Evening star., 1926-11-13
Rector'S Letters Containing
Terms of Endearment
Also Are Presented.
FOUND IN MILLS HOME
AFTER DUAL MURDER
Counsel for Widow and Her Broth
ers Again Attack Finger
print Testimony.
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COURTHOUSE. SOMERNILLE.
X. L., November I3.-A 10-cent store
7ntobook became exhibit $500" and
claimed n large part of today's ses-
sion of the IIall-Mills tf'ial The writ
fug il the book. (which for Conven-
3cnre We will call a diary" had been
s6eutified by Charlotte Mills, daugh-
tcr of tho slain Mrs. Eleanor Il. Mills,
Us that of the Rev. Edward w. Hail.
stain with Mrs. Mills, moro than four
Soars ago.
The diary" part OF the book con.
sisted Of number of pages unat-
fached to the covers al the moment.
The state said they had been torn
out while the defense preferred to
= speak of It as a "mutildted book"
over objection of the defense that
the defendants had no knowledge of
tie &o-called diary. had never seen it
and were in no sense concerned with
Il. It was admitted to show the feeling
between the minister and choir singer.
Contents Not Divulgrd
The contents were not revealed, but
the court stated, in describing it for
identification in the record, that the
first date was July 81 and the East
August -.
With the diary In, Is letters said
10 have been written by Mr.. Hall to
Mrs. Mills were admitted in evidence
on the same basis.
The diary and letters were found
an Mrs. Mills home several weeks
efter her death and as published four
years ago. containing terms Of en-
dearment.
The small visiting card which the
State has made one of the corner
stones of it's case again was made
the target of defense fire when court
opened today.
1t is on this tiny card that the prose
Cution is largely depending to prove
its contention that Willie Stevens, one
of the three defendants, was at the
scene of the Staying.
Reporter Resumes Stand.
Herbert Mayer. reporter for the
New York Daily Mirror, resumed the
witness stand for cross-examination as
TO the movements of the card just
prior to the time it was photographed
In the. office of his newspaper. after
having been taken from this State by
one of the police investigators of the
double Slaying.
Two fingerprint experts, who were
present during the photographing in
the newspaper office, previously have
testified that the card. found at the
scene Of the crime, bore the imprint
Of Willie Stevens left index finger.
Mayer testified that he made two
visits to Middletown, n. Y. where the
visiting card was examined by Joseph
a. Faurot, former fingerprint expert
OF the New York police department
He said that on the second visit he
spent two days in Middletown, while
Faurot and Frederick Drewen, finger
print expert of the Jersey City, ~ j.,
police department, examined the card
Drewen earlier had taken the visit
Ing card from New Jersey to the
newspaper office, where it was kept
for a time.
Empty Seats in Courtroom.
The defense contends that what
ever evidence the card may bear in
the form of fingerprint, it has been
made unreliable by the extensive
handling of the card during the four
years since ii was found
For the first time since the trial
began, there We're empty seats in the
courtroom today. More than one
third of the seats in both the court
room and galleries We're vacant.
The doors III their attempt to gain
entrance.
The diary of Mr.. Hall, which the
prosecutor asserted detailed the great
affection" of the minister for his choir
singer. was admitted shortly before
the noon recess.
Robert McCarter, chief of defense
counsel. argued that the diary was not
relevant. since it was found in the
Mills home several weeks after the
killings, and had not been written by
sny Of the defendants.
At first mention Of the diary and
letters Charlotte Mills. who last week
had identified the handwriting as that
OF Mr. Hall. left the room.
When the diary was offered Justice
Parker suggested that defense law
Sers might want to see it.
-Four defense lawyers started for
the stenographer' desk at once, only
TO lie restrained by McCarter. They
were not allowed TO touch the little
J0-cent notebook until the court had
made il plain that defense examina-
tion of the book before a ruling on
its being admitted would not require
acceptance of the mater as evidence
Later when the dairy had been ad-
mitted the attorneys examined it.
MiIkman On Stand.
Harry a. Kolb, who was a milkman
il 1922. but is now a meat salesman.
came to the stand to tell of closing
a door when he delivered milk at the
Hall home between 4 and o'clock on
The morning after the double killing.
He was not able to describe the door,
except "the first one after leaving
Redmond street" On cross eXamina-
tion the defense brought out a sketch
OF the house in an effort to show that
the door might have been one leading
10 = coal closet.
william ]. Grealis, delivery boy for
n New Brunswick tailor, testified
there were some kind of spots, pos
eihly dark ones. on a vest and around
the waistline of trousers of a suit
which Willie ordered him TO have
Cleaned and secured.
Willie Nervous, He Says.
Willie insisted. he said. that pack
ages be delivered and received at the
rear of the house The young man
attempted TO deliver a new suit for
Willie at the front door on the eve
ming Of the day the bodies were found.
nud was sent TO the rear with the in
formation that there was trouble at
the house.
once inside the building he attempted
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