| Show WOMAN WITNESS ACCUSES PAIR I Crowd Lan Laughs hs at Mills Hall Mills Dr Murder ur er Hearing SOMMERVILLE N J Aug 14 H Ily By By lh The Associated A Press oman coman pig ralser's stor story discredited tour our years years ago Is the tho basis baals of ot the states state's hope for lor Indictment of ot persons charged with the murder ot of the Rev Re Edward Wheeler Jail hall halland Halland and Mrs Eleanor Mills his hia choir singer I That inai wa was wasi revealed revealed l Friday at at the Inc first session of ot the hearing of or lien Hen Henry I Iry ry D Carpender New York and ana New Brunswick millionaire and I Willie Stevens eccentric recent brother of oC the he rectors rector's widow arrested arrested and held without l Mrs t rances Stevens Hall lieu the widow Is at erty erty erty on S 1 ball also charged with the double slayings The pig lg ig raiser rat r Mrs Jane gibson Ibson said by State Senator Alex Simpson special prosecutor direct directing ing tho the renewed Investigation t tp tobe be the slates slate's chief witness pointed In turn to Carpender and St ven and pitching her voice In a dra dra- dramatic dra- dra dramatic matic matie key said they were the men menthe the ohe saw laW at the crabapple tree the night ot of September 14 H 1922 Carr Car pender she said had bad I shin shiny In his hand just before tour I shots were tired fired I WAS AS CIUCCI RIDER RIDEn As the crowd in the tha c gasped with surprise or roared with laughter Mrs Irs GIbson who said she was a former fprmer circus rider and could not tell the tho place of ot hOc her birth told her story ot of how while tOil fOllowing owIng a wagon she thought contained corn stolen from h hOr r she she sh came came upon the tho murderers and saw their tace faces In headlights the tho th glare of ot automobile head head- lights bights A moccasin she ahe said lost In Debussey's lane near whore where the bodies were were found was pro pro- pro pro- I 6 evidence A as af and by her The of ot its Ils find find- find finding ing lag were era not revealed The gasps ot of when Mrs Gibson pointed to Carpen Carpender who smiled hack back at t her and Stet Ste- Steens ens cna who was not perturbed by th the accusing finger pointed at him RECALLS nrC PLOT ILOT I Charlotte Mills daughter ot of the tha slain chorister told ot an attempt to poison polson her mother Recalling conversations with with- her mot he Charlotte Charlotte- who who was only 15 is at the timo ot of o tho the murders said that Milly had gone to the Hall flaIl home one afternoon to look hook at the tho flowers In Mrs Halls Hall's garden and was In- In in invited to have O tea teu Charlotta Charlotto eMS 1 watho her mother noticed that she wee wa wn tho the only ono one drinking the tho tea tea Atti Aft er cc taking several sips alps she sho became violently ill and did not recover for tor several da days daya s rn spectators spectator To Fo tho the the spec spec- spec a brother of ot the tho late Beekman first ol ot tho tha tour prose prose- prOsecutors litra the cuton to sift the e In the romantic killings marched down an aIsle of ot the tho courtroom carrying under his arm tho alleged documents for which the state Stab has been searching for tor weeks This Title witness Marcus Beekman was ed by Senator on for Tor or allegedly trying to 10 auction the documents to the tho highest bidder denied ho ha had tried to sell the papers He Ile had d found the tho papers among his effects |
