New Britain herald., 1926-11-05
Halls was in reality Mrs Mills.


 Halls was in reality Mrs. Mills.
 After defense counsel objected to the presentation of the articles be- fore ownership had been established, Simpson presented them the en- velopes unopened.
 Were you ever dismissed from the New York police department demanded Senator Case of Captain Lamb. during cross examination. The question was ruled out Later Case put the question in different form.
 "No, sir" Lamb shot back before Simpson had time to renew his ob- jection.
 Lawyers in Clash
 Counsel clashed when Case ques- tioned if Philip Payne, managing editor of the New York Mirror, was present when Mrs. Hall was arrest ed late at night.
 "FIe wasn't in the house." said Lamb.
 Was he present when you got the warrant?" asked Case, only to be stopped by Simpson in an objection which the court sustained.
 Isn't fact that you were ire quent visitor at the Hall home?" countered Simpson in launching one of his sarcastic shafts at the defense.
 Earlier in the morning he had offered to let the defense have GUS tody of the exhibit of the killing.
 "Very charmed. very charmed" he had replied few minutes before to a defense objection.
 "Oh. you're so polite this morn ing" replied Case.
 James Mills, husband of Mrs. Mills. was called to the witness stand early this afternoon. When shown an enlarged photograph of his wife, he identified 1t with an air of de- tachment. as though 1t all were an old story with him. He showed no emotion when speaking of his wife, even in telling when he saw her last.
 Mills Relates His Story
 Speaking in low voice that even the jurors could scarcely hear, he related that Mrs. Mills left their home about 7:30 p. m., on Sept. IA, 1922, and he never saw her again. He told how he sat up almost all night waiting for her to return, and even went to the St. John the Evan gelist church and looked between the rows of seats for her, thinking that perhaps she had suffered one of the fainting spells which sometimes overcame her.
 The next mo ing, he said, Mrs. Hall came to the church. She asked him, he said, if there was sickness in his family. and he answered that no one was sick. but that his Wife had not returned home. during the night. Mrs. Hall said her husband also had failed to return, Mills testl- fled.
 "I asked her, Do you think they've eloped?'" She said, No, l know they are dead. or they'd come home
 Mir, Simpson tried to bring out through the witness that these were not the same words Mills had at tributed to Mrs. Hall in his tesn- mony before the grand jury. Robert McCarter, chief counsel for the de- fense. objected to the attempt to bring put the discrepancy. The en- suing argument resulted in another verbal clash such as have frequently occurred during the trial.
 Miles said Mrs. Hall appeared at the church again at noon on the first day of her husbands disappear ance, still later about five p. m, and again at the time of choir services in the evening.
 Photograph and diagrams of the interior of the Rev. MT. Halls church and his study, were identified by Mills, he said that only four per sons had keys to the church. These persons were the Rev. Mir. Hall, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Minna Clark, and him. self for looking after the altar vest ments and sacrament vessels, the witness said.
 Did you ever see Mrs. Clark rummaging about among the books in the study's shelves?" asked MT. Simpson.
 "No", answered Mills. The Rev. MT. Hall and Mrs. Mills are sup posed to have exchanged letters by placing them in a certain place in the book shelves. Mir. Simpson brought out, through the witness, that Mrs. Clark might have been alone In the pastors study at times.
 MT. Mills told of seeing on the pastors desk. the day before the minister and Mrs. Mills disappeared a newspaper clipping of statement of the Rev. Dr. Percy Sticltney Grant, of New York, on the sub ject of divorce. The relation of these clippings to the states case and how they came to be on the desk, have not been brought out yet.
 Didn't See Wifc's Body
 The witness said that he did not
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