Evening star., 1926-11-10
SIMPSON FAITHFUL
T0PUBL|C| IN TRIAL
Hall.MiIIS Prosecutor in Dra-
matte Scenes to Win
Murder Case.
BY FRANCES MOVES HART.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

connected with the ffall-MlllS murder
trial, the Hall-Mills murder trial is
going to have at least one good,
serviceable, dramatic feature that
will qualify it for its place Of honor
on the front page Of even our most
conservative journals. Sunday, with
court adjourned might battle the
most resourceful, but Senator Simp-
son is more than reSourceful, he is
inspired.
Sunday is the very day to hurry
star witness in snOwwhite
ambulance over 80 miles of rolling
country stained with the gold and
rust and copper and scarlet Of
Autumn. Sunday Is the very day to
snap fingers under the noses of the
outraged medical authorities. Mon
day Is a good day to confront a nice.
SNUG Burns detective with pallld
and hunted vestryman. Identification
IS always dramatic, and when mans
life hangs on whether the jury be-
leves the pale Gorsiine or the gentle
man known to some as Greasy
Vest" it becomes dramatic enough
TO appeal to the most jaded.
Tuesday-well, Tuesday proved rath-
pr Il stiff day; Cross-examination of
experts OF any kind is apt to prove
fairly arid fare Tuesday was good
day to send shock Of sickened hor-
ror through every one OF the 900
languid spectators relaxed in the
courtroom. The public should GER
tainly be grateful to the prosecutor,
and the press, which is also the serv-
ant of the public, should be even
more grateful.
Simpson a Snowman.
AS a Snowman, Senator Simpson
turns Barnum into a rank amateur.
He is, however, more than n show
man. Whether one admireS or de-
plores his methods, he rates un-
grudging admiration for the vigorous,
slert and undaunted manner in which
he has conducted this trial. He is
working under a severe handicap. his
star witness, on whose evidence ne
had stated that he intended to open
the trial, was struck down before
It was even we'll under way. He has
wasted little time lamenting that
fact, however; as a matter or TACT,
he wasted little time on anything.
lie withdraws questions objected TO
SO swiftly that one can hardly hear
them whisk by into oblivion.
He reframes an inquiry so rapidly
that even the protesting Mr.. NC
Carter does not have time to OBJECT
before it is answered. He bows before
alacrity and defense that endearS him
10 an assembly satiated with argu-
ment and If he has missed one trick
since 10 o'clock struck on November
3. this unprejudiced observer has
Yet to hear of it.
A gray mist hung over Somervllle
yesterday. and some of ii managed
to penetrate the courtroom. Ram
finally set in. The fingerprint eX-
Ccl, of Newark ana
ex-Deputy Commissioner Faurot OF
New York, were being cross examined
bv the defense. 1t was bound to be
a lengthy and tedious performance be-
cause it is Of really vital moment 10
the defense to prove that the caro-
that the prosecution contends was
found at DR.. Halls heel, and that
bears Willie stevens fingerprints,
either was not actually found there
ar does not actually bear his printS
This small, smudged bit of paSteboard
that Mr.. NICC Garter romantlcally re1erS
10 as the "tying card because OF
Ils peregrination, is of incalculable
Importance to both sides, and the
defense were undoubtedly justified in
their frantic efforts to dlscredit 1t.
Nevertheless, it was a devastating
performance for ali involved, lnclud-
ing the innocent bystanders.
AItHlDlS DiStttuis
The defense adopted its. usual tao
tics. The jury must be persuaded
that these two experts were shady
and suspicious characters, and, sec
ond, that they hadn't the most remote
!dea as to what they were talking
about. Having established these
facts. to their Own satisfaction at any
rate, and having reduced every one
within NoiCe-ranGe to state OF wei
coms coma. Mr.. McCarter decided that
It wouldn't be bad idea to suggest
10 the jury that probably this finger
print stuff might all be cross be-
tween newfangled nonsense and Old
fairy tales, and that lot of
lard-heaGed, broad-minded farmers
shouldn't take it too seriously.
The tone in which he bayed
''sCience" should have been enough to
turn the most ardent believer into
hardened skeptic. Possibly it did. Pos
Hihly not. At any rate, 1:30 saw Mr..
NcCarter still lunging at MIR. Faurot,
having returned from lunch like a
giant refreshed. Two o'clock saw
him still at it: he was even conde-
scending to he slightly sportive, after
fashion that Senator Simpson un-
kindly characterized as "clowntng.
and that Judge Parker finally rebuhed
him for somewhat tartly. AT two
thirty the croSS-eXamination was
simply articulate chloroform, in so far
as the courtroom was concerned.
They sat slumped deep in their chairs,
eyes wandering to he rainwaShed
windows, through which they could
see black boughs tossing against q
sla gray sky.
Every now and then a feeble inter
est was displayed. when the prose
cutor. taking back his witness on re-
direct examination, picked up the
threads that the defense had tangled
badly. and sorted them out again SO
that ne could continue weaving them
into the strange and intricate pattern
closest to his hearts desire. But still
all those long words and the same
ones over and over
Expert Quits Stand.
At three o'clock it was beginning
20 seem that no matter how desperate
~ Ill Mrs. Gibson might be, she would
have ample time 70 effect a slow, de-
Nberate conralescence before both
sides and Justice Parker himself were
10 relincuish the still courteous but
somewhat worn ex-deputy commits
sioner and then. suddenly, the wit
ness box was empty. Mr.. F'aurot was
gone.
A great stir went through the
courtroom. The experts We're gone:
there weren't going to. be any more
EXPERTS. The words ~'whoSe" and
arch" and loop" and ridge" and
"sebaceous" and conformation" had
sounded for the last time.
But who was this other white-faced.
gray-haired. bald, tired-looking gentle
man climbing into the box? Another
expert. Oh, kind heavens-another
expert, DR. Otto II. Schultze, medical
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