Evening star., 1926-09-10
ADMISSION BY PAIR
THEY HEARD SHOTS
BACKS MRS. GIBSON
Vestryman and Young Wom-
an in Lane Night of Hail.
Mills Murders.
BY the Associated Press.
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| By the Associated Press.
SOMERVILLE n. j., September
| iO.-Ralph V. Gorsline and Miss
Katherine Rastall. both of New
Brunswick, have admitted that they
were within 800 yards of the spot
at which Rev. Edward Wheeler
! Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were
killed four years ago.
| Detectives who grilled Gorsline for
Pig hours and Miss Rastall for
nearly as long. today announced they
| had confessed hearing the shots
voices and a womans screams.
| Through their confessions the
State is expected to secure important
confederation of the testimony of
as to what she saw on the night OF
the murder.
Different Stories Told.
The two. have told three different
stories, detectives said, and are to
be questioned further in an effort to
reconcile their varying accounts of
what happened on the night of the
murder, and TO make sure that their
latest account of their activities will
stand up.
Gorsline and Miss Rastall at first
adhered to their story of four years
ago-that he had accompanied Miss
RaStall to her home after a motion
picture show.
From Miss Rastall was secured the
admission that they had been at the
entrance of De Russey's lane, which
borders the Phillips farm, where the
murders too place Confronted with
this, Gorsliue admitted, according to
Detectives, that they heard shots and
screams.
Another Version Given.
After the questioning had continued
for long hours, police say, the story
was again changed by the admission
that they had been within 300 yards
of the spot at which the murderers
were a. work.
IN his first statement admitting that
he had been rear the scene Of the
crime Gorsline told of hearing four
shots and then a scream, which turned
into a wall, followed by a moan and
a gasp. The sounds seemed to come
| from the Phillips farm. he stated.
In this statement. which was made
on Wednesday night, Gorsine said
that as he was coming out the Y. M.
G. A., at about ! / pm. he met Miss
| Rastal coming out OF a theater.
! He offered to take her home. They
drove around town to Derussey's lane,
| where. Gorsline said, he backed his
car to turn around. A small car came
| out of the lane as he was turning.
| Heard Shots and Scream.
| 1t was then that they heard the shots
and the woman's scream.
| Miss Rastall and he discussed what
| they had heard on the following Sun
! day after the bodies had been found,
/ he averred, and agreed to say nothing.
! In the second statement. made dur
| ing last night, Gorsline is reported to
/ have replied when questioned as to
! Mrs. Gibson S story:
! Yes. | know her statements regard
! ing the mumblinG voices, the shots
| fired, the screams and the moaning are
true.
They coincide with what | heard
on the night of September IA"
Vestryman i'm Church.
Gorslne a vestryman in the Epis-
| copal Church OF ST. John the Eva
! gelist. of which DIR. Hall was rector.
! Is 1llmored to have told Henry Ste
vens. brother Of Mrs. Frances Stevens
! Hall. widow of the slain clergyman
, of the alleged intimacy between DR..
Hall and Mrs. Mills. his choir singer.
| In another statement Gorsline
! placed the time he and Miss Rastall
! reached the lane as about 1915 pm.
! He parked his car and might have
| put out the lights. he said.
| Miss Rastall in her statement SAID
| she had kept silent four years be
cause she knew Mr.. Gorsline was
! married We didn't want TO get
mixed up in it," she added.