Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-11-14
ANOTHER MOVE
|sPROM|SED
Mott and Beekman Confer
Action Next Monday is
Promised
| WITNESSES TO BE HEARD
What Will Result From This
Promised Move is Doubt
full, is Belief

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. IA
The Somerset county grand jury is
to be convened Monday to hear wit
nesses in the Hall-Mills murder
case. Arrangements to call the in
quisitors were perfected at con-
ference yesterday between Deputy
Attorney General Wilbur A. Mott
and Prosecutor Beekman of Somer-
set county. 1t was first decided to
summon the jurors Thursday but
Prosecutor Beekman suggested the
postponement until Monday because
new sheriff took Office today and
he desired to acquaint the new Off
cial with the case.
More than fifty Witnesses will be
summoned for the hearing. 1t IS
possible Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall,
widow of the Rev. Edward Wheeler
| Hall, slain with his choirleader,
Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, will
be permitted to testify. She has re-
quested this privilege and agreed TO
waive immunity.
OfficiaIs indicated that Mrs. Nellie
Lo Russell. negress, who has con-
tradicted the eye witness account of
prosecution depends largely, would
grand jury.
Detectives David and Mason said
today that Mrs. Gibson was pre-
pared to testify that she was not at
the home of Mrs. Russell on the
night of the double murder. The
negress last week made an affidavit
| that Mrs. Gibson was at her house
talking about a dog at the time Mrs.
Gibson swore she witnessed the
murders.
The detectives said Mrs. Gibson
| had been in the habit of keeping a
sort of diary on ten by fourteen
calendar and that, according to this
diary, she talked with the negress
about the dog on September 9 and
not September IS, as claimed by
Mrs. Russell.
Authorities investigating the case
did not attempt today to conceal
their feelings in the case and frank
ly said they did not believe Mrs.
Russelrs story. They said Mrs. Glib
son admitted some of the things oc-
CURED which the negress mentioned
but that the incidents were on the
night of September 8 instead of on
the night of the murder. The notes
on the calendar serving Mrs. Gibson
as a diary are expected to be i'm
portant evidence for the state if it
becomes necessary to disprove the
negress' story.
Detectives have learned that some
feeling exists between Mrs. Gibson
and Mrs. Russell over some money
due the former for fodder. sold the
latter, and also for damage done to
Mrs. Gibson's crops by Mrs. Rus
sells stock.
Mrs. Gibson has said that she saw
a Polish man going across the fields
on the night of September 9 with
a dog which she thought belonged
to the negress. She said she ap-
preached the man, recognized the
dog, took it from him and returned
it to Mrs. Russell. She denied tax
ing one dollar from the negress for
returning the dog.
The investigators seemed elated
over the discovery of the calendar
diary of Mrs. Gibson, and pointed
out as significant that the fact that
Attorney Pfeiffer. who represents
Mrs. Hall, took the negress to New
York in order to secure from her
the sworn affidavit contradictA;g Mrs.
Gibson's story. If Mrs. Russell is
proven guilty of perjury in her state
ment regarding Mrs. Gibson's move
ments on the night of the murder,
detectives point out. she will be tried
in New York and not in New Jersey
as she made the sworn statement in
that state.
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