Mrs. Jane Gibson State's Star Witness in Hall-Mills Murder Case
Earlier in the day experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants.
Somerville, N. J., Nov. 3 - (AP) - Serious illness of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, today prevented the state from introducing the testimony of its chief eye-witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial.
At the end of a day in which experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker and County Judge Frank Cleary decided that Mrs Gibson was too ill to tell her story.
Mrs. Gibson is ill from a malady which physicians testified might develop into pneumonia. Her condition is described as serious.
The present investigation which led to the indictment of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and three of her male relatives for murder, was based largely on acceptance of Mrs. Gibson's eye-witness story, discredited in the first investigation. She placed (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3)
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Mrs. Jane Gibson State's Star Witness in Hall-Mills Murder Case
Earlier in the day experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants.
Somerville, N. J., Nov. 3 - (AP) - Serious illness of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, today prevented the state from introducing the testimony of its chief eye-witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial.
At the end of a day in which experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker and County Judge Frank Cleary decided that Mrs Gibson was too ill to tell her story.
Mrs. Gibson is ill from a malady which physicians testified might develop into pneumonia. Her condition is described as serious.
The present investigation which led to the indictment of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and three of her male relatives for murder, was based largely on acceptance of Mrs. Gibson's eye-witness story, discredited in the first investigation. She placed (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3)
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 5, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Mrs. Jane Gibson State's Star Witness in Hall-Mills Murder Case
Earlier in the day experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants.
Somerville, N. J., Nov. 3 - (AP) - Serious illness of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, today prevented the state from introducing the testimony of its chief eye-witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial.
At the end of a day in which experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker and County Judge Frank Cleary decided that Mrs Gibson was too ill to tell her story.
Mrs. Gibson is ill from a malady which physicians testified might develop into pneumonia. Her condition is described as serious.
The present investigation which led to the indictment of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and three of her male relatives for murder, was based largely on acceptance of Mrs. Gibson's eye-witness story, discredited in the first investigation. She placed (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3)
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 5, 1926, page 1.
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Mrs. Jane Gibson State's Star Witness in Hall-Mills Murder Case
Earlier in the day experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants.
Somerville, N. J., Nov. 3 - (AP) - Serious illness of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, today prevented the state from introducing the testimony of its chief eye-witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial.
At the end of a day in which experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker and County Judge Frank Cleary decided that Mrs Gibson was too ill to tell her story.
Mrs. Gibson is ill from a malady which physicians testified might develop into pneumonia. Her condition is described as serious.
The present investigation which led to the indictment of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and three of her male relatives for murder, was based largely on acceptance of Mrs. Gibson's eye-witness story, discredited in the first investigation. She placed (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3)
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 5, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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Mrs. Jane Gibson State's Star Witness in Hall-Mills Murder Case
Earlier in the day experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants.
Somerville, N. J., Nov. 3 - (AP) - Serious illness of Mrs. Jane Gibson, pig raiser, today prevented the state from introducing the testimony of its chief eye-witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial.
At the end of a day in which experts testified that a calling card found at the feet of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall bore a finger print of Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker and County Judge Frank Cleary decided that Mrs Gibson was too ill to tell her story.
Mrs. Gibson is ill from a malady which physicians testified might develop into pneumonia. Her condition is described as serious.
The present investigation which led to the indictment of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and three of her male relatives for murder, was based largely on acceptance of Mrs. Gibson's eye-witness story, discredited in the first investigation. She placed (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3)
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 5, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, November 5, 1926, page 1.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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