The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-11-23
MORE TO TESTIFY
in DOUBLE MURDER

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Somerville, N. j., Nov. % (By the
Associated Press) s).-The first two i'm
portant phases Of the Hall Mills muir
der case were practically finished to
night when the grand jury, which has
been listening to evidence since Mon.
day adjourned, after deciding not to
reconvene until next Monday.
Special Prosecutor Wilbur A Mott
had shown how the bodies were found.
He had established to the best of his
ability-barring the testimony of two
additional witnesses-what he con-
siders the motive. There remained
tonight only the testimony of the two
motive witnesses and the story of the
crime, the eyewitness story to be told
by Mrs. Jane Gibson, the hard work.
ing farm woman, who said she saw
he shooting.
Only Is witnesses were called to-
day, but all of them were Of the first
Importance. Nellie Lo Russell,
negress, was among the first called.
'he told reporters after her 20 min
utes inside the room that she had
told the same story told YOU"
If that is true, she told the grand
ury that Mrs. Gibson could not have
zen the shooting because Mrs. Glib.
son was talking to her on the latter.
'toop at the time the crime was COM
mitted.
George Sipel, another pig raiser,
was another of the days witnesses.
He has been credited with telling
%onfiicting stories about his actions
on Thursday night, September Ia.
but the one he told today concerned
the Russell woman. According to de-
tectives, Sipel told that he called at
her shack that night to see her about
g horse and had corroboration to the
extent that Theodore Kno he, q
New Brunswick man, saw him do it.
knothe went into the jury room i'm
nediately after Sipel and, according
to stories, both said that the negress
was not at home when they called q
little before 10 o'clock. According to
the woman, she was home from 9:45
until II o'clock, and with Mrs. Glib
son all that time.
The two Hall maids, Barbara
Tough and Louise Geist, were not
called today. They spent their time
in the witness room. Louise read.
Barbara knitted. Between times both
talked to state troopers or Charlotte
- -. = :,
Charlotte was called and was In the
jury room half an hour. She was
alore reticent than usual when she
came out, but it was learned from
official sources that most of the 80
minutes were devoted to an explana-
ton of the manner in which her
mothers private letters came to be
sold to a newspaper.
AS soon as Charlotte lett James
Mills was asked to go in. He spent
more than an hour inside, and was the
18th witness of the day. Mills left
he jury room pale and apparently
weak.
Capt. Michael Regan of fire truck
No. 8, New Brunswick, and friend of
Willie Stevens, Mrs. Halls eccentric
brother, also was a witness. Regan
was sitting in the fire house on the
Saturday several hours before the
two bodies were found. willie"
came in excited, Regan told reporters,
and said, according to the fire cap
tain, Something terrible has hap
pened at our house. You'll hear all
about it soon."
Mrs. Emma Vorhees, Mrs. A. C.
Fraley, who has been mystery wit
ness, Miss Katharine Fraley, her
daughter, and Sigourney Smith, .
grave digger, gave their tes. s.imony
during the morning. All of them said
they had heard shots on the night of
the murders.
After them Harry McCabe, bridge
tender, was called. McCabe said he
had heard shots while he was sitting
on the porch of his home the night
of September Id.
Norman Tingle, who lives near tn"
| toid VI hSoiAhS chOSS
about 10 o'clock. Tingle placed the
| time because he had seen shooting
star just before the reports were
heard and had looked at his watch
Mrs. Tingle, who also heard the shots,
had been summoned for the grand
jury, but presented a Doctors GER
tificate of illness and was excused
until next week.
Emma Vorhees, who was the first
witness today, told detectives, they
admitted tonight, that about 10
o'clock the night of the murder, two
automobiles coming from New Bruins.
wick stopped in front of her home,
which is one quarter Of a. mile from
the Phillips place. Two forms got
out of the first car, she said, and
walked towards the second.
Then, according to the officials, hse
heard loud talking and caught two
cantencas. 0Whot doao fh;. ,,,a~~S