Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-07
MAY |ND|CT THREE
FOR JERSEY MURDER
Continued from page 1.

knew anything about the MURDERS
The authorities as stated yesterday
questioned Mrs. a. c. Fraley, whose
home Is near the scene of the murder
Mrs. Fraley gave important informa-
ton, and her. evidence will support
parts of the story told by Mrs. Jane
Gibson.
The authorities did not call Sigourney
Smith, who boards with Mrs. Fraley
and has a room in the front of the
house. Mrs. Fraley has at last ad-
mitted having heard something, but
Smith, il appears. had habit OF
walking TO the trolley line in the
morning by a route that would have
taken him right past the place where
the bodies lay on the morning OF
September Is. He has denied en-
phatically that before the bodies were
found he ever told any one there had
been murder out his way.
DIR. William H. Long, Coroner's
physician, who made an autopsy, is
to be questioned about his statements
since the crime and his first report
Prosecutor Mott did not appear here
today, but Detective Mason arrived
in the morning and at once sent for
Barbara Tough and Louise Geist,
servants in the Hail home. Mrs.
Fraley WAS called in later.
Barbara went 10 the court house
meekly. and. according to her ques-
TONERS, she answered anything and
everything they asked her. In part
the line of her interrogation concern
H. aRl. ON
the afternoon of the murder. She
also was questioned about conditions
in the Hall home.
Louise Geist was rather indignant
over some of the questions asked.
! Both servants refused TO make any
statement when they had finished with
Mason. The officials believe that
/ Barbara especially knows much more
than she has told of conditions in the
| Hall home. of the relations between
Hall and his wife and whether or not
Mrs. Hall knew before the crime of
the relations between Hall and Mrs.
Mills.
Barbara has proved throughout her
! loyalty TO Mrs. Hall. Louise, on the
/ other hand, has an entirely different
disposition and has had a lot of fun
out of the notoriety. Yesterday she
did not relish some of the questions
put TO her.
Louise told Of a spat she had with
Mrs. Mills when the choir singer sought
10 learn from her some of the inner
working OF the Hall menage. and the
relations between the rector and his
wife. hut she grew angry when she was
( asked whether Hall had ever shown a
/ disposition 20 pay attentions 20 her.
! She denied one OF the current stories of
this kind. She cried and let il be known
/ that her feelings We're hurt.
Mrs Fraley was much wrought up
by being questioned, and also AZ cf-
| forts of newspapernen 10 interview
her Mason admitted that she had aid
ed the authorities considerably by her
statements. He was asked
do you consider Mrs. Fraley as ar
important witness for the State?"
Il DO" ne replied. saying that he be
iieved that her testimony would have
an important bearing on the case be-
fore the grand jury. He admitted that
her story corroborated Mrs. Gibson's
II pii tiidll tAlt 4lAAltil "a II
point Mrs Fraley did not see the
murder committed, Mason intimated
but she did hear certain things. More
witnesses will be examined and re-ex-
amined by either Mason or Mott with
in the next forty-eight hours. although
there Will be little activity today, elec
tion day.
The statements OF DR.. Long abou
the cutting Of Ms. Mills throat ar,
being checked up especially. AccOrdins
to Long, his original report said III,
throat OF the woman was "hagglet
or garrotted.' To the newspapers sool
after the finding of the bodies, he as
serted, that there had been no cuttins
Of the threat and that because 0
advanced decomposition. the scar
which was wound about the woman
head had cut into the flesh.
This statement also was made 4
local officials.
One official said emphaticaliy tha
ythere is nothing in Longs first re
port about the cutting OF the thT>oa
I nor is there anything about the scar
}. having made any wound The repor
n has not been made public.
s DR.. Long was quoted yesterday a
}. saying that an official high in the in
3: vestigation told him 10 keep Quie
. about the fact that Mrs. Mills throa
had been slashed. He said:
Ny report was delivered to PRISE
cutor Beekman on the Tuesday fol
+! lowing the murder Prior TO that tim
;. ] had not seen Mr.. Beekman. l assum
. that he f-Of
for that is when ] delivered g. In m
report ! stated that Mrs. Mills throa
had been injured by some sharp ir
strument. and that the throat was baC
~ decompcsed. In the report Of th
autopsy made in Brooklyn they d.
not say that her throat had been CT
with knife. but that it had been don
O with some sharp instrument"
n According 20 DR.. Cronk, who PEI
formed the second autopsy. there we
= no mention made in the first repo
% by Dr. long about any cutting. of II
throat. The statement also has bee
Il made that DR.. Long was at the seer
= on the day the bodies were found. ar
spoke 70 Prosecutor Beekman and EC
win r. Carpenter at that time. Bot
n Mr. Beekman and Mr.. Carpenter a,
J. NIT this, although DR.. Long says I
l. had not seen Mr.. Beekman prior 10 ii
submitting of his report % the pros
cutor
n Charlotte Mills has put all ideas
". the stage aside, and will stay in Ne
le brunswick 10 complete her studies
n the senior high school here. She W
ir graduate year from the coming Fe
ruary, and then will go TO live wi
her mothor's sister. Mrs Elsie Bar