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Show MRS. GIBSON'S Sit! IMS BY NEIGHBOR; Neighbor Swears 'Witness' Was Visiting Her Home 1 That Evening , NEW BRUNSWICK, N J . NpV. 13. (By the Associated I'ressi An affl-, davit refuting the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, farmer, of what she saw on I the Phillips farm on the night of Sep-i tember 14. Iat. when the Rev, Edv ard Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Iteln-! hardt Mills were murdered, has been obtained from a neighbor of Mrs ('.tb- son's and given to the authorities counsel for the rector's widow announced. an-nounced. neputy Attorney Genera! Mott appointed ap-pointed special prosecutor by Governor Govern-or Edwards to investigate the crime, was not in New Brunswick, and n officio.! of-ficio.! announcement of the receipt of the affldnvit was Obtained by Timothy j Pfeiffer, Mrs. Half's attorney. The affidavit Is signed by Mr-. Nel-r lie j. Russell, whose home is nc-.tr thai of the welf-styled "eye witness' of the, Hall-Mills murder. It seta forth thai on the night of September 14, during the time that Mrs. Gibson said in her, statement to the Authorities that Mie was near the scene of the shooting, she wan it the home of Mrs. Russell Mr Pfelffbr said tho affidavit had been obtained after Mrs Russell had written to Mrs. Hall telling her that Mrs. Gibson was not on the farm w h n Khe had said was. Mrs. Hall, lo fald. received the following biter on November 7: "Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall. "Madame: "In regard to September 14. Mrs lane Gibson was hot at the Phillips farm at 10 o'clock. Bhe eamo over al 10 or s little before to tall me she hi 1 taken my dog from a man on Hamilton road. She sat on the steps of my shanty a while and 1 gave her $1 fo" keeping my dog. Then I went with her to her home and tfot the dog, We talked a while and then 1 went home at 11 o'clock." . 1 |