Evening journal., 1922-10-30

Its best Is half told tale, for IL doe
, not name the actual murderer o
, Hall and Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Gibsol
believes she can Identify the woman
who was with the murderer. but sh'
cannot identify the murderer.
II was in reference TO this stor,
told by the Gibson woman tina
Stricken and Beekman split. Stricken
contending that the tale warranted
taking the case at onoe TO the Grand
Jury and Beekman holding that the
woman Is so unreliable the Grand
Jury would throw the case out. This
was a week ago.
Now Mott. having examined the
woman himself. seems 10 agree with
! Stricken, but Il will be in Beekman's
own county, where he is very popular
that the case will have to be pre-
scented and the grand jurors will be
Beekman's neighbors.
In a telephone interview yester-
day. being barricaded still in her
home, with a State trooper in the
roadway 10 shoot away the pestifer-
Gus reporters and the morbid curl
oslty seekers, Mrs. Gibson added
still little more TO her yarn. Again
there appeared the contradictions. as
she now styles herself a church wo-
man OF cody habits. whereas she
has told a score OF scribes she cared
nothing for churches.
Then too she issues a challenge
and all but calls Mrs. Hall a liar.
And that too Is like Mrs. Gibson, but
It IS hardly consistent with the be-
havior OF churchgoer. accusing an
other woman OF being an accessory
10 a murder.
II am willing TO confront Mrs.
Hall face to face" Mrs. Gibson said.
Il am willing to challenge her face
to face to deny my charge that she
witnessed the murders of DR.. Ed
ward Hall and Eleanor Mills on the
night OF September IA. 1 will defy
her face to face 10 deny that she was
back at the Phillips farm at o'clock
in the morning. sobbing over the
dead bodies as they lay thore under
the tree"
Mrs. Gibson said she was rather
averse TO making any statements but
finally consented to talk.
This Is the Sabbath, and I am
not inclined 10 discuss the case to-
day. for l am a woman OF sod and
OF the church. / want TO keep out
of this as much as possible. ! have
already been threatened with bull
let for telling my story. and I don't
want any more threats. An effort
to buy my silence has also been
made. While fear threats and
shrink at these attempts to keep me
quiet, I will tell the truth hatever
he cost may be TO my personal
,afety. don't care how powerful
he influences are against mo-"
Then Mrs. Gibson was told that
several nelghbors had made state
nents that some OF her dealings had
,een laid open to discussion .and
and she said: MY life
will stand investigation, however
lard my detractors try to denounce
ny story. which Judge Mott has told
rou Is entirely credible. ! know
hat the blood of Judas runs through
modern veins. and that is my an
sWtI 10 ntlk WIN utNAs hAN RAN
say I am an imaginative liar."
Here Mrs. Gibson became so in
,ensed over the reports given of her
by some of her neighbors, who have
stated that her story Is entirely with
out foundation, that she became
dramatic and said:
They have the cross all fxed for
ne and they think they have me
led TO II, but they haven't the ham
ner and they haven't the nails 10
iail me to the cross. will stand by
What I told the authorities"
These utterances give a fair idea
" Mrs. Gibson as she is. She has
ONE OF the qualities OF a dramatist
md her story has grown more and
more dramatic and more and more
detailed as she has repeated It,
Her explanation OF her act in
from the prosecutors
he assertion that she returned to
he scene OF the crime after lapse
Z hours and saw a woman weeping
{ the side OF the bodies OF Hall and
FRS. Mills Is typical, too. She said:
II did not at first tell the author
ties about my return trip to the
farm at l o'clock in the
morning, as I was afraid that when
got on the witness stand the
ounsel for the defense would de-
nand to know how I knew the wo- ,
nan saw there. I planned 20 tell
hen OF how. because l was worried ,
y what I had seen In De Russy's
lne. returned to the Phillips farm ,
nd there in the light OF the then
isen moon made out this woman at I
he crabapple tree. the same woman
had previously seen before the :
hootings. Perhaps II had been
ressed I would not have withheld
hese details OF the second trip l ,
iade. but the prosecutor did not
SIX me for details.
ITO those who say lie. my an
ver is that my son will bear me out
) TO my having left the house a sec
nd time"
avs She Is Sorry for Mrs. Hall.
Mrs. Gibsons vision, which en- !
bled her TO see ahead as far as
ne witness chair, in a case that at
est will not come to trial for
lonths, is worth noting. She went
n to say that she is sorry for Mrs. :
Ian and Is sorry Mrs. Hall made
ne statement she did on Saturday.
nat she was not a. the Phillips farm :
n the night of he murder. Never
neless, Mrs. bison says:
Il will tell on the witness stand
lst what I know and I have not
isclosed all yet"
Then she asked questions as to >
lhen the Somerset Grand Jury :
light meet.