Show I i I I I I GIBSON ARRESTED ON FIRST DEGREE DEGRE MURDER CHARGE New YorK Lawyer Strenuously Strenuously Strenuously Denies Having Slain Countess Sabo NEW TORK YORK Sept 12 Burton I-Burton Burton W. W Gibson Gib Gib- son the he New York law lawyer er whose client cHent Rosa RR lost Ion her life le while boating with wih him on Greenwood lake New York on July 16 16 I. I wa was was' s taken Into I custody today by Deputy Sheriff De Dc Grew of ot Orange count county on al a wan warrant ant I charging Gb Gibson on with wih murder In the first degree e. e Gibson WAS wa arrested at his of ot of- fice nce Gibson Gbson issued a. a a statement just before I his arrest arret reasserting his hi innocence and andI I Insisting that there had been no struggle either in tn the boat or in the thc water I 1 am not prepared ho he said sid to be beP believe be be- r P hove lieve leve that tha the report will m show how that that Mrs re died of or strangulation There Ther certainly certainly car car- was a no struggle in the water be between between be be- tween Mrs and myself which would result In her being strangled strangle i When she abe came up sh she did not hit the boat bat in such uch a n manner that would cause her to die of strangulation I certainly did not clutch dutch her by the throat and there was no wa way b by which she could I 1 have havo died in that manner Eld Evidence nce submitted before County Judge Royce of MIddletown upon w which 1 a warrant charging Gibson with murder L In the first degree was issued was most i sensational Dr coroners coroner's physician physician phy phy- of this city swore that Mrs was wan so injured before she fell into the water that she never breathed after she had sunk below the surface The surI surgeon sur sur- I geon said there were tricks of jitsu whereby Mrs could have suffered a sharp blow on the throat which so af affected af a nerve as to close her air passage thereby making it impossible to breathe Gibson came to this city this trailed by private detectives and a a. squad of reporters As he walked through the streets to his office a crowd of severa hundred persons persona followed him Gibon with a private detective went to Gibson's Gibsons Gibsons Gibson's Gib Gib- sons son's office and awaited the arrival o of Deputy Sheriff De Dc Graw Gibson said he was not worried about abou the strangulation charge but that he lie had felt anxious over the outcome of the au autopsy au- au I topsy fearing that poison in the embalming embalm embalm- lug ing fluid would lead to o a mistaken Im Impression Impression Im- Im that a poison had been admin admin- He added however that upon investigation he had learned that the use of an embalming fluid containing an ac active ac- ac tive or Irritant poison was no longer per per- I I ceased to worry after that said the lawyer I |