Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1926, Page 5

SIMPSON FAITHFUL - TOPUBLICINTRIAL Hall-Mills Prosecutor in Dra- matic Scenes to Win Murder Case. BY FRANCES NOYES HART. Epectal Dispatch to The Star COURTHOU SOMERVILLE, N, J., November 10.—One thing is cer- tain, the public has a faithful serv- ant in the specigl prosecutor of Somerset County. As long as he is connected with the Hall-Mills murder trial, the Hall-Mills murder trial is going to have at least one good, gerviceable, dramatic feature that will qualify it for its place of honor on the front page of even our most conservative journals. Sunday, with court adjourned, might baffle the most resourceful, but Senator Simp- ®on is more than resourceful, he is inspired, Sunday is the very day to hurry w star witness in a snow-white ambulance over 30 miles of rolling country stained with the gold and rust and copper and scarlet of Autumn. Sunday is the very day to snap fingers under the noses of the outraged medical authoritles. Mon- day is a good day to confront a nice, #mug Burns detective with a pallid U vest n. Identification 5 mati d when a man's life hangs on whether the jury be- lieves the pale Gorsiine or the wentle- known to some as “Greasy t it becomes dramatic enough to appeal to the most jaded. Tuesday—well, Tuesday proved rath- »r a stift day; cross-examination of experts of any kind is apt to prove fairly arid fore. Tuesday was a good day to send a shock of sickened hor- ror through every one of the 300 languld spectators relaxed in the courtroem. The public should cer- tainly be grateful to the prosecutor, und the press, which is also the serv- ant of the public, should be even more grateful. Simpson a Showman. As a showman, Senator Simpson turns Barnum into a rank amateur. He is, however, more than a show- man. Whether one admires or de- plores his methods, he rates un- grudging admiration for the vigorou wlert and undaunted manner in Whicl s conducted this trial. He is vere handicap. His hose evidence he he intended to open struck down _before even well under way. He has wasted little time lamenting that fact, however: as a matter of fact, he wasted little time on anything. Tie withdraws questions objected to so swiftly that one can hardly hear them whisk by into oblivion. He reframes an inquiry so rapidly that even the protesting Mr. Me- Carter does not have time to object Defors it is answered. He bows before the court’s judgment with a supple alacrity and defense that endears him o an Lly satiated with argu- ment, and i ed one trick #ince 10 o'elock struck on November 8, unpi liced observer has yet to hear of it gray mist hung over Somerville sterday, and some of it managed the courtroom. Rain The fingerprint ex- 2z of Newark and Faurot of ‘ross-examined bound to be performance be- vital moment to that the card contends was heel, Stevens' fingerprints, not_actually found there bear his prings. ed bit of pasteboard ter romanticall ing card” be wtion, is of tmportance to both sides, fense undoubtedly i trantic efforts to it was D i involved, fng the innocent bystander: Atempts to Discredit. The d¢ adopted itss usual tac- ! ties. Fhe jury must be persuaded | two experts were shady | ous churacters, and, sec- | in't the most remote | they u this in perts, Mr. ex-Deput New by the a len: can includ- were talking | ished th bad idea to sugges W probably this ¥ might all be a cross be- | \fangled nonsense and old | and that a lot of broad-minded farmers it too ously. { in he baved | 1d have been enough to wdent believer into a hardened skeptic. Possibly it did. Po shly not. At any rate, 1:30 saw M “arter still unging at Mr. Fauro returned from lunch like a refreshed. Two o'clock saw | still at conde- | - to be after | d, take - Simpson un “clowning.” | ally rebulied | tartly. At two- examination was chloroform, in so far | om was _concerned. | d deep In their chairs, ne to he rainawashed | through which they could i boughs tossing against a d then a feeble inter- | wved, when the prose- | ck his witness on re- picked up the | fense had tangled | em out again so ue weaving them | nd intricate pattern des But still s and the same Every ant losest to h 1 those long nes over and Expert Quits Stand. At three o'clock it was beginning ‘o seer that no matter how desperate. | 1y fll Mrs. Gibson might be, she would | have ample time to effect a slow, de- liberate _convalescence before both eldes and Justice Parker himself wera to relinquish the still courteous but | somewhat worn ex-deputy commis sioner and then, suddenly, the wi ness box was empty. Mr. Faurot was | t stir went through the urtroom. The exp were gone; her® weren't going to_be an more 1 words cop” and and “‘conformation” sounded for the last time. But who was this other whis gray-haired, bald, tired-looking man climbing into the hox? Another axpert. Oh. kind heavens—another expert! Dr. Otto H. Schulize, medical assiftant to tho district attorney of New York. The courtroom drew a fong, despairing breath. Another kind of an expert, to be sure, a medi- cal expert—still, from now on, an ex- pert is som to be reckoned with, as occupants of this | curtroom ned Fumbles in Mat Box. Senator fumbling nrough in oked like n was sue paper al bo; tling. himset the wit- {w {red that ‘iturn the fra 0., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1926. Harriet Lorenz, 5 years old, i jured in the La Plata tornado, with her mother, Mrs. Ralph Lorenz, at Providence Hospital. Harriet's sister, Frances, was also injured. Bruce McCarthy, 7 years old, injured in the tornado, at Providence Hos- pital. Bruce’s brother, Chester McCarthy, sitting at the bedside. Photographs taken this afternoon. ness box, was explaining that he had performed innumerable autopsies— that was his busine The entire | courtroom, with a perfectly audible | sigh of incredulous horror, drew hack | in their chairs as thoush from some physical menace. Drew back, and then, | alas, human nature being human na- | ned forward cagerly in their | chairs to see better the reallv fright- | ful object, dappled scarlet and chalk that Senator Simpson was | placing on the édge of the box. - two. By the time that the d that they were in sged position in order to | report the reactions of others and not | to concern themselves about their | own, one chair in the courtfoom Wi empty and one head was bowed so| low that only the edge of black hat | with a pearl pin_thrust through it} could be seen. stte Mills' had | forgotten that supposed 1o be o good reporter—the courtroom e her no more that afiernoon nces Stevens Hall, after h start, had forgotten tha’ she was in the role of fron-willed and | unemotional s Not once for the | hour ined was sh: able to in to the witness box, vhich | she generally watches with cool, level, | appraising eyes and faintly ironic| Lips. It was small wonder. Head Is Ghastly White. | On ths edge of that box was a head, | ghastly white, with even ghastly splotches of red. is the color of only nore | Al cone | rusty ator Case, after a stunned moment, inquired in ca ly level tone “This—this is not supposed to repre- sent on?” And virtuously ind nant, tainly not. It is simply a human being, here to maks | Dr. Schultz's demonstrations simple,” fell on practi s, To al®] intents ~ and those who | watched that object saw | something els hing | girl whose lau d | forever by Is, Hen; staring a been the head of Medu one unpleasant mon 1 trayed initely eccentricity which has been attributed to him. He laughed. While the doctor, | touching the head expertly and un emotionally with a ruler, traced the course of the bullet and ? wtted pleasantly appalling they saw hter s, William Stevens ' though it had « herself: for nt be- | oom sat, s staring— their eyes occasionally Hall had lifted her head he did, and turned it ¢ to those probing eves; but 1l the iron wiil she has amply shown tha: that would e smoc witnes planations. Well for that not. More than one who watched it through that hour will see it again—in dreams, in adows, In darkness. Senator Simpson had given the public their story: but not all the thousands | of words that pour-out of Somerville u marks, contu res—all those thou- s could not convey the that shook the drowsy | to sudden life; that has not woune xplicable set | shaken them possibly for the last $1 time, | table ! Dr. | dinu explained | CHURCH-COMMUNITY RELATION IS THEME Subject Discussed at Annual Con- vocation School of Religion, Howard University. “The Church in Relation to the Community” is the subject being dis- cussed at the tenth annual convoca- tion held under the auspices of the School of Religion, Howard Univer- sity. The sessions are heing held in the Andrew ikin_Memorial Ch Prof. James L. Pinn preside the session this morning. An address was given by Rev. Dr. Lorenzo 1. editor of the Southwestern ain Advocate. This was fol- by a round table discussion of “The Five Paths to the Church,” con- ducted by Rev. Dr. Warren H. Wil- son of New York City. The sub- topic_was “How to Make a Pastoral Call.” The general discussion was opened by Rev. Dr. James U. Kin; pastor of the Asbury Methodist Epis pal Church, and Rev. Dr. Aquila avles, 1 tist Church, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonfan Institution, spoke at noon in the University Chapel on The Teligion of Some Sclentific At the afternoon session Rev. Wil- liam C. Gordon presided and Rev. Dr. King delivered an address. A round discussion is being held this con_under the direction of Rev. Wilson An informal reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. and the convocation at 7 p.m, at which President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard Uni- i and Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, will be the speak- e Rev lowed after sions will be held tomorrow morning and afternoon. INSPECT FIVE PRECINCTS The annual {nspection by officers ot the Police Department of the seventh, eighth, tenth, thirteenth and four- teenth precinct commands is in prog- ress today. The wu is proceeding rapidly. The inspecting party is composed of Com- oner Dougherty, who has imme- supervision of the police; Maj. B. Hesse and Inspectors W. H. Harrison E . Stell. The personnel, equ nd condition of the build- ings ne noted. he fourth, fifth, ninth and eleventh incts were inspected yesterday. Ch and prec morrow there will be inspections of second, sixth and twelfth The third precinct, Traffic Bureau and the House of De- Sentdi\\n commands will be inspected ay. Shipley Seeks Bankruptey. Shipley, trading as the ation at Rhode Is- stern avenues northeast, a_petition in voluntary o today filed bankruptey. £3.45 g Attorney Edward C. 3 Kriz appears for the petitioner. .| bear to look upon. . | for stor of the Providence Bap- | the lists his debts at | 94 and estimates his assets at WAX FIGURES GIVE THRILL TO MORBID Reproductions of Hall-Mills Bodies Do Not Upset De- fendants, However. BY DOROTHY DIX. Special Dispatch to The Star. SOMERVILLE, N. J., November | 10.—The morbid murder trial fans who had stood for two hours in the | pelting rain of a deary November day, waiting to get into the courtroom at the Hall-Mills trial, and then had ! endured hours of grinding horedom listening to the experts and the law- yers wrangling over the fingerprints on the card found at Dr. Hall's feet, got their compensation thrill when Senator Simpson, late in the after- noon, introduced as evidence a wax model of Mrs. Mills, showing her head and throat. Ostensibly, of course, it was to vis- ualize to the jurors just how she was dealt the wounds that killed her, but psychically it was tremendously more significant than that. You could not look ag it without thinking of the old medieval trial by ordeal when those accused of murder were forced to look upon the corpse, and it was super- stitiously belleved that their demeanor under this test would prove their guilt or innocence. Assuredly Senator Simpson is_too shrewd a man to think that Mrs. Hall and her brof would be influenced by any such cl hocus pocus, and regard the exhibition with gs calm and dispassionate curiosity as any one else in the room. They sat side by side, as they always do, dignifie utterly quiet, masters of themisel and their nerves. I have never seen any people who fidgeted so little. Nearly all of us shift continually in our seats, we twiddle with pencils, we tear up bits of paper, we move our hands almost continually. Sit Like Statues. But they sit hour after hour, aimost as immoblle as statues, their hands quiet, in their laps, their faces still and composed, with hardly a change of expression flitting aci them. And so they viewed the ghastly wax figure with no outward show of emotion whatever. It was only when Dr. Schultze, the coroner’s phy- siclan from New York, who had made the autopsy and who was explaining the range of the bullets, showed where, indicating the spot on the head with his pencil, the bullets entered that slew Dr. Hall, at Mrs. Hall turned her lhead away’ and looked down at the floor for a few minutes, as if she were hiding the tears in her eyes and had seen all that she could And 1t was, In truth, a gruesome enough exhibit. Speaking very slowly and clearly, and impassively, that somehow made what he had to say oddly dramatic, Dr. Schultze {ndica™a where the three bullets had been fired into Mrs. Mills' skull, within a range of four {nches, and any one of them could have snuffed out the life of that little 90-pound woman. Then, running his pencil around the throat, as if it were the finger of fate, Dr. Schultze told how the head had almost been severed from the body by one feroclous slash of a sharp knife, and how the tongue, the larnyx and the windpipe had been cut out. And finally, to pile horror upon horror, the abdomen had been ripped open’ in a last and obscene gesture of maniacal rage and re- venge. Mutilations of a Fiend. It was such a crime as Jack the Ripper committe. It was a crime such as only a_ degenerate could commit, and it left one wondering. as one listened to the gory details. 1 it was done by some sex maniac pass- ing by, or if in this quiet, law abid- ing community there still lives some | man wearing the mask of respectabil ity, who at times turns into a raven- ing beast—a man cursed with the dual personality of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And it there fs, how is it pos: sible that he has gone for four s undetected? And how does it hap- pen that the blood lust and the sex lust have not again sent him out,| las it has sent other degenerate crim- | tnals, to slay and mutilate again? It but adds another turning in the dark maze of plot &nd counter-plot in this most mysterious murder story, ! whose solution may be hs far away at the end of this trial as it was at the beginning. i Charged to Mrs. Hall, | Never was there a case that had | so many clues that run into blind al- leys in so short a time. Mrs. Hall, instance, is accused of having | committed the crime, and vet, aside from the improbability of a woman |of fine family and high social con- | nectton, a dignified _self-controlled woman who has lived a blameless ltife for 50-0dd years suddenly turn- | |ing into a murderess. Tt is a physical | impossibility for a woman of ordinary | strength to have slit the throat, cut |out the tongue and mutilated another | | woman as was done to Mrs. Mills. Also, Mrs. Hall has been charged | with having assisted at the murder | of her husband and his affinity at 10 | o'clock and at 2 o'clock, to have been | | seen still weeping over them. Yet the | most hardened criminal in the world | could not have borne to have spent | those ghastly dark hours with his victims. Nor would any murderer | linger so long at the scene of his crime where he might at any moment |be_detected. | " Likewise, Mrs. Hall is accused of having strewn the love letters written | by Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills to each | other about their bodies, vet the greatest fool in the world would know that would be to point suspicion directly at her, and Mrs. Hall is a highly Intelligent woman. ‘And Mrs. Hall is accused of know- ing of her husband’s murder, and yet going at 8 o'clock on the morning after he did not return home to the husband of the woman | he had gone off with and told him | that they were both dead, which | would have been equivalent to’ pub- | licly announcing her own guilt. | And so It goes, mystery upo mystery, contradiction after contra- | diction, until it makes the plots of all the mystery story writers, from | Poe and Gaboriau to Oppenheim and | ‘Anna Catherine Greene, seem as | easy to solve as a cross-word puzzle. | Tenderness Missing. | The strangest thing, perhaps, in | | all this strange story is that there | {13 no element of tenderness in it, no | pathos. Horror there is in plenty, | but there is no love, no tears, no | breaking hearts. Hardly a trace of | any human emotion. Not even a | desire for revense. | The policemen and detectives who | cross-questioned Mrs. Hall the day the bodies were found were amazed | that she did not yearn to mete out | 2 stern punishment to whoever had | murdered her husband—that she did | not demand an eve for an eve, a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life. Assuredly, the Mills family feel the same wa, They are utterly | apathetic and only want the dreadful business ended and to be left in peace. 1 Mrs. Mills' husband and daughter | and sister were in court, but they were unmoved when her blood stained clouiel were shown and ' | petting parti CALLING-CARD CLUE ATTACKED AGAIN IN HALL-MILLS TRIAL _ (Continued from First Page.) pected to develop into heavy legal fire later. He wants the jury taken to the scene of the crime. To this the defense will strenuously object on the ground that the crabapple tree, under which the bodies were found, has been carried away by souvenir hunters. Cedar Stump Also Gone. The hardly less famous cedar stump to which Mrs. Gibson, regarded as the State’s star witness, will say she tied her mule, before she found herself as onlooker ‘at the double tragedy, also has been carried away. De Russey’s lane, which at the time of the crime sheltered many spooning couples and was a picnic ground for s, has grown into a real estate development. The State will insist that the jury can gain a com- brehensive background by inspecting these prem physically changed though they be since September 14, 1922." This fight will come later. ‘rhe announcement made yesterday that the halls of justice will continue to grind tomorrow has aroused pro- tests from service men’s organiza- tions and the jury may ballot not to permit deliberations on Armistice day. The disposition this morning was to let the jury put the question to a vote. Wil Call Mrs. Gibson. Simpson plans to have Mrs. Gibson testify on elther Friday or Saturday regardless of any protests doctors at- tending her in a Jersey City hospital may make. “I am told that the condition of Mrs. Gibson fs improving and that her temperature {s dropping,” he sald. “If Mrs. Gibson tells me she is feeling well enough to go on the stand I will have her brought to Somerville. I will do this regardless of what the doctors say.” Mrs. Gibson, the State's star wit- | ness, was removed to the Jersey Tity hospital from a Somerville institution Sunday over the protest of physicians. | She has pyelitis, a kidney infection. Doctors attending her say she will not be able to testify for at least two ‘weeks. Legion Makes Protest. Simpson announced at r of court this morning tha received from the American Legion a protest against holding a session of (he trial tomorrow, Armistice day. Simpson told the court that repre- itatives of the Leglon who had presented the protest considered it would be an “insult” to the American soldlers who died fn the World War to hold a court session on the day set aside to honor them. Before bringing the protest to the itention of the court Simpson had asked that the jury be taken to the scene of the slaying four years ago. Question of Crowd. “Could the jury be taken there with- out attracting a crowd?” asked Jus- tice Parker. “They could if it were kept quiet as to when the jurors were going," said impson. He said that he was not asking that the jury be taken to the scene today, but that he wanted thz court to take the matter under con- sideration, Case told the court that the topog- raphy at the scene of the crimes has changed greatly in the past four years and presents an “absolutely different situation.” He said the defense would want to present its argument on the matter before the court reaches a lecision as to whether the jury shall be taken to the place on a farm out- side New Brunswick. The crab- apple “tree under which the were found slain, it was brought out previously in the trial, has since been cut down and there is eXtensive real estate development in the victnity. . Stmpson, in his request for inspec- imption he had tion of the crab-apple tree area by the | jury, brought out that the jury would have to be accompanied by “‘compe- tent shower: Totten, recalled for cross-examina- tion, saild that he did not learn of finger prints having been found on Mr. Hall's calling card until the card was produced this past Summer at the hearing in the application for bail for Willie Stevens and for Henry Car- pender. The latter was the fourth person indicted for murder and is now awaiting trial. Attorney traced the history of the card In Lis questioning, first bring- ing out that when Totten, Sheriff Conklin and others went to the sceno each devoted himself to some phase of the survey, as the crowds poured into the lane and overran the Phillips farm. Totten said he was not posi- tive who took the card and other ex- hibits from the farm to the Somerset County courthouse on September 16, 1922, the day the bodies were found. When He Saw Card Next. “When did you- t seo the card and other exhibit “In November when they were brought back to Somerset in prepara- tion for the meeting of the grand jury.” “You are ciear, however, that some time on September 16 you received Lh:\"(‘;u and other exhibits?"” “How long did you retain them?” “Until the following Monday or Tuesda, “If you did not have these articles in your possession you cannot be cer- tain what was done with them in the way of handling them, how they were handled, or that fingerprints “might not have been made on them by per- sons touching them?" Simpson objected contending that Totten was not a fingerprint expert. ‘The defense was continuing its attack on the validity of the fingerprint evi. dence and the court ruled that the when they looked upon the ghastly replica. of her skull and neck. What- ever she was in their lives is ended and they do not make the pretense of mourning. one, who was a faith- less wife and a recreant mother and who brought them nothing but sor- row and shame. And the same thing ma® be said of Mr. Hall. But it must be sad to He in a grave where no one ever comes to weep. (Copyrizht. 1926. Jf ASHIONABLE Chevy Chase_is renowned for its residential refinement — likewise its high property values. Here you _can buy a home entirely in keeping with its superb _surroundings for $7.600. And $750 cash with $7.95 a_room monthly is the actual cost of living in your 4 rooms, bath and porch apartment in . . . 100% CO-OPERATIVE Connecticut Courts 5112 Conn. Ave. SOLD BY KASS REALTY CO. couple | should be answered. replied Totten. Pienosa) 22 Exhibits. Vhere did vou take the exhibits on the Monday or Tuesday after the bodies were found?” “To New Brunswick; the two coun- tles had established a joint headquar- ters in the prosecutor’s office.” The calling card bearing the finger- prints identified as those of Willle Ste- vens was produced from the pocket of Inspector Underwood, & member of Simpson's staff. “I understood your only means of identifying this card as one of those found at the place where the bodics lay is by flyspecks?” asked Case, as he removed the card from its glass protection and showed it to the detec- tive. “Yes, “Do you know where the card case found at the bodies 1s?"" questi “N Case Is Overruled. “When did you last see this card prior to last Summer when it was pro- duced at the preliminary hearing. “When I delivered it to New Bruns- wick in 1922 “Do you know if there were any fingerprints on it then?” “None was visible.” Case was overruled when he at- tempted to get into the record the witness’ statement that he had never heard of any fingerprints having been found. Simpson argued successfully that this would be hearsay evidence. Totten said a handkerchief end & powder puff were found in the pocket of a scarf that was wrapped about Mrs. Mills' body. The handkerchief is still among the State's evidence, but the powder puff has disappeared. Broken Glasses Stressed. in his cross-examination of , stressed the fact that the eveglas und in their proper p in good conditlon, but that they now are broken, The defense attorney, by his questions, indicated that he was driving this point to show that if the eyeglasses were handled In such a way as to he broken after being found, the calling card alleged to bear Willie Stevens' finger print likewlse was handled much duting the years atter the double slaying. Totten said there was a dental ap- pointment card also among the artl- cles taken from Rev. Mr. Hall's pock- ets, but it has disappeared Last week, when the State intro- duced the clothing worn by the min- ister and the cholr singer, at the time they were slain, a black slouch hat belonging to Willie Stevens taken from the box containing the other clothing, and there had been much speculation as to whether the State would contend that this hat was found | at the scene of the crime. Not Found at Crime Scene. Case turned to this subject In cross- examining Totten, and the witne: | said he believed it was taken from the Hall home after the slayings. It was i not found at the scene of the crime, | Totten said. |~ The reliability, as evidence, of the exploded pistol shells, which the State has produced as having been found at the scene of the slayings, also was tacked by Case in his cross-examina- | tion. The witness said the last time up to the present trial that he saw the I shells was when the first grand jury investigation f the double slaying was held in November, 197 He could not say whether they had ever been taken from the Stato. Case also used Totten in an effort to glve a blow to the State's conten tion that Mrs. Gibson, had ridden her | mule, Jenny, to the Phillips farms | the night of the sl en said | the ground was d dry at the ene of the crime when he visited it two days after the minister and the | choir singer were Edward Schwartz, one of the finger- print experts, yesterday had testified that he saw a hoof print on the zround when he visited the spot 44 after the slaying. “Grilling” of Willie Stevens. Totten told of ‘grilling” Willie Stevens. Senator Case was overruled when he asked: “After all the grilling through tha various phases of the Investigation the nost damaging thing he said wa ‘Do you think they suspect me? " He was also overruled when he asked about a ‘“severe grilling one midnight.” Detalls of one examination of Willle e brought out by Simpson on re. u took Willie Stevens to the courthouse at New Brunswick for questioning?” Simpson asked “Yes,” sald Totten, “What did he say? “He dldn't say much on the way down. After having been questioned and s we were coming from the court house he asked n ‘Do you think they suspect me?" Why do you ask that,’ 1 asked. Just then the photographers rushed us, Willla put his hat over his face and I didn't press the question.” Stevens Grins at Remark. At this Willle, who was listening |most intently, grinned. | Crossexamination by Senator Case: | “Willie made no objectton to going jto the courthouse?” 17 No,” said Totten. | “He talked freely when in the prose- cutor's office?” “He answered questions satisfac- Here Willle smiled aga ville? H Yes.”” | “That was quite sox | severe griliing, | Stmpson obje I | Hechinger Save On ANl Your Hechinger _ Bargains in 1 * New Building Material Hechlnger Well Selected Of New Material MAIN OFFICE 6th & C Sts. CAMP MEIGS S5th & Fla. Ave. sitlon on Rev. Mr. Hall's face, were | at- | | “He was also questioned at Somer- | *Building Clean Stock |_‘“How many times did you see Willle?” “Two or three.” “How long was he questioned at New Brunswick at the time when he lasked if you thought they suspected { him?” “‘About an hour and a half.” “'And he was put through a grilling during the investigation?” “Undoubtedly.” Testifles About Tongue. In the opinion of Dr. Hegeman, who performed the autopsy after the body of Mrs. Mills was exhumed in 1922, the tongue, the larynx and the top of the windpipe were in the body at that time. “There was no evidence around the mouth of violence and no gaping hole at the bottom of the cut in the neck to indicate they nad been removed,” he testified on cross-examination. The wound was made by a ‘“very sharp knife,” ha sald. During his examination by Simp- son, Hegeman had declined to swear jthat the tongue, larynx and upper i]ml't of the windpipe had not been ed. n you swear that they had not been removed Simpson asked. vas Hegeman's answer. ‘I dld not open the mouth. I don’t know what was in it. I put back the head, but I can't recall whether the upper part of the windpipe was there or not.” Found Two Bullets. Dr. Hegeman said he found and re- moved two bullets from the skull of Mrs. Mills. The head was almost severed and to him it appeared as it there had been two cuts, one from each side. On cross-examination, over Simp- son's protest, he was allowed to_ tes- tify that he thought he would have observed it if the tongue, larynx and upper part of the windpipe had been removed. Senator Case in arguing that Hege- man be allowed to state his opinion revealed the defense theory as to the testimony of Dr. Otto H. Schultze of the office of the District Attorney of New York County, who yesterday testified that the tongue and other con- tents of the throat were missing when | he performed an autopsy last month. | “These parts of the throat could have been separated from the body as ayresult of the deep cut” sald Case, "and therefore would not have recefved the benefit of the embalming fluid.’ Health Officer Testifles. Dr. B. I Cronk, who was health officer of New Brunswick at the time of the double slaying, was called to the witness stand after Dr. Hegeman. Dr. Cronk said he was called to the undertaker’s establishment, three days after the slaying, to identify the hodles of the couple and while there, reopened the abdominal incision which had been made by the Somer- set County physiclan in the post mortem examination of Mrs. Mills. The incision, he said, had been made to determine whether the woman was pregnant. Vas she pregnant?” asked Simp- son. “No,” answered the witness. He also said there were no organs mi ing from the abdominal part of the body. Dr. Cronk said he found “concealed evidence in the head of Mrs. Mills.” “What was it ?” asked Stmpson. “I found three bullet wounds, and there were no points of exit,” said the witness. “T knew there was evi- dence inside the head.” Simpson then brought out what he meant by “evidence,” the three bul- lets which must have been in the head. Dr. Cronk sald he reported this to Joseph Stricker, now dead, and who was prosecutor of Middle- sex County at the time of the slaying. Report Four Days Later. ‘This report, the witness sald, was made on Monday morning, four day after the crime and early in the day on which Mrs. Mills was buried, without an adtopsy having been performed. Dr. Cronk said the abdominal in- cision was the only post mortem wound on the woman's body. The witness said he assisted at the autopsy made afterward when the | bodies had been exhumed. “Did you look to see if Mrs. Mills’ |tongue "had been cut out?” asked | Stmpson, “I @id not,” replied the witness. Testifles About Autopsies. Dr. Otto H. Schultze of New York {City has testified as to the result of {autopsies which he performed on the { hodies of the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. ! Mills, exhumed last month after four | years in their graves. He gave infor- {mation which indicated that a grim | struggle took place in the darkness {before the minister and the cholr singer were killed at their trysting | place. | There was a bruise on one of the minister's fingers, Dr. Schultze said, | and. although it was only a guess, he said the one bullet wound which caused the man's death, judging from its nature, might have been inflicted whilo he ‘was struggling to take a gun from him. Mrs. Mills' upper lip _was ‘“punc: McCormick Medica! College Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Maln 721 409-410 McLachlen Blde. 10th and G Sts. N.W. Eye: Lactobacillus Acidophilus Milk For intestinal disorders. Ask your physiclan about it. Prepared by the NATIONAL VACCINE AND ANTITOXIN INSTITUTE 1515 U St. N.W. Itching, Irritations of the Skin and Scalp Use Zemo, Healing Liquid | Don’t suffer shame of ugly, itchy skin. Never endure Skin Tortures |and lIrritations. Banish Pimples, | Blotches and Blackheads. 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Mrs. Helen Hughes, principa Miss Graves, 22.yearold teacher, of the stricken La Plat rive at Providence Hospital at 12:30 o'l this afternoon to assi the tdent ficatlea of the victims of the tornad Mrs. Hughes w walked about the children's peering into the little handa Her knee was torn, when hurled from the building swept from its Graves winced, as s encouragingly to her ir her face W swollen. With M estate man of of the hospital staff, the two checked over the list of namn halted for a minute at each bed Teachers Get Antitoxin. Not until the entire list had made accurate would either of the ir Jured teachers submit te treatment and, following their tour of less thar 16 minutes, they went in ing room where anti istered to them to preve soning. Miss Graves, visibly shock and nervousness i ddition t her physical injuries, could give onl a meager story of the | whic wrecked the schonl. “We were in the s oom duri the storm, when, without war the whole building was blown and all of us strawn ov the she said. “I was unconscious. . and she it fleld or at !least T must have been, hecau not remember them picking m Children Strewn About. “When I finally came to at a o in the nefghborhood, I was t I had been swept more than 1 from the building. You of the children wus left age, but were strewn ravine and the pina woods.” Mrs. Hughes, the princ that she had wirned In the classroom to 1 seats. “Suddenly the & v roof oft llke a 1td and the wails before any of us conld (hink building was blown awiy were all thrown out in o sald. I must have lost too, for I do not rememiber happened after that Mrs. Hughes was picked a few feet of the buildi spite her injured kuee ly in gathering up the dren. Kne the hroken ch Dr. Schultze testified. sald this wound coull caused by her belug wearing & ring. Mrs. Miil to the physiclan's testinor brunt of the s ! B had been shot three ti head and her throat w wound extending five from ear to ear. Mutilation is Deseril Dr. Schultze said her upper wi pipe, tongue and larynx wer He asserted the shots must fired from a distance of foot. A wax representation of @ head was used by Dr. sSchul lustrate his testing. As the positi of the wounds wera pointed out on it Mrs. Hall and Henry Stevens calmly in their seats, as tiey I since the trial, while Wi leaned forward, apparently terested. When it was brought into cout Charlotte Mills hastily left the court room. human o to il d i Get a Real Wash Washington’s Finest Auto Laundry | ACME SERVICE | £AUTO PLANT /1142 18th St. Fr. 450" T 40 LUCKY TIGER stops fall. ing hair b ling the germ: Money-Back Guarante: ,Whyte-Fox knocks pi B ples. 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