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Show A A A AAA A A A jl. WIDOW GIVES I NAME OF MAN I AND OF WOMAN I i "Those Awful Shrieks Haunt Me" Eye Witness Declares STILL NO ARRESTS i Special Prosecutor Declares Grand Jurv Must Sift Facts NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J . Oct. 26. Mrs Jane Gibson, pig raiser, who claims to have witnessed the- murder WVm of Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and !a Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills today told a rljCfl newspaperman that she had Identified frpirj the man who she says -shot the rec-tor, rec-tor, as well as Identifying the women who sh asserts was with the slayer. Mrs. Gibson, who was on the Phil- aT'! lips farm the night of the double mur-der, mur-der, looking for corn thieves, and who claims to have heard the slay e r s name called by his woman companion, said that she did not know the Identity or l he slayer at the time, but that sh '"siri eccntly had recognized him in tho prosecutor's offl, .- m New r.runswlck. SHE KNOWS YVOMI V Mrs. Gibson, who It was learned. Wednesday had told tho authorities the name of the slayers companinn said today that she had once met her at a rummage sale and Instantly had fj recognized her at the seen' of tho t1 murder on the Phillips farm. Sho RIt) added that sho had seen her since t lh'' the double killing and was sure of her recognition. 1 U Wilbur A. Mott, special prosecutor in charge of the case was quoted to ! :(": the effect that there might be an ar- p 1 ! rest within an hour. But Mr. Mott I added to his cjuoted utterance a phrase which he says he used in the first Instance In-stance " or in two weeks " 'fc ! Ho Intimated, although he would wn not say definitely, that no arrest would be made until the case has been laid before the Somerset county grand jury and an indictment or indictments y 1 returned He declined to say when ho P would go before that body. , While it was true Mr. Mott said. I that Mrs. Gibson farmer and pig-rais er, had signed a statement, that document docu-ment did not contain anything else she had not already told the authorities and he could see no need at present j for an Immediate arrest. Ho declared, however, that he was ready to order HI one or several arrests without waiting for grand Juy action if circumstances made haste advisable. SOMi; SKEPTICISM. Mr. Mott expressed skepticism as to Mrs. Gibson's Identification In her Statement Of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Wheel-er Hall victim with Mrs. Eleanor Retnhardt Mills of the slayer's fury i ise that Identification was made n the strength of a photograph. Mrs. Gibson never had seen the rector be-fore be-fore the night of the shooting, he saht Asked whether Mrs. Gibson ever bo- r . 1 -1 V.a i,.An,nn oho Mnn.l. Jf 11 lOIC Ilil'l Cc-eil llr nuinun i-nt iu-iui- fled s being present at the shooting, rjjp'fc and who, she declared, had screamed J the name of a man long under susp'.- T ' clon, he declined to answer. IFfr As soon as Mrs. Gibson's statement al had been obtained, Detective Mason j; ft took It to Mr. Mott at Nev.ark. whilu Trt t'olonel Schwarz Kopf, head of th J state police, started about the same IM'f lime for the Manhattan police head- If rarters. W hat his mission was could not be learned It was recalled how- , V ever, that the theory had been ad- UVf vanced that persons who had rcac'n j ,ljf to be jealous of the relations of the t'l'v minister and Mrs. Mills had hired hTjjf gunmen to do the actual slaying. N y SHE TALKS TO REPORTERS AlLr refusing for two days to see Mr"? I reporters who sougrrt details of her statement to the authorities and turn- lug watchdogs loose on those who up- i'jtsj pros shed her little farm two miles out H i1 from New- Brunswick. Mrs Gibson last If ' r night spoke freely of what she snld IryV ;,he witnessed on the Phillips farm on v ,1 the night of September 14. ' 1 'Those awful shrieks," she said, n' "are plainer in my cars tonight than ,': i 'hey were at the moment of the mur- H rvtj der. 1 hev haunt me.'' She said that ifljf'j she could positively identify one of the f ' " j i persons she t,avv in the struggle be- j,Sf neath the tree as a woman who has it! since figured prominently in discus- j " 4 slons and Inquiries Into the case. 14 Mrs. Gibbons said that she was rid- 1 tl lug on her mule, Jennie, seeking HH trail of thieves who had looted her I'l'Fi barn when she became aware of tho l Ml fight under the crabapple tree. fill' I ERRU3LE BATTLE. "My first Impression was that of a jijf'f terrible battle a fight for life." she I said ' All foui of the people seemed M to be struggling together They wore talking loudly, but together, so that I j i. could not distinguish what they said, Ij ., until the shots were fired and one of j ( f the women Screamed 'he name of the 4 man I mentioned In my statement. a ll i nan nan ine ii . avnci; ui miua to call out, I might have presented tho Jl "f murder. But it all- happened so l- Ii denly 1 was stunned. And after the .',v shots the agonizing cries of Mrs Mills I, jr filled me with terror. All I succeeded U i , in doa w ii ' '..ii1.. Jena 's , i arouhu and ride away. M mind is It ' (Continued From Pope One.) c o BRITAIN NOW IN THROES OF REAL CAMPAIGN (Continued from Pace One) tho land. Thirteen hundred candidates candi-dates have up to now entered the campaign cam-paign for membership in the house of I commons. Of these about. 4 2f are HHl Conservatives in round numbers la- HHS bor has 400 candidates In the field. H" the Asqulthlan or Free Liberals 800 and the Lloyd Oeorglan or National Liberals 200. The little Welshm in who lost his post as prime minister last week Is vigorously striving to ln-erease ln-erease the number of candidates un-I un-I dcr his banner. To obtain an outright majority In the new parliament any one party IB would have to elect 315 candidates. It I , t wiH he s"in, thrfore, ihat the Con-ervatlves Con-ervatlves and Laborttes are the only H two with enough candidates in tin field to obtain an independent major-! ity. Their organizations have been whipped into far better shape than those of the1 other parties. The Laborlte manifesto holds a prominent place In all tho morning papers today. They emphasize Its i leading point s In heavy type headlines, head-lines, showing how unpalatable the ln-ibor ln-ibor platform is to most of tho papers. jOnly two of them devote a ful editorial edi-torial to the manifesto. The Morning jPost dubs it a dreary document and la 'rather obvious fallun to desaambla the iron claws of communism in the ,nlco woolen glove of charity " The Westminster ,.izeite admits ,that there is much In the Laborlte manifesto which the liberals readily 'endorse, but says the task to which j labor has set itself is herculean and I would need the work of many parliaments parlia-ments to complete. Regarding tho iLabortto proposal to fix higher levies on capital the Gazette declares that '"whether or not this was practicable or desirable during tho boom period of 1919, it is neither desirable nor practicable In the present period of depression " EYES ON GLASGOW One of tho main mnti.-rs of interest inter-est In the whole election IS Glasgow, where th n-w prime minister, Andrew Ronar Law. has two opponents In his campaign for re-election as the member mem-ber from tho central division of that city Fornn-r Bailie Mitchell is his opponent op-ponent on tho labor ticket and Sir Georgo Palsh is opposing him as a ifrec liberal. Labor Is making a very strong campaign cam-paign among the larc population of Glasgow. At present only one of the fifteen consttyUi nciea in that city is represented by a labor member, but the party has for a Ion? while co-ducted co-ducted earnest propaganda In the big Industrial communities and it teems llk'-ly to fulfill its hope of gaining a large representation. I One of the candidates in Glasgow Us the communist. John MacLean. whose term of IS months in prison for sedition expired Wednesday. Treated Treat-ed as a political prisoner, MacLean devoted de-voted a great part of his time behind the bars to study of political matters Coming at this time, his new freedom brings to mind the fact that he was released from confinement while undergoing un-dergoing a similar punishment in 191S In order that he could participate In the elections of that year. J Reports that Premier Bonar Law in his expocted reform of administrative departments might relegate the works of the ministry of labor to some other d partmt nls have strongly aroused tho leaders of the labor party, who will ; vigorously oppose any such change. The labor ministry, founded In a small ;way In 1918. has grown to be a big department de-partment with an annual expenditure of almost 5.000,000 for salaries and allowances alone. on |
