The New York herald., 1922-11-02

| what the contents were?
A They were describing the service
on Sunday.
O. Both letters covered the same sub
ject?
Q. Did Mr. Hall show them to you
A. Yes.
Q. Were there any terms of affection
or familiarity in those letters?
A. Nothing whatever.
Q. Mr.. Mills has said that you tolt
him that you reported to the police tha
both your husband and Mrs. Mills wert
missing. Is that true?
A. do not remember making tha
statement. may have, but do not re-
member.
Q. Was il after you saw Mr.. Mills
that you communicated with the police ?
A. I think it was before-I think.
Doubt. Aboat the Diary.
Q. Did you communicate with then
for the second time?
A. No.
Q. Why is it, Mrs Hall, that you sas
you have doubts as to the letters anc
the diary being authentic?
A. Because II seems so unlikely tina,
Mr.. Hall would have written such things
from what know of him.
Q. Have you made any comparison ol
the handwriting?
A. No.
@. Do you intend to do so?
A. I do not know that ] shall.
Q. What made you think on tho night
of that Thursday that Mr.. Hall might
| be at the church?
A. You mean Thursday.
Q. Thursday night?
! A FYfd
q. Friday morning ] mean.
| A. The only thing ! could think OF
for his not coming home was possibly
he had gone to the church and had
fallen asleep over a book. He occa-
sionally would read here and fall
asleep. There Is just chance.
@. Did you ever have discussion or
argument or quarrel with Mr.. Hall with
reference to his being so frequently
with Mrs. Mills?
O. The question never came UP be-
tween you?
! A. Never.
Q. Did it ever occur to you, Mrs.
Hall, that perhaps he telephoned TO
Mrs. Mills little too often?
A. did not know that he did.
q. Or went to her house too often.
a. did not know that he did.
.. There has been a story. as you
perhaps know, that some letters were
removed from the house that afternoon
that Is. the afternoon OF the Saturday
by one of the Carpenter family. Do
you know whether any papers we're
removed from this house?
A. Nothing whatever.
Q. Is there any special significance, or
rather. some of us thought. II was rather
odd that you sent some of your gar
ments TO Philadelphia TO be dyed, when
you might have sent them to New York
A. have always sent things to be
dyed at Biauners because they do the
| best work know of.
! @. Did your husband ever have any
enemy that you know OF?
| A. None that 1 know OF. nave
never heard Of any.
! @. Was there any black sheep any
where that appealed to him for money?
! A. have never heard OF any.
| O. Was he ever interested in any
prison reform work--work among Grim
inals?
| A. Not to take part in any way.
\ O. You know Of no differences that
he had with any individual az any
| time?
A. Never. none whatever.
Hard to Find Answer.
q. Mrs. Hall, as ! understand you.
answer to one Of the questions. you said
you still believe In your husband?
! A. / do.
| O. Do you still believe in Mrs. Mills ?
| A. I hardly know how to say.
Q. Since the tragedy, have you give.i
Mr.. Mills or Charlotte Mills any finai.-
cial aid?
A. No. none whatever.
q. Did you refuse to sec Charlotte
Mills when she called, as she says she
did?
A. Mr.. PfeifYer said he saw her saw
no one.
@. Was the fact that she called COM
municated TO you?
A. Yes.
q. Did you say that you did not wish
10 see her?
A. Mr. Pfeiffer was here and saw her.
! He went out 10 see her.
Q. Was II at your direction that MIR.
Pfciffer saw her?
|, A. simply told him that she was
there and he said II will see her"
O. Did she ask to see Mr.. Pfeiffer, or
did she ask to see you?
A. I believe she asked to sec me.
@. II Mr.. Pfeiffer had not been here
would you have seen her?
A. No.
O. Will you tell US the reason?
A. Because l had seen no one except
ing my own family and intimate friends.
wrote 70 Charlotte Mills.
O. Is II true that you wrote to Char
| lotte Mills since the tragedy
A. Yes.
O. Tell MS why. Mrs. Hall, u you could
write her a letter you did not wish to
see her.
A. | wrote her "A letter at once. She
Is a girl I have taught in Sunday
SCHOOL and a thought of tragedy was
a tragedy 10 her and i just tried to
write her "A word OF comfort.
! O. The same spirit did not move 70,
to see her?
| A. No.
O. What is your opinion, Mrs. Hall.
OF Charlotte Mills's action in selling tho
| letters?
| A. I make no comment whatever.
| @. Mrs. Hall. did you quarrel or have
any discussion with Mr.. Hail about
the shortening OF the vacation to three
| Sundays?
! A. None whatever
Q. The matter was never discussed.
A. No, we decided that In the begin
/ ming
! q. think you said. may have rnis-
understood you. that Mrs. Clarke
| brought you no letters.
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