New-York tribune., 1922-10-30
Mrs. Gibson
I)ares Widow
To Face Her.
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/ | want to keep out of the iimelight.
have already been threatened in let
ter with bullet, and don't want an,
more threats. An effort has been mad,
TO buy my silence.
while fear threats and shrink a
attempts to keep me quiet, | will tel
the truth whatever the cost to my per
sonal safety do not care how power
| full the influences against me are. My
lifg will stand Investigation, however
hard my detractors try to denounce my
story, which Judge Mott has told yor
is entirely credible.
II know that the blood of Judas runs
through modern veins. That is my
answer to neighbors who decry me and
say + am an imaginative liar. They
they think they have me tied to the
cross. but they haven't got the. hammer
and they haven't got the nails, and
they can't nail me to the cross.
To Stand by Story
II will stand by what / told the au-
thorities. l did not at frst tell the
prosecutor about my return trip to
the Phillips farm at l o'clock in the
morning. / was afraid, though, that
when got on the witness stand coun-
sci for the defense would demand to
know how I knew the woman I saw
there was Mrs. Hall. / planned to tell
then of how, because was worried
by what had seen in Derussy's Lane,
returned to the Phillips farm and
there, in the light of the risen moon,
1Ie ant tt1ic 1t,pr, of l.
tree, the same woman / had seen
there before.
Perhaps it l had been pressed I
would not have withheld the details
Of the second trip, but the prosecu' or
did not ask me for details. To those
who say lie my answer is that my
son will bear me out as to my having
left the house the second time.
II am sorry for the woman ] identi-
Ted. If she had frankly admitted she
was there to defend her home would
have felt a deep sympathy for her.
But the hand of Providence and
destiny has guided me and I will tell
the truth. will tell on the stand
what | know. | have not disclosed
all. Wait and see. Murder will out"
Called Bible Her Church
Mrs. Gibson hung up the receiver
Her statement to-day was the first ad-
mission from any one that she had
not told about the second visit in her
original story. This was suspected,
but had not been admitted by any
official. In her first talk with news
paper reporters Mrs. Gibson was asked
about her church affiliations. She re-
pIled that she had "a good Bible" in
the house and that this served her
as a church. To-day she referred to
hersSif as. woman of God and the
Church."
Whatever value Prosecutor Mott may
attach to- Mrs. Gibson's story and her
i.d.entification, it is known that some
OF the investigators are working on
what are described as "old clews,"
leads that were passed over early in
the investigation because they were
not regarded as important.
One official disclosed to-day that it
has been established with some degree
of certainty that Dr.. Hall rode to the
end of the Eastcs Avenue streetcar
llne on the night he was murdered.
Some of his wife's relatives con-
tended and still do contend that he
could not have gone out to the PHILLIPS
farm without having been recognized
many times on the way They have
predicated on this belief a theory
that ne was taken to the farm forcibly.
probably in an automobile.
One man, it.was learned, has told the
authorltIes of having seen DR.. Hall
walking with a woman somewhere near
the spot where he was killed. This
man is William O'Rourke. of 16 Cen
trail Avenue, New Brunswick. He is a
paving contractor.
Il was driving in Easton Avenue
about o'clock that Thursday night
with my wife," said Mr.. O'Rourke
yesterday. Between the terminus of
the trolley line and Landing Lane we
saw man l believe was Dr.. Hall
knew him--walking with woman.
There was something--I have told
the authorities what it was-that
caused me to comment about them to
my wife. ] told Prosecutor Stricker's
detectives about this early in the in
vestlgation About week ago the
state troopers came to see me and
asked me to tell them what it was we
had seen.
Drawn by Woman's Face
Something about the woman's face
drew the attention of my wife, but
what 1T was | do not wish to saw. If
the authorities wish to tell, let them"
Mr ORourke would not say whether
the something" was that Mrs. Mills
was :aS crying. He went on to say:
ne man certainly looked a lot
ike DR.. Hall. ! have fixed the time as
about 8 o'clock because | know that we
shot down Landing Lane, crossed the
bfdge,, performed an errand and then
hurried back and were in time for the
second film show. If had been a little
later I'd probably have seen it alln
O'Rourke said that the more he and
ms wife discussed the incident the
more they were convinced that their
Information should be of value to tho
investigators. They were disappointed
when nothing came of their "tip,n hut
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