New Britain herald., 1926-08-18
CRABAPPLE TREE SCENE OF DEATH
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O'Rourke declared that on the night of the murder he saw a wom- an who resembled Mrs. Hall lac ing 1t into" a man and woman shortly before the time established by the state as that when the crime was committed. O'Rourke admitted that he could not tell what the quar- rel was about, as he was too far away to catch the words.
 There was a conflict of opinion to- day as to whether the hearing should be concluded at once.
 State Senator Simpson, special prosecutor, announced that he would present his last witness today. h. vestigators said it would require at least another day to build the states case and Judge Frank l.. Cleary, sitting as a committing magistrate, let it be known that he would listen to defense witnesses if council decid- ed to call them.
 Coupled with Senator Simpsons announcement that he would con- clude the trial came the declaration ! that more witnesses had been found and that startling evidence" would | be produced if the investigators de- cided to call new witnesses they said they had discovered.
 The new witnesses, Senator Simp- son said, were young woman and the scion of well-known family who had been in Derussey's Lane,
 which traverses the Phillips farm, the night the rector and chorister
 are supposed to have been slain
 while trysting. Five other new wit
 nesses, Senator Simpson said his in-
 vestigators had rounded up were
 still to be called.
 Counsel for Carpenter and Stew
 ems intimated to Judge Cleary that
 perfect alibis" for their clients
 would be produced. Carpenter, dur. ing the investigations into the mur'
 ders in 1922, accounted for his pres
 erce until 10 o'clock by establish ; ing that he was at the home of K
 K. Rice, New Brunswick societ! man, until that hour. The state ha
 fixed the time of the murders a between 10 and Il. Stevens, il
 statements made shortly after tn murders on September IA, 1922 said he was at home with his sister Mrs. Hall, throughout the night , But their decision to call witnesses
 they said would be reserved unti | the state had shown it's last card. An extraordinary session of tn l grand jury will be called, Senate l Simpson said, if Judge Cleary de : cides to hold Carpenter and Stevens
 He had previously stated that if tn , wealthy cousin and eccentric broth CT of the widow were held he woul' ) move to have her S15,000 bail va = cated and the aristrocratic matrol t. returned to Somerset county jail r where she spent 50 hours after he
 arrest July 29.
 The testimony of today was lai
 on background of accumulated ev
 idence in which Carpenter and SteN
 ems were pointed out by Mrs. Jan Gibson. woman pig raiser, as me II she had seen at the Phillips farn T near New Brunswick at the tim
 she heard four shots fired, Her te!
 timony was partly corroborated by
 witness who said he saw her in th ], lane. He did not hear the shots s Mrs. Gibson named Mrs. Hall 0 the third person she saw.
 Q Yesterday the fact of death wf n established in public legal hearin - for the first time when physician d described the death wounds. A wi 1t ness who saw man and two won ). en a short distance from the sp' g fixed by the state as the scene e the crime could not identify MT o Hall as one of the three. He believe
 the man was pr. Hall and the won d an Mrs. Mills.