The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-25
Widow Declares
 Slain Couple Got
 What They Deserved
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(Continued from Page One.) twenty feet in front of an automobile light to see if the reporter was dis tinguishab1e at that distance. This act pointed to the possibility that there was an auto at the scene of the murder by the rays of which Mrs. Gibson saw the crime. She would not verify this possibility.
 Not Enticed to Scene.
 'No, Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills were not enticed to the scene by their mur- alorers," Mrs. Gibson said. ''They were found there."
 [This is the most important part of Mrs. Gibson's story, for it clears up the many theories that have been ad vanced suggesting that the pair were Kidnapped and carried to the crab apple tree or that they were killed elsewhere and their bodies brought to the spot)
 The reporter read to Mrs Gibson a story apeparing in a New York news raper which told her experiences on the murder night as sleaned from 8 streliable source"
 "The slayer was a man." the re- porter read.
 "Oh. that's all wrong. They got it all Wrong," she said shaking ner head.
 When a paragraph telling that she was in search for stolen corn few yards from the crab-apple tree and suddenly came upon a group of quar- reling people, who soon opened fire, Mrs. Gibson said nothing but to read on
 
 To the rest of the printed versions she only smiled, said most of the sto- ries were "all wrong," and maintained her determination to remain quiet until the authorities said she could talk.
 My son William, knows nothing about it at all. I have not told him word-and I won't tell a word," she $aid. '1 just happened by the murder scenc by accident"
 Mrs. Gibson's story that she was an ifY7o ed as the most vital development in the HallMills case for many days. It fixes the time and place of the crime and possibly the identity of the sIay-
 Mrs. Gibson would say HtIe else.
 Poor Farmer Woman. people concerned are very wealthy" she said, land if they learned all I know they would have time to do away with evidence. It's all a ter Jane Gibson and I live with my son, William, 21 years old. here on Ham ilton road, some times known as "MiIlstone Road" We have had a hard season. My corn and my pigs have been stolen-crops have been awful. On our sixty acres here we have had bad luck and on top of that prizes have been so low, tomatoes and other truck have not been worth hauling to town.''
 All day yesterday Mrs. Gibson eith-
 
 ''eye witness story or flat1y refused to talk to the many reporters who called during the day. She even set her dogs on them. Mrs. Gibson is middle aged athletic, sensible mind ed woman who gives the appearance of being ''unafraid of the devil him. self" but who possesses a kindly ex- pressien also. When asked if she had been afraid to tell of the crime at first she said. "1t takes a lot to make me afraid"
 Her ''tumbled own" house is just off the eastern end of Russey Lane, at the other end of which, about one mile, the bodies of Mrs. Mills and Dr Hall were found. Neighbors said Mrs Gibson had once been much better off with a pretty house nearer the road which had burned down. And that she had encountered bad luck ever since. Neighbors said it was true she was accustomed to ride up the road on a mule she used to till her ground, and that it was very likely she was oul on the mule the night of the murder. Mrs. Gibson gave every appearance of being a person whose word is re- liable.