New Britain herald., 1926-11-17
DEFENSE PLANS TO
 CALL MRS. HALL
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contended.
 Mrs. Hall will say that she hired Di Martini to stay at her home and
 protect her from the numberless
 cranks and fanatics who posted her
 in person and by mall after the
 crime.
 The razor shown in court by Sena-
 tor Simpson is still left "up in the
 air" unconnected with the Hall homestead.
 Frank Aprio, the discharged Jer- sey City policeman who said he got the razor from the late Azariah Beekman, prosecutor of Somerset county at the time of the murder, as the weapon that slashed Mrs. Mills throat, has not been called to the stand and may not be.
 The defense against the finger point on the calling card of Rev. MT. Hall found near the body in De Russey's lane will be that the card was handled so much and travelled about the country so much under unofficial sponsorship that 1t was unreliable.
 The state claims the f1ngerprint Is that of Willie Stevens. The defense doubts it.
 It also will assert that the card was not propped up at the foot of Rev. MT. Hall, but was found some distance from the body, probably dropped, they will allege. by the person who robbed Rev. MT. Halls body either during or after the murder.
 Will Support Alibi Henry Stevens will have at least four witnesses called to back up his alibi that he was fishing or in his home at Lavallette In Ocean county at the time of the staying.
 Mrs. Mary Demarest's testimony that she saw Stevens in New Brunswick the morning of Septem- Der 15, the day after the murder, when Stevens says he was still in Lavallette will be met with the re- joinder that Mrs. Demarest may have seen Stevens double.
 The defense will call to the stand pr. John r. Anderson, con nected with the laboratory of Rut- gers college, who resembles Stew ems, to say that he was in his auto at Albany and George streets, New Brunswick. on his way to college at the time Mrs. Demarest says she saw Stevens. The street corner mentioned Is the place where Mrs. Demarest says she saw Stevens in his auto.
 Henry Stevens will also say that he never knew of the existence of Mrs. Mills before he read of the murder and that he was unaware that his brother -in-law was mixed up in a love relationship with the choir singer.
 Will Deny Bribe Story
 Henry L. Dickman's testimony that he was given s2,500 bribe by Prosecutor Azariah Beekman to get out of the state at the time he was the Hone hand" Hall-Mills will be called unreli- able.
 The defense will point out the fact that he went on a fl day spree after he quit the state. It will also be pointed out that Dickman's tes- timony is unsupported.
 Miss Jennie Lenfort and Mrs. !! Wahler, who was with Robert Ehr. ! ling on the auto road September fl, 1922, when he says he saw 1 Mrs. Jane Gibson on her mule in De Russcys lane, will testify, it is expected, that Ehrling was seeing things.
 Ehrling said he heard no shots or screams such as were testified | to by other witnesses but that he saw Mrs. Gibson on her mule.
 Mrs. Wahler is expected to say that she was with Ehrling all the | time and that she saw nothing of 1 the kind.
 Ira NiXons story that Elijah ] Soper told him four years ago that | he had seen Mrs. Hall and her l brothers, Willie and Henry, In the murder lane on the night of the 1 crime will be pointed to as unsup- l ported and strangely shielded for four years.
 Mrs. Nixon Is to be summoned to the stand to say that In all the four years her husband never told her of | Soper's revelation.
 Mrs. Salome Cerener, mother of Mrs. Gibson, will be held in readi- l ness to attack her daughters credi- bility.
 The nature of her testimony will | be guided by the story told by Mrs ! Gibson. Mrs. Cerenner is now living with another daughter in Hoboken and has already publicly condemn ed Mrs. Gibson.
 The story about Willie sending clothes to be cleaned the day the bodies were found will be met with l his statement. that he. as often hap 1 pened, had spilled food on them, | and that he wanted to get them | cleaned up for the funeral which | was set for two days after the clothes cleaning incident.
 The defense will question the 1 state witness Dr. Otto Schultze's | statement that the tongue of Mrs. Mills was ripped out along with the i larynx and the top of the windpipe. | They will call doctors who are ex- | pected to testify that the organs found missing from the body in the | four year late autopsy might have | decayed and deteriorated. They will ! point to the fact that their absence 1 was not noticed by the several doc ! tors and others who saw the body | in 1922.
 Jersey City, N. J., Nov. F LP>- The condition of Mrs. Jane Gibson, ! for whom the Hall-Mills trial in | has been adjourned until | tomorrow, remains good" 1t was stated officially at Jersey City hos