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Show I DOUBLE HER I ACTION DELAYED Hall-Mills Evidence May Not Be Presented Before Monday SOMEKSVILl.F !, N. J., Nov. 1 -1 ij 41 Th dati- fixfd Monday fe.r the- prnsMi-KM prnsMi-KM tatlon of evldftUCO In the Hall-Mill murder mystery to 11n Somerset county grand jury, was unfixed again Monday night. Special Deputy Attornf". Gen rnl Moit chi-f Invostlfator or th.-ing th.-ing of th R. Edward Whoeler liaii and Mrs. Elfn--, u. Mills, announced in the morning that his case would B"' If laid before th" grand Jury next Thursday NEW SHERIFF ENTERS. County Prox.cutor Bookman, I BOClatod With Mr Mott in the case, announe&d ;'t night thnt tt wouldn't. Further postponement was n. r.a:nry. pfiS lie siild. because ;i new nl;erlff takes offic today ami will nave to famlllar-lzo famlllar-lzo himself with the case before anything any-thing more an be done The new sheriff he said, probably will not be ready before Monday. Mr Mott declared he had all hla evidence In hand and felt reasonably certain that It was sufficiently tbrc-Ibie tbrc-Ibie to warrant the return of the in-I in-I dlctniinis to le . ut'ht. He refiised to ko Into details concerning con-cerning the testimony to be presented j Or the V.'ltnrcrr; to ho cnlled On the heels of the announcement ! it was learned that Hcnrv arpendei cousin of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall. I I widow of tile r.l-iln r..',r. bud suddenly sud-denly been trlcken ill and rushed t a hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis Physicians said he could not he questioned for at least ten days. Carpender Is one of the j wftneseea who had been frequently finest toned lv investigating officials, :mi was to have met Mr. Mott In ( on-ference on-ference today j ! AFFIDAVITS DISOREDITED. County Detective Oeorge Totten nn-j nouncod the authorities possessed evidence tending to discredit the, statement of lh affidavit filed with Mr Mott bv Mrs. Nellie Russell, negroes, who Uvea in a shanty a .ch.rt dl6tence from te? piir farm of Mrs Jan. Gibson. Tn her affidavit Mrs. Russell sworn that she had been talk- Iing to Mrs Gibson the night of September Sep-tember 14. at which time the pig lalser claims to have witnessed the slaying of Mr. Hall and Mrs Mills. Mrs. Hall addressed letters to Mr. Mott and Foreman Glbb of the grand jury, declaring hi-r Innocence of an', participation In th double slaying, and asking that she be permitted to tell her Story before the Investigating body. The letters said she mi willing Ho sign a waiver of Immunity before ehe testified. |
