New Britain herald., 1926-08-14
20 Year Old Charlotte Mills Declares Her Mother Was Very Sick After r Having Had Tea With Mrs. Hall Some Time Be- fore Staying
State Rests Case on Pig Woman" Who Positively Identifies Carpenter. Stevens and Widow as at Scene of Murder.
HEARING CONTINUED
 UNTIL NEXT MONDAY

Somerville, N. J., Aug. If CP- Two male relatives of Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall have been pointed out in open court by witness of four years ago as the men she saw with the widow at the staying of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.
 Brother and Cousin
 Henry Carpenter Mrs. Halls wealthy cousin. Wall street brok- CT, and Willie Stevens, her mentally deficient brother. were the men in- dicated by Mrs. Jane Gibson, who said Carpenter had shining object in his hand
 Another witness produced pre- viously gathered evidence which he had been reported missing, the slain woman's daughter told of an alleged attempt to poison her mother prior to the murder, and mystery wit ness" said to have been at the time of the murder within 75 feet of the crab apples tree where the bodies were found, entered the re- opened investigation.
 Fifth Man Arrested
 William S, Staub, the new wit ness. His arrest wsa the fifth in the reopened investigation. Carpender and Stevens are in jail;5 Mn~ Hall, charged with the murders, is free in $15.000 bail and William Philins, former night watchman, is free in S2.5O0 bail.
 The hearing which is adjourned until Monday revealed that the state restssits case chiefly on Mrs. Gib- sons testimony, She related to County Judge Cleary's court, that on the night of September IA, 1922 she was riding her mule in search of corn thieves when she came upon a group of men and women quar- reling about some letters. A pocket light was flashed upon the face of one Of the men, she declared.
 Whose face did you seer" asked Special Prosecutor Alexander Simp- son.
 Points Out Carpenter
 This here man." replied Mrs. Gibson, pointing to Henry Car bender.
 She saw something shiny In his hand, heard loud report and ran. A woman screamed and another cried, "Oh, Henry!" Mrs. Gibson declared she lost a moccasin in her haste, and the moccasin, she identi- fled as hers, found nearby, was in- troduced into evidence.
 She heard three more shots. After she got over her fright she return ed. and saw Mrs. Hall kneeling or leaning over and crying. She identi- fled Stevens as man she had seen with Mrs. Hall earlier, in the glare of an automobile headlight.
 She said she did not know mur- der had been committed until she read it in a Sunday newspaper.
 Daughter Testifies
 Charlotte Mills, bobbed- haired, 20 year old daughter the slain woman, testified that her mother had tea with Mrs. Hall some time before the staying. and that after ward she was very sick. She said a large book in the rector's study of t4.e Church of St. John the Evangs- list was used as a post office for the exchange of passionate letters be- tween the clergyman and the sex- tons wife.
 Asked as to the relationship be- tween her mother and the rector she said: "It was quite proper" But that he called often. She said that two months before the murder Mrs. Mills had said she might not live long.
 Missing Papers Found
 During the hearing Marcus Beck man, brother of the late Prosecutor Aziriah Beekman, marched down the aisle of the court room with bundle of papers under his arm. They were the missin5 documents of the earlier investigation which the state had been seeking for weks, and which Investigators said they be- lieved had been stoeln.
 Mir. Simpson accused him of hav- ing tried to sell them to a news paper, but Beekman denied this. He told an incoherent story of having found them week ago among his dead brothers effects, Mir. Simpson made references here and at other times to friction between the state and county officials.
 Employed by Newspaper
 George Tottex, another familiar figure to those who followed the in- vestigations of 1922. admitted under cross examination that he had been employed by the New York Daily Mirror to build the case as present. ed by the state yesterday He ad- mitted, also, that recently was dis charged as an officer when an op-
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