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J., November 29. —"Mrs. Hall to the witness stand.” A little excited murmur ran through the crowded courtroom Saturday after- noon, and then it was as still as death. The audlence leaned forward in its chairs, every face strained and tense. The big moment of the Hall-Mills trial had come. The moment for which we had waited. The moment to which everything else led up, for Mrs. Hall is the center of the tragedy. _In the four years that have elapsed since the slaying of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills Mrs. Hall has become a figure of tra- dition and all sorts of myths have grown up about her. She has been that strangest and most inexplicable of creatures—a woman who doesn’t talk, a woman who keeps her own counsel, a woman who draws a vell over her wounds and who masks her feelings with reserve. 8o’ we have heard of her as an iron woman, a8 an ice woman, as a cold, hard, unfeeling woman. We have had her depicted to us as a fury, taking 2 bloody revenge on her faithless hus. band and his fnamorata. We have seen her painted as a woman with no charms of body or mind or soul with which to hold a man, and we have not known which of these sto- ries to believe, which protrait was the true one. Friends Call Her Lovable. For her friends have said that Mrs. Hall is a very lovable woman, good and kind and simple and shy and re- pressed. They say that for all her money and social position she has had a dull and drab life, and that until her mother died, only a few years ago, after she was a middle- aged woman, she had been kept in leading strings like a little child. They said that she grew up in a stern and puritanical home, that she never had any fun or freedom as a girl, and that with such a rod of iron did Mme. Stevens rule her house- hold that Frances and Willle even thought it a great lark when their mother went away for a day or two and they could order what they liked to eat. # They say that although Mme. Stevens cut her daughter off from the gayety of girlhood, she still wanted her to marry, and that she favored her daughter’'s marriage to the young preacher, although he was seven years noon. the police without giving her name. the Middlesex County o them, I could think of nothing else’?"” MRS. HALL ENDS TESTIMONY UNSHAKEN IN LONG ORDEAL (Continued from First Page.) “You heard the statement read in Md'em.v, didn’t you?” She Denies Words. “Did you tell Mr. Toolan, or any- one else, ‘they must have been killed'?"” “No. “You didn't say to Mr. Mills, ‘No, they've been murdered or they'd come home'?" *No. “Where did you telephone Mr. Hall's sister from?” ’ “From a drugstore.” public telephone booth?” es.” “What time?" “I think it must have been about 10 o'clock.” This was Friday morning, after the murder Thursday night, when Mrs. Hall telephoned Mrs. Frances Voor- hees of Jersey City, sister of the min- ister. Upon learning of her brother's disappearance, Mrs. Voorhees noti- fied her sister in New York, Mrs. Theodora Bonner, and together they went to New Brunswick. “Did you meet your husband's sis- ters at the railroad station?” “Yes.” “Although he was out all night, and vou thought something had happened to him, you never notified the police, glving your name?” “No.’ Simpson Repeats Question. “How long after all these investl- gations and talks did you notify the police and give vour name?” Mrs. Hall explained that her attor- ney, former State Senator Florance, had notified the police Friday after- Earlier she had told of calling Time and again Simpson put the same questions, “AVhy did you let all Friday, the day after your husband failed to come home, go by without having done more to learn where he w and “Why, if you did not suspect were out together, did you tell authorities in 1922, ‘They were absent, I feared some harm had come to them, I could think of nothing else’?"” “Let me ask you again,” Simpson said, “Can you tell why you put your husband and Mrs. Mills together early on the morning after he failed to come home, and why you said to Mid- dlesex authorities, ‘They were absent, 1 feared some harm had come Mrs. Hall smiled at the prosecutor when he put the question again. “The last person I knew of his hav- ing seen was Mrs. Mills. He told me he was going out to see her about her hospital bill. I went to the Mills house to see if they knew where he had gone, and learned that Mrs. Mills also was missing.” Dentes Hearing Phone Talk. “Didn’t you hear that telephone con- her daughter’s junior. Furthemore, | Yersation between vour husband and they said that she always Itked Mr. | Mrs. Mills?” Simpson continued. Haill, and when she died left him did not,” said Mrs, Hall, very $10.000. positively. So no wonder that every eye was | Then the other question was brought turned on Mrs. Hall, this woman of | in again. whom we had heard so much and knew so little, as she went to the wit- ness stand. The secrets of her soul were about to be torn from her, and it was as much a case of thumbs down as if we had been in the Coliseum, ages ago, watching some _helpless creature thrown to the wild beasts to make a Romsn holiday. Handsomer Than Pictures. The Mrs. Hall that we saw was a woman of medium height, with the thickening of middle-age beginning to come upon her. She has iron-gray hair and dark eyes, and good features. She doesn’t, as the movies say, film well, and is a far handsomer woman than any of her pictures indicate. Her face now is gray with fatigue and anxiety, and it is generally set in an immobile mask, but when she smiles it lights up as if a lamp had flamed out through a sweet and womanly and kind. She was dressed, as she always Is, in a handsome black gown, over which she wears a long coat with a fur collar. Her only jewelry was a string _of pearls around her throat. least eight inches longer than the prevailing mode, and in the way she wears her clothes she makes you think of Queen Mary of England. She might have on every confection on the Rue de la Paix, and yet she wouldn't look dressed up. or in the fashion. Behind Mrs. Hall are many genera- tions of men and women who have been taught to control themselves, and 8o she was calm and collected as she faced her ordeal. Only twice did she show any emotion. Once, when Mr. McCarter asked her if she had no- ticed any difference in her husband’s attitude toward her in the last year of his lite, her voice broke and trem- bled as she answered, ‘“absolutely nothing.” When she began telling about her husband's leaving home on the fatal Thursday night, a tear she could not suppress ran down her cheek, and she raised a quick hand and brushed it away. Cold at Simpson’s Taunts. But she froze into hardness when in his cross-examination Senator Simpson taunted her with her hus- band’s unfaithfulness to her and flay- ed her with the impassioned phrases that he had written another woman. “Didn't you suspect something.” the little lawyer shouted at her, “when your husband was writing to another woman that she was the only woman that he loved” That she was the only woman in his life? That he longed for her kisses—that he yearn- ed to be with her?” And so on. And no woman who loved a man can listen to a bitterer thing than that. Mrs. lall's story was to the effect that she and Mr. Hall Lad been mar- that they had always been very happy together, that she had believed that he loved her as much as she did him and that she had never had the slightest suspicion of his being untrue to her. She said that she had taken a very active part in church work, trying to help her husband, and in that way who sang in the chofr and was one of the most energetic of his parish- { foners. She had known that her hus- vand was with Mrs. Mills very often, it was only the result of thelr having a common interest in church work. She herself had been so friendly with Mrs. Mills that \us taken sick she had driven her in her own automobile to the hospital, | had gone to see her almost every day and when she was recovered had taken her back home in her car. Helped Pay Bills. helping to pay Mrs. Mills' hospital bill. Coming down to the day of the tragedy, Mrs. Hall said that she had spent the afternoon making preserves in the kitchen and that when her husband came home he brought his little niece with him and they and Mrs. Edwin Carpender were all in the kitchen together for a while. Then came supper and she told him about a telephone call from Mrs. Mills say- ing there was trouble about the hos- pital bill, which was still After supper there was another tele- phone call and she took up the re- celver to answer it, but hearing her husband at the upstairs phone she hung up and did pot know who called. Later on Mn:Hall went gut, transparent vase. Then her face hecomes very ried 11 years at the time of his death. | had come in contact with Mrs. Mills, | but had thought nothing of it, that | hen Mrs. Milis | ‘ She had also_contributed toward | unpaid. | “Why did you sit in the house all day Friday, doing nothing but tele- phoning police and not giving your right name and then calling your law- ver in the afternoon and having him make inquiry?” Simpson asked. “That question is incorrect and does not_include all the facts,” Robert H. McCarter of defense counsel asserted in volcing his objection. The court agreed with him, and the question was changed to state that Mrs. Hall had not given any name when she telephoned police and to in- clude that she had summoned Mr. Hall's sisters. “I telephoned police in the morning.” sald Mrs. Hall. “Then 1 summoned my slsters-in-law, and after we had discussed what could be done I called in Mr. Florance.” Florance testified last week that BS— saying that he was going to see about Mrs. Mills' hospital bill. She went to bed about 11 o'clock wondering why he had not returned. The hours went on and he still did not come. Unable to sleep, she got up and went downstairs to see if he had come in. Silence and emptiness everywhere. A half past 2, frantic with anxiety, she waked Willie up and made him go with_her to the church, and then to the Mills' house, and then they went back home again to more anxious watching and waiting. Calls Police Next Day. The next day she called up the po- lice headquarters and asked if there had been any accident, and, unable to keep quiet, at half past 8 she got in her car and went downtown. Passing the church she saw that the doors were open, and she spoke \with Mr. Mills, the sexton, and asked if there was anybody sick at his house. He replied, “No,” and said that his wife had not been home all night, and she said that her husband had not been home all night. Then Mr. Mills asked her if she thought they had gone to Coney Island, and she replied, “No.” After which she called up Mr. Hall's | sisters and asked them to come to her, and the three bewlildered women, not knowing what to do. sent for Mrs. Hall’s lawyer, and they asked him to take the matter up with the police. Then followed another sleeple: tor- turing night, filled with fea and forebodings, and then came the news that her husband had been found mur- dered in a fleld, with a woman by his side. “How could it be?’ Senator Simp- son thundered at her over and over and over, “that a woman of intelli- gence, a woman of the world. such as ) you are, could have a husband in love with another woman and never sus. pect it2* And that was the question he was still asking her when court adjourned (Copyright. 1626.) ! 1 <‘ Branch ington. charged. ' | | will get them. I I N. Reiskin, Fia. Ave. & ist 3t. N.W. Is A Star Branch Office I 3 | You can save a lot of time and inconvenience i by leaving your Classified Ads for The Star with any one tically every neighborhood in and around Wash- The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other papers here combined. 1i RESULTS are to be had, Star Classified Ads while he did not regard himself as Mrs. Hall's attorney, he had settled two estates for members of her family. Statement Is Read. Simpson read to Mrs. Hall a state- ment represented as having been made by her to Toolan, in which she was quoted as saying, after her husband’s disappearance: “Something must have happened to him. The only thing that would keep him (Mr. Hall) away is that some harm has befallen him.” 1In this statement Mrs Hall was quoted also as saying that if her husband were with Mrs. Mills, “it was for some ex- cellent reason.” “Did you see Mills more than once that day?” asked Simpson, referring to the Friday following the couple’s disappearance. s “What time?” “About 1 o'clock.” “What did you say to him?" “I asked him if he had heard any- thing. He said, ‘No’ Mrs. Hall, in reply to another ques- tion as to why she had concluded her husband and Mrs. Mills were togeher, said that she rather concluded that because her husband had said he was going to the Mills home the evening he disappeared, and Mrs. Mills also had disappeared. Passing on to Friday night, Simp- son asked Mrs. Hall if she saw Bar- bara Tough, a maid in her home. Mrs. Hall said she had. “Did you say to her, * won't come home tonigh T don’t remember that I did.” “Didn’t_you say that he would not go with Mrs. Mills because she was out of your class?"’ know he Judge Warns Simpson. Again Simpson reverted to the question of whether she had notified the hospitals when her husband dis- appeared, and Judge Parker warned the prosecutor that he had repeatedly been over that ground. The repetition of questions veered to why Mrs. Hall had not had her husband's body taken home. “You were deeply attached to yeur husband, you had no suspicions of him and yvet you let his remains lie in an_ undertaker’s morgue until the body was taken to the church with- out pallbearers and buried in Brool lyn without an autopsy. Why?" Simpson asked. “I asked to have the body brought home.” Mrs. Hall replied, “but Mr. Hubbard, the undertaker, said he thought it would be wiser not to.” “What was wiser?” Simpson asked. “You stayed home all Saturday night while his remains lay in the morgue, all Sunday and Sunday night while your dearly beloved husband, to whom you were devoted and whom you never suspected, had met violent death at the hands fo some one you djdn’t know.” “I had asked for it to be brought home,” Mrs. Hall repeated. “This man was vour life partner,” Simpson continued. “You say you were devoted to him, and I believe you. You thought he was a spotless Christian gentleman and vet you never went near to be where he was, although his murder had wiped the best out of your life. You never looked at his face. “You were more concerned in look- ing at the man who was taking- your picture here Saturday than you were in looking at your husband's face,” Simpson_ ques explaining that there might he ion to his ques- tion. Question Is Permitted. hat salie uescon cen asked four times,” McCarter objected, but the court permitted it to be put. “What did you do to aid the in- vestigators?"" “I went to the prosecutor.” “You had a watchman and you also detective? You hired him to unveil this mur- S “Why didn't to the prosecuto “Mr. Pfeiffer was in charge.” Simpson then asked Mrs. Hall about the first time she told of her trip to the church to look for her husband early Friday morning, after he had failed to return home. George D. Totten, Middlesex de- tective, testifying for the State, had said Mrs. Hall wld him of the trip near the close of a conversation he and the late Azariah Beekman, then prosecutor of Middlesex County, had with her the Sunday morning after the bodies had been founfd Saturday. Totten said Mrs. Hall told of her trip to the church after he had told her he had information that a woman was seen to enter the Hall home about 2 o'clock in the morning Friday. Asked why she hadn't told the de- tective of the trip to the church be- give his reports fore this, Mrs. Hall replied that she had not been asked about it. “Were vou in Maine in 1922 with your husband?" “Did you ever look over his shoulder COLONIAL HOTEL Fifteenth Street at “M” Washington's Foremost American Plan Hotel The special weekly or monthly rates. including breakfast and dinner, make the Colonial an ideal residence for cour or for two or more || friends 1iv1nz together. 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Mrs. Mills at Camp. “Was Mrs. Mills ever at a Summer camp with your husband?” “Yes." “Did you have a quarrel with Mr. Hi b?lll this camp?” N The witness was then asked about an interview in 1922 and said there were 20 or more reporters present at the interview, which lasted one hour. “Did you communicate with your brother, Henry Stevens, Friday after the Ndl.nppeu'n.nco of your husband?” “No.” As the cross-examination progressed Mrs. Hall asserted that even now she was not sure there had been anything serious in her hus- band’s relations with Mrs. Mills. , “I admit there was some slight attachment, but I am not convinced it was anything serious.” ‘When the questioning turned to Mrs. Mill’s stay in the hospital, Simp- son asked the witness if she had ever seen the prayer which her husband wrote for the choir singer. Never Saw Prayer. She sald she had never seen it. “You never saw your husband alive after he left home on the evening of September 14, 1922, saying he was going to the Mills home?” Simpson questioned. “I didn’t say he sald he was going to the Mills home,” replied Mrs. Hall. “I said he said he was going out to see about Mrs. Mills’ bilL.” ‘The prosecutor produced a large envelope filled with letters which Mrs. Hall had written her brother Henry Stevens from Italy. During the in- vestigation Simpson and detectives raided Henry Stevens home and ap- parently these letters were confiscated at that time. “You went to Italy in the February after the killings?”” Simpson asked. “Yes,” replled Mrs. Hall. “You have said that you were bro- ken-hearted, and this tragedy had wiped everything out of your life. You corresponded with your brother Henry ,while you were in Italy. Did you -ever mention a single word of re- gret, sorrow or loneliness?" McCarter objected on the ground that the question would require the witness to read all the letters. The court ruled that the question could be answered, and Mrs. Hall said she did not recall the contents of the letters. She Can't Remember. When the letters, 19 in all, were all marked for identification, Simpson continued: “Now, Mrs. Hall, you have sald that this calamity was the most |aff terrible thing in your life, that in wiped out all that made life worth living. Isn’t it a fact that in all these 19 letters there is not one phrase of sorrow, not one recollection for the husband for whom you have testified you were 8o devoted?” “I have no recollection,” said Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Mills' love letters to the Rev. Mr. Hall were shown to Mrs. Hall. She looked at them without showing any sign of emotion. “You'd never seen these letters un- til after the crime?” asked Simpson. o. ou didn't start out to De Russeys lane because of your finding these let- ters from Mrs. Mills to your husband, or that were brought to you by Mrs. (Minna) Clark?" o 'You were never informed of their contents?" “You had heard in no conversation that they were to meet?” Denies She Saw Shooting. “You didn’t go there (De Russeys lane) with Henry Stevens and during a quarrel between Henry Stevens and Mr. Hall see your husband shot down?” “I did not.” “You didn’t see Mrs, Mills shot three times and her throat cut, and her tongue and larynx torn out?” Mrs. Hall has made two trips to Europe since her husband’s death. “As you were nearing the end of either of these trips,” asked Simpson, “did you say to Mrs. Bonner, ‘well, Mrs. Bonner, I hope the pig woman is dead. The only mistake 1 made was in sending the coat to be dyed?” ID1a yvou say that on either of your trips, while about three days out from New York?" 1 did not,” answered Mrs. Hall. The “pig woman” referred to by Simpson was Mrs. Jane Gibson, tate's star witness, who said she saw Mrs. Hall and her brothers at the scene of the crime. ‘The prosecutor then asked Mrs. Hall why, if she didn’t know until Satur- doy that her husband had been mur- dered, did she tell Miss Agnes organist of the Rev. Mr. Storer, | husband had been away evening before she concluded he woul be nm{dvavhfl. the choir practice was ‘bein, 3 "Y%u said positively he would not be at choir practice?” “Perhaps.” : “Why can’t you answer yes or no?” asked Simpson, cl-flL angered. Mrs. Hall again explained that her husband’'s absence for an entire day led her to conclude he would not be | present for choir practice. ‘Mre. Hall was then asked to identify a package of letters. Thelr nature was not revealed, but the fact that some of them had been written on mourning stationery indicated that they were letters written after the Rev. Mr. Hall's death. “You never saw these letters until I showed them to you now?” “I did not.” n Saturday you were upset by your husband’s disappearance, yet you went downtown and drew a $10 check?” Mrs. Hall answered that she was not sure about cashing any $10 check Saturday morning. Recalled by Defense. “When was your attention first di- rected to the letters which were found at the body and in the Mills home?” McCarter asked on re-direct examination. “I think the first T ever heard of them was in the office of the New Brunswick prosecutor, Some time after the crime,” Mrs. Hall replied. “Did you see the originals?" . I was handed a copy of one of the letters.” "Eld you read it?” “No “DId you read the papers imme- dh!‘e'ly after the crime?” “No.” “At whose advice?” “The Rev. Mr. Conover advised me not to." “When did you first read the let- ters which have been introduced at this trial as passing between your husband and yourself?” “Two weeks before the trial “Tell us whether your view of your husband suffered any change.” Mrs. Hall hesitated. “Do you mean concerning his regard for me, or—-" Again she faltered, and then went on, “or concerning anything that had gone on in his life?” State Objection Fails. Simpson objected, but the question was permitted. “Tell us whether your view of your husband suffered any change,” Mc- Carter repeated. “It did not change in regard to his tion for me,” said Mrs. Hall. “Did it change with regard to his relations to Mrs. Mills?” “It ald.” Sherman Burns of the Burns De- tective Agency was called by the de- fense to refute testimony of Willlam Garvin, State witness, who said he was a private detective and that Ralph Gorsline, another State wit- ness, had come to his office shortly after the slayings, and confessed that he saw the defendants at the scene of the crime. He was not permitted to testify when the court upheld Sen- ator Simpson's objection that Gar- vin’s testimony was brought out only in cross-examination. State Prepares for Rebuttal. The State today was assembling witnesses to be put forward in re- buttal as the defense prepared to rest its case. 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Subcommittee chairmen to head special groups to work for congres- sional legislation are to be appointed by the officers elected, probably some time this afternoon. Legislative Matters Up. Five important legislative matters particularly affecting women and children were discussed at the meet- Ing today. Miss Charl Williams, chairman of the National Education Association committee, stated that 20 of the 22 organizations represented on the gen- eral committee were in favor of the establishment of a department of ed- ucation, with a secretary in the Presi- dent’s cabinet, to be its head, and de- clared that her committes would work for the enactment of such legis- latfon. Other matters favored by several subcommittees were: The WorldCourt, with women to be represented in that tribunal, reported on by Mrs. Maude Wood Park, chairman of the World Court committee; reclassification in the civil service, reported on by Miss Ethel Smith of the National Women's Trade Union League; the child labor amendment, reported on by Mrs. Glen Swiggert, who said that all of the 22 organizations represented on the gen- eral committee were in favor of such legislation to apply generally through- out the country. Extension of the Shepperd-Towner ———————— Jersey State trooper, who testified for the State, was in the courtroom. Rec- ords of this witness in the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps have been introduced by the defense. He testifled that the late Azariah Beekman, sometime prosecutor of Somerset County, paid him $2,600 to leave the State after he had investi- gated the Hall-Mills case over a period of months, including an _interview with Henry Stevens at Lavallette. The defendant denled having seen Dickman, saying that he was in Flor- ida at the time Dickman said he had seen him at Lavallette. Workers Loans , for Christmas help, this year and next! maternity and infancy act also was favored in a special report. ‘The act, it was explained, which was originally passed in 1921, pro- vides for a special board on mater. nity and infancy. The members of this board are Miss Grace Abbott of the Children's Bureau, Gen. Hugh Cumming of the United States Pub- lic Heglth Service and United States Commissioner of Education J. Tigert. 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