Show I Defense Rests R In In Murder WIdow Submits To Th T Questioning Mrs Hall Sticks to to Her Claim That She Knows Nothing Noth- Noth Nothing Nothing ing of Murder D Doesn't Believe Rectors Rector's Attach ment For Choir Singer Was Serious Doesn't Re- Re Remember Re Remember member Tone of L Letters She Wrote After Tragedy N 3 1 T Ko Nov Nor lJ- lJ 19 SO By 19 By The Associated Press Press- Press Jess I J The defense in MilIs murder trial tHai rested at 2 19 p in m today after spending slightly less less than seven das da's days in iii presenting its testimony The state tate had required 13 da days with rebuttal introduced to follow folIo the defenses defense's closing Tho defense intro intro- 82 witnesses while the thc state used M L 8 84 Mrs Mr II France rances Hall let left l ft tho Ilie I ho wit wit- witness witness ness stand tand at 12 1220 20 after tor for tour four our hours hour luring during which she hc denied any of ot the th s ahing slaying ot of her lier husband and nJ Mrs Mills Mrs lIall hall 1111 testified for tor or two hours Saturday and about the ho same lime tinie today Throughout she was vas as calm cairn and did not falter as a Alexander special prosecutor plied her with questions question many of oC the th questions question being belne repeated several se times lines FLIGHT bLIGHT EXT Today she sh said ald that she sho was WILS not yet et convinced that th thre thi re was anything s serious between her band the Hev Edward Edard W V Hall and anI Mrs Mills I 3 admit was there was there was slight ht attach attachment me nt she ahe said mid but but but I 1 am not convinced eon It was al anything serious In pro pre pre figus testimony she he h had said id that ho never doubted her husbands husband's fidelity and believed him devoted to her liei Mrs lra Hall hail was woI wa the ho last trio o of defendants to 10 Her 1 Henry lIt and Willie Ste- Ste venn veils also al o denied any knowledg of at the death loath of ot tho minister and choir singer GJ Cli OF Ol ns 1 Mr ra II Hall II was ask asked d to identify a 3 package of ot letters Their na- na nature na nature ture was not revealed but the th fact act that bat 1 of oC them had bad cen writ writ- written written ten ton on mourninG t In- In Indicated In Indicated that they hey were in letters written after acter the th Rev Hey Air Mr flails lIall's I death When the letters 19 1 Ia n all were all marked tor for Id Simpson continued Now Mrs MrsHall Hall hail you OU have said laId that this ca- ca ca calamity lamity was the most moat terrible thing In your life lite that It 11 wiped out all that made mado life lite lit worth living Isn't It a 0 fact tact that In all 1111 thes 19 let let- let letters there thero Is not one phrase ot of sorrow not one ono recollection for forthe forthe the husband for tor whom you have testifIed you Ou were so o d oled DJS T HI IJ I J have no recollection said Mrs Hall flaIl Mr Mills love lov letters to the Mr Hall lIall were to Mrs Hall She look looked d at them without showing any sign of ot emotion never nr seen these thos th letters on Two To Ti T o 0 1 m SLAIN SLAIN RECTORS RECTOR'S WIDOW WITNESS Continued From Page Fae P sc One until after acter the crim asked Simpson No Xo you didn't start out In tn Derus- Derus tey Derus-tey soy's lane lan because of or yole finding those letters letter from Crom Mrs Irs Mills to your husband or tint hit were brought to 10 you by Mrs Mn Minna Clark No 0 You You were never Informed or of their contents No You had hear heard 1 then no con con- conversation con conversation that they were to meet No 0 DIDN'T SEt SED CRIME CHUm You You didn't go co ther theN Derus- Derus sty Derus-sty lane Ione with H Henry nry Stevens Ste and durIn during a a quarrel 1 l Henry Stevens and Mr Ir Hall Bolli saw your husband shot dowa I did not You didn't see tec Mrs Irs Mills shot three times and her throat thoat cut and her tongue and larynx torn out No 2 0 On redirect examination Mrs lUll was wa Vo asked l again sr AJ- AJ oJ to her ler views lews as a ot Of today regarding h r husbands husband's relations relation ii I lh h Mrs Irs Mills l She ah wa was not I ot permitted J by th court to ay wha what wha herIp her ude Js ja but was asked if her hor views view have changed Not sot In regard retard to hi hIs hij affection Cor or me me she he replied But In retard regard r gard to his relation with Mrs Mn Mr Mills Yes Ye The fhe court recessed for to Co lunch os as Mrs Irs Hall left the tho stand i COURTHOUSE Somerville N T J Nov 29 BY 29 By The Th Associated Press Press-l of oC opinion be between tween Mrs Mr Frances Fances Stevens Hall Halland Halland and Special la Prosecutor Alexander Simpson ova the definition ot of the word casualty first appear tn Ing In tho the Hall Milis case cao Satur tur day continued in lice her cross exam today Issue arose today soon oon alter aCter Mrs H Hall II wont to tho the witness stand to resume her testimony In lii her own o behalf She Slid h d testified that she telephoned police headquarters 1 lri Fri Friday day morning after acter husband had hod Culo to tp return home Thursday night asking a It if there thero ther had hod been any ony casualty reported QUESTION PUT JUT Why aid old you ou ask tha thu police if C there had boA been ny l violent deaths reported when you did not y kno kno your our husband had been mur dere dered SImpson p on asked I did not said Mr tall Hall I 1 d It if there thero ther had lied been any gas Casualty means violent death saId Simpson aln p on I Not ot 2 necessarily- necessarily returned Mrs MrshalL frs Hall I NO 1 SUCH MEANING XING Simpson had attempted to show by his hi Iu questioning Saturday that the use USO ot of o the word casualty In he her Inquiry to the th police indicated o that liSt hat her h r husband baa haa been murdered Defense couns counsel I t then en said that tho ho word had lad no such meanIng but was properly Used as a referring to possible acci accidents dents f The court ocourt tate rave no official and no call was wae sent lent tor for a diction diction- dictionary dictionary dictionary ary This his was the tho first time Mrs hall had attempted d to correct the proS proS- Her h brother In his testimony several oral time called the tho ho lawlers lawler's law er att attention to lax In on and ond uso use oj 01 terms although no actual defini defIni- defInition definition tion was WIlS Involved nn |