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and then refused to sign. he testined
that the typewriter portions were
the sheriff's original statement, ana
the pencil notations were changes
made by Conklin.
Senator Case on cross examination
brought out that McKeever had ad'
ministered oaths before witnesses
testified in the police investigation.
He did this by virtue of his once as
a Supreme Court examiner, but SAID
he had no definite court instructions
to proceed in this fashion.
you were conducting a hear1nST
demanded Case.
NO" replied McI<eever.
You were swearing witnesses IN
advance of preparing depositions?
Yes"
You swore a man before he began
to TALK"
Yes
This paper of Sheriff Conklin's
was prepared as a deposition to be
signed and sworn to, notwithstand-
ing that he was placed under oath at
the outset?'
Yes
Refused to Sign 1t.
"And he refused to sign it?:'
Yes"
did he ever sign IT,"
mo"
Case brought out that two members
of the State police and five members
Of the Jersey City force were present
at the hearing, among them Capt.
Walsh of Jersey City.
They were all firing questions at
you?"
Yes"
Here Simpson interrupted to ask
the witness if Capt. Walsh was not
the man who had come to Somerville
a few years ago to aid in the capture
of the slayer of State Trooper Coyle
Didn't Senator Case write an efru
sive letter of thanks to Commissioner
Beggans Of Jersey City and wasn't a
reward Of $4,000 divided between
Walsh and another policeman
Simpson asked.
Yes" replied Mckeever.
Lets see about this" put in Case
do you know I wrote a letter OF
thanks?"
II heard that you did
Heard" He Got Reward
did you know that Walsh got the
reward?"
II heard that he did"
do you know If this Capt. Walsh
is the same man who, according to
Justice Sutphen. gave a witness an
awful beating up in the Coyle case?'
continued Case over Simpsons obJec
ton.
II don't know" replied McKeever
do you know If this Capt. Walsh
is the same man who chained Willard
Staub, a witness, to a cot at State
police headquarters in this invest1ga
tion?"
II don't know
John Stillwell, who drove the
hearse in which the body Of Rev. Mr.
Hall was removed from New Bruins
wick to Brooklyn for burial, testi
fled that he saw a scratch between
an inch and a half and two inches
long on the left side of Mrs. Hall's
face. He said he observed the scratcf
while on the ferry boat which took
the funeral party from st. George
Staten Island, to Brooklyn. He testi
fled he observed the scratch wher
Mrs. Hall lifted her funeral veil te
put her handkerchief to her nose.
Defense Is Sarcastic.
Stillwell. a small, belligerent man
was the target of sarcasm by case II
his cross-examination. The defense
counsel brought out that the auto
mobile in which the witness SAID ne
saw Mrs. Hall was on the opposlte
side Of the ferry from where the
hearse was, and that the witness
could not recall the other Wome1
sitting with Mrs. Hall In the car.
James Meaney, who operated .
trolley car in New Brunswick at tnt
time Of the double Staying, tolo VI
Mrs. Mills boarding his car to go t(
The Mace at the edge Of town. where
she was to meet the Rev. Mr.. Hall
She got off at the end Of the trolley
limo about 500 o'clock in the evening
the witness said. This was sllgnti!
less than two hours before the timt
which the state has fixed as the tllhs
of tho murder. The defense did no
cross-examine him.
Frances Coyne. an employe or tne
trolley company at the time, also .eSIl
fied to seeing Mrs. Mills on the troll1
Mrs. Barnhardt, upon taking the
s+and testified first Of seeing her SIS
tor and the Rev. Mr.. Hall togethei
several times during the year peIors
their deaths.
She said she saw them together a
Mrs. Mills home four or five tunes
and that she could tell they tnougn
lot of each other" She SAID she ais'
saw them together in the minister
church.
Saws EIopement Was Planned.
"F,leanor told me she loved Mr.
Ja1l's little finger more than Jim's
whole body" Mrs. Barnhardt contln
ned. "She was planning to go to ia
oan with Mr.. Hall as soon as Charlotte
had finished high school.
when would that have been!'
Simpson asked
"One wear later" Mrs. Barnhardt
replied.
Simpson had difficulty in first get
ting from Mrs. Barnhardt the state
ment that Mrs. Mills had told her sh'
loved" Mr.. Hall.
why the difficulty in saying tina
word loved" the prosecutor re
marked.
He had Mrs. Barnhardt continue hel
recital when she discovered the feeling
her sister had for the minister.
"I suspected her for some time" th'
witness said. "She did not tell me il
these exact words until after ! hat
confronted her in the Sunday schoo
room a year or a year and half be
fore the killing.
II came to New Brunswick to visit
her, and her husband told me sh,
was at the church.
II went into the Sunday schoo