The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-28
Believes Woman Farmers
Story Will Hold Despite
Contradictions.
MOTOR CARS ARE TRACED
Gorsline Gives Out Statement
Showing Alibi on Night
of Staying.

Special Dispatch 10 THE New YoRk HERALD
NEW BRUNSWICK, y. j., Oct 27.-
Wilbur A. Mott, Special Deputy At
torney-General, took the Hall-Milis
case out OF the mystery class to-day
and put it firmly into the class of un-
mysterious homicides. He bases his
conclusion, as two interviews with
him showed on the statements made
to the authorities by Mrs Jane Glib
son, woman farmer. who related a
story of having witnessed the crime
But even while Mr.. Mott talkeG
Mrs. Gibson was developing signs of g.
Munchausen strain in her lineage, and
the woman with the mules may not.
after all, prove to be so strong wit
ness for the prosecution as has been
believed. In fact quite maze of
contradiction already has enmeshed
the woman.
Mr.. Mott. however. and his chief
assistant, James A. Mason, Essex
county detective, profess to be en-.
tirely satisfied. and it is possible that
they will be able to present their case
to the Somerset county Grand Jury
early next week, get an Indictment in
short order and make arrests forth
with. That Will be the order of pro-
cedure, but the time for the beginning
Of the action is not stated.
Murder Was Cold BIooded.
IL appears too, that the authorities
have information that the murder OF
Mrs. Mills was not only brutal but was
NEST cold blooded. It is a part of the
Gibson woman's story that Hall was
shot first beneath the crab apple tree.
that Mrs. Mills ran screaming away and
that man pursued her. dragged her
back to where the body of her clergy
man lover lay and then. holding her up
right. shot her four times. Her throat
was cut after her body had fallen to
the ground
There are other facts in the state
ments Mrs. Gibson has made that have
not yet been made known. There is cor
roboration, too. obtained within the last
twenty-four hours OF some of the less
important features OF her story. II is
significant also that while her supple
mental story, told to-day, is verified in
some quarters, IL Is denied in others, and
II is quite impossible 60 etate with any
degree of positiveness whether all she
has told outsiders is contained in the
three statements she has made to the
authorities. MIR. Mott may know, no one
else seems sure.
Gorsline Makes Statement.
Aside from the Gibson story and
Motifs activities. the main development
OF the day was the making OF a SWORN
statement by Ralph V. NJ. Gorsline de-
failing his movements before and on tho
night OF the murder.
The case appears to have narrowed
down, with many persons already elinii-
mated and only some striking contradic.
tlons TO be sifted out 1t is a fact thai
the mystery is at an end, so far as the
authorities are concerned. Gathering
evidence that will hold in court is actu..
ally the work on which Mr. Mott anu
his assistants are engaged.
Weakness I'm Gibson Tale.
Mrs. Glbson's new statement amplifss.
her original story. and at the same time
some rather strange contradic-
tions and amendments to her former
statements. In fact, In some small in
stances. the changes might lay the whole
story open TO an attack on the theory
that these amendments indicate that tho
Is not wholly 10 be relied on.
Mott and Prosecutor Stricken. however.
do not regard this as the case but be-
lieve the woman fully.
In the affidavit that Mrs Gibson has
sworn to appears the assertion. credited
70 her. that as she witnessed the murder =
she heard woman scream, "Oh. Henryi
Please. please, please :" This she has
sworn to- upon her oath. before a notary.
To moro than one person. including
the writer. Mrs. Gibson has since made
the statement that she never said that
al all or mentioned the Christian name
OF any one. she did say: II told thent
that the whole thing seemed to me like
an O. Henry story" referring to the pen
name OF the late Sidney Porter.
Mrs Gibson at first asserted. too. that
having heard the Last four shots fired
and seen the figure OF woman fall to
the ground, she dug her heels into the
ribs OF her mule. rode rapidly home and
went TO bed
Mrs. Gibson Has Explanation.
Mrs. Gibson. as was noted yesterday.
this with the assertion thar
she had been up all Of the night. Sow
she has gone further and asserts that she
returned TO the scene Of the crime ana
there observed a woman weeping. lean
ing over the two bodies on the ground.
This Is the most sensational thing sha
has said since she first told her story
and naturally the attention OF the a,e
thorities was called 10 Il as soon aa
Mr. Mott had left for his home
in East Orange, but Detective Mason
was caught at the railroad station Just
as he was leaving and the story was told
to him. He seemed surprised. Ther
he said
Il believe that her original story IN
true and that she viii make n good
witness under cross-examination."
degree of affluence has descended
suddenly on the woman with the mules
From an obscure farm woman. losing all
but three bushels OF the corn she raiscu
on twenty acres last year and, hovins