New Britain herald., 1926-12-02
SIMPSON SCORED
 IN HALL MURDER
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to the states star witness as 'the pig woman," said:

to the states star witness as 'the pig woman," said:
 Calls It Theatricalism
 T hope you gentlemen won't be fooled by that theatrical display that day she was brought here. Was there any doctor here to testify as to whether she was sick? With a nurse on one side of her bed with her hand on the womans pulse, and doctor on the other side, and the witness herself lying on 8 bed everything was to make you think she was on the eve of her death."
 In the courtroom this morning for the first time of the trial was Miss Sally Peters, close friend of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, who, with her brothers William and Henry Stevens have been on trial for a month on charges of murder in the killing Of Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
 Resented Method
 Alexander Simpson, special prose- cutor, said he was searching for Miss Peters last summer. When finally located in her New York apartment she said she had refused to appear before the prosecutor for questioning because she resented his methods as an investigator.
 "Humbug," He Charges.
 Declaring that the taking of Mrs. Gibson's testimony was a hum bug" and scene meant to influence the jury, McCarter challenged the state to produce one word of proof that Mrs. Hall knew of the intimacy between her husband and Mrs Mills, which the state has termed the motive for the crime.
 He urged the jurymen to read carefully the letters which Mir. Hall had written Mrs. Mills from his vacation place in Maine few weeks before the murders.
 ''Unconsciously," said McCarter, those letters contradict the states attempt to prove motive. One of them reads Mrs. Hall cannot under stand why l want to take only three weeks vacation,' the reason being that Mir. Hall did not want to be away from Mrs. Mills.'
 Attacks James Mills.
 Then came another attack on James Mills, husband of the mur- dered woman.
 T am not here to accuse any one," McCarter said. But I want to ask you if knowledge of these things is an important fact in this crime. Then what about Mills. the husband whose wife for two years had occupied a room in the attic, and refused to sleep with him; who told him more than once that she cared more for Mir. Halls little finger than for his whole body. A husband, who in the presence of members of his wife's family and his own brother, was taunted with the statement that when Charlotte had finished her education his wife planned to elope to Japan with Mf. 1 Hall.
 Quarrelel Fatal Night.
 "He was a husband who that very { night of the killing had quarreled , with his wife, who had read the , letters in his wifes scarf the night . before and who says I knew the | greater part of what was in them Those letters were in his house and he says he saw them. 1
 "He knew that the place for ex- changing letters was in the church . and Mrs. Hall had no key to the | church.
 Both his children were out the i night of the killings and he, smart i ing with the quarrel he had with l his wife before she left the house, i was alone.
 Where Does He Go?
 "He goes out and where he goes no one knows. No one backs him in where he went. He came home . about 10:30 or later and no one | saw him, but Charlotte says that sometime later he called downstairs, has your mother come home yet"
 Suspicious Inactivity
 'Did James Mills ring up the hos pitals when his wife failed to come home? Did James Mills call the police stations? Did he even ring up his sister? No, he did nothing that Friday"
 McCarter accused Mills of trad ing on his dead wife's honor" by for a filthy s50o,' the let ters written by the Rev. MT. Hall to Mrs. Mills, and the ministers diary. which were found in the Mills home after the staying.
 Mrs. Gibson Visited Mills
 The defense attorney emphasized hat the letters and diary, reveal ng the love affair, were found in he Mills home. He also pointed put that two weeks after the crime Mrs. Gibson visited the Mills homo md spent an evening there, later as 8 witness in the case.
 Asserting that the administration # justice in Somerset county had 1een impugned as corrupt or im- possible, that dead men had been lccused of corruption, that the grand jury which first heard the Iall- Mills case had been called cor 'upt. and that the county physician lad been called an "ignoramus," dcCarter then asked: And by whom? Commissioner Beggans, In pector Underwood, Chief Detectives Hayes, Lieutenant Ciecieuch. Ser geant Burke and last, Alexander simpson, of Jersey City"
 Inc "Coyic's Army" He referred to the last five as { he "CoXie's army" that marched on : on a day last August and i captured the little town" The de- ense lawyer then enumerated the l ,ames of seven of the states wit ,essos-Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Mary 0emarest, Henry L, Dickman, Will ' lam Garvin, Phillip Payne, Edward schwartz and Frank Caprio-and iSSdilC1 them bittnrIy