New-York tribune., 1922-11-02

eh0 investigation, Mr. Pfeiffer has
taken that over7 A.---Yes.
Q.--Are you In any way, no matter
how distant, related to Mr.. Beekman Z
A.--No.
Q.-To Doctor Long. of somerville? !?
Cor 20 Mr.. strickerg A.---No.
O. AIRS. Hall, do you believe In
divorce? A.--That la largo question.
Q.--Lcs 1S have your opinion on it.
, AL would not so into that question.
Q.--You mutt have thought Of that
question good deal? A.--Naturally.
Q.-~Wpn't you let us have your views
on that subject? A.--No, 1t Is not Il
question to go into here.
Won't Answer Divorce Query
Q.--You were asked what you would
have done If you were told Of the i'm
timacy, or the alleged intimacy Of
Mrs. Mills and Mr.. Hall, md you
said that was curious question. That
was why you were asked IL you be-.
lieved in divorce. Would you have
| divorced him II 1t was put up to you?
Al wont answer any such question.
Q.--Mrs. Hall, when YOU we're at the
Prosecutors office, did you see one of
the letters your husband Is alleged TO
have written Mrs. Mills? Aust a
newspaper copy of one.
GA newspaper fac-simile? A.
Yes.
Q.-Was that identical with your
husbands writing? Al only glanced
at it. didn't examine it at all.
Q.--Did they ask you whether the
fac-simile appeared to be in your hus-
bands writing7 A.-Thcy showed me
signature Of his in the fac-simile and
l said it looked like it, but could not
guarantee it.
q.-Did you examine II at all close
lly9 A.--No.
Weren't you interested in de-
termining whether it was his hand
writing? A.--The letters did not seem
to interest me at ALL
Q.--Or the diary7 A.--No.
Q.-Have you read any extracts from
the diary? A.No.
Q.--Did you know in May last sum-
ner that DR.. Hall was keeping diary :?
A.-No
Q.4You never saw that diary? A.
No,
Q.--Did you know that Mrs. Mills
kept diary during the same period !?
A.-No.
Q.-When you were at the Prosecu.
tors Office last did he indicate to you
what line he was working on in this
case? A.-No.
Q.-Was your father ever temporari-
ly or otherwise insane? A.--Never.
Q.-Has there been anySinsanity In
the family? A.-None in my own
family.
Q.--Has there been any in any Of
the collateral branches? An the
collateral branches where it has been
traced through marriage.
Great Uncle's Wife Insane
Q.--Will you tell us what branches
that was in? A.-One Of my great
uncle's wife became insane and some
of their children were very peculiar.
Q.--Thc name was not Stevens? A.
No.
Q.-When was that traced? A.-Oh,
that was all years ago.
Q.--Nothing of the sort has come
up in present years---in the last ten
or fifteen years? Al have never
heard Of anything like it.
Q.-Mrs. Hall, may ask you, from
your knowledge of Mrs. Mills, which
! believe covered some period of years,
mate of her character and what kind
Of woman she was? Al do not
like to describe her character at all:
| really dislike to-.
Q.-You knew her quite we'll? Al
knew her quite we'll.
Q.-There are few people who did
know her who would be capable of
describing her character more intelli-,
gently than you, Mrs. Hall. Al do
not think I could, describe her char,
acter am not at all--4
Q.--Mrs. Hall, don't you think and
doesn't your adviser think it is tre-
mendously important, from legal
standpoint, that you discover whether
Mr.. Hall wrote this diary and those
was any intimacy between them
Al don't even see that that would
tell you who was the criminal.
Q.--Don't You think it widens the
sphere of motive if married man and
married woman are conducting an
illicit love affair? Al suppose it
would.
Q.---Isn't Mr.. pfeiffer tremendously
Interested to know if those letters and
the diary are correct? A.-That doesn't
interest me very much.
Q.-You want to find the possible