The New York herald., 1922-11-02
Question ON Handwriting.

Question on Handwriting.
O. Was that identical with your hus-
bands writing?
A. / only glanced at It. l didn't ex
anime ii at all.
Q. Did they ask you whether the fac
simile appeared TO be in your husbands
writing?
A. They showed me signature of his
In the facsimile and said 1t looked like
it, but l could not guarantee it,
Q. Did you examine 1t at all closely?
A. No
O. Weren't you Interested ip deter
mining whether It was his handwriting
A. The letters did not seem to interest
me at ALL
Q. Or the diary?
| A. No.
Q. Have you read any extracts from
the diary?
! A. No.
Q. Did you know in May. last sum-
ner that DR.. Hall was keeping u
diary?
/ A. No.
@. You never saw that diary?
A. No
@. Did you know that Mrs. Mills kept
diary during the same period?
| n. NO.
.. When you were at the prosecutors
office last. did he indicate to you what
line he was working on in this case?
| A. No.
As to Insanity In Family.
Q. Was your father ever temporarily
or otherwise insane?
A. Never.
@. Has there been any insanity in
the family?
A. None in my own family.
Q. Has there been any I'm in any OF
the collateral branches?
A. In the collateral branches. where II
has been traced through marriage.
@. VIII you tell us what. branch that
was in?
A. one of my great uncle's wife be-
| came insane and some of their children
| we're very peculiar.
o. The name was not Stevens?
A. No.
@. When was that traced?
A, Oh that was ali years ago
o. Nothing OF the sort has come up
in recent years, in the last ten or fifteen
years?
O. | have never heard of anything
like 1t.
@. Mrs. Hall. may I ask you OF your
knowledge of Mrs. Mills, which believe
! covered some ptItOu Ol ytdlS-iL yON
would let us have your estimate of her
character and what kind of woman
she was?
A. I don't like to describe her charac-
ter at all. 1 really. dislike to.
@. You knew her quite well?
A. knew her quite WELL
O. There are very few people who
did know her who would be more capa-
BILE of describing her character more
inteligently than you. Mrs. Hail.
A. do not think could describe her
character ] am not at all.
Questioned About Letters.
O. Mrs. Hall don't you think and
doesn't your advisor think ii is tre-
mendously important from legal stand
point that you discover whether Mr..
Hall wrote this diary and those letters
to Mrs Mills and whether there was
any intimacy between them?
A. | don't even see that that would
tell you who was the criminal.
O. Don't you think II widens the
sphere of motives If married man and
married woman are conducting an
Illicit love affair.
A. suppose II would.
O. Is Mr.. Pfeiffer tremendously inter-
ested to know II those letters and the
diary are correct.
A. That doesn't interest me very much.
O. You want TO find the possible
motive for the murders?
A. OF course, l want to find It,
o. II you husband was In love with
any woman, every person connected with
that woman who could shoot a gun might
have killed him?
(No answer.)
@. Are you willing TO give us a fac
simile of DR. Halls handwriting?
A. Haven't you got that?
@. A real fac simile to compare 1t
with the diary and the letters. Samples
Of handwriting so we could compare?
A. Do you wish TO have It?
q. A paper printed the diary and
letters. Have you any objection to
that?
A. Haven't you got some samples of
his handwriting?
O. TO learn that the writing is cor
rect In the diary and letters. We have
no samples from his family.
wou1dp't Give Up Letters.
A. can give you his signature. l
cannot give you any OF my letters.
@. Would you give us his signature?
4. You could get them from many
places
@. You could get it from the marriage
certificate?
A. You could get IL from many places
90. You know. of course, that would
be more convincing proof Mr. Hall was
in love with Mrs. Mills.
A. No. | would not.
@. II the diary and 'he letters are
true. he must have peen. Do you
agree with that?
A. Yes.
O. You haven't read the diary and let
tors before?
A. No.
O. Why not
A nr ~