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Show CRM DETAILS I DESCRIBED BY I ONE WHO SAW Two Men and Two Women Quarrel, Then Pistol Shots Heard WIDOW EYE WITNESS Observer Attracted to Field Pursuing Produce Thieves NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. Oct 24. fftlj By the Associated Press) Tho 13 name of the woman reputed to have ifHf I w itnessed the double murder of tho WI Rev. Edward Wheeler Hail and his twl choir singer. Mrs Eleanor R Mills, today to-day became known. She Is Mrs Jane Gibson a widow vvho with her son, conducts a 60 -acre farm on Hamilton Road, in atsparse-ly atsparse-ly settled section, several miles from ip nero" fmm BAYS IN WAIT I Before harvest, time, her fields were frequently entered at night and robbed Shortly before the doubl-murder doubl-murder she decided to end the thievery. thiev-ery. Each night she lay ln Wait. Nearby" Near-by" was a Raddled mule for the pur- pose of pursuit. Tho night of the murder, she w 'S i 'said to have told investigators she !.( was riding down Dobrussvs lane through the Phillips' farm when she saw In a field, tho dim outlines of two men and two women SHE REARS NAME She became curious, halted her H mule and watched There was a moment mo-ment of loud talking, tho sound of a pistol shot, a streak of flame and one of the women dropped. The man and the woman stood over :the slain couple, the story continues and the name of the man was spoken i in horror by the woman, Mrs Gibson then was said to have I become frightened and to have turned turn-ed her mule toward home. |