Evening star., 1926-08-16
SURPRISE WITNESS
| BACKS MRS. GIBSON
Man Says He Saw Her Near
Scene of Hall Murder.
Kept Silent a Years.

BY the Associated F'reSs
SOMERNILLE. y. j.. August 16.-
The testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson
woman pig raiser, was partially cor
roborated today at the hearing OF
Henry Carpenter and Willie Stevens,
charged with the murders of Rev.
Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills.
Mrs. Gibson testified Friday that
she was. in De Russey's Lane near
the Phillips farm. saw two men and
woman and heard shots fired. She
identified Stevens and Carpenter as
the men. The woman, she said, was
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hail. also
charged with the murders. Mrs.
Hall is at liberty on $4,000 bail.
Henry F. Ehrling. millwright, testi-
fed he was in De Russeys lane the
night of September IA. 1922, and saw
Mrs. Gibson there on her mule. He
saw no one except Mrs. Gibson and
heard no shots.
Silent to Shield Girl.
The witness had kept silent for four
wears to shield q girl who was with
him.
Charles Alpaugh, taxi driver. tes-
tilted he saw a sedan parked in Easton
lane. near De Russey's lane, while ne
was driving by. He saw two or three
persons slide down a bank toward the
car, but he did not know whether they
were men or women.
An architect who made diagrams
Of the place where the crabapple tree
stood and physical objects that We're
mentioned In the testimony of Mrs.
Gibson Friday, was the first witness
called.
Watchman Repeats Story.
William Phillips, night Waterman
at the New Jersey College for Women
told his four-year-Old story OF seeing
! "a woman in gray enter the Hall
residence about am. the nlsht OF
the murder. lie is under $4,000 bail
az Senatorial witness lie was not
permitted to answer a question about
detectives employed by Mrs. Hall
threatening him if he told of seeing
this woman enter.
James Mills, husband of the slain
choir singer, took the stand to tell
gain the story of his whereabouts
on the night of the murder. He told
of seeing his wife leaving for her tryst
with the rector.
AS she went out at 1880 that evening
he asked Where are you going"
Alleged Reply Quoted.
Follow me and find out" he quoted
her as replying.
A man once accused of the murde,
Of Rev. Mr.. Hall and Mrs. Mills was
on todays list of witnesses against
the three persons now charged with
that crime.
Clifford Hayes. 90 years old at the
time the rector and his choir leader
were slain, and accused by his com
panion. Raymond Schneider, Of the
double slaying. was summoned to tel
what he saw when he crept upon the
trysting rector and Mrs. Mills on the
deserted Phillips farm, near New
Brunswick, the night of September
IA, 1922.
Testimony Is Retracted.
Haves and Schneider were following
Pearl BANNER and her father, Nick
Rahmer, the night the murders We're
committed. Pearl and Schneider We're
sweethearts BANNER. a saloon
keeper. later was sentenced for his
relations with Pearl.
Four years ago Schneider told the
police that Hayes had killed DIR. Hall
and Mrs. Mills when they were mis-
taken for Pearl and her father.
Schneider retracted his statement
and was sentenced for perjury. He
also was called upon to testify today
Carpender and Stevens are confined
in separate cells in the county Jail
Yesterday Senator Frelinghuysen Wis
tied Carpender.