New Britain herald., 1926-11-22

during hlS walk saw Henry stevens H> also saw him the next morning In the station at Lavellette. he said
 Was there anything to fix ir your mind seeing Henry Stevens al the station?" asked Case.
 "Yes. I made my will" answered the witness.
 'In the station?"
 "Yes"
 Shown statement which he had made to the state investigators concerning whom he had spoken tc about seeing Stevens the evening of the murder, Piar asserted he did not know whether he had said what was attributed to him in the state ment.
 How do I know what you have put i'll there?" asked the witness. He read the statement and said It was made by him. The supposed discrepancies which Simpson sought to bring out dealt with the Ques- tion of who was the first person Piar had talked to about seeing Stevens.
 Blucfsh Now Important.
 Somerville, N. J.. Nov. 22 Rt-A six pound bluefish caught and eaten | four years ago, has become an i'm portant factor in the alibi by which the defense in the Hall-Mills trial hopes 10 exonerate Henry Stevens | of Many other incidents have figures in testimony adduced to established his alibi, but the fish has assumed the greatest importance although 1t was not caught by Henry Stevens but by Art Applegate. the village carpenter of Lavallette, N. J., on the 1 shores of Barnegat Bay.
 The usual size of the fish, several witnesses said. enable them to recall they had seen Henry Stevens on the beach the night of September IA, | 1922. when Mrs. Eleanor Mills were slain on a farm near New Brunswick N. J., 50 miles away, with the Rev. | Edward w. Hall. pastor of the church where she sang in the choir. | Henry Stevens and his brother, Will lie Stevens, and his sister, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the slain clergyman, are on trial for the murder of Mrs Mills.
 Henry Stevens on Saturday testi- 1 fled that he was fishing on the beach near his home at Lavallette about the hour which the state has fixed as the approximate time of the mur- der. He also testified that he never knew, until after the murder that there was Mrs. Mills, that he had not fired a pistol in 25 years, and that he had never driven any gear shift automobile such as state wit ness said they saw at the scene of the crime.
 r. Mrs. Mills Wounds.
 Mrs. Mills was shot three times In the head and her throat was slashed. The prosecution in it's attempt to prove that it was Henry Stevens who throat, has made much of the fact that Stevens was an expert trap shooter and that he often used a knife in cleaning fish. Five residents of the small seashore town, includ- ing the mayor, testified that they saw him there on that night.
 Last night the lawyers for the de- fense issued a statement aroused by intimation of Prosecutor Simpson in cross s-eXamination of Henry Stevens Saturday. that Willie Stevens was negroid, which the witness promptly denied. Simpson based his question on the alleged failure of his investi- gators to find the official record of Willie Stevens birth. The statement condemns the action of Simpson as malicious persecution" and explains that the baptiimal record of Willie Stevens Is on file in St. Johns church, New Brunswick, N. J. He was born in March, 1872. two years after his brother Henry and two