Evening star., 1926-11-29
MRS. HALL ENDS TESTIMONY
UNSF1AKEN IN LONG ORDEAL

while he did not regard himself as
Mrs. Halls attorney. he had settieo
two estates for members OF her famliy.
Statement Is Read.
Simpson read to Mrs. Hall a state
ment represented as having been made
by her to Toolan. in which she was
quoted as saying, after her husbands
disappearance:
Something must have happened to
him. The only thing that would keep
him (Mr. EalD away is that some
harm has befallen him." In this
statement Mrs Hall was quoted also
as saying that If her husband were
with Mrs. Mills, lit was for some ex-
cellent reason"
did you see Mills more than once
that day?" asked Simpson, referring
to the Friday following the couples
disappearance.
Yes"
What time?"
About l o'clock"
what did you say to him.
II asked him if he had heard any
thing. He said, NO"
Mrs. Hall, in reply to another ques-
ton as to why she had concluded her
husband and Mrs. Mills were Together,
said that she rather concluded that
because her husband had said he was
going to the Mills home the evening he
| disappeared, and Mrs. Mills also mao
disappeared.
Passing on to Friday night. Slmp-
son asked Mrs Hall if she saw Bar
bara Tough, a maid in her home. Mrs.
Hall said she had.
did you say to her. I know he
won't come home tonight'?"
"I don't remember that l did"
Didn't you say that he would not
go with Mrs. Mills because she was
out Of your class?"
NO"
Judge Warns Simpson.
Again Simpson reverted to the
question Of whether she had notified
the hospitals when her husband dis
appeared. and Judge Parker warned
the prosecutor that he had repeatedly
been over that ground.
The repetition Of questions veered
to why Mrs. Hall had not had her
husbands body taken home.
You were deeply attached to your
husband, you had no suspicious of
him and yet you let his remains lie in
an undertaker's mOrgue until the
body was taken to the church with.
out pallbearers and buried in Brook
lyn without an autopsy. Why?''
Simpson asked.
: II asked to have the body brought
| home" Mrs. Hall replied, "but Mr..
Hubbard, the undertaken, said he
| thought it would be wiser not to-"
What was wiser?" Simpson asked.
You stayed home all Saturday night
while his remains lay in the morgue,
all Sunday and Sunday night while
your dearly beloved husband, to whom
you We're devoted and whom you
never suspected, had met violent
| death at the. hands 70 some one you
didn't know"
'I had asked for it to be brought
home." Mrs. Hall repeated.
This man was your life partner.
Simpson continued. You say you
you. You thought he was a spotless
Christian gentleman and yet you
| never went near to he where he was
although his murder had wiped the
best out Of your life. You never
| looked at his face.
you were more concerned in look
ing at the man who was taking. your
picture here Saturday than you were
in looking at your husbands face.
Simpson questioned, explaining that
| there might be ohjcctioH ~ his ques
| tfOn.
Question Is Permitted.
| THAT same QUESTION 49,. ,,epn asked
| four times" McCarter objected, but
the court permitted it to be put.
| What did you do to aid the in
vestigators?"
| Il went to the prosecutor"
You had a watchman and you also
hired a detective?"
| Yes"
"You hired him to unveil this mur
der?"
YES"
why didn't you give his reports
| to the prosecutor"
| "Mr. Pfeiffer was in charge"
Simpson then asked Mrs. Hall about
the first time she told of her trip tC
the church to look for her husband
early Friday morning, after he haG
failed to return home.
| George ID. Totten, MiddleseX de
tective, testifying for the State, haG
said Mrs. Hall told him Of the TRIP
near the close Of Il conversation he
and the late AZariah Beekman. ther
prosecutor of Middlesex County, had
| with her the Sunday morning after
the bodies had been found Saturday
Totten said Mrs. Hall told Of her triI
to the church after he had told hel
he had information that woman was
seen to enter the Hall home about
9 o'clock in the morning Friday.
Asked why she hadn't told the de
tective of the trip to the church be
fore this. Mrs. Hall replied that she
| had not been asked about it.
| Were you in Maine in 1922 with
| your husband?"
| "YeS"
Did you ever look over his shoulder