Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-23
NEW HALL WITNESS )
HEARD ANGRY WORDS
FOLLOWED BY SHOTS
Woman Living Near Scene Of
Murder c&sts Doubt on Story
Told by Mrs. Gibson.
2 MURDER CARS, SHE SAYS

Somerset county Grand Jury. investi-
> eating the murders OF the Rev. Ed
ward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor
Mills near New Brunswick, N. j., ten
weeks ago, adjourned last evening
until Monday. 1t heard fourteen wit
nesses during the day, making total
of forty heard since the case was
placed before the body. Monday.
One of the witnesses yesterday was
newcomer as far A. the public was
concerned. She Is Mrs. Emma Voor-
hees. a farmers wife, living on Easton
Road in Franklin Township, about
two miles west OF the Phillips farm on
which the bodies OF the slain clergy
man and his favored choir singer were
found.
II what she heard and saw from the
windows of her home on the night of
September IA, on which the murders
were committed, has any relation, in
fact, to the crime itself, II would
seem an entirely new story OF the
events of that night Is TO be con-
etructed.
Mrs. Voorhees,, whose story was first
told TO detectives three days after the
discovery of the bodies and kept
secret ever siace, related ii to report
ers at the home before she went to
Somerville TO appear as a Grand Jury
witness yesterday.
About 10 o'clock that night, she
said. 1.-TWO automobiles, coming from
the direction Of New Brunswick,
halted in Easton Road. almost di-
~ u-h
as you see. is about 100 feet back
from the road.
Heard Angry Voices In Motor Car.
THE first car stopped short and
the second drew up two or three feet
behind it. The lights on both cars
were burning. In moment people
alighted from the first car, and then
the passengers got out Of the second
machine. 1t was too dark for me to
determine IL there were any women
in either party or exactly how many
persons there were in all. At any
rate. all the persons assembled by
the side of the second car and l
could hear angry voices. / could
distinguish only two whole sem
fences. They were What are YOU
Oolrs neie' Anu w nat "'eS 'i'S
mean
This angry talk continued only
FOR few seconds more, and was cut
short by the discharge Of two revol-
yer shots, one right after another.
There was a pause then, and sudden
" the lights were flicked out on both
automobiles.
THE people who had occupied the
first car, dashed back and entered it.
This machine headed into DE Motifs
Lane, the entrance to which from
Easton Road is diagonally across
from our house. 1t swung around
and turned back toward New Bruins
wick, and, of course, in the direc-
ton Of De Russy's Lane and the Phil
lips Farm. 1t moved off at top speed
The second car did not wait to turn
around in De Motifs Lane, but swung
about on Easton Road and followed
the first car at top speed.
just why Special Deputy Attorney
General Mott, conducting the exami'
nation OF witnesses, considered Mrs
Voorhees, story of sufficient impor'
;ance 10 present TOT the Grand Jury
when in effect, apparently, would b'
to cast doubt on the narrative OF hi:
star witness. Mrs. Jane Gibson, self
styled eyewitness 10 the shootings OF
the Phillips farm, could not be learned
Mrs. Gibson not only was no
called as a witness, but did not ever
appear at the court house at Somer
vile yesterday. Her story is expected
to be reached Monday. According Il
= -r- n
Mott, all the witnesses should be hear
by the end OF next Thursdays session
of the Grand Jury.
Mrs. A. C. Fraley and her daughter
Catherine, followed Mrs. Voorhees, a
witnesses. They live on De Russey'
lane and are said TO have heard fou
shote-firet one, then three after
brief interval-ihe night, Of tn
murder.
Sigourny Smith, a grave diggel
who lives with the Farleys, was mex
before he jury.
George Sipel, the cattle dealer, VIII
had business dealings with both Mr.!
Gibson and Mrs. Nellie Russel
Negress dairy farmer, followed. Sips
drove past De Russy's Lane the nigh
OF the murder and saw a Ford de
livery truck head into the lane. II
has charged that Mrs. Gibson wante
him "to agree TO something TO whic
I could not agree
Theodore knothe was the last wit
ness at the incoming session. He
the agent of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty TO Animals VIII
went with Sipel TO Mrs. Russell's hon
the night of the murder only to fin
her absent. She signed sworn state
ment 10 the effect that Mrs. Gibso
was at her house that night an
could not possibly have been out Q
her mule in time 10 have seen tf
double murder committed when ST
said she did.
Michael Reagan, Captain of FIJI
Company No. 3, was the first aftei
noon witness. He is the fire official
whom Willie Stevens, Mrs. Hall
brother. confided something big
going 10 pop" the day after the mu
der and before the finding of Il
bodies. Mrs. Russell then went in
The jury room.
Charlotte and James Mills. daus,
ter and husband of the slain woma
were the days last witnesses, ca,
staying in the jury room for CO.
siderable time.
Several others were waiting to
called when the Grand Jury adjourn
about o'clock. Among them w
Louise Geist and Barbara Tough, Il
Hall servants; William IL. Phillip
the watchman of the New Jersey Sta
College for Women, who saw
woman in gray" entering the III