Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-02

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said: "Hello. Mrs. Demarest,' in .
Brooklyn elevator.
The sur-rebuttal occupied but Q
short time.
The sur-rebuttal occupied but .
short time. Elbridge Sien. an expert
on questioned documents. while not
permitted to give any opinion on
claims of the state that enlarged
photographs Of fingerprints used by
the defense were distorted" found
nothing wrong with the 1922 diary
Of Henry Stevens. State handwrtt-
ing experts had found flaws In the
entries under date Of September IA.
the night Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills and
the Rev. Edward w. Hall were slain.
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and
ed with the murder of Mrs. Mills.
Two newspapermen, who rode in the
Brooklyn elevator in October with Di
Martini and Mrs. Demarest, said
they did not hear the detective say
Hello, Mrs. Demarest," and the tes-
timony was in after twenty two court
days.
Simpson renewed his motion for
mistrial and produced an affidavit
from Gilbert Vandoren, owner and
resident Of the hotel, which Is the
home Of the jury during the trial.
This document claimed that some
members of the jury have indicated
! a prejudice against the state and told
OF his argument with one Juror as to
| the creditability of Mrs. Gibson. The
court again reserved decision but
! Immediately on reconvening after
the luncheon recess denied the mo-
ton and instructed the attorneys to
start summing up. No memorandum
| was read by Justice Parker.
Former Attorney General McCar-
ter started his address and was
| speaking at the hour of adjournment.
He devoted most Of his argument to
the case Of Mrs. Hall and her broth
err, William. Senator Case, to speak
tomorrow. was expected to stress the
alibi set up in behalf Of Henry Ste
vens.
Mr.. McCarter launched into q ter
rifle arratgnment Of many of the 100
witnesses used by the state. At the
| outset he declared that James Mills,
husband Of the slain woman, was in
better position to know of a love af-
fair between his wife and the rector
than was Mrs. Hall. Referring to
testimony that in telephone con-
versation with Mrs. Mills. the after
noon Of September IA, the minister
was heard to say That's too bad"
He wondered. he told the Jury, If Mr..
Hall could have been commenting
on possible tidings that a letter he
had placed in the church for Mrs.
Mills had been found by her hus-
band, who was the sexton.
He added that statement by
Mills to Mrs. Hall when informed
| that her husband was missing, as
was his wife. Perhaps they have
eloped." was highly significant.
The lawyer ran the scale of sar-
casm and invective as he scored
states witnesses. He made an ex-
tended attack on Edward H.
schwartz. Newark f1ngerprint man,
when he reached the fingerprint tes-
timony Of the state that the print of
Willie Stevens finger appears on a
| calling card found near the body of
the slain minister.
The fingerprint testimony, he said,
was one of the chief claims of the
state. Other circumstantial mat
ters he called the "ruff1es on the
| garment" With the fingerprint
equation he linked the testimony Of
Mrs. Jane Gibson, who, testifying
from hospital bed in court, identi-
fled the three defendants as persons
she saw near the spot where the
bodies were found. He did not
completing summary of finger
print testimony which he termed as
ridiculous as the hour for ad-
journment arrived.
II charge with all the solemnity
that Is in me that that card is a
| fraud" he shouted as he waved the
calling card, known in the case as
S-17, high in the air.
For nearly two hours he criticized
stories told by states witnesses
connecting the defendants indirect
ly with the crime. Mrs. Mary De-
marest, who made three appearances
on the stand as a state witness, was
treated in a lighter vein, the attor-
ney charging her with a 'fondness
for having her picture in the news
papers" Mrs. Demarest testified
she saw Henry Stevens in New
Brunswick the morning after the
double Staying and that Di Martini
attempted to bride her to keep her
mouth shut"
Henry l.. Dickman, former New
Jersey state trooper. was denounced.
Dickman said that he interviewed
Henry Stevens On a fishing pier in
Lavvallette. N. j.. in February. 1923,
when he found him nervous and
evasive" and was paid $4,000 by the
late Azariah Beekman, once prose-
cutor of Somerset county. to leave
the state after he had spent several
months in his investigation.
McCarter said that Dickman went
to Lavallette on "a train that does
mt run, and talked to Stevens on q
fishing pier that doesn't exist, when
the defendant was in Florida"
McCarter said near the close Of his
effort today that tomorrow he would
take up the testimony of Mrs. Jane
Gibson, alias Mrs. Jane Easton,
alias, I don't know how many other
things"
Special Prosecutor Simpson said
tonight that regardless of the YER
dict in the pending case the Hall
Mills case will not be done at it's
conclusion. In the event of an ac-
quittal he said he would ask for an
immediate trial of the three defen-
dants on a charge of numbering the
Rev. Edward w. Hall. He did not
say what the state expects to do
about the case OF Henry Carpenter
also under indictment on the charges
his cousins face.
Prosecutor Wants