Show FORECLOSED MORTGAGE MORTGAGES WAS S KILLED FOR THE ACT Murderer of Hallenback Haler back Confesses the Details of a Christmas Eve Crime Grime Crimea a Shot the Old om Man Eleven Times in the Presence of His Hi Wife and Mother N Y r Dee Dec Dee 28 One of the HUSON H J 1 most sensational s murder cases ever eyer known kow in New York state culminated today in a confession by Harvey Bruce Brace Bruce aged 21 in the form for of ofa ofa ofa a statement to his mother moter and aunt The statement Is witnessed by Mayor Charles H Harvey Hare and County Count Trea Tro George Gere H Macy and tells how the murder of Peter Petel A A Hallenbeck Halenbeck a wealthy farmer farer of Greenport Greenport was com corn committed comite ite on Christmas Christma eve by Bruce and Willis Burton Buron and Fred Frd Van Wormer brothers brother aged 20 2 3 and 26 nephews of ofte the te murdered man manThe manThe manThe The full ful purport of the confession will wi not be made public until Monday londay at the coroners coroners inquest but enough has been told to show that the te prison prisoners prisoner ers era er who all al lived in Kinderhook eight eighteen een miles mies from the Hallenbeck home drove to the scene of the crime tied ted their horses at barn went to the rear of the house in the moon moonlight moonlight te light rapped raped on the door dor and when the theold old oki ol man opened it i shot him to death J firing thirteen shots eleven cleven of which penetrated the body The crime cm was w witnessed t by Hallen RaUen becks wife and old ol mother the other we m t oer members of o the t family bg being at Christ Christmas Crt Christmas mas ma eve ee services 11 tern less than t a mile ml die taft tant tnt Until last Jt fall fU the Van Wormer tam fam family f ily ly lived lve in a house ho in Greenport Gp mort mortgaged mr mortgaged to Hallenbeck Because Bu he be bethought thought the boys bys troublesome Hallen Hallenbeck beck bk foreclosed foO the th mortgage more and the t family was W evicted This Ti was wa the baste basis bai of ot the ill I will held against Hal Hallenbeck Ha Hallenbeck The Th mother of the t Van Va Wormers and friends frends tried ti hard by testimony before the coroner to establish an a alibi albi for them The officials had bed h strong r circum circumstantial circumstantial evidence against them t |