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) CASE BRILLIANT -~ ASHE SUMS UP Masterly Address for Defense Holds Court Spectators Spellbound. BY DOROTHY DIX. Special Diepatch to The Star. SOMERVILLE, N. J.,, December 3.—"Prisoner, look upon the jury: Jury, look upon the prisoner,” cried Senator Case dramatically. yesterday a8 he closed his summation in the Hall-Mills case, and then, crossing swiftly to Mrs. Hall, he took one of her small black-gloved hands in his, and held it out toward the jury. “Do you believe this hand ever fired the shots that killed her husband and Mrs. Mills? Do you believg this hand ever cut another woman's throat?” he demanded Senator Case spoke for four hours, and it is a tribute to his ability as an orator that for all of that time he held his audience spellbound. Some of this rapt attention was due, of course, to his being not only a Somer- set man, but Somerset County’'s fa- vorite s But beyond all that, his speech was worth listening to for its own intrinsic merit. From every angle it was a master- Plece of jury pleading, and he played upon the 12 good men and true as upon a harp of 12 strings. They are mearly all old men. Some of them grandfathers, and he began his speech by defending age and rebuk- ing Senator Simpson for the way in which he has derided Mr. McCarter for his years. He marshaled his facts with consummate ability and pre- sented his arguments vividly and in- terestingly. Describes Widow’s Suffering. He muted his bow and drew forth plaintive notes as he told of the suf- ferings of Mrs. Hall and her brothers in being persecuted for a crime they had never committed, and most of all he smote loud and long and often upon the chord of local pride and de- manded to know of Somerset men if they would let Hudson County domi- nate their affairs and make Somerset subservient to it. . Senator Case’s speech mostly con- cerned itself with Jane Gibson, and when he got through with her the few shreds of character she had left were hanging on the line. He went over the various stories that she had related at different times and pointed out how they contradicted each other. He called attention to the fact that when her story had first directed suspicion against Mrs. Hall and her brothers, and she was called upon to identify them, she was unable to do 80, and that after the grand jury had failed to bring in an indictment Sheriff Conkling had m streets of New Brunswick, and had sald to her, “Jane, do you think that Mrs. Hall and Henry and Willle Steven: murde: And_she had replied, “Nothing at all.” Also that at first she had claimed it was Carpender that she had seen at the scene of the murder, and afterward she changed this to Henry Stevens, and later on located both of them on the spot. Inconsistencies Charged. Coming down to the story that she told from her sick bed in court, he showed up its many inconsistencies— that Mrs. Gibson should be able four vears later to recognize Mrs. Hall and Willie Stevens, whom she passed on & dark night in De Russey’s lane, and the fmpossibility that in the brief flash of a light that she only claimed to have seen for a second, the faces of four or flve people that she saw engaged in a struggle could have branded themselves on her memory, ®0 that she could identify them years later, though she only saw them through bushes, then in full leaf. Also the fact that she described Mrs. Hall as being a large woman with white hair, whereas Mrs. Hall is only medium sized and at that time was not even gray. Mrs. Gibosn suffering from can- cer, the doctors say, and Senator Case advanced the theory that perhaps his story about what she saw on the he rode her old mule down De sey ane might have been in- spired by dope that she took to ease her pain, or else it might be the hal- lucinations of a woman who was men- tally unbalanced, and who, starting out to tell a story that would startle and thrill her neighbors and give her a certain glamour of interest in their eyes. had told it over and over again, adding to it as she related it, until she had come at t to believe it herself. And certainly in her evidence there was much in her manner of speech, in her wild expr , in that intan- gible atmosphere of unreality that hangs about those who are not nor- mal, to give color to this belief. Explains Calling Card. Certainly there was nobody who heard her monotonous repeating of the same words—"I was going, going, going”; “I heard screams, scream: serean they were fighting, fight ing. fighting"--during her recital of her testimony and her hysterical out- burst at its end, who did not get the uncanny sense that they were listen- ing to a woman who would be likely to be “seeing things," as her poor old half-crazed mother does. Another interesting point made in Senator Case's speech was the asser- tion of his belief that the card found at Dr. Hall's feet, which is supposed to bear the fingerprint of Willie Stevens, was really left there b mond Schneider, who d bodies, and who, Senator Cas robbed them. ~ He thin Schneider took Mr. Hall's gold watch and fob and the money in his billfold, and that in running through the cards in his cardcase, in search of some- thing else valuable, that he threw the cards upon the ground, and one acci- dentally lodged at Mr. Hall's foot. yway, why didn't the State bring Schneider to testify to finding the bodies, which would be the usual way of procedure in a murder case? Be- cause, said Mr. Case, the prosecution was afraid that on cross-examination Schineider would be made to tell this, If Mrs. Hall and her brothers did not kill Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, who did? is the question that is perpetual Iy asked, and it was curious to find | out thiat Mr. McCarter and Senator Case have different theories on that subject. McCarter Doubts Mills. Mr. McCarter intimated his belief that Mr. Mills did it, in proof of which he said that Mr. Mills had far more cause for being jealous of his wife than Mrs. Hall had of her husband, because Mrs, Mills openly flaunted her infidelity in her husband's face. She told him that Mr. Hall's little finger meant more to her than his whole body, and it was open knowl- edge in the family that as soon as Charlotte finished school she intended to go to Japan with her lover. On the night of the murder they had a bitter quarrel over Dr. Hall, and when she left home and he asked her where she was going, she flung over her shoulder, “If you want to find out where I am going, follow me.”” Also that Mills made no effort SUMMING UP IN MURDER TRIAL DECLARED JUST LIKE A PLAY Elements of Comedy and Tragedy Both Injected by Defense, and Some Are Called in BY FRANCES NOYES HART. Special Dispatch to The Star. COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. J., December 3.—Senator Case yester- day afternoon reined up abruptly in the midst of his four-heur speech and remarked confidentially to the jury that it was almost impossible for him to realize he was taking part in a murder trial and not a play. It is al- most impossible for us, too, and there have been moments for which what | are spaciously referred to as “the bil- lion-dollar counsel” should shoulder their full share of responsibility. We have also had profound doubts as to whether we had not strayed by some unfortunate error into a political con- vention, a Christmas pantomime, a Fourth of July celebration or a valedictory address at the local high school. There is much to be said in favor of both of the speeches that have closed the case for the defense. They had the great primary assets of being pro- foundly sincere. It was impossible to doubt for one moment that Senator Case and Mr. McCarter are not con- vinced to the marrow of their bones and the core of their hearts of the ab- solute innocence of the three whose lives they are defending. Attitude Is Impressive. That conviction is so burning that it has become an emotion, something divorced entirely from the realm of intellect and reason and translated into an overwhelming pity and indig- nation. They ceased to be defenders and became crusaders. This attitude, to the detached observer, was very im- pressive, but it had its drawbacks. The rage of pity that shook Case to tears at the end of a genuinely mov- ing plea and that rang in McCarter’s voice when he told us of the wrongs that had been done “this gentle lady,” and “William, who has never even hurt a bird,” was not so effective when it turned to spleen against a dying woman, a deaf man and the en- tire Democratic party of the State of New Jersey. If Mr. McCarter could have remem- bered that it was the case of Stevens, Stevens and Hall vs. the State of New Jersey that he was trying, and not Phillip Payne and the New York Mir- ror—if Mr. Case could have been per- suaded that it was not a Jersey city that was on trial for its life, but two men and a woman, this trial would have been over last night, we would not be in so critical & mood, and bet- ter speeches could have been credited to both of them. Nor are we not disposed to over- look lightly Mr. McCarter's efforts to His first playful reference to Lieut. Walter Ciecieuch as *Choo-Choo,” brought only mild transpo: on our to “Hoochy-Coochy,” left us per- turbed—and at his seventeenth repe- like Queen Victoria, not amused. McCarter’s Age Stressed. Great play has been made of the fact that Mr. McCarter is 67 years old. Senator Case became so overwrought at the thought of the insouciance with which Senator Simpson has treated his aged colleague that it took him about 10 minutes to remember that he was wasting time in getting to his central theme of corruption in Jer- sey City. We ourselves regard 67 years as a very reasonable age for a lawyer, and the principal reaction that we got from the rosy, chubby- faced, excellently groomed Mr. M- Carter imitatirfg Marie Demarest in a high falsetto squeak and praying God to preserve him from such a wife—imitating, with a surprising lit- tle dance step, the exultant and ne- farious_fingerprint experts, next day, “Hip! Hip! Hooray! off for the Cat- skills to see Faurot——.” Imitating very badly caprio saying, “Have you gotta da paper: The principal re- action, we say, we got from this, was that if Mr. McCarter was 67 years old, he was old enough to Know better. “This is a murder trial, and even if Mr. McCarter has a genius for panto- mime and ventriloquism, we can think of more appropriate occasions to ex- ercise it. Though we admit, guiltily, that we would not willingly relinquish some of his more notable impersona- tions—the unexpected metamorphosis into the crabapple tree during the first day or so of the trial; the inter- esting role, no later than Wednes- day, of a ray of light passing through a lens propelled by motions of really Delsartean grace; the interpretation of Willie “dancing backward throush 2 door,” as attested by Marie De- marest, and executed with everything but bailet skirts by the leader of the bar himself. Jury Frankly Puzzled. We think that Mr. McCarter did not invariably gauge the psychology of the jurors accurately. Possibly they were flattered at his remarking, “Four vears ago—the length of time that it takes us to go through college—you know how servants like to close up a house early. We've all gone calling on young ladies and sent up cards by the butler—is Miss Simpkins at home?—and I don’t believe that we've ever left a fingerprint on a card vet. But we have our profound doubts as to whether the world of college and sorvants and calling cards is not an alien and uncoveted one to the t'mjm- ers, leflln\‘torfll and g‘fiksyj‘:}:—;‘ who e gentlemen of the jury. e ons were frnnl::ii bt\fi chen Philip Payne was introduced ?;fll;;m first r;s Mephistopheles and then, slightly satirically, we fear, as savanarola—an intriguing combina- olieves that the *“pig woman!' | el e murderess. He says that she | Was skilled in the use of firearms, {that she was always threatening | people with her gun, and boasted that Phe often fired it in the dark at beople of whose conduct she did not approve. Traces Possible Movements. e night of the murder she had bl‘(e): ‘\?atchfng for the thieves who | atole her corn. intending to get them, and he thinks that she may have fol- Jowed Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, think- were the thieves, and in her | fury, shot them. Then, her blood lust satiated, she may have mounted her mule, as she said, and fled home, and finding her moccasin gone she may have realized that that was a ‘clué. and for that reason have gone a to hunt it. P e®Hall and her two brothers sat alone, listening to the summing up, | the comforting galaxy of cousins who | have sat so stanchly at their backs | having removed to other seats in the 'ing they Bad Taste tion, but a baffiing one. They listened to a not very apposite quotation from Felix Holt, a lengthy paraphrase of St. Paul and an even lengthier quo- tation from “Hamlet” with expres- sions of mild surprise, though it is possible that they were not as startled as some of the rest of us by the sud- den casting of Mrs. Hall in the role of Ophelia. ‘We think, too, that the savage at- tack on Mrs. Gibson’s illness as “the- atrical humbug” was bad taste and bad judgment. It would be difficult to convince any human who heard her in court that day that they were not listening to an ill woman. Defense Has Strong Case. It is because we feel that the coun- sel for the defense has one of the strongest cases in its hands that was ever presented to a jury that we de- plore some of tne methods that they have used in presenting it. They have no need of vituperation, of cheap Jokes, of passionate appeals to local patriotism and local prejudice, of glit- tering generalities and malicious slurs. If the case had been closed with- ous one word from *either defense, prosecution or judge, we belleve that the verdict pronounced by the jury would just as inevitably be ‘‘not guilty.” We believe that it would be that same verdict of ‘not guilty” whether the jury were foreign or do- mestic, hostile or friendly—12 men from Timbuctoo or 12 men from New Brunswick. We believe that it would be ‘“not guilty” if Daniel Webster had conducted the prosecution and a nice bright boy from the Near East kindergarten had conducted the de- fense. And‘we believe this because we think that there is no case whatever against these two men and this woman. There was an excellent prima facie case for an indictment—a reputed fingerprint on a card supposed to be propped at the murdered man’s heel; shaken alibis, a supposed eyewitness, tales of Mrs. Hall's jealousy; tales of bribery and corruption. These things, one by one, have crumbled to pieces in the prosecutor’'s clever fingers— not because they have not been deftly handled, but because they were un- sound and rotten before he touched them, Strange Career of Card. The card has had too strange and checkered a career to earn our es- teem—it is_quite possible that it has black smudges on it—darker than charcoal or lampblack. It is an object for curiosity, not for respectful con- sideration. it is highly doubtful her on the | inject humor into this trial, either, [ {3 elfCRT (oo (he card at the rec- tor's heel—it is even doubtful whether there was a card at his heel at all. The shaken alibis have suffered an- had anything to do with the | part—his more daring variation of it s¢ther convulsion and are all back in place again, under oath, with three or four new and unshakable ones Henry | tition of these quips, we have been, | thrown in for good measure. The ‘eye- witness’ tale has so many serious variations, such unstable identifica- tions, that we are driven to believe that it is either a hallucination, a fab- rication or an amplification of fact that includes both factors. The tales of Mrs. Hall's jealousy seem literally non-existent. The tales of bribery and corruption dwindle down to a Jail- bird’s account of bribery from a dead man, and a tale by a lady with a wild light in her eye of a total stranger mounting her steps, offering to pay off the mortgages on the old home, listening patiently to her virtuous and flery refusal, and obligingly giving her his name before he left in case she ever wanted to reach him to throw him in jail for making such proposi- tions, presumably. Eloquent Appeal by Case. There may be those in this court- room who still believe that Frances Hall, William Stevens and Henry Ste- vens are guilty of this murder—but if there is one person left in the world who holds that their guilt has been proved, we believe that it is because that person has not made even an at- tempt to follow the evidence. Senator Case made an able and eloquent appeal. Our chief indict- ments against him are that he is a politician before he is a lawyer and that he has no middle register to his voice. Like the happiness boys of radio fame he addressed us either in the high voice or the low voice. The low voice we couldn’t hear and the high voice hurt our eardrums and, we trust, his tonsils. ‘What we could hear was good. He wears, prominently displayed, a Phi Beta Kappa key—and he amply justified its acquisition. At his con- clusion, Henry Stevens wept, mem- bers of the jury wept, Senator Case wept. But one there was who did not weep. A gray-haired woman, who had no tears left or pity for herself or her fate—who sat quietly staring at gray gloves with gray eyes, thinking, perhaps, of something that the learned and eloquent counsel seemed so often to have forgotten— of a man lying with a bullet through his head under a crabapple tree, with a girl's brown head on his arm, a girl with three bullets through her head and a cut throat—a lucky, lucky girl, dead and beloved. EMERGENCY RADIO MEASURE WANTED TO END CONFUSION (Continued from First Page.) casters,” it is stated. Consideration of established stations over newcomers is asked. A minimum term of license of five vears is proposed, and legislation pro- hibiting unauthorized rebroadcasting of any material is suggested. Letter Sent to Leaders. Copies of the letter were given to Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, chairman of the interstate commerce committee; Senators Gooding of Idaho, Republican, and Dill of Washington, Democrat, as well as to the House con- ferees. Senator Dill is author of the measure which passed the Senate. Members of the committee headed by Mr. Strong, publisher of the Chi- cago Daily News, were Paul B. Klugh, executive chairman of the National Association of Broadcasters; Arthur T. Haugh, Buffalo, president of the Ra- dio Manufacturers’ Association; R. W. | De Mott, New York, president of the | Radio_Magazine Publishers’ Associa- | tion; Louis B. F. Raycroft, Philadel- phia, chairman of the radio section, National Electrical Manufacturers’ As- sociation; Charles H. Stewart, Phila- ody of the courtroom. b0 ey listened to the speeches with the same calm and poise that they have displayed through the entire trial. Only once did Mrs. Hall show any emotion, and that was when Mr. McCarter spoke of her as a woman of many sorrows, a woman who had passed through the grief of losing the husband she loved, the greater grief of finding out that the man she trust- od had betrayed her and been unfaith- to find out where she had gone, when she did not come home, and had so little sentiment that he sold the love letters that showed her relationship with another man to a newspaper to print and make public. Senator Case, on the other hand, ful to her, and who now was called [upon to bear the shame of being ac- cused as a murderess, and the sor- row of having unwittingly brought misfortune on her two brothers and her cousin. (Copyright. 1920.) | delphia, vice president of the Amer- | ican Radio League, and Harold J. | Wrape of St. Louls, president of the Federated Radio Trades «Association. i L. S. Baker of New York is executive | secritary. | s i Receivers Are Named. | BLOOMSBURG, Pa., December 3 Locomotive Co., were named by the Columbia County Court yesterday on petition of D. J. Waller and E. H. | Stackhouse, creditors. Total assets (#).—Receivers for the Bloomsburg! FATE OF MRS. HALL AND HER BROTHERS IN JURY'S HANDS (Continued from First Page.) told the jurors that the State would owe them a great debt—"that is, what- ever of you gentlemen keep your oath and weigh the evidence and do mot kick the case out in 20 minutes.” Pointing out that the trial came four years after the crime, he asked, “Was any such thing ever heard of before in the civilized world?” ‘“The prosecution of four years ago was mur- dered in the case,” Simpson declared. Then, walking to the side of Juror Hope, Simpson said: “I know Mr. Hope is a great friend of Mr. Case's; I know he is under obligations to him, but I expect him to consider this case on the evidence.” Senator Clarence E, Case is a mem- ber of defense counsel and two days ago Simpson attempted to obtain a mistrial, one of his objections being that members of the jury were biased. “Justice Lynched,” He Says. Declaring again and again that “Justice was lynched” four years ago when the investigators yielded no in- dictments, Simpson said that when the case was not properly chloroformed in Middlesex County a special prosecu- tor was called in, but to no avail. Referring to the statements of de- fense counsel that James Mills, hus- band of the slain woman, or Mrs. Jane Gibson, the State’s eyewitness, might have committed the crime, Simpson sald he would prove that “Jennie," Mrs. Gibson's mule, might just as easlly have been guilty. Mrs. Gibson was a circus rider, he said, and her mule was probably a trick mule, which happened to be in De Russey's lane on the night of the killing and shot them. ‘“How damnably silly are their accu- sations,” said Simpson. “I wanted to go outside this county for a foreign Jjury, I have no criticism of the rank and file of the citizens, but I have of the cheap politicians who did mot want this investigation. “I am not impugning all of you, but you should not say ‘we’ll kick the case out in 20 minutes.’ “The most wonderful thing of all in this case.” said Simpson, “is that wealth is on trial, that wealth, with al: llt.s satellites can be brpught to trial.” Mills Dumb, He Says. Simpson then told the jury that he was receiving no money for his part in the trial. Referring to Charlotte and Danny Mills, children of Mrs. Mills, the pros- ecutor said they had been left alone with a ‘““dumb” father. “Public conscience is going to de- cide this case, whatever you say, for it has got the evidence in the case,” the prosecutor told the jury. “The time to try this case was four years ago,” said Simpson. “I asked Henry Stevens about the paternity of Willie Stevens to get a fact. Criminal prosecutions are never pleasant. I tried to discover whether Willie Stevens had any colored blood to get a fact, not to be nas . He described Mrs. Mills as a woman with an “empty heart, who had a hus- band not particularly inspirational.” “They intimate,” he said, “but they don’t dare say that she was a harlot. They even go %0 far as to say the Ku Mallory Hats $6, $7 Klux Klan is in favor of an acquittal in this case, because of that. I know the biggest Klansman in the State and he told me the other day that the Klan was never in favor of murder.” Displays Her Stockings. Then he held up the stockings which Mrs. Mills had worn on the night of her death. “Look at them,” he said, “‘cheap 15- cent stockings. Look at the poor little brown shoes, run down at the heels. Aren't those queer clothes for a harlot to wear? The prosecutor pictured Mrs. Hall as a “proud, cruel” woman, who was aroused to ‘“jealousy, hate and rage” because she was about to lose her hus- band to another woman. He pointed out that she was older than her, hus. band and that he was “bought and paid for,” and that, “of course, she listened in over the telephone when this woman called.” “This woman, look into her eyes if you want to know the truth,” said Simpson, pointing at Mrs. Hall. Calls Mrs. Hall Jealous. “If Mrs. Hall didn't know of the gossip_concerning her husband and Mrs. Mills, she was the only one in New Brunswick without that informa- tion,” Stmpson declared. Mrs. Hall he described as an elderly woman of wealthy position. Her hus- band, he said, was hers and she would not tolerate 'Mrs. Mills' taking him from her. He described the relations between the minister and the slain choir singer as “this sitting on the lap, kissing, meeting and correspondence.’” “She is so cold-bloofled that she stops talking about the murder of her husband to have photographers put out of the courtroom.” He referred to the occasion when Mrs. Hall, while on the witness stand, observed a photographer in_the court- room and spoke to Judge Parker, re- sulting in the photographer being ejected. Believes They Confronted Palr. The prosecutor maintained that Mrs. Hall and her brothers went to con- front Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills without any intention of committing murder, but that a quarrel resulted from Mrs. Hall's demand for an ex- planation of the letters, and in the ensuing struggle the couple were shot. Simpson claimed that the telephone call which Mrs. Mills made to the minister in the evening, a few hours before the murder, referred to a letter which Mrs. Mills had written to him and which he had not received. The prosecutor voiced the opinion that this letter had fallen into the hands of Mrs. Hall. He stressed the fact that when Mrs. Hall and Willie Stevens were out_the night of the slaying looking for Rev. Mr. Hall they never knocked at the door of the Mills home. ““This woman, mad for her husband, doesn’t make the slightest effort to find him,” said Simpson. “She doesn’t know the next morning that the rector is dead with the choir singer beside him; vet she calls police and asks what amounted to ‘any dead bodies been found.’ " This referred to the argument over the word “casualties.” Simpson, on cross-examination of Mrs. Hall, insist- YOUR CREDIT ed that Mrs. Hall, in asking if ‘any casualties had been reported, wes in, criminating herself. Reviews Widow's Story. He then reviewed Mrs. Hall's ac- count of her movements from the time her husband disappeared to the finding of the bodies, declaring Mrs. Hall on Friday “puts them to- gether and kills them.” “The nasty thing about this casy is the three on trial,” said Simpson. “Take her own story. It's abso- lutely irreconcilable with justice. They may escape human justice, but not divine.” The prosecutor criticized Mrs. Hall for not having her husband’'s body taken home. “When finally he’s carried into the church for burial he didn’t even have honorary pallbearers,” he said. The special prosecutor spoke of Mrs. Hall retaining Timothy N. Pfeiffer, New York attorney, four years ago, who, Simpson said, had brought De- tective Felix di Martini into the case, to “shut up and terrify” witnesses. “Di Martini is a liar by the clock,” he continued, asserting that neither Pfeiffer nor Di Martini ever gave the State any aid. “‘She doesn’t care if the murderer is ever found,” Simpson said in assailing Mrs. Hall. “On the witness stand she said it wouldn’t be decent to offer a reward. Four years ago she said what was practically ‘I'm not interested in find- ing the murderers.’ She knew who they were. “‘On this much testimony the fairest Jury in the world couldn't escape con- victing this woman of complicity. I don’t say that she did the shooting. He then pointed to what he said were discrepancies in statements of Willie Stevens and began tracing the history of a calling card which the State contends was found near the bodies bearing the print of Willie Stevens’ index finger. _One of the defense’s own witnesses, Simpson asserted, testified that the en- largement of Willie Stevens’ alleged fingerprint by the defense was dis- torted and that this “throws it out al- together.” ‘““They say it is a forged fingerprint, yet they say it is not Willie Steven: said Simpson. “Then, whose was it? Willie Stevens was not fingerprinted until August, 1926. How could it be forged?” Henry Stevens’ statement before the Middlesex County prosecutor in 1922 differed from his testimony on the witness stand, Simpson said, adding that Henry Stevens knew “all about’” revolvers in 1922, but knew nothing about them on the witness stand. The prosecutor charged that the bluefish entry in the diary of Stevens for Sep- tember 14, 1922, was ‘“‘cooked.” “Is an innocent man doing that?” he asked. Calls Willle's Mind Boylsh. Willie _Stevens, the prosecutor charged, had been “taught a story.” “He hasn't got your minds,” said the prosecutor to the jurors. “He has a boy's mind. He may belleve his own story.” Referring to Mrs. Gibson, Simpson said that, while she had no and butler, like Mrs. Hall” he be- lieved she was a woman of good char- acter. He pictured Mrs. Gibson as a “dving woman" who had lost all but a few acres of her farm and whose stock and poultry had been poisoned because she appeared as a witness against the defendants. The prosecutor compared Mrs. Hall to Lucretia Borgia and “bloody” EISEMAN’S 7th & F Sts. IS Queen Mary, saying there had been cruel women in history. “What is more cruel than a woman ‘who, though she is older than her hus- band, sees him killed when he is taken away from her?” he asked. Reverting again to Mrs. Gibson, Simpson described her as “one of the finest characters.” “It requires courage to come for- ward and tell your story when the whole of the ruling class is against you,” he declared. “If you feel like acquitting these defendants,” Simpson concluded, “why don’t you put on a rider to your verdict, saying Mrs. Gibson, or Jen- nie, her mule, committed the mur- ders?"” Again and again, the prosecutor declared that he has not been trying “to win a case.” Hints at New Trials. “Senator Case has told you that this is the last of the Hall-Mills trials,” Simpson continued. “He has nothing to do with it. There are possibly five more trials, Henry Carpender has not been tried on either indictment and cach of these three defendants can be ;‘l’fl‘:‘ separately for murder of Mr. Carpender is a cousin of the other defendants. One story told by Mrs. Gibson placed him at the scene of the killing. Nearing the end of his address Simp- son said that “with the stench” of the Hall-Mills case unsolved there should be a red flag in the hand of the statue of justice atop the court- house. “They think that I antagonized you,” he said to the jury, “but that doesn’t worry me. If I were trying an accident case, I might pat you on the back and tell you what fine fel- lows you are, but the honest men among you are going to decide this case. I am speaking this with the au- thority of the whole State of New Jersey in trying to clear up this abom- inable murder. “I have faith in you,” he finally told the jury. Bergen Opens for State. “I think I should explain as pros- ecutor of this county,” Bergen said in pearls TIFFANY ODD YHINGS NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE Berry & Warrmore Co. Diamonds Watches Stationery Engraving Sole Agents AND HFFANY FAVRILE GLASS F AND ELEVENTH STREETS beginning his address, “how the J sey City police camd into this case. “Does your honor think this is summing up?” Robert M. McCarter, senifor member of defense counsel asked. Simpson contended that Bergen should be allowed to reply to the “vi tuperation of the State,” but Justice Parker sald there was nothing in the argument of the defense which was not fairly evidence in the testimony. Bergen was permitted, in a short address, however, to state that when the case “broke” this Summer he had been in office only a short time and that he considered there was not a sufficient police force in his county to carry on the investigation required. Bergen said that he consequently asked the governor to “give me some assistance.” At this point McCarter objected again and the court instruct ed Bergen to confine himself to the records in the case. The county prosecutor then sald that insinuations that it was Simpson who was ‘“running this case” wer- false, pointing out that he had signed the warrant for Mrs. Hall's arrest be fore Simpson was appointed. DENIES HE WILL RESIGN. Gen. Wood Says He Has No Inten- tion of Quitting Philippine Post. BAGUIO, P. I, December 3 (#).- Shown a Washington dispatch today stating he was about to resign, Gov Gen. Wood declared the report abso lutely without foundation. “You may deny the report in the strongest possible terms,” he sald “There {8 nothing in it. I have no in tention of resigning.” The governor general came here re- cently from Manila to recuperate aft er having submitted to an operation He is gaining strength raptdly and fs working every day on bills passed by the insular Legislature. —e Only three cases of vellow fever were reported this side of the globe last year. Jewelry STUDIOS Tuxedo Suits $29 GOOD AT EISEMAN’S SUITS & OVERCOATS On Liberal Terms Hundreds of well dressed men are wearing these special suitsand overcoatsat $25. They have all the style and ap- pearance of the regular $40 grades. Values like these are hard to find. We have puta low price on high-grade cloth- ing. It’s up to you to take advantage of this special offer. Buy your suit or overcoat on our liberal credit plan. We'llarrange the terms to suit your convenience without any additional costs to you. Open an account tomorrow. You'll find it mighty convenient. Don’t Hesitate to Ask for Credit Buy Your Christmas Presents at Eiseman’s Do your Christmas shopping here. You can charge your purchases—making the payments during January, February and March. We have a full line of useful gifts for men which you will find very reasonably priced. | were given as $158,832.63 and total liabilities as $159,571.93. The receivers were ordered to liquidate the property. PAY DURING JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH