New Britain herald., 1926-08-17

Somerville. N. J., Aug. r P- The state today continued 10 call witnesses to prove that Henry De La Bruyere Carpenter and Willie Stevens should be held for the mur- ders of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
 Neither Appears Worried
 Carpenter, wealthy New York and New Brunswick broker, took his seat beside Willie as the first wit ness took the stand. Neither ap- peared depressed by the stay in Somerset county jail. Carpenter laughed and chatted for few minutes with his brothers and rela- tives of Mrs. Francis Stevens Hall, the rector's widow also charged with the crime. She is at liberty on 5000 bail
 The hearings, 90 far, have pro- duced evidence tending to show that Carpenter, Stevens and Mrs. Hall were at the scene of the crime when four shots were fired. This came from Jane Gibson, woman pig rais- CT. It was partly corroborated by one witness who said he saw Mrs. Gibson near the crabapple tree and another who alleged to have seen three persons leaving the supposed scene of the crime.
 Tn courtroom had been filled for an hour before court convened. The steps outside the building were crowded. Flappers, vari-colored and voluble, sat beside prim and sedate grandmothers. They had a common motive to account for their presence, but only the flappers were frank enough. The grandmothers, and tome of the stern -visaged patriarchs beside them, came to view the inner workings of justice; but the flappers casually asked, said its nothing but curiosity that brings us"
 The huge chart Senator Simpson had made to show the relative posi- lions of the crabapple tree and the alleged eye witness, Jane Gibson, hung limp on its easel
 Lawyers Clash Again
 The first tilt today between Sena- tor Simpson and the defense attor- ney came over the first witness ex- anined. This man, Charles A. Col lins, a Middlesex county detective, was sent to Philadelphia to deter mine whether there were blood stains on the tan coat Mrs. Hall sent there to be dyed black.
 Collins said nothing unusual had been noticed on the coat. but a wool shawl, he was told by the dyer, Might have had blood stains on it that would not show through the black dye" He said the dyer told him Mrs. Hall had never sent other clothing there for dying.
 Fred A. David, one of the orig inal investigators, said there were four dyeing establishments near Mrs. Halls home.
 David identified the gold-rimmed spectacles worn by Dr. Hall when he was murdered. One by one David took from box t. t stood beside the witness stand the Panama hat, the blood-stained collar, a sock, garter, a coat and trousers that Mir. Hall wore when his body was found.
 Dr. Halls shirt, in which were the missing cuff links, was not in the box
 The cuff links, he said, were never returned to Mrs. Hall. As na,-id u-oS tald to jdoptify NTrS hfiIls clothing, which was in a sack, the crowd leaned forward expectantly. But David identified only the bag.
 When Dr. William H. Long, the first physician 10 view the bodies of the rector and his chorister, was called, long, bitter controversy ragged over his report of the finding He was Somerset county coroner at that time. It was alleged that he had not reported that Mrs. Mills throat was slashed. He testified he did report 1t.
 He said that he issued permit on the Sunday following the Fri day on which the bodies were found. To his surprise, he said, he learned that the bodies had been buried on Sunday instead of on Monday, as he understood 1t had been planned.
 Senator Simpson questioned him In order to bring out for the record the fact that Dr. Hall was buried in Brooklyn, N. Y, the day following discovery of his body, on only a coroner's permit for the removal of the bodies to New Brunswick.
 When Dr. Long could not recall who he had seen at the crabapple treh when he viewed the hndies he