Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-11-21
PIG WOMAN SSTORY
!. OF DOUBLE MURDER
IS PARTLY VERIFIED
Continued from page 1.
and Mrs. Nellie Russell, Negress' WIN
saws Mrs. Gibson's story is untrue
Talked with Mrs. Gibson.

and Mrs. Nellie Russell, Negroes. who
says Mrs. Gibson's story is untrue
Talked with Mrs. Gibson.
Some time ago, said Sipel last night,
he sold Mrs. Russell some pigs ana
a week ago last Sunday Mrs. GIBSON
asked him to go to her farm to iden-
tify pigs that Mrs. Russell said had
been stolen from her. When he got
to the Gibson farm, Mrs: Gibson began
To talk about the murder. telling OF her
alleged ride on her mule Jenny to seek
the corn thief and of having wit
messed the murder.
Sipel then told Mrs. Gibson. so he
SAYS. that on the night of the murder
he had taken a friend TO New Bruns-
wick. returning to his home by Easton
avenue and Derussy's lane about IL
o'clock. AS he approached the neigh
borhood of the Phillips farm. where
the bodies OF Rev. Edward w. Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor II. Mills were found
he observed what he described as
Ford truck standing at the side of
Easton avenue, just beyond Landing
lane. and not far from the Parker
Home for the Aged.
When he came abreast of this We
hicle, Sipel says. it started up an(
turned into Derussy's lane. II wa
closed and he could not see the occu
pants, nor tell how many there were
| The lights on the Ford were out
Sipel continued:
This was some time between /
O'Clock and 1130. What l said T.
Mrs. Gibson was what you want Z
do is find out who was in that car. 70
they may be able TO help you witt
your story. believe they were boot
leggers' She said TO me. No. it's DO
Ia wagon i am looking for. it's a road
ster. And anyway II happened befor
IL O'clock"
This is the first time a Ford auto
| mobile has figured in any of IN
stories indirectly.
Sipel has said that on the night il
question he was driving his farr
| truck out Easton avenue from NeY
| Brunswick and for some reason un
explained. turned into Derussy's Ian
and then changed his mind and back
ed out again. He apparently had ru
far enough into the lane for the light
of his truck TO illuminate the field
which Mrs. Gibson says she saw tn
woman in gray and a man.
Spells coach had high hay wage
sides and this is supposed TO eXplai
how Mrs. Gibson described a mot,
car with n high back seat. In IL
semi darkness the mistake mig
, easily have been made. Sipel, therefor
now figures as the driver of what h;
been described as an old fashioned C.
and also as the man whose headlight
revealed 10 Mrs. Gibson the figures
what is believed to be the murd
| party.
II is recalled that there was a sto,
at one time that knife such as fishe
men use might have been the instr
rnent with which Mrs. Mills thro
= was cut. 1t has been clearly esta
, lished that the choir singers thro
2 was cut after she had been killed
!. three bullets. The question arises.
= view of the statement of Sipel, wheth
a the shooting may not have occurred.
Mrs. Gibson says. about twenty. mi
utes after 10, and the throat cuttil
about an hour later, when Sipel sa
he saw the Ford in the neighborhoC
+ Sipels evidence is considered impor
i ant.
D Mrs. Gibson Sought Agreement.
!, The rest of Sipel's interview serv
| TO diecredit Mrs. Gibson in a sen:
bringing up again one Of those contr
dictions with which the case has be
r | replete. He went on:
Last Saturday Mrs. Gibson car
, over to my farm and went over t
: story again. asking me particular
o | when l was in Derussys lane a
: | what ] saw there. Then she asked !
| to agree TO something l would T
, agree TO. Mrs. Gibson misjudged {
man she was talking TO. She thong
i was a different type Of man, and S
made a mistake"
What did she ask you to agree &c
THAT 1 don't care to say at II
time. ] must talk the mater over W
= my wife now that she has publish
:, this letter in the evening paper"
The letter which Sipel referred
& was sent by his wife to the N
Brunswick newspapers and was
great surprise to him when reports
called his attention 10 1t. 1t read:
wish 10 state for the welfare OF n
a self and children, and ! want the &
10 thorities of Middlesex and Somer
II counties to take notice that If NJ
r Jane Gibson, the eyewitness .in
n HaE- Mills murder case, should at a
N time offer new evidence suppose,
frcm my husband, George Sipel,
= garding the above case, / want tn
absolutely TO ignore same. as it is
-. true. She has failed in her bold
tempt 10 bring my husband into
> Hall-Mills murder case.
- My husband has been trying TO c,
y vince me all week that there was
y danger, but l took matters in my o
d. hands, thinking Mrs. Gibson would
5. so on her own accord. have b.
"a nearly frantic all week, as my husbs
s. is well known business man. !
E. as he has no time TO lose"
solutely do not want him in this aft
Mrs. Florence Sipel.