New Britain herald., 1926-07-29

gone for couple of days, but she knew he intended to elope with Mrs. Mills at the time. Mrs. Hall was lying down in her room with a | headache.
 About 10 or II that night res pondent, Mrs. Hall, and one Willie Stevens Ca brother of Mrs. Hall, known to be mentally deficient) were driven in Dr, Halls other automobile to Philips farm by Peter Tumulty the chauffeur.
 (This was 36 hours before the 1 bodies were found under a crab apple tree in the orchard.)
 Respondent would not admit that | in the party that went to the Phillips farmhouse was one Henry De La Bruyerre Carpenter, but said she could twist MT. Carpenter around her finger and that she got anything she wanted from him.
 Respondent told your petitioner that she had gotten 5000 for her part in the matter, and for keeping quiet about it.
 Officials Taken Care Of | She further said that certain county officials of Middlesex county were always taken care of for pre- venting anybody from breaking the case"
 In the earlier investigation of the case it was shown that Mrs. Hall had had a quarrel with Miss Geist, who was among the witnesses called Eefore the grand jury.
 In an interview Nov. 1, 1922, the | only one she ever gave in the case, Mrs. Hall said she still believed her husband had been true and loyal that she had had no suspicious ever of overfriendliness between her hus- band and Mrs. Mills. She said that she had not been near the Phillips farm since she was a child, wanted the mystery cleared up, and felt that the investigation had been bungled. She doubted the authenticity of pub lished diaries and letters of her husband and Mrs. Mills.
 Afterward Mrs. Hall replied to questioners that she said all she had to say in that interview.
 The slain minister and his wife occupied positions of some promi- hence in New Brunswick.
 Mrs. Hall is said to be wealthy in her own right, and few years prior to the murder, was reported to her inherited s1,700.000.
 They had no children.
 To Confer Today
 Prosecutor John E. Toolan of Middlesex county, in. his private of flee in Perth Amboy, N. J., today said that he would attend a confer ence with Prosecutor Bergen and Major Mark O. Kimmerling, acting head of the New Jersey state police, in Somerville this afternoon.
 The ranks of Mrs. Halls attorneys ert H. McCarter and Augustus Spuder of the firm of McCarter and English. Newark, arrived at the jail. They, together with Attorneys Watson and Preiffer, were still in conference with Mrs. Hall at noon.
 Mrs. Hall is not depending upon prison fare. Mrs. Carpenter, her cousin, who accompanied her to jail, slipped out this morning and re- turned with a purchased breakfast.
 While Mrs. Hall was in conference with her attorneys in the jail, Pros ecutor Bergen conferred with state troopers Somerset county detectives and Jersey City police in his office.
 Major Kimberling said that fol- lowing his meeting with the two prosecutors this afternoon he might make a statement.
 When asked what brought about the arrest of Mrs. Hall he said: We have mass of new evidence"
 Mrs. Hall slept a little in the jail last night and says she is not wor- rying about her arrest, according to Attorney McCarter.
 Attorney McCarter emerged from the jail at 12:30 after talking with Mrs. Hall for almost eight hours.
 She says the charge is absurd" according to McCarter, but has no animosity toward anyone who brought about her arrest and is taking her plight calmly and with good grace. He said she was "in good shape"
 There is no way they can force ] the state to reveal its new evidence, McCarter said, and so they know nothing beyond the mere charges of murder.
 He said that although 1t might be possible to have her released l through habeas corpus proceedings, he doesn't believe that they will try