Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-23
DEFENSE SEEKS
AN ALIBI FOR
Will STEVENS


SOMERVILLE, N. J.' Nov. 20 Qp-
Bringing 2l witnesses from varied
walks Of life, the defense in the Hail.
Mills case completed It's support oil
the. alibi Of Henry stevens and turned
today to the case of Willie Stevens.
The brothers, with their sister, Mrs.
Frances stevens Hall, are charged with
the murder Of Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills,
Slain with tho Rev. Edward w. Hall
on the night Of September Ia, 1922.
This date came up again and again
in today's testimony as e.gnt Wit
nesses told Of seeing Henry Stevens
in La Vallette, N. j., his home, that
night.
After morning devoted to the
story Of a regular fisherman and his
wife an occasional fisherman, and
the stevens cook, family was pui
forward in the afternoon to close tho
Henry stevens alibi A mo;aer and
daughter told Of a conversation with
the defendant at 1890 O'Clock the
night OF the. double killing, another
daughter heard Stevens voice buI
did not see him, and the father told
Of meeting the family at Jersey City
on September Is, the day after the
conversation, when all three testified
Stevens took them to the station
The state has fixed the hour or the
staying at 1920 o'clock.
Dismissing the status or Henry
Stevens for the moment, the defense
took up his brothers case and Offered
witnesses to prove that he has not
suffered from epilepsy, did not wear
a derby hat, constantly used eys
glasses and did not have a gold
watch. State witnesses on the OPEN
ing day of the trial had testified
that they saw Willie Stevens at
Plainfield. n. j., inquiring the way tc
the Parker House early on the eve
ming Of the killing. They haid safe ne
wore a derby hat no eye glasses, had
q gold watch and was suffering from
epilepsy.
Late in the day movement was
started designed to impeacn the tes-
tilnony' of Henry L. Dickman, former
state trooper, who testified that ne
was paid by the late Azaraiah Beck
man, then prosecutor of this county,
to leave the state, after he had spent
several months in investigation of the
Hall-M Mills case An attache of the
office of the adjutant general of the
army came with records of Dick
mans army service and that or
Bernard J. McLoughlin" which the
defense will attempt to prove was u
name' used by Dickman A finger
print expert from the navy followed
the army man to testify that finger
nrinic m tba apIic4r,,a,14 rooo.d. X.
Dickman and McLougblin are the
same.
The finger print experts brief APP
pearance was the fore-runner of more
extending testimony tomorrow when
he will be called as one of the de-
fense eXpertslin it's efGorvs 70 combar
the persistent state contention that
the print of Willie Stevens finger
appears on calling. card OF the Rev.
Mr.. Hall found near his body.
La Vallette.g where the bluefisn
run, was kept in the court picture FOR
several hours.
After Mrs. Anna Evanson, who COOKS
for the Stevens family, but carefully
explained that. she werks by the hour,
had testified with broad Scandm-
avian dialect, of preparing supper for
Henry Stevens on the night of the
Staying and Of seeing. him the fol-
lowing day, Mrs. Maize Applegaie
came to the stand. She grew anrgy
at Special Prosecutor Alexander Slmp.
son under his cross examination ane
testified at times with fire IN yer eyes.
Mre Applegate is the wife of Arthur
Applegate VINO caught a six-pound
bluefsh, which according to the diary
of Henry Stevens he weighed on the
night of September IA.
Mrs Applegate' said she saw the
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