Evening star., 1926-11-10
STATE SEES HASTE
IN BURY|NG RECTOR
AND CHOIR SINGER
Only Examination After SIay-
ing Was to Determine Health
of Mrs. Mills.
PHYSICIANS WHO MADE
AUTOPSIES TAKE STAND
Court Will Adjourn Over Tomor-
row-Legion Protested Armis-
tice Day Session.
By the Associated Press.

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SOMERVILLE. n. j.. November
1o.-Evidence was offered by the
State in the Hall-Mills case today
manifestly intended to show that The
bodies of Rev. Edward w. Hall and
Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills were buried
with almost precipitate haste.
A physician who performed the first
OF three autopsieS testified that his
examination was made two weeks
after the burial OF Mrs. Mills, and
another physician said that the only
post -mortem wound found on the slain
WOman'S body resulted from an eXami-
nation revealing that she was not to
become a mother.
DIR. Rudolph Hegeman, who per-
formed the first autopsy, told of his
examination, his explanation Of the
bullet wounds being followed with
close interest by the defendants, calm
as always, and James Mills, husband,
and Charlotte Mills, daughter. of the
slain choir singer.
Thought Organs Were Present.
DR.. Hegeman was not able to say
whether the tongue, larynX and upper
portion of the windppe, missing when
DR.. Otto SchultZe performed an autop-
sy last month, were present at his eX-
animation in 1922. Permitted by the
court to give an opinion, he said he
thought these organs were present.
DR.. f. /. Cronk said that the bodies
were buried without an autosy, the
post-mortem examination having been
confined to the determination of Mrs
Mills health before she was killed.
AS the physicians told Of her
mothers fatal wounds, Charlotte Mills
sat turning over a number of letters
in her lap and apparently not weeping,
as she had done in previous references
to her mothers death. The girl is
said to receive many letters each day
frcm far and near.
Justice Charles w. Parker, presid-
ing at the Hall-Mills murder trial, an
nounced this afternoon that no ses-
sion of the trial would be held tomor-
row, Armistice day.
Clarence T.. Case of defense coun-
sci. accused Alexander Simpson, spe-
cial prosecutor, of having IL tabloid
complex"
The exchange was developed by an
other of the defense's frequent con
tentions that the State in its "helter.
skelter presentation" had not proved
that a murder was committed.
Senator Case has made another of
his tabloid summaries of the States
methods" retorted Simpson.
n,
serted Case.
The shaft was perhaps double barb
ed, for Mr.. Simpson Is a very small
man. and the name of a New York
tabloid newspaper has been brought
into the case frequently during the
testimony, as having been in posses.
sion of certain exhibits offered in evi-
dence by the State.
One little calling card again today
claimed attention of court, counsel
and jury in the case. The prosecution
regards SIT" as the small exhibit
Is tagged, as an ace in connecting
Willie Stevens with the crime being
investigated.
Resuming its contention that the
card is only a deuce in so far as evil
dence goes, defense counsel continued
AN attack on the States contention
that It bears the tingerprint of Willie
Stevens.
Defense Calls Detective.
The card has been to the front in
daily testimony. 1t made its appear
Rnce today when George ID. Totten,
county detective at the time of the
staying. was recalled for croSS.eXami-
nation. Tuttcn was used by the de-
Tense to show that it was a much
Travelled card. The detective was able
TO say that il was delivered to him
with other exhibits the day Of the
discovery Of the bodies of the slain
rector and choir singer
The State has sought to show by
the testimony OF three fingerprint eX.
pertS that the card bears the finger.
prints of Willie Stevens.
The most persistent effort Of the
oefenSe thus far has been an effort
TO show that many hands fingered
S-11" as various stages OF the in.
feStiGation progressed
Simpson set off a few bombs ex.
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