Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1926, Page 4

‘c!uud. because it certainly afforded a ‘uuperb opportunity for thinking things over, At the end of the hour or so de- voted to him, things are precisely true Sefore him that have yet rung i where they started, save for the fact ithat Mr. Payne has been able (o shout some of the noblest sentiments into the ears of the 12 good men and But From Her Viewpoint Only, as Hall Prosecutor Gets Little Satisfaction. BY FRANCES NOYES HART. Special Dispatch to The Star. COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. J., November 13.—There was color in Somerville yesterday. Outside the trees were bright 2 banners, and through the courtroom. The first of these was launched when Mr. McCar- ter unwarily inquired as to what Mr. Payne offered Mr. Schwartz for the use of the famous card. “Nothing financial,” said Mr. Payne briefly. othing financial? What was it, eh? Come, come; aren’t you going answer my question?” “If vou can wait before vou ask it Mr. Payne, not unreasonably. A prophetic spirit descends on Mr. Me- Carter and, roaring migktily, he de- ymands that'Mr. Payne be permitted to proceed no further. Mr. Payne, how- ever, is allowed to proceed and, lean- there was ice in the streets and 2 flood | jng far out over the witnes box, he of sunlight on the g green. There was fce and wind in the air, too, and the rush of it came into the crowded courtroom at 10 o'clock with the eager stampede of reporters, many of them bhack from Armi- stice day in New York, gay and relu tant as children back from a_holiday. All day that color lingered. No more mist and fog, no more experts. The parade through the witness box yesterday was made up of real people, talking of real things. Not a collec- tion of tired-looking old gentlemen with bald heads and white mustaches and enormous vocabularies, but people. A chambermaid, a waitress, an editor of a tabloid, a fireman, a dress- maker, a reporter. Sarely, no one could ask for more varied fare than these? And not a word about whirls or loops or contusions or mutilation These people were to tell about simple, easy things, about telephones and shutters and sewing rooms and gossip and hymns and hall lights and kitchen doors. _All instruments of fate, per- haps, but their very names sound pleasantly reassuring to ears recently assaulted by horror and boredom. Undertaker Is Called. There were a few premonitory Stirs when the nice, neat-looking old gen- tieman with a beautiful silky white mustache announced that he was an undertaker, but even he was consid- erate enough to let us off with a few lavish and lamentable details as to vauits. And all the rest were very Xind. Barbara Tough came first, recalled from Wednesd A quiet,’ pleasant looking young woman. with a wide, firm moufh and gray eyes, steady be- hind smoked glasses; dressed in a cinnamon brown coat, a gray scarf with magenta flowers and a large black felt hat with a glittering star- Jike cockade of black and white. She +its erect and completely at ease in the witness box, serene and unruf- | fied, giving sone of the most im- | portant testinony of the trial in her pretty, clipped, precise voice, with its strong Scotch accent. “Pareeshoners,” says Barbara Tough, cxplaining that she herself | was not a member of Dr. Hail's chureh, as she is Presbyterian and attends kirk Helped State Very Little. She had been with Mrs. Hall for a good many years, and it is not diffi- cult to imagine ‘that she made an admirable servant, loval, discreet and intelligent. She proved a distinct failure as a State witness, however, save for her brief testimony Wednes- day of the fact that go: rife about Mrs. Mille and Dr. Hall for aver two yvears before the murder, and her statement as to how, four vears hefore that time, she had come | inadvertently upon calls her, sitting on Dr. in the church study, laughing hysterically, had s it's_only Barbar: Even after all these vears there was a faint touch of disapproval in Rarbara's pleasant, level tones at the thought of such weakness and hy teria. She was also forced by the prosceutor to admit that Dr. Hall had an old-fashioned razor, of much the color and shape of the one that the prosecutor suddenly flashed at her, but before the lightning quick Simp- son could withdraw it, she added swiftly and gently. “but his wa a teenv bit smaller.” That she s to, softly obstinate, In spite of all his ’ afforts to shake her. ides gave her a few b utes yesterday, when they { the names of the ladles of the guild who had been gosslping. aid the soft, persuasive voice, so awful mean, sir.” Hated to Harm Others. “It's an awfully mean thing that we're in. Miss Tough,” replied Senator Case grimly. “But they never, never done any harm to me, and 1 do hate to do ai harm to them-—-"" Justice Parker ordered her to tell Simpson added his orders, ted his-—well, one her name'’s Thompson. her sister Magsie, ~the gentle | volce runs unhappily on, stopping each time, hopefully, to see if that wasn't enough to appease these insa- tfable tnquisitors. But worst of all was the horrid necessity of divulging ! the name and sex of the Scotch friend who took her riding in his car that night, Hall home and fast badly shaken as she introduced the | absent M per to the courtroom. | Still, Barbara Tough—Teuch, should be pronounced, she say adds with a rueful murmur of laugh- | ter that it never s the kind of | witness that we all dream that we may | be it cruel fate ever sends us to the ! witness box. She remembers, effort- | Jessly and convinein ords spoken | and gestures made. t. ance from | streets to houses, the s of rooms | and the turns on the stair§ 1 Always she heard the clock strike, | always she noted the number who came to lunch or who left for tea. uietly, promptly and u 4 glves each courtcous ans »llent, a mode for all to gaze on with respectfully envious eyes. She is the ' perfect witness, from’ the standpolnt of the witness. From the standpoint of the prosecution, she left something | 10 be desired. | Editor Goes On Stand. t h comes Phillip, or of the New York Mir- | tabloid which is undoubtedly ponsible for the reopening of this case. A performance which Mr. McCarter openly regards as neither s, that is st | shouts unctuously, “T told him that if he could do anything at ail to clear up this case he would be rendering a great service to the State of New Jer: Somewhat Ambiguous Query. This body blow reduces Mr. McCar- ter to such a state that a few min utes later, in a vain effort to demon porters wit} rest. he 3 and re- no re- and helpfully to this somewhat am- blguous question are beautiful to be- hold. Another interesting passage oc- curs when Mr. McCarter, quivering with a very genuine indignation, pro ovember 10, which is undoubtedly ne of the least successful attempts at art ever exhibited in this country It is labelled in letters inches high “Accusing Fingers” and show Bog- gle-eyed Willle with every hair on the act of placing u large replica of the visiting card at the foot of the bodies extended rigldly under an amorphous growth that is presum- ably intended for the crabupple tree. tree. Either historically or esthetically, this effort leaves much to be de- sired—the positions of the bodies, the dotting and the likeneses being startlingly inaccurate, but Mr. Payne, after stating that he had not seen it before it was published and had not disavowed it subse- quently, seems neither interested nor remorseful. Mr. Payne is also permitted to make 5112 (Between I can wait before I answer it.” retorts | strate that 1} Payne brought re-|i cene of ar-|t Mr. Payne's efforts to reply lucidly | duces a picture from the Mirror of | his head standing straight on end in | 1 0 Erected by Harry A. Bramow ¥ HELD IN CHECK CASE. with sonorous emphasis, a great in- terest—the interest that every citizen 16-Year-0ld Bride to Spend Sav- ings to Save Man Who Inher- of New Jersey should have in clear- ing up this case, and withdrew pre- ited $30,000 in 1924. sumably not unhappy. John G. Dunn, a fireman in the New Brunswick company patronized by Willle Stevens, lumbers heavily nto the box, breathing hard and chewing gum. Olive-skinned, beady- eved, his dark suit far too tight for his bulky shoulders, he replies briefly to | By the Associated Pre four direct and two cross questions| SPRINGFIELD, Mass., November o N e Aot et Ker Serdlngicn inTieniAnce ot { m of supreme unimportance. 4 5 o Miss Millie Ople, dressmaker, takes | $30-000, Paul Rene Mailloux, 24, for ihis place, a large, . fish-faced | merly of Ware, Mass., and late of lady huddied up in garments that are) Tampa, Fla., was under arrest today, a poor advertisement. A black dress.| ... i e o = a fawn-co'ored coat, a black felt hat,|charsed with passing “_‘:‘m‘:‘ i far too small for the moon face, pince. | checks. He was arrested when he | . far too large.and round. | was being glven a demonstration of | She testifies that she received on her ensive motor car. He attempted | telepbone many messages trom Dr.! bad checks totaling $10,000 | Hall for Mrs. Mills, including one on | here, it is charged. i the afterncon of the crime. Her large,| His 16-year-cld bride, the daughter | traplike mouth turns down strongly | of Deputy Sheriff C. E. Munroe of St. as she tells of Dr. Hall's daily visits| Louis, said she would spend her own . to her pretty neighbor, “which she|savings to defend her husband. The| ched troms the windows of her sew-| wife and her father, who came to| . in reply to the suggestion ngfield to live with his “wealthy" | . defense that the visits law, were are-od with Mallloux, | been for the purpose of select ' but later were rel Mailloux had | ing hvmns, she mods somewhat du posed as an Springfield } | biously at Senator Simpson's acid | automobile con | er she ever heard| Inheriting & ostate in 1924, xcelsis [ when his moili: i, he went to; " or anythi ike 1 K ed. He came | shakes her head with a broa ito S veral months ago. { brions smile. Rumbling of gossip- | Munroe sald he would get a job to of papers seen in Edwin Carpender’s | earn his carfare home. possession, and she, too, is gone, vield- | = - ing her place to the most picturesque ! witness of the day—possibly of the could not do better than select Mrs. trial. | Riehi as his mspiration. e - - | Her accounts of conversations Waitress Difficult Witness. rehearsed, and once or twice | | Lonise Geist Riehl, a waitress in the | She stumbles in her lhh:‘rv ‘t"lthshi | Hall home at the time of the murder | MAINtAINS unshaken | (her B0 &TC0 llooks as though she might have |dar the saw Mrs. Hall in the library | stepped stemight from @ poster—a | playing solitaire—a tranquil and re- | well designed poster. Tall, slim and | ring picture for the defense. smart in her luose n | She also maintains, squarely at culine coat of | o iance with her former sworn evi- rk blue, her horizon blue wool | dence, that she saw Mrs. Hall hang searf, her small, close hat of brilliant |up the telephone receiver that night jlacquer red, she seats herself com-|when Mrs. Mills called up, before Dr. | posedly and elaborately at ease, fixes | Hall answered it. She laughs in Sena- la pair of ; <paced | tor Simpson’s amazed and Indignant | face when he confronts her with these Her deep | discrepancies, and swings lightly and her manner | defiantly out of the witness box, boy- one of careless insolence. She looks as | ish, magnetie, and enigmatic. The | though she might possibly ve a “good | murmur “Tough egg!” runs round the | esg,” but would c be a hard | courtroom, almost bad-mannered and one. 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