Evening star., 1926-11-10

How many times did you see
Willie?"
Two or three"
How long was he questioned at
New Brunswick at the time when he
asked If you thought they suspected
| him?"
About an hour and half"
And he was put through grilling
during the investigation?'
Undoubtedly"
Testifles About Tongue.
In the opinion of DR.. Hegeman.
who performed the autopsy after
the body of Mrs. Mills was exhumed
| in 1922, the tongue, the larynx and
the top Of the windpipe were in the
body at that time.
| There was no evidence around the
mouth Of violence and no gaping hole
at the bottom Of the cut in the neck
to indicate they mad been removed" he
testified on cross examination.
| The wound was made by very
sharp knife" he said.
During his examination by Simp-
son, Hegeman had declined to swear
| that the tongue, larynx and upper
! part OF the windpipe had not been
removed.
|
been removed?" Simpson asked.
| mo" was Hegeman's answer. II
did not open the mouth. don't know
what was in it. I put back the
head, but 1 can't recall whether the
upper part Of the windpipe was there
or not"
Found Two Bullets.
| DR.. Hegeman said he found and re-
moved two bullets from the skull OF
Mrs. Mills. The head was almost
severed and to him it appeared as II
there had been two cuts. one from
each side.
| On cross-examination, over Simp-
sons protest, he was allowed to tes-
tify that he thought he would have
observed it If the tongue, larynx and
upper part OF the windpipe had been
removed.
| Senator Case in arguing that Hege-
man be allowed to state his opinion
revealed the defense theory as to
the testimony of DR.. Otto H. SchultZe
Of New York County, who yesterday
/ testified that the tongue and other con-
jtents Of the throat were missing when
lhe performed an autopsy last month.
"These parts of the throat could
have been separated from the body
as a ,result Of the deep cut" said
Case, land therefore would not have
received the benefit Of the embalming
| fluid.'
Health Officer Testifles.
| DIR. f, I. Cronk, who was health
| officer Of New Brunswick at the time
| Of the double Staying, was called TO
| the witness stand after DIR. Hegeman.
| DR.. Cronk said he was called to the
undertaker's establishment, three days
after the staying, to identify the
bodies of the couple and while there,
reopened the abdominal incision
| which had been made by the Somer-
set County physician in the post
| mortem examination of Mrs. Mills.
The incision, he said, had been made
| to determine whether the woman was
| pregnant.
WAS she pregnant" asked Sinp-
| son.
mo" answered the witness. He
also said there were no organs miss
! ing from the abdominal part of the
body.
| DR.. Cronk said he found concealed
| evidence in the head Of Mrs. Mills.
| What was it 2" asked Simpson.
II found three bullet wounds. and
| there were no points of exit" said
| Iflo WITNESS. L hllc" tIlcLc "ehS SNA-
| dence inside the head"
Simpson then brought out what he
meant by "evidenCe." the three bull
let's which must have been in the
head. DIR. Cronk said he reported
| this to Joseph Stricken. now dead,
and who was prosecutor of Middle
sex County at the time of the Staying
Report Four Days Later.
J
made on Monday morning, four days
after the crime and early in the
day on which Mrs. Mills was buried
without an autopsy having been
performed.
DIR. Cronk said the abdominal in
| cision was the only post mortem
wound on the woman's body.
The witness said he assisted at the
autopsy made afterward when the
bodies had been exhumed.
Did you look to see if Mrs. Mills
tongue had been cut out?" asked
Simpson.
II did not" replied the witness.
Testifies About AutOpsies.
DR.. Otto II. SchultZe of New York
| City has testified as to the result of
autopsies which he performed on the
, bodies of the Rev. Mr.. Hall and Mrs
Mills, eXhumed last month after four
years in their graves. He gave infor-
nation which indicated that a grim
struggle took place in the darkness
before the minister and the choir
singer were killed at their trysting
place.
There was a bruise on one of the
minister's fingers. DIR. Schultze said.
and. although it was only a guess. he
said the one bullet wound which
caused the mans death, judging from
its nature, might have been inflicted
while he was struggling to take a
gun from him.
Mrs. Mills upper lip was pune
Mccormick Medical Glasses Fitted
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