New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-11-29
lyn without an autopsy. Why?"
Simpson asked.
Wanted Body Home.


night while your dearly beloved hus-
band to whom you were devoted
and whom you never suspected had
met violent death at the hands Of
somenone you didn't know"
Il had asked for 1t to be brought
| home" Mrs, Hall repeated.
This man was your life partner"
Simpson continued. you say you
were devoted to him. and l believe
you. You thought he was spot
! less Christian gentleman and yet you
never went near to where he was,
although his murderer had wiped
the best out of your life. You never
looked at his face"
Object to Question.
"You were more concerned In
| looking at the man who was taking
your picture here Saturday than you
were in looking at your husbands
face" Simpson questioned. explain
ing that there might be objection
to his question.
THAT same question has been
asked four times" McCarter object
ed, but the court permitted 1t to be
| put.
What did you do to aid the in
vestigators
Il went to the prosecutor"
"You had a Waterman and you
| also hired d detective"
Yes"
you hired him to unveil this
murder?"
yes"
"Why didn't you give his reports
| to the prosecutor"
"Mr. Pfeiffer was in charge"
Trip to the Church.
| Simpson then asked Mrs. Hall
about the first time she told OF her
| trip to the church to look for her
husband early Friday morning. Aft
| er he had failed to return home.
George D. Totten. Middlesex detec-
tive, testifying for the state, had
said Mrs. Hall told him of the trip
| near the close Of a conversation ne
had and the late Azariah Beekman.
| the prosecutor of Middlesex county
| had with her the Sunday morning
after the bodies had been found
Saturday. Totten said Mrs. Hall
! told him Of her trip to the church
after he had told her he had 1nfor-
| nation that a woman was seen TO
enter the Hall home about O'Clock
Friday morning.
Asked why she hadn't told the
detective Of the trip to the church
before this, Mrs. Hall replied that
she had not been asked about II.
She described the interview as more
of a conversation than an inquiry.
When Simpson tried to press her for
a reason for falling to tell about
the incident, until near the close of
the interview, McCarter objected
that the interview was not conduct
ed in a chronological order.
Were you in Maine in 1922 with
your husband?"
Yes"
Never Read Letter
did you ever look over his
shoulder when he was half through
writing a letter to Mrs. Mills?"
NO"
WAS Mrs. Mills ever at a sum-
mer camp with your husband?'
YES"
did you have a quarrel with Mr..
Hall about this camp"
No"
The witness was then asked about
an interview in 1922 and said there
were twenty or more reporters pres
emit at the interview which lasted
one hour.
Ibid you communicate with your
brother, Henry Stevens, Friday after
the disappearance OF your hus-
band?"
NO"
Not Yet Convinced
AS the cross examination pro-
crossed Mrs. Hall asserted that even
now she was not sure there had been
anything serious In her husbands
relations with Mrs. Mills.
After hearing all this evidence"
Mrs. Hall said, II admit there was
some slight attachment. but / am
not convinced it was anything seri-
GUS"
When the questioning turned to
Mrs. Mills stay in the hospital, |
Simpson asked the witness if she
had ever seen the prayer which her
husband wrote for the choir sing
er.
He handed her copy of the pray
er which the state has introduced in
evidence. and she said she had never
seen it.
"You never saw your husband
alive after he left home on the eve
ming of September IA, 1922, saying
he was going to the Mills homer"
Simpson questioned.
Il didn't say he said he was going
to the Mills home" replied Mrs.
Hall. II said he laid he was going
out to see about Mrs. Mills bill"
Produces Letters
The prosecutor produced a large
envelope filled with letters which
Mrs. Hall had written her brother
Henry Stevens from Italy. During
the investigation Simpson and de-
tectives raided Henry Stevens
home and apparently these letters
were confiscated at that time.
You went to Italy in February
after the killings?" Simpson asked. |
Yes" replied Mrs. Hall.
you have said that you were |
brokenhearted and this tragedy had |
wiped out everything out of your !
life, You corresponded with your
brother, Henry, while you were in |
Italy, Did you ever mention a single |
word Of regret, sorrow of loneliness"
McCarter objected on the ground |
that the question would require the |
witness to read all the letters.
The court ruled that the question
could be answered and Mrs. Hall |