Evening star., 1926-12-02
HALL-M|[LS Jury
EXPECTED TO GET
CASE TOMORROW
Simpson to Occupy Morning
Session When Defense Ends
Summing Up Today.
McCARTER CONCLUDES
AND CASE FOLLOWS HIM
States Tactics in Producing Pig
Woman" on Stretcher Assailed
as Theatrical.
Bv the Associated Press.

j. December 2.-Summing up for the
defense in the Hall Mills case will be
concluded this afternoon, with fndica-
tions that the argument for the State
will not be made until tomorrow.
Clarence +. Case had spoken for
one hour and a half at the luncheon
recess. following Robert H. McCarter.
who finished his address soon after
court opened.
1t was expected that Mr.. Case would
speak for another hour and thirty
minutes in the afternoon, in which
event Alexander Simpson, special
prosecutor, will ask that his summing
I'D for the State be deferred until to-
morrow.
1t seemed certain that the case
would be given to the jury early to-
morrow afternoon, exactly one month
after it opened.
McCarter, resuming his summation
this morning, after referring repeat
edly to Mrs. Jane Gibson. the States
star witness as the pig woman
said:
Il hope you gentlemen won't be
fooled by that theatrical display that
day she was brought here. Was there
whether she was sick? With a nurse
on one side of her bed with her hand
on the womans pulse, and a doctor
on the other side. and the witness
herself lying on a bed-eVerythlns
was to make you think she was on
the eve of her death"
Mrs. Halls Friend in Court.
In the courtroom this morning, for
the first time of the trial, was Miss
Sally Peters, a close friend of Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall, who. with her
brothers, William and Henry Stevens,
have been on trial for a month on
charges of murder in the killing of
Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
Alexander Simpson, special prose
cutor, said he was searching for Miss
Peters last Summer. When finally
located In her New York apartment
she said she had refused to appear
before the prosecutor for questioning
an investigator.
Declaring that the taking of Mrs.
Gihsons testimony was a "humbug"
and a scene meant to influence the
jury, McCarter went on to challenge
the State to produce one word of
proof that Mrs. Hall knew of the
alleged intimacy between her hus
band ana Mrs. Mills, which the State
has termed the motive for the crime
He urged the jurymen to read
carefully the letters which Mr. Hall
had written Mrs. Mills from his va
cation place in Maine a few weeks
before the killing.
"Unconsciously," said McCarter.
those letters contradict the States
attempt 10 prove a motive. One of
them reads Mrs. Hall cannot un-
derstand why l want to take only
three weeks vacation the reason
being that Mr.. Hall did not want to
be away from Mrs. Mills
James Mills Attacked.
Then came another attack on
James Mills, husband of the slain
woman.
Il am not here to accuse any one,
McCarter said. but | want to ask
you. if knowledge of these things is
an important fact in this crime, then
what about Mills. the husband whose
wife for two years had occupied a
room in the attic, who told him more
than once that she cared more for
Nr. Halls little finger than for his
whole body: "A husband who. in the
presence OF members of his wife =
family and his own brother, was
tainted with the statement that
when Charlotte had finished her edu-
cation. his wife planned 10 elope to
Jaran with Mr.. Hall?
He was husband who, that very
night Of the killing, had quarreled
xith his wife: who had read the let
ters in his wife scarf the night be-
fore. and who says. i knew the great
er nart of what was i'll them. Those
letters we're III his house and he says
he saw them.
He knew that the place for eX-
changing letters was in the church,
and MIS-. Hall had no key to the
church.
Both Children Away.
Both his children were out the
night Of the killing. and he smartInS
with the quarrel he had had with
his wife before she left the house,
was alone. He goes out and where he
goes no one knows. No one backs
him in where he went. He came home
about 1880 or later and no one saw
him. but Charlotte says that some
time later he called downstairs, Has
your mother come home yet?
Did James Mills ring up the hos
pitals when his wife failed to come
home Did James Mills call the police
stations? Did he even ring up his
sister No. he did nothing that Fri
day
NcCarter accused Mills of trading
in his dead wife's honor by selling
for A "nltny $500" the letters written
bv the Rev. Mr.. Hall to Mrs. Mills,
and the minister's diary, which were
found in the Mills home after the
Staying.
The defense attorney stressed the
fact that the letters and diary. reveal
ing the love affair. were found in the
Mills home. He also pointed out that
two weeks after the crime Mrs. Glib
son visited the Mills home and spent
an evening there, later appearing as
n witness in the case.
Other Witnesses Assailed.
The defense lawyer then enumerated
the names of seven of the states
nesses-Mrs. Gibson. Mrs. Mary
Demarest. Henry, l.. Dicknnan. VII
liam Garvin, Phillip Payne. Edward
Schwartz and Frank Caprio-and
assailed them bitterly.
He scathingly denounced the arrest
NJ Mrs. Hall at her home last July at
midnight. with reporters and photog-
raphere present. He asked why the
oNicere could not have waited until
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