New Britain herald., 1926-09-10
R a lph Gorsline and Miss Katherine Ras- tall Change Their Tes- timony in Hall Mills Case After 212 Hours of Chilling.
Tell of Hearing Pistol Re. ports and Screams, Part ly Substantiating Mur- der Story of Mrs. Jane Gibson.

Somerville, N. J., Sept. 10 R- Ralph V. Gorsline and Miss Kath- crime Rastall, both of New Bruns- wick, have admitted that they were within 800 yards of the spot at which the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were killed.
 Detectives who grilled Gorsline for 217 # hours and Miss Rastal for nearly as long today, announced they had confessed hearing shots, voices and a woman's screams.
 Gofsline was a vestryman in Halls church and Miss Rastall was a choir singer. They were sweethearts when the killings occurred.
 Through their confessions the state is expected to get important corroboration of the testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson, woman pig raiser, as to what she saw on the night of the murder.
 Three Different Stories.
 Gorsline and Miss Rastan have told three different stories, detec- tlVes said, and are to be questioned further in an effort to reconcile their varying accounts of what occurred on the night of the murder, and to make sure that their latest account of their activities will stand up.
 Gorsline and Miss Rastall at first stuck to their story of four years ago, that he had accompanied Miss Rastall to her home after a motion picture show.
 Admits Hearing shots.
 From Miss Rastall was drawn fhe admission that they had been at the entrance of DeRussey's lane which borders the Phillips farm where the murders took place. Faced with this fact Gorsline admitted, according to detectives. that they heard the shots and screams.
 After the questioning had contin- ued for long hours, police say. the story was again changed by the ad- mission that they had been within 300 yards of the spot at which the murderers were at work.
 Gorsline, police said, places the voices he heard ahead of the car in which he and Miss Rastall were seated, while the girl says they came from the rear.
 Detectives predicted that further would bring to light more vital details of the staying.
 Describes What He Heard
 In the first statement admitting that he had been near the crime. Gorsline told of hearing four shots and then a scream which turned into a wall, then to a moan and a gasp and died out altogether. It seemed to come from the Phillips farm, he stated.
 In this statement, which was made on Wednesday night, Gorsline said that as he was coming out of the New Brunswick Y. M c. A. at about II p. m. he met Miss Rastall com ing out of the State theater.
 He told her to jump in his car and he would take her home. They drove around town to De Russey's lane, where Gorsline said. he backed his car to turn around and drive to Miss RastalPs home. A small car came out of the lane as he was backing.
 Shots Are Heard
 It was then that they heard the shots, one report, pause, then two shots and finally fourth. The woman's scream came to his ears after the first shot.
 Miss Rastall and he discussed what they had heard on the follow ing Sunday after the bodies had been found, he protested and agreed to say nothing.
 In the second statement, made during last night. Gorsline is re- ported to have replied when ques- toned as to Mrs. Gibson's story:
 Agrees With Witness
 "Yes, l know her statements re- the mumbling voices, the shots fired, the screams and the 
 They coincide with what I heard on the night of Sept. IA"
 His Stand Story
 In his second statement Gorsline said he and Miss Rastall reached the lane about 10:15 p. m., proceeded through 1t to second lane which turns off to the left and runs to the Phillips farm house, within a few feet of where the bodies were found beneath a crabapple tree.
 He parked his car and probably put out the lights, he said. He final y admitted that in addition. to shots and screams he heard mems voices but said he could not re- call having heard a wcman's voice which Mrs. Gibson in her statement referred to as uttering reproach to by the name of Henry.
 Heard Woman's Moan
 They were parked, perhaps in ten minutes. when they heard the first shot. and 1t was after hearing all the shots, he said. that they heard