Evening journal., 1922-11-16
90 WITNESSES
INDUAL MURDER
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man hey actually have in mind an'
= who is supposed to have a perfec
alibi for the night OF September IA
} IL has been clear for some day
p that officials desired the belief t
! become general that a certain resi-
5 dent Of New Brunswick, who live
r not far from Mrs. Hall. was impli
. Gated in some way Weeks of care
? full and exhaustive investigation
J have failed 10 turn up a shred o
evidence against this man. II Mot
; and Mason have found anything they
have certainly kept It carefully hid
den.
Yesterday It developed Mrs Glib
sons story, after a severe test, was
found to stand up in many import
ant particulars. Detectives chose a
| night recently when the light and
the moon were about the same as on
. September IA. They had an ex-
tended statement by Mrs. Gibson
I and they checked Off what she had
said. They found that she could
have seen the things she said she
saw.
Mrs. Gibson had told that on her
return she had cut across the fields
and tied the mule to a cedar tree
at a certain point. opposite the
Fraley home. The tree was found
/ by the detectives. After she had
tied the mule. she said, she stepped
! backward and fell over a half buried
stump. This stump was found by
the detectives, almost hidden in the
earth.
Proceeding from that point, she
said that she found a path of a
sort and that also was found by
the detectives. Proceeding down
the path, she said she had come
to a place that appeared to have
been cultivated. The detectives
found this patch. 1t was the old
strawberry patch of the farm. At
the end of the path she found a
road and so did the detectives.
Proceeding exactly as Mrs. Glib
son said she bad gone on the night
of the murder, when she revisited
the scene, the detectives came to
the brush before the crab apple
tree, beneath which the bodies were
found two days later.
There the scene was exactly as 1t
had been described by Mrs. Gibson.
The brush formed a screen for OBJ
servers. Before them was an open
field. Thirty feet away was the site
of the crab-apple tree. Between
them and this spot was a cedar tree,
twenty feet from them and ten from
the crab apple tree. The measure
ments tailed. 1t was while stand
ing here, Mrs. Gibson said. that she
saw the woman in gray, whom she
had previously identified in De
Russys lane, bending over the Rev.
Halls body. moaning and sobbing.
Altogether the test proved that
Mrs. Gibson was either telling the
exact truth or had gone over the
ground so carefully to get substan-
tiation for her story that she had
virtually learned the typography of
the farm by heart which seems
highly improbable.
Mrs. Russell. Mrs. Glbson's color
ed neighbor. sticks to her story. not
withstanding Mrs. Gibson's reitera-
tlons and Mrs. Russell remembers
that Mrs. Gibson has o calendar on
the wall Just as the latter says. But
Mrs. Russell says she never saw
any writing on the calendar. though
Mrs. Gibson asserts there is rec
ord there of the incident of Mrs.
Russelrs dog.
Mrs. Russell repeated today that
the dog incident occurred on Sep
tember IA and Timothy N. Pfeiffer.
Mrs, Halls attorney, with his chief
Of detectives, Felix Demartlni. went
out to the Russell cabin this after
noon to check up everything she has
said and ascertain whether she sticks
by her original story after all her
interviewing.
Pfeiffer also questioned the neigh
bors of Mrs. Russell in an effort to
ascertain whether Mrs. Gibson had !
trouble with Mrs. Agnes Petrenski !
an Italian woman who lives near BY |
and with Mrs. Joe Cassock, a Polish |
woman who moved TO Paterson not /
long ago. He is also checking up |
Mrs. Russell's story that her neigh |
bors said Mrs. Gibson was in the |
habit OF shooting her pigs before she I
cut their throats. Pfeiffer and De- /
martini went to the Russell place |
in Mrs. Edwin Stevenss motor car, /
driven by Mrs. Edwin Stevens.
Mr.. Mott took instant exception to /
the statement that he expected o |
force" an Indictment. At the same .
time he contradicted a story that |
came from a source close to him that 1
Mrs. Hall had left her house hur-
riedly on the night OF the murder
and gone to the house OF Henry Car
pender, near by. He said he had no
witness to testify to this.
1.-THE last thing have in mind IS
to force the Somerset County Grand /
Jury to find an indictment against
He added, MY duty Is
performed when lay all available
evidence before the Grand Jury. The
responsibility then is theirs, not
mine. A forced indictment serves
no public interest. and an attempt
on my part to force an indictment
would be beyond my sworn duty 20
the public"
After Mott has presented the wilt
nesses to the Grand Jury, has estab-
ished the facts Of the murder and
has endeavored TO show motive by
the relations between Hall
and Mrs. Mills he will seek to show
hat Mrs Hall knew OF this affair
and will call Mrs. Elsie Barnhardt
1f Paterson. Mrs. Mill's sister.-who
will state that her sister told her
Mrs. Hall had complained to her.
aNfrs Mills vott aro n, a lii, ~ ,,,o ,..,..-
unhappy"