Evening star., 1926-12-03

| TAKE her own story. It's abSO-
lutely irreconcilable with ju,tice.
They may escape human justice, but
not divine
The prosecutor criticized Mrs. Hall
for not having her husbands body
taken home.
When finally he's carried into the
church for burial he didn't even have
| honorary pallbearers," he said.
The special prosecutor spoke of Mrs.
Hall retaining Timothy N. Pfeinfer,
New York attorney, four years ago,
who, Simpson said, had brought De-
tective Felix di Nartini into the case,
to Shut up and terrify" witnesses.
"Di Martini Is liar by the clock"
he continued, asserting that neither
Pfeiffer nor Di Martini ever gave the
State any aid.
She doesn't care IL the murderer is
ever found" Simpson said in assailing
Mrs. Hall.
"On the witness stand she said it
wouldn't be decent to offer a reward
Four years ago she said what was
practically I'm not interested in find
ing the murderers.' She knew who
they were.
"On this much testimony the fairest
jury In the world couldn't escape con-
victing this woman Of completely. I
don't say that she did the shooting"
He then pointed to what he said
were discrepancies in statements of
Willie Stevens and began tracing the
history of a calling card which the
State contends was found near the
bodies bearing the print Of Willie
Stevens index finger
One Of the defense's own witnesses,
Simpson asserted, testified that the en-.
| largement of Willie Stevens alleged
fingerprint by the defense was dis
torted and that this throws it out al
| together"
"They say it is a forged fingerprint.
yet they say it is not Willie Stevens"
said Simpson. ''Then, whose was it?
Willie Stevens was not f1ngerprinted
until August, 1926. How could it be
foreed?"
Henry Stevens statement before
the MiddleseX County prosecutor in
1922 differed from his testimony on the
witness stand, Simpson said. adding
that Henry Stevens knew "all about"
revolvers in 1922, but knew nothing
about them on the witness stand. The
prosecutor charged that the bluefish
entry in the diary of Stevens for Sep
tember IA, 1922. was cooked
"1s an innocent man doing that?"
he asked.
Calls Willie's Mind Boyish.
Willie Stevens, the prosecutor
charged had been taught a story
He hasn't got your minds" said
the prosecutor to the jurors. HE has
a boys mind. He may believe his
own story"
Referring to Mrs. Gibson. Simpson
said that. while she had no "footman
and butler, like Mrs. Hail." he be-
lleved she was a woman Of good char
acter. He pictured Mrs. Gibson as a
dying woman" who had lost all but a
few acres of her farm and whose stock
and poultry had been poisoned because
she appeared as a witness against the
defendants.
The prosecutor compared Mrs. Hall
to Lucretia Borgia and "bloody'
Queen Mary, saying there had been
cruel women In history.
What Is more cruel than a woman
who, though she is older than her hus-
band. sees him killed when he is taken
away from her?" he asked.
Reverting again to Mrs. Gibson.
Simpson described her as "one of the
finest characters"
1t requires courage to come for.
ward and tell your story when the
whole of the ruling class Is against
you," he declared.
III you feel like acquitting these
defendants Simpson concluded,
why don't you put on a rider to your
verdict, saying Mrs. Gibson, or Jen-
ME, her mule, committed the MUIR
ders?"
Again and again, the prosecutor
declared that he has not been trying
'to win a case"
Hints at New Trials.
Senator Case has told you that
this is the last of the Hall-Mills trials"
Simpson continued. HE has nothing
to do with it. There are possibly FIVE
more trials, Henry Carpenter has not
been tried on either indictment and
each Of these three defendants can be
tried separately for murder of Mr..
Hail."
Carpenter is a cousin Of the other
defendants. One story told by Mrs
Gibson placed him at the scene Of
the killing.
Nearing the end Of his address simp-
son said that with the stencil" of
the Hall-Mills case unsolved there
should Be red flag in the hand of
house.
'They think that antagonized
you," he said to the jury, but that
doesn't worry me- If I were trying
an accident case, might pat you on
the back and tell you what fine fel.
lows you are, but the honest men
among you are going to decide this
case. 1 am speaking this with the au-
thority of the whole State of New
Jersey in trying to clear up this abom.
Unable murder.
II have faith in you." he finally told
the jury.
Bergen Opens for State.
II think I should explain as pros.
ecutor Of this county" Bergen said in
beginning his address, how the Jer.
sey City police came into this case"
Does your honor think this is
summing up?' Robert NJ. McCarter.
senior member of defense counsel
asked.
Simpson contended that Bergen
should be allowed to reply to the "vi.
tuperation of the State" but Justice
Parker said there was nothing In the
argumenH of the defense which was
not fairly evidence In the testimony.
Bergen was permitted, In a short