2
have known what was going on. SO
strong was this inference that a re-
port spread during the afternoon
that Mrs. Hall has issued a state
ment acknowledging that she knew
OF the relation between her husband
and Mrs. Mills This was denied
promptly for Mrs. Hall by Timothy
y. Pfeiff,r, her counsel.
Mrs. Clark was the ninth witness.
She IS not 10 be recalled. Il was
learned positively. Mrs. Clarke was
referred 10 IN the letters that passed
between Hall and Mrs. Mills. Mrs.
Mills once wrote Of her Poor Minna
is always satisfied with the crumhs,"
She was supposed TO know Of the
happenings at Point Pleasant and the
gossip in the choir about the Lake
Hopatcong trip on which the rector
and his wife and Mrs. Mills went on
the day before the murder. and she
was one OF those TO visit the church
on the day the bodies were found.
She was at the Hall house on the
Thursday afternoon OF the murder.
Ralph Gorsline also was examined
yesterday. According to one report
he was questioned only as to the
gossip in the church about Hall and Z
Mrs. Minis. Edwin Carpenter was
not put on the stand. Carpenter,
who drove over from New Brunswick
in the green Mercer car which has
been mentioned frequently. waited in
the corridor all day. Attorney
Beekman told Carpenter that what
he has been summoned to corrobor-
ate had been corroborated by an
other witness. Barbara Tough and
Louise Geist, servants in the Hall
house were examined. One report IS
10 the effect that Louise testified 20 Z
seeing Mrs. Hall in the house at s 2
o'ciock, $3.50 and 1915 on the night Il
Of the murder. This would bring b
Mrs. Halls alibi up to the time that a
Tough returned home and b
'ound the house dark and quiet. b
Louise IS said to have testified that 4
Mrs. Hall went to her bedroom at c
,bout 10 o'clock ard that a little Il
ater. when Louise went up to bed. 81
The saw her mistress moving around Il
n her room. u
@. Russell Gildersleeve. at the aft II
,rnoon session. told the Grand Jury "
u having seen Mr.. Hall and Mrs. r,
Wills in New York, arm in arm, in n
he neighborhood OF Forty-second n
treet.
Miss Mile Opie. the chatty neigh :
,or, told OF the telephone calls tha -,
Iad come from Mrs. Mills in the =
curse Of the fatal Thursday after =,
DON. She was followed by Mrs. y
,lsie Barnhart OF Paterson. Mrs.
ILLS sister. who related the Incl No
ent in the course OF which Mrs. y,
fills was reported to have said that &c
Trs Hall said TO her: You are q,
laking my life very unhappy"
william Phillips told of having
cen Mrs. Hall enter her home at III
clock on the morning of Friday, :
lone. He was followed by Peter be
unulty, chauffeur and gardener at
ne Hall house. After Tumulty had in
,stified Mr.. Mott departed. He sa ID NJ
len that the remaining witnesses NJ
ere not of importance. The first WI
, these was George Kuhn, to whom he
lille Stevens made some of his III
Iysterious remarks after the crime. m
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