New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-11-29
MRS, HALL ENDS
i HER TESTIMONY
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evidence. didn't you?"
Eyes"
ibid you tell Mr.. Toolan. or any
one else, They must have been kill
sd'?"
no"
Denies Murder Talk
"You didn't say to Mr.. Mills. No,
they've been murdered or they'd
come home'?"
mo"
where did you telephone Mr..
Halls sister from?"
From a drug store"
Used Public Booth
"a public telephone booth?"
"Yes''
what time?"
IT think it must have been about
ten o'clock"
This was Friday morning, after
the murder Thursday night, when
Mrs. Hall telephoned Mrs. Frances
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the minister. Upon learning of her
brothers disappearance. Mrs. Foor-
he notified her sister in New York,
Mrs, Theodore Bonner. and together
they went to New Brunswick.
Did you meet your husbands
sisters at the railroad station?"
"Yes."
Never Notified Police
Although he was out all night,
and you thought something had hap
pened to him, you never notified the
police giving your name?"
NO"
How long after all these inves-
legations and talks did you notify
the police and give your name?"
Mrs. Hall explained that her at
torney, former State Senator Flor
ance, had notified the police Friday
afternoon. Earlier she had told of
calling the police without giving her
name.
Simpson Presses Questions
Time and again Simpson put the
same questions:
why did you let all Friday, the
day after your husband failed to
come home, go by without having
done more to learn where he was ?"
and "Why, if you did not suspect
they we're together did you tell the
Middlesex county authorities in 1922.
They were absent, feared some
harm had come to them. I could
think OF nothing else'?"
Let me ask you again." Simpson
said, "can you tell why you put your
husband and Mrs. Mills together
early on the morning after he fall
ed to come home. and why you said
to Middlesex authorities They were
absent, I feared some harm had
come to them. could think of
nothing else'?"
Learned Mrs. Mills Was Gone
Mrs. Hall smiled at the prosecutor
when he put the question again.
"The last person knew OF his hav-
ing seen was Mrs. Mills. He told me
he was going out to see her about
her hospital bill. l went to the Mills
house to see If they knew where he
had gone and learned that Mrs. Mills
also was missing"
Didn't you hear that telephone
conversation between your husband
and Mrs. Mills?" Simpson continued.
II did not" said Mrs. Hall very
positively.
Then the other question was
brought in again.
why did you sit in the house all
day Friday. doing nothing but tele-
phoning the police and not giving
your right name and then calling
your lawyer in the afternoon and
having him make inquiry" Simpson
asked. "....
THAT question is incorrect and
does not include all the facts"
Robert H. McCarter OF defense coun-
sci asserted In voicing his objection.
The court agreed with him and
the question was changed to state
that Mrs. Hall had not given any
name when she telephoned police
and to include that she had sum-
1noned Mr.. Halls sisters.
Called in Her Lawyer
II telephoned the police in the
morning." said Mrs. Hall. Then I
summoned my sisters-in-law and
after we had discussed what could
be done. I called in Mr.. Florance."
Florance testified last week that
while he did not regard himself as
Mrs. Halls attorney. he had settled
two estate for members Of her fami-
ly.
Simpson read to Mrs. Hall state
ment represented as having been
made by her to Toolan, in which she
was quoted as saying, after her hus-
bands disappearance:
Something must have happened
to him. The only thing that would
keep him (Mr. HalD away is that
some harm has befallen him." In
this same statement Mrs. Hall was
quoted also as saying that If her
husband was with Mrs. Mills 1T was
for some good reason"
Saw Mills Again
ibid you see Mills more than once
that day." asked Simpson, referring
to the Friday after the couples dis
appearance.
Yes"
what time?"
"About one O'clock"
what did you say to him."
Il asked If he had heard anything.
He said no."
Mrs. Hall, in reply to another
question, if she hadn't concluded
her husband and Mrs. Mills were to-
gether, said that she rather cor
Cluded that, as her husband had said
he was going to the Mills home the
evening he disappeared and Mrs.
Mills also had disappeared
Passing on to Friday night, Simp-
son asked Mrs. Hall If she saw
Barbara Tough. a maid in her
home. Mrs. Hall said she had.
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