NOVEMBER ,3, 1922
OF
TWO PROMINENT FIGURES IN THE HALL-MILLS MYSTERY
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THE. MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY.
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RECTOR
WITNESS STORY DENIED
Minister's Name Declared to Be
tJnsullied Despite Stories of
Relations With Woman..
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present on the Phillips farm on the
night of September 15?
A. What comu-ent could I make? Of
course, that was not so, and that la &U.
Presence Is Denied.
Q. You weren't there?
A. I Certainly was not.
Q. Did you leave your house at any
time that night except when you went
out with your brother?
A. No.
Q. Will you tell your movements
on the night of September 14 aa near
as you can recollect? 1
A. We had our supp?r about 6:30 and
I went on the porch for a little while
after that, I had Mr. Hall's little niece
with me. His brother was there and
Mr. Hall was here at supper time. I
rtayed out on the porch for a while and
'hen a little later came in with the
little girl and played i-ames with her
for a while until 8:30 or S:45, some
where along there, then I put here to
hed upstairs and came down again. It
was somewhere along after 9, I should
fay, and I sat here in the library read
ing until about 10:30 and then went up
stairs and prepared for bed. I waited
for Mr. Hall to come in and I went to
bed but did not go to sleep.
Q. So between the time that he left
the house and the time you went out
with your brother in the early morning
jou did not at any time leave the
house?
Q. Have you ever been to the Phillips
farm, that you know of in your life?
A. Never. I did not know until later
that it was the old Derussv place. As a
child I had been there twice.
Q. Mrs, Hall, after you had gone to
the church at 2 o'clock inhe morning
and not having found your husband
there, did you take any further steps
between that time and 7 o'clock In the
morning, notify your friends or innuire
of the police, or do anything about your
uusoana s aosence 7
A. As you ail -know I walked down
past the Mills house to see if oy any
chance anyone was ill, or there was any
light there. Knowing that Mr. Hall iad
gone out and as he left the house say
ing he was going to see about this bill
referring to a hospital bill of Mrs. Mills
toward which both the rector and his
wife bad been contributing), but you
know all this; I have repeated it many
times. I have told you he was going
to see about this bill that Mrs. Mills
- spoke of and I know it was the last
thing he said to me and I thought he j
might have sent word there (Mills' f
house) where he was going. I went up (
mere 10 see u mere was any light or
, anything to see if he was there, but see
ing no light I came back.
Police Are Notified.
Q. About how long were you absent
from the house?
A. It was about 2:30 when I dressed
and went out; J came back about 3:30.
Q. From 3:30 until approximately 7
In the morning you took no further steps
to find out what caused your husband's
absence?
A. I telephoned to the police.
Q. You never left vour hntuw rnt
to go to the Mills home and to the !
church? I
A. No. I
Q. Willie was with you when you
came back? i
A. Yes.
Q. Mrs. Hail, have you seen any of 1
the letters that are supposed to have been :
written by your husband to Mrs. Mills? i
A. Very little. ' J
Q. Are they in his handwriting? j
A. I haven't seen them except the
one 1 saw in the prosecutor s office. j
Q. Do you believe he wrote those let
ters A. I think it very unlikely that he
would.
Q. Did you ever see any letters from
Mrs. Mills to your husband or from :
your husband to Mrs. Mills before this
tragedy occurred?
a. No. ;
Q. Did you know that they were cor
responding? A. 1 know that he wrote her last sum
mer. Q. Did you know the contents of any
of those letters?
A. No.
All Is Told. She Says.
Q. Did you know anything. Mrs. Hall,
which you do not care to tell us for fear
you may embarrass somebody that you
know Somebody very near and dear to
you' 4
A. Nothing.
Q. In other words, you are holding;
back nothing?
A. Absolutely nothing.
Q Havt; you any idea of any kind or
any knowledge as to who might have
done this thing?
Q. I have absolutely no idea, nor
have I had, as to the motive.
Q Did you ever have any feelings of
enmity toward Mrs. Mills?
A. None whatever.
Q. Did you ever have a quarrel wltb
Airs. Mills?
A. None whatever.
Q. You state that you understand or
know that your husband wrote to Mrs.
Mills last summer. Will you tell how
you knew that?
A. The pastor was sending cards to
all the parish. Mrs. Mills wrote to
me and she said he had sent her cards.
Q. Did you know that he had re
ceived a letter or letters from her?
A. I know the two I saw
Q. Two letters?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you know what the contents
of those letters were?
A. Yes, I did.
Q When you phoned the police on
Friday morning why was it, as w un
derstood you merely asked whether
there had been an automobile accident
and did not report your husband miss-
A. I said my husband had gone out
and had not returned. I did not tell
the police who I was. I asked if there
had been any accident, which might
account for his not returning.
Q. Why did not you tell the police
who you were?
A. I thought I could get the infor
mation without saying more.
. Q You never had any reason to go
to Mrs. Mills to protest against any
thing you had heard?
A. Never.
Q. Was there any enmity between
Henry Stevens and your husband?
A. No.
Q. Or Willie and your husband?
A. Never.
y. Were you ever Jealous of Mrs
Mills or anyone else?
A. Absolutely never.
Q. Have you ever fired a gun?
A. Never in mv lif
W-as it one eV Mr. Hall's pastimes
A. No.
Q. Did he possess a revolver that you
A. No.
, Q. Did you ever ask Barbara Tough
to keep an eye on your husband and Mrs
Mills?
A. Of course not.
Asain asked why she had not
mentioned her name when Inquiring
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of the police regarding' her husband.
Mrs. Hall said she simply didn t
think of mentioning it and that it
did not occur to her that it would
aid the police to know- exactly who
was missing.
Mtuatlon Admittedly strange. .
Q. Did vou know at that time that
Mrs. Mills also was missing?
A. No. 1 don't think I knew It when
I telephoned. X telephoned before I aaw
Mr. Mills. I think.
Q. And It wasn't until you saw Mr.
Mills that you knew Mrs. Mills was miss,
ing?
A. No.
Q. Did you attach significance to the
fact that both were missing?
A. 1 thought It strange, ves.
Q. Did you suggest to Mills that he
notify the police?
' A. Not that 1 remember.
Q. Did it occur to you then that thev
mitsui ue lugeuier?
A. I hardly know how to answer. The
fact that they had disappeared and he
had gone to see her I thought some
accident might have overtaken them
both. '
Q. Did you on the Saturday after Mr.
Hall disappeared give Barbara Tough
some silk socks of his to wash?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you say anything to the ef
fect that you thought him dead?
A. No. .
Asked further about the two let
ters from Mrs. Mills which Mrs. Hall
said she had seen, she declared they
merely described Sunday school serv
ice. She said Mr. Hall showed them
to her, and she insisted there were
no terms of affection or familiarity
in them.
$20,000 Declared left.
Mrs. Hall corrected reports that
her husband had J40.000 in negotia
ble securities in a safety deposit
vault when he was killed, declaring
the amount was about $20,000.
Her questioners next jumped to
the so-called "eye-witness" story of
Mrs. Jane Gibson, the pig farmer,
asking if she could explain why
Mrs. Gibson would have told such
a story if it were not true.
" haven't the most, remote idea." she
dec.ated.
She denied Mrs. Gibson's statement
thai they had met at a rummage sale,
ass, ling :
'I tiave rever seen her."
Innocence Is Asserted.
"Would you be willing to confront her
if it became necessary ?" she was asked
"I wouIJ do whatever the prosecutors
wis', me to do."
"You have no fear In your mind of the
outcime of this at all?"
"No My absolute Innocence of any
susr-icion I don't see that I have the
slig.i.t-st hing to worry about."
"How many1 times, Mrs. Hall, did you
see 'r. Mills on the Friday?"
"! know of two times. He says he
came here in the evening, but I don't re
member." ,
"When you were first notified that
your husband's body was found, were
you also :old of Mrs. Mills' body being
found ?"
"i think so; I think .Immediately."
"Had her body been Identified at that
time?'
"I am not sure, I think so."
"Vill you ten us what you thought
wher you heard they had been found
dead together?" (
"I had no thoughts. I didn't know
what to think."
"What was your immediate reaction?"
"1 was bo absolutely stunned. I had
no thought."
"Ai.d then, when that passed, what did
you rhink?"
"I can't tell you anymore than I didn't
know what to think."
"What do you think now?"
'I don't know what to think now."
"Mrs. Hall, suppose you had known
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Top Mrs. Jane Gibson, who says
sue saw murders committed. Be
low J umes Mills, husband of
murdered woman
that the relations between your hus
band and Mrs. Mills were very intimate
what would you have done?"
"What a strange question! Of course,
I would have spoken to him." -
"Can you tell us just exactly how you
have been feeling all during these seven
weeks? Won't you just tell us, in your
own way, all of your reactions and all of
your feelings about all of this; all your
searchlngs, I mean your mental search
ings, for a solution?"
"I feel as if I was up against a flank
wall. I have no idea what to think.'
"You must realize that a lot of people
believe you guilty?"
"It seems to me most mysterious that
anyone should think such things. I can
not understand it, of course."
"Hadn't you been eager for this op
portunity to come out aud tell how you
stauc ?"
Solution Declared Wanted.
"Frankly, 1 have heard so many things
in the papers that 1 feel it Is very
uncertain what goes into the newspapers
at all."
"What has been your general feelin
with respect to publicity ; not about
this case, but all your life?"
"I have all my lite avoided publicity
In every possible way. There is no one
who has led a more retired life."
"There was a suggestion some time
past about your offering a reward, wny
didn't you do it? This suggestion came
to you. I believe?"
'Why should I offer a reward? It
would be a most awlui thought.
"Just why?'
" hy, to offer a reward to have some
one come out and tell of a murder."
"You are anxious, however, that this
whole thing should be cleared up?
"Why, of course."
"Bt you are not satisfied with what
the authorities have done?
"No, but It seems that they let many
things go by.
No Revenge Desired.
"Just exactly what feeling would
prompt you to think it would be ter
rible to offer a reward? Just put It
your own way.
"I don't think I can put It in words."
"You want to see the murderers pun
ished?"
"I don't want to see anybody pun
ished. I want to get ahe solution. I
haven't a vindictive feeling to see any
one punished. I think anyone who has
committed a murder is not a safe person
to have at large, but as far as a vindic
tive reeling, X have none." - .
"Mrs. Hall, when you were at the
prosecutor's office, did you see one of
the letters your husband is alleged to
aave written airs, juiiisr
"Just a newspaper copy of one,"
"Was that identical with your hus
band's writing?"
"i oniy glanced at It. They showed
me a signature of hs In the facsimile
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Sale of Blanket Robes
at $3.95 and at $5.95
Special at $3.95. Cosily warm
Dlanket robes for the women one
style trimmed with satin, the other
with cord; revere or shawl collars.
Special at $5.95. These the
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On the Fourtli Floor Lipman, Wolfe & Co.
and I said it looked like It, but I could
not guarantee it.
"Did you examine It at all closely?"
"No."
"Weren't yeu interested In determin
ing whether it was his handwriting?"
"The letters did not seem to interest
me at all."
"Or the diary?"
"No."
"Have you read any extracts from the
diary ?"
"No."
The questioners asked Mrs. Hall
to give them her estimate of the
character o Mrs. Mills, whom she
admitted she knew "quite well."
"I do not like to describe her
character at all. I do not thlniul
could' she said.
Going again to the letters and
diaries which Mrs. Hall said she
had not even read, the questioners
asked if she ana her counsel didn't
think it tremendously Important to
discover whether the documents
were genuine and evidences of in
timacy between them.
"I don't even Bee that that would tell
you who was tne criminal," she replied.
- "You want to find the possible motive
for the murderers?"
"Of course I do." .
"If your husband were In lovs with
any woman, every icrson connected with
that woman who could shoot a gun
might have killed him?"
No answer.
"If the diary and the letters are trut.
he must .have been in love with Mrs.
Mills. Do you agree with that?"
"Yes."
"Why haven't you read the diary and
letters before?"
"1 haven't read any of the papers."
"That is the tremendous point of the
whole case so far."
"I had 4uch faith in mv biT.Ha,
If he were here he could" ,xniain t,A
could explain If he were here."
"You would not be convinced that your
husbar.d was carrying on an affair with
Mrs. Mills even if you saw in the diary
intimate details that were known to no
one except Mrs. Mills?".
Vamping Not Seen.
"f knew him too well for him to be
in love."
T'as M-s. Mills a vamp? Do you
think she was a woman of good char
acter ?"
"I do not care to aay."
"You do not think she deliberately set
her cap for Mr. Hall?" '
- "I never" saw any indication of it."
"Now, what do you think of it?"
"I do not know 1 do not know what
to think."
"Have you changed your opinion re
cently regarding Mrs. Mills? I 'mean by
that, covering the period of say six
months?"
"I have not changed my opinion of
her. unless you speak of the last six
weeks. Of course, 1 have had a good deal
to think of In this time."
. "Prior to the murder you had not
changed the opinion you had of Mrs.
Mills for some time?
"No."
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For the Children Three-quarter wool hose with turn
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Pendleton Blankets $9.00
Pure wool blankets in the popular plaids blankets with the
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Ex-Klansmen In Convention.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 1. A conven
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about formation of a national asso-j
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Chorus Rehearsal Tomorrow.
Rehearsal of various units which
will sine in the municipal chorus
Sunday. November 12, will be held
tomorrow night, November 3, at
8:30, at the Sherman-Clay concert
hall instead of tonight as previously
announced. Carl Denton will direct
the rehearsal.
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