The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-21
DOUBLE MURDER
BEING RED

somerville, N. j., Nov. NBy tn.
!. Associated Press). ).-James Afren, q
Policeman, was The first wiz $ss called
in today's investigation S0z$xhe Hall.
Mills murder. The new x6iAess re.
ported found, and corrohyrSted the
story of Mrs. Jane Gibson nseye wit
ness. ~, NA
somerville, N. j., Nov, A My the
Associated Press). ieasa;i which
Special Prosecutor WilbNkt Mott
has woven out of the mSStsry sur.
rounding the murders Of til Rev Ed
, ward Wheeler Hall and N FEleanor
r. Mills, had its first oHletA airing
today when Is persons SeH their
stories to the Somerset coasity grand
jury. E%
Mr.. Mott expects to offisthe evi
,dence of ten or more Witnesses to-
morrow. Three women ~ sitting
! on the grand jury. q, iE =,
The proceedings today are more
than usually guarded. Al shuad of
state troopers patrolled he court
house and surrounding grounds. They
established dead line" ABOUND the
jury room, a conference rd3ra on the
ground floor with .sFrencK windows
reaching almost to the sfbsind, and
beyond 1t no one was pssmitted to
pass. Sif
Women, scores of them. iasne early.
They hung over the dark, sreiled bal
cony, inside the court hoSse on the
second floor in the hopsa HAT Mrs.
Hall, widow of the slain Aipister, or
, Mrs. Jane Gibson, who 3dses pigs
and has become the noSE Important
witness IN the case, weld appear.
At the opening session M Mott, as
sisted by Azariah NJ. Bee1hIan, pros
/ ecutor of Somerset couifS,i outlined
to the grand jury the salt features
of the case.
8. ]. Cardinal, NeM brunswick
newspaper man, was csped to tell
how the bodies Of the mSfdered pair
lay when he frat saw th4n stretched
out under crab apple ree on the
Phillips farm. AS CardtSal., testified
his gestures could be Sen: through
the low windows. His @oty was to
the effect that he picke4 up letters
, and cards about the boz b and held
them until the police arr xe4
DIR. E. ID. 4Ioblien, 2etsrinarian
sssscssssa him &c &c The the sts BY thai
witnesses could be seen from without
So the location of the stand was
changed and later the curtains were
drawn. DR.. Lobelein, an acquaint-
ance of Mr.. Hall, was the first to
f, identify the body of the dead man as
that of the minister.
The third witness was George Tot
ten, Somerset county detective, whose
testimony was followed by that OF
Daniel j. Wray and Frank Denier
two more New Brunswick newspaper
men, then Bogart I. Conklin, farm,
e. sheriff Of this county, and his depu.
ty, Joseph Novatta.
When Novatta left, Totten was re
called and close on his heels came ar
order for Conklin to come back. Both
were followed by James F.. Mason
Motifs detective. A stir was caused
when Pearl Bahmer, who was with
Raymond Schneider when the bodies
were found, came through an under
ground passage from the Jail to tht
grand jury room. She was on tn,
stand only about Is minutes. In tn;
: hall, as she emerged from the jury
room, she met Schneider for the frs
/ time since she became star witness
against him on a charge Of attacking
her. She nodded, but Schneider, sit
F.; ting between two detectives, did moi
move or speak.
! DR.. w. P. Long, the Somerset coun
4, ty coroner's physician, who failed t.
report that Mrs. Mills throat hat
been cut, was the next called III,
fidgeted with the door knob as he en-
tered, but once he was before the ju
rors his story was soon told. Mrs
Grace Edwards of New Brunswick
was the last witness. She told how
Schneider came to the Stryker hom
Ito telephone the police. Mr.. Mott re
fused to discuss with reporters hi
plans for tomorrow's session Of tn
grand jury nor would he say whethe
Mrs. Hall would be a witness.
While the grand jury was in sss
sion New Brunswick newspape
printed letter from Mrs. Georke 81
pei, wife of farmer Of Middlebush
which brought a new character int
the already overcrowded case. TIL
letter said her husband, George Sipel
knew nothing Of the murders, but de
clared that Mrs. Gibson, the pig wo
man, was trying to bring him into IL
! Sipel when seen tonight by reporters
admitted Mrs. Gibson had talked t
him about the case. He said, how
ever, that all he knew gas that h
had seen wagon on Easton avenu
"A the night of the shoofino last Cat