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WEATHER: Showers (Djc pc to it GREATEST AT NEWSPAPER 1 5 MAGIC PICTURES MECHANICAL CUT OUTS ete JTMi I mute Iwk pnftddU T4 Boys and Girls Magasme DETROIT MICHIGAN SUNDAY 5 1922 128 PAGES PRICE: TEN CENTS ITY REPORTED DEAD AS TORNADO SWEEPS OVER OKLAHOMA WIDOW CALLED CERTAIN TO ASK GRAND JURY HEARING Prosecution Said to Have Built BARTLETT WINS fjn 0 of a habeas RAILROADCARS KILL CHILD MAN IN PROSPECT SOON OR MRS PHILLIPS 5 Meadows tu death with Townsend Will Win by 85000 Says Cady first of DEVALERA NEARLY CAPTURED IN RAID 'Do you favor 'erminatlng the press today does not give a single unit given to the Detroit United valid reason why the city of Detroit on WHERE TO HANCE 2 MORE BODIES EXHUMED POISON VICTIMS 50 MILLION CUBAN LOAN TO BE APPROVED BY JUDGE DOCTOR SAVED AS SHOT KILLS MAD DOG HIS STUNT GIVES ARMY HIGH PLACE IN AVIATION 2 Dead 12 Burned In Mine Accident poor evar was per HEAVY IN BAKE TWIN GALES Mayor Couzens' tetter follows: "On the ballot Tuesday Novem ber 7th will appear the question: the' or the the was tnan him have Decision ollows State's An nouncement That Indict ment Will be Demanded An open letter to the public: "The mayor of Detroit in his letter as printed in the Detroit PUTS HER IN POSITION TO ORCE SHOWDOWN CASS STUDENT WHO MET DEATH IN AUTO CRASH LLOYD GEORGE IS RE CHOSEN WIRE COMMUNICATIONS ARE ALL PARALYZED Jeffries and Detroit Physician Have Narrow Escape on Hunting Trip 2 LIERS DIE Washington Nov 4 (By Cnitad ormal approval by the United States government of the J50000000 loan Cuba Is seeking in this country will be announced verv shortly by the state department it was learned Saturday Harvester King Said to be Dis appointed on Early Concert Work By Cable to The ree Pres Paris Nov There is uncon firmed gossip In 'fashionable and musical circles tin Paris that the honeymoon of Harold McCor mick Chicago millionaire and Mrs EDGAR WOLCOTT JR ellow students of Cass Technical high school Grand River avenue and Second boulevard will attend the funeral ear vices of Edgar Wolcott Jr who waa Mllld In an automobile collUkm at Grand Ktver and McGraw avenues riday msUL Wol cott was IS years old White Man Held Is Slave He Says SAYS MICHIGAN KEPT OUT LEAGUE Henring law It that any old dressed In ragged who told them that he kept in servitude eight assert Langsdon was by moonshiners who be plvn tn the iot mil Railway to operate Its Interurban service within the City of Detroit said service to terminate on and after December 31st 1924?" question was placed on the ballot at the Instigation of the De partment of Street Railways after careful study and consideration of the subject and upon reaching the conclusion that interurban cars both freight and passenger should be barred from the city streets desire to point but that the con tract with the Detroit United Rail way which you approved in April 1S22 stated the following: The city shall have the right to terminate the permit hereby given Continued on Page IS Column 4 Homes arm Buildings and Machinery Destroyed in Many Cities McCormick who was Madame ('anna Walska grand opera prima donna has been disturbed by dif ferences ot ambition anLsocial preference There are rumors that friends of the couple are alarmed lest their married life be wrecked upon the uncharted seas of incompatibility Reports' that McCormick is dis appointed that his bride should Continued on Pace Three Column One Alienists Will Testify in Hammer Murder Trial Los Angeles Nov 4 (By United Practically all evidence in the trial ot Mrs Clara Phillips charged with kill ing Mrs Albert Meadows has been placed before the jury The defense will close Monday when five alienists are to testify that Mrs Phillips was temporarily insane when she is alleged to naw beaten Mrs hammer The state is gathering its forces for its final fling an attack on the testimony of Mrs McElroy The state still beih ves it can be demonstrated that Mrs story of a Jove affair between Phil lips and Mrs Meadows which drove Mrs Phillips insane with jealousy was groundless MME GANNA WALSKA McCORMICK Peak of all Transportation is Almost Passed Says Spens Washington Nov Coal distrib uting conditions will be discussed In detail at a conference to be held in New York on November 9 be tween ederal uel Distributor Spens and various railroad execu tives it was announced Saturday Spens said it was expected that the peak of fall transportation of grain building materials and othf commodities will have been passed bv November 15 thus affording mor cars for the movement of coal Producer at anthracite coal have been requested by Spens to make their coal only through legitimate trade channels in order to eliminate Intermediate speculation which has tended to Increase unduly the ot herd coal in some sections ot the country It was announced Maintains Cross Country light With Bad Engine for 26 Hours Atlanta Ga Nov 4 The charge in the history of the south by a white man that he had been held in peonage by another white man came to light Saturday as a result of investigation of the mys terious murder of James Langsdon a mail carrier whose death was caused by the blows of an axe ive men are under arrest in the murder case including John Wal ayette county farmer When officers searched his place for evi dence they found Pony Thompson 59 years clothing had been years Officers murdered lieved he had caused a revenue raid Bonar Law and Lloyd George both made speeches as the nomina tions were closing Although it had been reported that Lloyd George jn a last minute switch would tight many hitherto conceded Conservative constitu encies the former name was unopposed by a Unionist and he will return to parliament auto matically By 3 Saturday afternoon those tabulating the return of can didates announced that Lloyd George had thrown 1n from 15 to 20 additional candidates to oppose Unionists at the polls November 15 Mrs Lloyd George wife of the ex premler herself handed In the nomination of the little Welshman Lloyd George up from a sick bed to take part in the eleventh hour electioneering that preceded nomi nations for parliament at noon ad dressed a huge audience at the Stoll Motion Picture theater formerly npcra house juet out of the casualty clearing station0 the ex premler said referring to the heavy cold Continued on Pace three Uolmnn Two that kind of experience Still entered congress as a and held my own Prediction Based on County Reports Democratic Bettors Demand Odds Senator CharieM li Town send vtlli have minimum ma jority of b50U0 uihI if tbe wte is heavy will in far more fmpreMshcly The entire Re publican state congressional mid county tickets will be given haudonn Burt I) aiy chairman of the Kepubll cun state central committee political honor of pro creMive Michigan will be vindicated by the election of Woodbridge erris Demo cratic nominee to the United States senate on November 7 by handsome majority The re volt against stale issues of high taxes and one man government bids fair to defeat Mr Groes beck and elect Ur Cummings VI illiani A Corn stock chairman of the Demo cratic state central committee These two statements issued Saturday morning from the rive campaign headquarters bring out sharply the contrast in the state of mind pervading the two organ izations as the Michigan fall cam paign rushes on to the ballot box Supreme confidence backed up by glowing reports from every county of the state are expressed in remote corner of an aroused hie curiosity Tin showed signs of habitation tried the closet door It waa tightly He forced It and Telephone Lineman inds AL pha 16 year old in Closet Lived on Dried Crusts Alpha Mlchs Nov 4 ound up stairs in a room of a vacant build ing scarcely a block from het home after being missing for four days 16 year old Viola Udell Sat urday refused to explain either police rr to her foster parents why she had left her home or why she had permitted the police to acour the country for 300 miles about In search for her A note left on her dresser Mon day said you get this will be Jt was found 15 Hilnufoa after fth vx aa eaan naa a home Iaxeeu iisse puiifje a vora or more of upper Michigan cities kept a close lookout on trains and pass tiir ft crirl nnsivarina ha description Ills Udell wu touni by the foreman of a telephone com pany who entered the building on business A pocketbook and a coat in a room room He held found tne missing girl Half a loaf ot bread some dried meat and fruit were secreted In the closet Mis Udell declares she took enough food with her to last a week Wliat she Intended to do then she has refused to say Motives are lacking entirely and the girl continues her silence Sat urday a sweetheart when inter viewed was unable to enlighten officials and he denied complicity In her disappearance Authorities say in Investigation has revealed Miss Udell was alone In the build ing at all times and was not in communication with outside par ties dancing aft a bit arcadtv Best Music and Novelty programs Balcony Adv Let Us Be air Thoutnnds of Detroiters bane bail! home in suburban towns on the faith that communkatlon with Detroit would not be dis turbed OtiMter of Interurban cars wilt break nn Implied contract airnrs demands that the serv ice roiiilnne as Jr 1s Vote AO Tmo Dead In leub1o Pueblo Colo Nv (Ity Unit ed Two persona were kill ed and four other injured In a cyclone and hall storm which struck Carr Crossing north of Sugar City Saturday The dead are: Mosxman and his acven montha old daughter Mrs Mnaeman her son and Mr and Mrs Leslie Stumps were injured The condition of all waa given aa rerlou The father and infant were trap ped as the Mussman home crumped in th force of the cyclone VANISHEDGIRL HIDES 4 DAYS IN EMPTY LOT man I'm iiiul ft nrwir notv could have voted as some of my pponents say they wanted me to vote and outraged my own con victions I probably would have escaped a lot uf trouble Doubtk cs my re election would have been ontlnued on lngr 30 Column 3 dewberry Was Honestly Elec ted Senator Declares at Danceland Meet 70 Others Win Seats in Com mons Without ormality of acing Voters London Nov (By United David Lloyd George was considered automatically re elected to the house of commons Saturday afternoon when his name together with some 70 others was unop posed among the 1400 nominees for the general election Nominations closed at noon with tho Conservatives leading by a vast plurality in the number ot candi dates for parliament Lieut Milyard and' Companion Killed In Louisiana Soeefxl to The re Press 4Vlnton La Nov Lieutenant MH yard of Camp Dick Dallasand an unidentified companion were instantly killed Saturday when a In which they were riding crashed to earth at Toomey La a small village three miles north of this place gRN WILLIAM CALDER Special to The Pr WsMncTon Nnv PreMdant Hunilnx waa aemirad Saturday by Chartaa IX HHlas Ke pu U1 han national committee matt for New fork that bn th fn ator William OMer and Governor Nathan Miler would be re teWetM Tuemlay HUka spent so hour at the White Hhia diKUnalng the Nw York political alt Ita lian with the preaident Hail Stones as Large as Mar ble Rain Over Colorado Towns Snow in Denver hpecial to The" ree Tret Tubs Okla Nov Between fifzy and sixty persons were killed in a tornado that swept over Drumright Okla Saturday night according to meager reports re ceived over oil 'company private telegraph wires Drumright is 62 mile from Tuha At Cushing Okla th Rosanna Oil company's camp wan blown away snd four workers were kilted local Officials ot the company an nounced Many Buildings Demolished In the storm that swept the vleln lly of Sugar City dosena of barns many hay tacks and ranch build ings were demolished Mullikan and Kellr Balin living on tho west side of the road netwen sugar uy ano iocoy ord were slightly Injured In the gal and their farm bulMlnga were destroyed urther west the black smith shop of derringer waa demolished but Gertlnger es caped with alight injuries At inis point in nign ino cd across to the east aldo of the road weeping the chicken house of Wellman and blowing off roofs of several barne The etorm just missed the grandstand of the Crowley county fair grounds hut blew down scores of small hold ings within the fair: ground cloaurs rom this point th wind swept over Carr's Crorainirr a small settlement 'north of Sugar City A second storm ot cyclonic pro portion Swept an ara a mile wide and 15 miles long be tween Limon and Genoa Colo Twenty five persona are reported to have hen killed at Shamrock Okla Shamrock is 65 miles west of Tulsa know ami Tlnlu I'all lleaey Heavy wet snow hail end rain fell In all parts of eastern sand southeastern Colorado Snow use falling in Denver atoneacna large as marble swept over parts oD Lincoln and Crow icy counties In Peublo a sever electrical storm raging earlyn'ahw Telephone and telegraph compa nies reported that a mile or more of poles were down In the storm swept nrea In the southeastern section of the state' The hull and snow were accom panied by wind ot a high velocity In areas where the miniature ey clonee wer reported Washington Nov 4 (Ry United Press) Weather outlook for period November 6 to 11 Inclusive ''Ohio Valley and Region nt Great Lakes Rain and mild at beglnning of week: fair colder thereafter but with a probability ot unsettled conditio: riday or Saturday MEXIcdwiLLDEPORT SLAYER WANTED IN Vote Detested Leaue was Senator vote iht made it possible for Bepubli fn to control the senate and to defeat the League of Nations God knows what would have happened If we had aorta into that league" exclaimed What did ho use so much money ventured a timid heckler near (he front of the great auditorium didn't use monoy and thero Ik nothing In the record tef show that he did" 'he senator quickly answer drawing the distinction between expenditures made In New berry's behalf and the junior sena disclaimer that he had author Ized the use of any money or mad anv Important expcndlturea him self "That argument in all tommy rot It lan't worthy of serious an swer" The voice was drowned in shouts of approval Not Personally Interested wasn't Interested In that mat ter personally What I know I got from the record There wns no rea son on earth why I shouldn't vote mv convictions 1 waa under obli gations to no one except the people of my own state and want to re peat hero that when people of other rtates circulate a slander on the tetple of Michigan 1 shall resent that slander wherever I rtiav cheers greeted Senator Townsend nil along the way as he warmed up tn bls and made hla rec ord 1n tho Newberry case clear "When mv bnnonont save nnlHIcal offices gu to the highest bidder in Michigan ojan has no chance to gain public of fire he is slandering the people of Mtrhlcan If you huv anything en ehody must sell It will never l'(vo that the people of Michigan Sold cut "I stand here as a living example n( the possibilities a poor man In punuc me it ever a man horn in humbler circumstances jwi' I want to congratulate bemuse Ir la worth white to nail should stop all interurban cars at our city Jtmifg fact te attempts to befuddle the entire Issue by saying that all those who are opposing him In this matter are brainless and ac tuated by selfish motives our mayor makes auch statements concerning an of members of the great business ganizations of Detroit such as Retail Merchants bureau Wholesale Merchants bureau tho Michigan associa tion the Milwaukee Avenue assoct t'ontlnued oa Page 1 Column 3 Tho premier aviators are also In the army for It was Lieu tenant Macl'eady who three of the record breaking achievement under tho American flag The daring army flier now holds tho world record for dura tion dlitance and altitude Not content with all these world records the army according to an nouncements here Haturdav night will try to teat its own speed rec ord and to complete a non atop trans continental flight It Is probable that Maclteady will the next plane thnt will at tempt to cross the continent in one Brigadier General William Mit chell aeistant chief of the air ser vice of th army has recommended to the National Aeronautical assocl ktl'n that a special flight over a kilometer course to be arranged In which the army will ndeavor to breek the record speed of 4p miles an hour which Mitchell re cently established at Detroit The army nlr eervlce issued a statement Saturday night tn which it was declared officially that Pilots Maclteady and Kelly In the 5 broke the world record for dis tance before they were forced Io come near Indianapolis be cause of engine trouble Th4rtwWMltanee record said to be 1936 miles established by the British flyers Alcock and Brown when they fle' acioss the Atlantic The official statement reveals that the aviators had trouble with the water jacket about 400 miles from San Dleg but kept plugging along until they broke a world's record El Paso Texas Xov 4 (Bv raas) Al uuin notorious Pacific coast "bad will be deported from Mexico according' to word received by i'ce here Saturday from Chihuahua City where Al'iuln was last re ported heath inn I Musical' Monarchs ninners Reservations xlosevllle S3 Adv Boy Is Run Over Conductor Crushed When Caboose Jumps Track William Kwiatkowski 8 old 3355 street died in Providence hospital late Saturday afternoon of injuries tecelved when he was struck by a Michigan Cen tral train at the Twenty fourth street crossing at noon The boy attempted to board the train witnesses said and fell un der the wheels His leg was cut off and he suffered other injuries Wnhnsh Conductor Victim 4 George A Y'oung Wabash rail road yard conductor was almost instantly killed Saturday whin a caboose on which he was standing Jumped tho tracks and wedged him between the caboose and a freight train on a siding His chest was caved in and his skull fractured Tho accident occurred at West End avenue and Harbough street Young 47 years old was on the steps: of tho caboose when it left last when a member of the train crew crawled under the cars and dragged him to the side of the roadbed Young lived at 5354 Seneca avenue Special Patrolman George Dun can 40 years old G3 James street Elver Rouge was struck and in jured by a passing automobile while he was on tralhc duty at the new River Rouge bridge Saturday afternoon He was hurried to Del ray Emergency hospital His skull is believed fractured His condi Continued on I ag Three Column Seven Shows How Vote of Colleague Blocked Internationalism of Wilson Prolonged cheers greeted Sen or Charles Townsend Satur £av evening at Danceland tfie cluing Detroit rally of his cam ien for re election when he de rived he believed his junior col le Senator Truman New berry of Detroit "was honestly 1 'fed CfCI did not 9 bPlivw have voted to wat him thefttor averted and another out burst ot applause came the Adi gives best in dancing Many ormer Traffic Violators Hear Judge Speak Back Law Enforcement Men that he had sent to jail sev eral hundred of them gathered at the Temple Saturday night and heard Judge Charles I Bart lett seeking re election as judge of the Recorder's court his judicial actions during his last term The meeting adopted a res olution urging rigid 'law enforce ment against speeders Judge Bartlett introduced by Hal Wilson declared It he had mada mistake he was willing to ac knowledge them or the present urged support of his defermlnd effort to protect little children helpless women and motorists them selves from the danger the reck less driver It was such a pfptec tlon of life he declared that prompted stiff jail entt for violators of th motor law (Ha cited one case hsmlhir the man in which a niutorlst had brok 1 en both legs of a little girl He said he had asked the driver what ho would do to a man who had broken tho legs of Ms little girl apparently through carotes driv ing Tlie offender had replied that he would kill such a motorist end It waa on th ground Judge Bart lett had given him the limit of th law a 5560 flna and 90 day In jail His record spoke for Itself he said dward It Kennedy Sr Inter rupted and naked that his son Ed ward Kennedy Jr be given a chance to defend his candidacy At the request of the audience ha war given a hearing Introduced by Guy Moore Kennedy charged that in certain case offender had been allowed to go on trivial excuse He demanded that the audience ba told why thl had been done RAIN COLDEjTwEATHER IS OUTLOOK OR WEEK Is Reported Injured in Leap to reedom rom Window Special to The ree Prctw Dublin Nov 4 Eamonn de Vale ra leader of the Irish republican ir regulars narrowly escaped capture Saturday when ree State troops stormed and raided a house wound ing and chief of the staff of the Irregular army Sheila Humphries a woman rebel leader was wounded in the fighting When troops approached the house and opened fire the Inmates replied and a severe battle followed Presence of De Valera In this city was Tevealed by the raid It was reported that he had been Injured by jumping from a window Among the prisoners taken was Mary MacSwiney sister of the late lord mayor of Cork XEW ST JOHVS ARBOIL 46 Gratiot Bldg Special Sunday Dinner 1 5 to 9: fuslc by the Dance Orchestra De Luxe Adv claim ot sweeping Republican majorities The Comstock state ment studiously avoids figures and claims victory only for three can didates by name Tlie man on the street catches t'io same atmosphere of uncertainty among Democratic workers Many of them admit that the swing to ward Senator Townsend has contin ued steadily during the last three weeks since their League of Na tions issue rose up to smite their candidate Democratic Bettor Ask Odd ew bets have been reported but it is significant that the most en thusiastic Democratic supporters are asking odds Cady's statement analyzes the sit uation in detail He says: "Senator Townsend xvill come to Wavne county with a lead of 75000 to 125000 in the election returns of next Tuesday dependent upon the size of tlie vote cast In addi tion Townsend will carry Wayne county by 10000 or more majority Governor Groesbeck will receive an overwhelming majority "My estimates are not based on guesswork but on detailed state ments from every county in the state reporting conditions In each Cuntinuert on 4 Column 3 HEAR THEM A1TIAUD Marvelous Millers in free exhibi tions of whirlwind dancing nightly at The Pier excel anything ever seen here Adv Pilots of 2 Exhausted by Long Battle When orced Down at Indianapolis Washington Nov 4 (By Unit ed The United States army stands supreme in aviation! among the nations of the world The remarkable flight of Lieuten ants MacReady and Kelly from San Diego Cal to Indianapolis a cross country stretch of 2100 miles took from the British flsg the world's record for distance in an aeroplane and marked up an other triumph for the army air service The army now hold the world records for dlstane duration alti tude and speeding In the lr addition hold several high marks for speed over measured courses Police Act After Confession Made by Alleged Chicago Nov (By United Pres? Police Saturday exhumed two more bodies in their search for a second Mrs Bluebeard as a re sult of the confession of Mrs Tillie Klimek who admitted slio had poisoned her last husband Klimek is in serious condition at a local hospital Arsenic enough to kill four menwas found in the body of rank Kjpsezyk second husband of Mrs Klimek whose body was exhumed two bodies dug up Saturday are of Joseph Mitkey first husband of Mrs Klimek and Wo J'ik Stunner husband of Mrs Nel lie bturmer who told police she kh' 'e Mrs Klimek the poison which gave her third husband olne declared that Mr Klimek oeen tne student 'irs Stunner Comrades of Honor Sec Denby Saginaw Nov Itepubll ean campaign In Saginaw with a big mars meeting in Lie city auditorium Saturday night'nrn Edwin Denby of Detroit sec tory of the navy and Bird JVin 'nt of Saginaw candidate for congress in the Eighth districtere speakers Secretary Denby is met by the candidates and was jwyen a dinner by Saginaw zmen'nn served with him during the American war on the Yo Jlrnvrd Element In Vain Indianapolis Ind Nov 4 ight ing adverse weather conditions and Continued on nlumn 3 BETTERCOALHAULS Enraged Animal Springs for Throats Owner ires Both Barrels of Gun ighting for his life with a bird dog suddenly gone mad Dr Jos eph A Wall 523 East Kirby ave nue only escaped serious injury perhaps death Saturday when Jack Hartford 71 1 Stimson place shot the dog dead is it sprang for the throat near South Branch Mich The incident' occurred In the thickly Umbered section at the rear of the Doublo ranch i owned by Hartford who was entertaining a party of Detroit hunter The dog had already attacked Judge Edward Jeffries (who beat It off with the butt of his shotgun 'and then the crazed animal made for Hartford who likewise drove It off Tuma On Huntcra The dog a Lewellyn setter 10 months old' had hunted and stood several points before it began to act strangely Then it suddenly Wheeled from the edge ot a swamp and made for the party which con sisted of Judge Jeffries Dr Wall Ilartfordi his brother Hart ford' and Howard Bowman Judge Jeffries using his shotgun as a club drove the dog off and after Jack Hartford had beaten It back It turned again to the woods It had gone away from the party for about 100 feet when it turned and charged toward Dr Wall Tho doctor had just completed a double shot from his double barrelled shot gun and had nut reloaded When within about eight feet from the doctor the dog sprang Into the air his eyes agiare and froth dripping from his wide open mouth The animal wag within a foot of the doctor's throat when Hartford tired and tlie dog was a KnvCKea BiuewjR Hitt iwpaui vi the charge Hartford finished the animal with a second shot 5ces Ji ydropfcohln Dr Wall made an examination of the dog and stated that the animal was suffering from hydrophobia Several dogs have been found dead in this vicinity of late under mysterious circumstances and it was believed that they were the victims of poisoned meat distribut ed by some person The incident of Saturday however has brought out the expression of opinion that all the animals had suddenly gone mad i but that they were seized when no ona was near for them to attack Stand On Car Ban Sharply Scored Businessmen Charge Couzens Would Be fuddle Issue Opponents Are Selfish Says Executive Mayor Couzens' eleventh hour contribution to the contro versy over the proposed ouster of the interurban cars from the city streets and tracks his open letter to Detroit voters pub lished Saturday drew prompt response from the local business men who are opposing the ordinance They countered with a public reply to the executive in which they took sharp issue with his arguments and presented their own side of the question with emphasis The letter' and the letter in answer to that of the mayor signed by a group of leading downown retail merchants are given below O' rantnn Pa Nov (By men were reported and 12 others wotnded in rL nhUnJ the Taylor mine of fiiuen ofti compan Saturday SLURS ON STATE McCormick Walska ARE RESENTED Reported Near Break BY TOWNSEND Strong Case Around Story of New Brunswick Nov 4 If Special Prosecutor Wilbur Motts goes through with his plan to lay the Hall Mills murder case before the grand jury next week Mrs rances Noel Sen? Hall widow of the slain rector will sign a waiver of immunity and de mand that the grand jury hear her story Thia decision announced by one of tho attorney fully authuriacd tn apeak for Mrs Hall waa reach ed Saturday Under the New Jer sey law it was stated her de mand could be denied In only one way withholding the case from the grand jury until after arrests had been made on affidavits And in that eventuality Mrs Hall If she were one of those arrested would be in a position to force a show down of all the evidence in the case by means corpus action May Insist New Jersey nnfntsM nut nrnvldea son suspected ot a crime may Insist on being heard by the grand jury considering the case Mrs Hall it was said regards herself as having been put under suspicion by the story told by Mrs Jane so called "eye wltne" recital of the slaying of the llev Edward 4V Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills and by various questionings to which she has been subjected Whether Mr Mott would consent to have her appear before the grand jury could not bo ascertain ed He announced Saturday how ever that he would consult with the foreman of the Somerset grand jury Thursday as to when the case should be submitted This announcement coming on the heels of an interview at New aik with Chief Justice Cummere of the supreme court was taken to indicate that Mr Mott felt he had his case well In hand and this presumption was confirmed by per sons who have worked with him Mr Mott it was declared In these quarters has an extremely well laWtudeT raare built around the story of Mrs Gibson Sexernl Witnesses ound lt was reported he had two "semi eye witnesses" persons who were near the scene and saw the mur der party though they did not actually witness the slaying of Dr Hall and Mr Mills He also was said to be In pos session of a pistol Important to the case and to know where he could put his hands on the automobile used by th slayers In addition there are said to be other witnesses never interviewed by newspapermen who will be able Continued on Page 4 Column 2 TO PLEADlMITY SUPREME I7PROPERTY LOSS IN AIR BREAKSREGORD I'' st aJftsL 4 nr Man 7 1 a 7r oil ft a '4 X77 a' a 14 A I I r' NJ 4 tsk 1 illli 4 i 'A I ft ilBH HMKSbto I.

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