New Britain herald., 1926-07-30
Phillips Also Held

William Phillips, factory worker, has joined the 49 year old aristo- cratic Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall in the county jail, where she was held without bail today for the murder four years ago of her clergyman husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, wife of a church sexton.
 Phillips, who was a night watch man at the New Jersey College for Women, a few blocks from the Hall home, when the bodies were found side by side under a crab apple tree in September, 1922, was arrested last night as a material witness and held in s5,000 bail. Phillips once in formed investigators he saw the wealthy widow reputed to be worth s1,700,oo0 and her brother return home on the night of the slayings.
 Two Others Hunted
 State officials, who have taken the case over from county officials, today sought at least two other per- sons on the basis of "a mass of new evidence" revealed in a reopening Of Investigations that resulted from an annulment suit filed by Arthur S. Riehl against Mrs. Louise Geist Riehl, a former maid In the Hall home.
 Mrs. RiebI Denies All
 Mrs. Riehl yesterday denied as- sertions of her husband that she had been paid s5,0o0 for secrecy. She is quoted, however, as having revealed that Barbara Tough, an- other maid in the Hall household, was off duty on the night of the murder, saw the Rev. Mir. Hall and Mrs. Mills at their trysting place in an abandoned orchard, and tele- phoned to Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Hall is said to have left her home after ward in company with her brother, Crazy" Willie Stevens, and her chauffeur, Peter Tumulty.
 Miss Tough visited her home in Scotland after the first investigation, but has worked for a New Bruns- wick family since. Stevens was at Iut llO1lt Ol IilS SlSltir W lltD bllc VI clo aroused from sleep night before last, four years after the staying, to be arrested. Since then he has vanished. The whereabouts of Tumulty were not disclosed if known.
 "Pig Woman" Repeats
 Mrs. James N. Gibson, known as the Pig Woman, who testified four years ago she saw Mrs. Hall and a man quarrel with the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Halls pretty 34 year old rival, and then the shooting, was ques- toned yesterday. and repeated her previous testimony.
 Gov. Moore has announced that the state will push the prosecution of Mrs. Hall to a finish, but off cials carefully kept secret their new evidence for the grand jury. Un- less the April grand jury Is recalled or Mrs. Hall gets bail on writ of habeas corpus she faces the pros pect of remaining in jail until new grand jury Is called in September.
 Although she insisted that he ar rest was ridiculous, Mrs. Hall made the best of her situation. She was given a bedroom with barred win- dows on the second floor of the jail, had her meals sent in, and spent considerable time with her lawyers, Timothy N. Pfeiffer of New York, Robert H. McCarter Of Newark and Russell E. Watson of New Bruns- wick
 Carleton Hoagland. foreman of the April grand jury said today that that body could not possibly be con- vened in less than two weeks. It may be called at any time up to the time for impaneling the Septem- Der jury, but just now most of the jurors are away on vacation.
 Supreme Court Justice Parker, who is the one to issue the call, is himself on vacation in Maine. where he expects to stay until September.
 Prosecutor Bergen said that no request had yet been sent to him to convene the jury.
 More Arrests Likely
 State police admitted today that more arrests are likely. but no in- formation concerning the names of 1 those being sought could be gotten. II was also known that other wit nesses were being sought for ques- tioning at the prosecutors office but the names were not made public.
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