New Britain herald., 1926-11-15
MRS. MILLS WAS
 OPEN IN HER LOVE
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Hall and her brothers


 of these statements.
 Mckeever acted as stenographer and also as supreme court examiner in the police investigat tion, in that he administered oaths. When shown a copy of the statement which Sheriff Conklin is alleged to have made and then refused to sign he testified that the typewriter portions were the sheriff's original statement, and the pencil notations were changes made by Conklin.
 Senator Case on cross-examination brought out that McKeever had ad- ministered oaths before witnesses testified in the police investigation. He did this by virtue of his office as supreme court examiner, but said he had no definite court in- structions to proceed in this fashion.
 You were conducting a hearing?" demanded Case.
 No" replied McKeever.
 Swore In Witnesses.
 You were swearing witnesses in advance of preparing depositions?"
 Yes"
 You swore man before he be- gan to talk?"
 "Yes."
 This paper of Sheriff Conklin's was prepared as a deposition to be signed and sworn to notwithstanding that he was placed under oath at the outset?"
 Yes"
 And he refused to sign it?"
 Yes"
 Did he ever sign it?"
 No"
 Case brought out that two mem bers of the state police and five members of the Jersey City police were present at the hearing, among them Captain Walsh of Jersey City.
 "They were all firing questions at you?"
 Yes"
 Much About Walsh.
 Here Simpson interrupted 10 ask the witness if Captain Walsh was not the man who had come to Somerville a few years ago to aid in the capture of the slayer of State Trooper Coyle.
 Didn't Senator Case write an eff fusive letter of thanks to Commis- sloner Beggans of Jersey City and wasn't a reward of $2,500 divided between Walsh and another police man?" Simpson asked.
 Yes" replied McKeever.
 Lets see about this" put in Case.
 Do you know I wrote letter of thanks?"
 T heard that you did"
 Did you know that Walsh got the reward?"
 T heard that he did"
 Did you know if this Captain Walsh is the same man who accord ing to Justice Sutphen gave a wit ness an awful beating up in the Coyle case?" continued Case over Simpsons objection.
 T don't know,' replied Me Keever.
 DO you know if this Captain Walsh is the same man who chained Willard Staub. witness, to a cot at state police headquarters in this in- vestigation
 T don't know" ..
 Hearse Driver Tcstifies.
 John Stillwell. who drove the hearse in which the body of the Rev. Mir. Hall was removed from New Brunswick to Brooklyn for burial, testified that he saw a scratch between an inch and a half and two inches long on the left side of Mrs. Halls face. He said he ob- served the scratch while on the ferry boat which took the funeral party from St. George, Staten Island, to Brooklyn. He testified he observed the scratch when Mrs. Hall lifted Ter funeral veil to put her handker- chief 10 her nose.
 Stillwell, a small aggressive man, who said that he was now an eleva- tor operator for Q bank, was the tar get of sarcasm by Case in his cross examination. The defense counsel brought out that the automobile in which the witness said he saw Mrs. Hall, was on the opposite side of the ferry from the spot where the hearse was, and that the witness could not recall the other women sitting with Mrs. Hall in the car.
 Trolley Man Called.
 James Meaney who operated a trolley car in New Brunswick at the time of the murders, was called 10 the witness stand and told of Mrs. Miils boarding his car to 20 to the place at the edge of the town, where she was to meet the Rev. Mir. Hall. She got off at the end Of the trolley line about S:20 o'clock in the eve ming, the witness said. This was slightly less than two hours before the time which the state has fixed as the time Of the murder. The de- fense did not crcss examine him,
 Frances Coyne. an employe of tho trolley company at the time, also testified to seeing Mrs. Mills on the car. He was asked only two dues- tions by the defense. and these brought out that he did not Know the exact time when he saw Mrs Mills.
 Mrs. Elsie Barnhardt, sister of Mrs. Mills, was the next witness. She told of seeing her sister and the Rev. MT. Hall together several times during the year before their deaths
 Saw Two Together.
 She said she saw them together at Mrs. Mills home four or five times, and that she could tell they though lot of each other" She said she also saw them together in the minister's church.
 Eleanor told me she loved Mir. Halls little finger more than Jim whole body Mrs. Barnhardt con-