New Britain herald., 1926-11-24

the shells handed him and those fired by him in his revolver.
 Simpson asked him if he had not gone to the Mills home several times to take notes, and remained there on one occasion for at least two hours.
 NO, sir" replied Willie. T was on the piazza once when I took a note to MT. Mills from my sister about some window boxes which she wanted made"
 Did you see Mrs, Mills at that time?"
 No, sir
 "Is it true that on the day of the murder you had prepared to go to a firemen's parade at Red Bank?"
 "No."
 Didn't you have your suit pressed and laid out?"
 No"
 Denies Wearing Derby.
 Again Simpson questioned the witness as to whether he ever wore a derby hat.
 4NO SIT, "do iio oii''N " ~ yesterday.
 You were in North Plainfield the night of the murder?'
 "No, sir
 You never inquired of Mir and Mrs Dickson, the way to the Park CT home?"
 'No."
 The Dicksons, as state witnesses, testified that they saw Willie Tn North Plainfield a few hours before the murder and that he asked his way to the Parker home. which IS near the murder scene.
 The Dicksons described the man they saw as wearing a derby hat.
 You never recited to Di Martini what you told us yesterday regarding your movements the night of the murder?" asked Simpson, referring to Felix Di Martini. a private detec- tive employed by Hrs. Hall soon after the murders.
 "I believe I did" answered the witness.
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 Ask why he didn't tell this yester- day, Willie said he misunderstood what he was being questioned about when he said that he had told no one of his movements on the night of the murders.
 Then the cross examination end ed. after Willie had been on the stand this morning only seven min- utes. He had spent fifty-five min utes under cross examination yester- day afternoon.
 Clarence F. Case. defense counsel. on redirect examination, asked the 
 Present From Mrs. Hall
 'Did you ever take a Christmas present to the Mills home?'
 "I did" answered Willie.
 'Who was 1t for?"
 Mrs. Mills"
 Prom whom?"
 Mrs. Hall"
 Simpson then took the witness briefly for re-cross examination.
 You didn't take the revolver, loaded with ball cartridges, with you from home?"
 No sir"
 The Rev. J. Mervin Pettit rector of the church of St. John the {, Evangelist, of which the Rev. MT. 1, Hall was rector at the time of his death, was called to testify concern | ing the baptism of Willie Stevens, | To offset an intimation made earlier by the state that he was a full olooded brother of the other two de- iendants.
 WilIic's Parcntlge The Parish records of the church ! showed that William Carpenter , stevens was baptized June i6, 1872. | md that he was born in March of | he same year. in Aiken. s. C. Professor Raymond Smith Dugan, of the department of astronomy. i Princeton university. testified that on l. he night of the murders the moon ,ose over De Russey's lane at 11:2S, .astern standard time.
 The moon had entered the last quarter that morning at a. m. he 'aid, and in the evening was of slightly crescent shape.
 The facts given by Professor )ugan were directed against the tes- imony of Mrs. Jane Gibson, the tate's "eye- witness" of the murders vho was brought here from a Jer- ey City hospital last Thursday, to estifly from a cot that she saw the defendants at the scene Of the crime.
 Testimony on Moonlight
 Mrs. Gibson on cross examination lad said that it was about 1920 daylight time when she left her Icuse forty-one minutes away. on Ter second trip to the lane and that was bright moonlight.
 Dugan said that the moon would e in approximately the same phase n Sunday morning next at 2:15 astern standard time.
 On cross examination the witness ali, that the light coming from the loon on that night would depend 10 certain extent on cloudiness in the ky, and that information could be otten from the weather bureau on lis point.
 Saw Mrs. Mills Mrs. Agnes Blust, the next wit ess, told of having seen Mrs. Mills n Easton avenue, near the lane, just few hours before the murders. She had a brown package under CT arm which the defense contends ontained the letters which were ,und near the bodies. Simpson on cross examination uestioned whether the brown pack ge was not a scarf which was found n Mrs. Mills body. Was it a brown scarf in the arm f Mrs Mills?" asked the prosecu- IT.
 '1 don't think it was" answered ITS. Blust. Later she said that it