New Britain herald., 1926-12-03


 What is more cruel than a wom an. who though she is older thar her husband, sees him killed wheI he is taken away from her?" Praise For Pig Woman"
 Simpson described Mrs. Gibson a! 'one of the finest characters"
 Tt requires courage to come for ward and tell your story when thu whole of the ruling class is agains you" he declared.
 If you're going to acquit because you don't like what someone said about Azariah Beekman. go ahead and tell the world about it," said Simpson in declaring that the de. fense had forced him into drawing from witness the statement tha, the late Prosecutor Beekman had bribed him to quit the case.
 He joined this with a reference to Frank Caprio. Long Branch detec- tive, by whom the prosecutor had sought to introduce a razor as the weapon with which Mrs. Mills throat had been cut. The razor was not in- troduced when the defense brought out that Caprio at one time Jersey City policeman. had been convicted of crime.
 T didn't know anything. about Caprios record and as soon as l found out announced would not introduce the razor." he said.
 But Caprio was with Beekman, he was working with him on the case and we are not to be charged with manufacturing evidence if we don't put it in."
 More Ridicule
 Again ridiculing Senator Cases statement of yesterday that there was just as much ground for con- victing Mrs. Gibson as Mrs. Hall. Simpson queried: Why don't you, if you are going to acquit, put a rider to this verdict and find Mrs. Gibson or Jennie the mule. guilty"
 He referred to New Brunswick as the seat of college on the banks of the muddy Raritan river" "as he said, "as the adminis- tration of justice in Middlesex coun- ty in 1922, the year of the killings
 In one of his references to Mrs. Gibson, who at one time was said to be so ills that the trip from Jersey City hospitc' to testify from a hos pital cot in this case might cost her life, Simpson said: T don't think she's going to give her life to this case. I hope she gets better. l think she will"
 Nearing the end of his address, Simpson said that with "the stench' of the Hall-Mills case unsolved' there should be red flag in the hand Of the statue of justice, atop the courthouse.
 "They think that I antagonized you," he said to the jury, but that 1oesn't worry me. If I were trying m accident case I might pat you on he back and tell you what fine fel- ows you are. but the honest men among you arc going to decide this ease. am speaking this with the authority of the whole state Of New Jersey in trying to clear up this ,bominable murder.
 1T challenge you on your oaths, what do you say of the evidence?
 We're not trying to win this case tt the cost of human blood" he said 1t the end.
 Trial lasts a Month
 The defendants, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, Henry and Willie Stevens, have been on trial exactly one month.
 Robert H. McCarter and Clarence ,. Case of defense counsel spent Ill of yesterday summing up their ide of the case. Teh testimony of drs. Jane Gibson. states star wit less. and the calling card of the Rev. MT. Hall presented by the as bearing the imprint f Willie Stevens left index finger anne in for the heaviest attacks by he defense attorneys.
 Suspects Mrs. Gibson MT. Case said. that while he did ot know who committed the mur- CT, one of his theories was that . might have been Mrs. Gibson, yho swore she was 6 witness of he staying, and accused the three efendants.
 Nr. Case pointed out that her | wn testimony showed that she had old of shooting at people, and | hat as she had said she was out | n the night of the staying look ng for corn thieves, there was a ossibility that che mistook the ,inister and tho choir singer for he thieves.
 Mills Also Suspected
 While both of the defense attor- eys said they had no proof of who ommitted tho crime, they main tined that suspicion could be ointed more strongly toward ames Mills, husband of tho slain oman, than toward the three de- ,ndants.
 Mills was not In the court room uring the defense's summing up nd Mrs. Gibson is still in the ter y City hospital She collapsed on le opening day of the trial and as taken to the hospital for eatnent of a kidney disease. Mr ase. in his summation, suggested 7 Ie possibility of her minds hay g been affected by disease. The defense attorneys charged ltrlght that the flngerprint on the l