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Show mm story MAY BE BARRED Frosecution Trios to Keep Mrs. Hall Away From Grand Jury NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J . Nov fi (By the Associated Press.) The prosecution pros-ecution In the Hall-Mills murder n-vestlgatioh n-vestlgatioh intends to avail Itself of every legal right to prevent Mrs Frances Noel Stevens Hall, widow of the slain rector, from appearing he-fore he-fore the grand Jury which probably will convene this week for an inquiry into the crime Mrs Hall has expressed a willingness willing-ness to sign a waiver of Immunity to ret her statement before the Inquisitorial Inquisi-torial body. The widow would make her plea to be heard. It was understood, under-stood, on the ground that she regard herself as having been put under suspicion by the account given tho authorities by the so-called "eye-wlt-ness Mrs. Jane Qlbsoii Under the New Jersey law she is entitled to tho opportunity to clear herself of this suspicion. TWO ROADS TO BIiOCK. The counter-movement of the pros-'ecutor pros-'ecutor to prevent her appearanc e will consist of an attempt, It was said, to have the Krand Jury denv this permission per-mission while the authorities will decline de-cline to serve n subpoenal- Without either of these. Mrs. Hall would be I unable to ha her statement reviewed by the grand Jury. Deputy Attorney General Mott. special spe-cial prosecutor, conducting the Investigation Inves-tigation for the state, will be In N 0 V Brunswick on Thursday, according to present reports, to prepare for the presentation of the case before the jury. James Mills widower of the slain woman, also expressed a wllllngnc M to appear "before the grand jury. "They know my alibi." he said, "and I'm perfectly willing to appear " M W WITNESS POUND. Local authorities said thnt, through the discovery of a new witness, they had been able to account for almost every moment of the time of Mr Hall between the hour when he was called from his home on the night of Sept. 14, until after 9 o'clock, when the shootings are believed lo have occurred. The new witness Is said to he David Speller, a grocer, and his story, which indicates that the rector took a little used route to reach the Phillips farm, is that he met a man answering Mr. Hall's description on a road beyond the end of the trolley line by which Mr. Hall is known to have ridden from his home to the city limits |