Evening journal., 1922-11-23
saw CAR near
MURDER Scene


stories, so far as Is known. have nc
bearing on the crime This made II
evident that Mr. Mott will put before
the jurors every tale that may pos
slDly be of value. In conformity with
Mr.. Motifs own statements that his
responsibility ends when he has pre-
sented the case.
In three days forty-one witnesses
have been examined. including thir-
teen yesterday. As luck would have
IT, Jimmie Mills was the thirteenth
and last witness Of the day
Adjournment 10 Monday means
I tnat the case cannot possibly be con-
cluded before Tuesday night and
may run over into Wednesday. Then
II anything is left an adjournment
VIII be taken to the following Mon
day and the Grand Jury inquiry will
have been strung out three weeks.
The possibility that there may be an
Indictment or indictments is now
considered somewhat remote.
One Of the so-called new wit
nesses yesterday told an interesting
! story that apparently has no rela-
I N+MAA ~ NAAE AAAnA OA nan anu MI
Mills. She Is Mrs. Emma Voorhees,.
aged 90, the first witness called. she
ives two miles beyond DeRussy's
lane on Easton avenue and there
fore miles from the scene Of the
tragedy. She was in the jury room
twenty minutes.
Mrs. Voorhees, says tha on the
night OF the murder about 10 O'Clock
when she was retiring on the second
hoor Of the farmhouse IN which she
and her husband live. and which is
two hundred feet from the road, she
heard a commotion and looking out
saw two motor cars. The front one
drew up and the other stopped right
behind it. From the first car people
jumped out and nan back and at the
same time those in the second car
alighted. Mrs. Voorhees, told the
jury it was very dark and she could
not tell how many persons were in
the cars. nor whether they were men
or women.
When the two groups met. how
ever, she heard loud and angry
voices and recognized at least one
voice as that OF a woman. All in the
party seemed 10 talk at once. Mrs.
Voorhees, said she heard distinctly
only two sentences. They were What
are you doing here?" and What
does this mean?"
Much moro talk occurred the vii
ness continued. and then suddenly
two shots were heard. She said she
heard the shots but did not see the
flashes. The two reports came right
together. she said. The group broke
up instantly, dividing in two. The
lights on both cars had been lighted.
They went out at once, Mrs. Voor-
hees said and the first car shot for
ward. the driver turning the nose OF
his machine into MOots Lane TO turn
around.
Two Cars Speed Away.
Then. at what Mrs. voorhees, says
was terrific speed the car made on
toward New Brunswick. The second
car followed. but the driver was able
10 make the turn in the road without
heading into the lane.
That IS the substance OF Mrs
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later to reporters.
Mrs. Voorhees, tod the reporters
that Mrs. Gibson had come 10 her
place 10 borrow a reaper late in Sep
.ember, and the two talked Of the /
Mrs. Gibson. Mrs. Voorhees, /
Is certain. did not even intimate at
hat time that she knew anything
about the crime. The Gibson story
1f being at the Phillips farm and
ieeing the so-called woman in gray
anne much later.
The strange thing about the Voor-
'ees story, from an unofficial stand
,oint, is that she failed TO tell it be-
ore. She was interviewed at length
weeks ago in connection with a story
hat some Negroes in a small auto
mobile threw a tire in front OF a car
to Bound Brook from Red
Bank. The behavior OF the Negroes
vas considered significant, but It was
Tot taken up by the authorities. Mrs.
Voorhees, asserted at that time that
he had not seen or heard anything
II note on the night OF the murder
The other two witnesses who tod
tories apparently not related 70 the
rime were Nellie L. Russell and
ieorge Sipel. The Negress told the
anne story she has told before OF
irs. Gibson. so-called eyewitness.
'eing at her place and not at the
Phillips farm on the night Of the
murder. Sipel told the grand fury
iothing except that Mrs. Russell
vas wrong, as he and Theodore
Snothe called at the Russell cabin TO
zee her and could not find her.
Inothe was called and corroborated
,ipeL His examination was brief.
star Witnesses Are Called
As an offset to these supernumer-
Lries Mr.. Mott had on hand some
II the star characters. including
Jimmie Mills and Charlotte. Jim
ME is still wearing that old cIntb
rat that does not fit him. but Char
otte has a new blue sport hat and
the and Louise Geist, maid in the
Han home, who is now affecting a
beaver sailor, had quite a sociable
lay OF II in the circular corridor in
'front.' Of the Grand Jury room in
he court house.
II was clear that the girls had
omething in common. silk stock
ngs. for instance. Charlotte's were
'rown and Louise's black and they
notes as to the quality.
is was clearly apparent to all. on
ookers In the balcony of the ro-
unda, one flight up. Louise has a
lew ring too. and wears It outside
Ter glove. When she was not talk