America's most sensational murder trial dominates the front page as Robert Ehrling testifies he saw the "Pig Woman" Mrs. Jane Gibson riding her mule "Jenny" down De Russey's Lane the night Reverend Hall and choir singer Eleanor Mills were murdered. The embarrassed millwright was forced by the court to reveal he was with a woman named "Jenny Lenfort" in his car that September night, though he desperately tried to protect her identity since she's now married with two children. He also spotted two automobiles and "a man with a mustache" in a Ford sedan near the murder scene in New Jersey. Meanwhile, a typhoon devastates the Philippines with an estimated 300 dead in southern Luzon and millions in property damage. The "most puzzling atmospheric disturbance" since weather records began left Batangas Province hardest hit with 200 deaths, while railroad lines remain blocked and the Red Cross rushes $25,000 in emergency aid to hundreds of homeless survivors.

The Hall-Mills murder trial captivated 1920s America as the ultimate scandal - a Methodist minister and his choir singer lover found dead, with his wealthy widow and her brothers on trial. It had everything the tabloid-hungry Jazz Age craved: adultery, class warfare, and bizarre characters like the "Pig Woman" who claimed to witness it all. This reflects the era's obsession with sensational crime stories that sold newspapers and thrilled a public newly connected by radio and mass media. The detailed courtroom coverage shows how murder trials were becoming America's favorite entertainment, setting the stage for our modern true-crime obsession.

• The witness was so embarrassed about revealing his female companion's name that he "mumbled" it and couldn't even spell 'Jenny Lenfort' when pressed by defense attorneys
• Mrs. Hall owned a Dodge sedan, which became crucial evidence since one defendant had a mustache and Ehrling saw a mustached man in a Ford sedan that night
• Eleven Ohio Penitentiary convicts shot their way to freedom in broad daylight, injuring Warden P.E. Thomas's secretary and two guards before scattering across railroad tracks
• A confused brakeman named L.C. Vaughan caused a train wreck in Thurmont, Maryland by throwing the wrong switch, sending a fast mail train crashing into a freight train and injuring 14 people
• Weather report shows D.C. hit a high of 63 degrees at exactly 2:30 p.m. yesterday with a low of 52 degrees at 7 a.m. today

• The Hall-Mills trial was so popular it inspired the board game 'The Hall-Mills Murder Game' and was covered by 300 reporters - more than had ever covered a single trial in American history
• That Dodge sedan Mrs. Hall owned? Dodge Brothers had just been sold to investment bankers for $146 million in 1925, making it one of the largest business deals of the decade
• Mussolini's new firing squad decree mentioned in the international news came just weeks after his third assassination attempt - by November 1926, he was already transforming Italy into a fascist police state
• The Philippine typhoon was particularly devastating because 1926 was one of the most active typhoon seasons on record in the Western Pacific, with 31 named storms
• Albert Fall's arrival for his Wednesday court appearance would make him the first former U.S. Cabinet member ever to be tried for a felony - the Teapot Dome scandal that defined government corruption in the 1920s