Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-26
Mrs. Gibson, Alleged Eye
witness, May Lead Au-
thorities To Arrest
WOMAN is CHARGED
Saws She Soon Recognized Woman
But Felt Sorry for Her." But Had
To Speak When Screams Were
Recalled.
(Ey United PreSsD

New brunswick, N. J., OcJ. ~
The despairing death cry of Mrs.
Eleanor Mills, murdered with the Rev.
Edward Wheeler Hall on the night of
September Il has led woman who
claims she saw the crime to charge
a prominent New Brunswick woman
with the double killing.
Mrs. Jane Gibson alleged eyewit-
ness to the shooting of the pastor
and the choir singer declared today
she is haunted by the dying screams
of little Mrs. Mills, and that she will
name the woman who assisted in the
killing.
Without naming publicly the guilty
woman, Mrs. Gibson made her state
ment so as to point the way to an
arrest
The State forces have been in a
state of unusual activity for the past
twenty-four hours. Certain houses Of
New Brunswick are being closely
guarded.
Best authorities declare the arrest
which is expected to result from Mrs.
Gibson's story will not come today,
and possibly not Friday. Prosecutor
Mott. in an interview, stated he would
make an arrest at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Mrs. Gibson stated she saw the pas
tor and Mrs. Mills killed by man
and a woman near Phillips farm. She
identified the woman, and gave the
mans name, saying that Mrs. Mills
shrieked it Fout as she fell. In an
other version she said the woman ac
complice called out the name.
Mrs. Gibson has been quoted as
saying she later identified the woman,
but felt sorry for her" until she re-
called the death screams of Mrs.
Mills.
A sensation was promised by the
prosecutors statement he would
question possible suspects and an al
legged eye witness in a group-con-
fronting the woman in the gray coat,
charged by Mrs. Jane Gibson with the
crime, with her accuser.
Wilbur Mott appointed by Attor-
ney General McCran to head the
probe into the Hall-Mills murder
mystery stated he would summon all
members of the Hall and Mills fami-
lies, the Hall servants and members
of the congregation of the church of
st. John the Evangelist for question
ing today.
These are the ones to be qulzZed.
Mrs. Frances Hall, widow OF the
rector.
Henry and Willie Stevens broth
ers of Mrs. Hall.
Ralph Goreling, vestryman IN Rev.
Halls church.
Mrs. Addison Clark, mutual friend
of the Hall and Mills family;
James Mills, husband of the mur>
dered choir leader.
Charlotte Mills. daughter OF Mrs
Mills.
Barbara Tough, seamstress IN the
Hall home.
louise Geist, maid in the Hall
home.
Mrs. Jane Gibson, farm woman,
who claims she was an eye. Witness
to the murder -,
The substance of an affidavit sald
to be in the hands of the prosecutor
follows:
That, on the night of September
II, Mrs. Gibson was in field back
of her home on Hamilton Road.
She stated that she discovered tn&t
corn had been stolen from shocKS'
She said she determined 70 searGn
the neighborhood to see II she coaid
| find the thief.
1t was about nine O'Clock, she
swore, and the Milestone bus had had
just passed. This is the way. M Msne
said, that she fixed the time den definite e.
/ ly. Down near Derussy's Land sne
saw wagon standing at the side o1
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