Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-13 | Page 3 | [Illegible] Makes First Move to Clear Himself

Kpiiir fJlST MOVE TO Pll (CLEAR HIMSELF r . in Li arcs Woman who Was jf0M irowned While Boating ttie With Him in Greenwood Lake Was Not Countess. Wii.-s & , MNTAINS NERVE in f IN TRYING ORDEAL toils I ' IBS 5 cu 5ses Up His Business in oa ' ew York, Bids Wife Good-S?S Good-S?S bye, and Calmly Gives I Himself Up 't ' International JCews Service . fjrIDDLBTOWN, N. Y.f Sept. 12. ER,'" 7j Burton W. Gibson, the Now J York lawyer under arrest t& t Y' narPn w'n tuc murder of eths' t Menschik Szabo, made I ho first re in his own defenso lioro tonight ixlus ha made the startling statement tho woman who was drowned while Joaf ting with him in GroonwooJ lake .M July lfi and which body was ox- iTf led Inst Tuesday for aii autopsy fitb d fibowed that strangulation, not . b iwiine, was the causo of her death, In. i! iot tfifl Rosa Mcnsehik Szabo whoso R4fSi hor died in Austria two years ago wan whoso brothor ia now on routo to Islits 8 a &ssls n "is prosecution. nali "referred to the woman ho know 1 bj? Htb. Hitter. fit other Mrs. Szabo. cdu lo Uosa Monschik Szabo. vhosc will filed, makinp her mother Hole heir. ,"2 fnother Mrs. Szabo, ho declares, and course the woman represented as - Szabo 's mother and whom ho rc- - srted today is still living in New - 'k, is the one he represented her ' bell!!.! be-ll!!.! "his shift in tho Gibson defense does ;Toliovo him of the charge of mur-... mur-... ;, but opens a viial flaw in tho case Jthe prosecution. If ho can provo - .prosecution baa involved the wrong man it will then appear that ho did id"- :'4wear wisely that the woman's iM," ier wns livine in New York that ;did nob commit perjury and did not - er into a conspiracy. ZZ mplicates Case. Tie authorities declared tonight, tod rever. that Gibson was trvinr t,0 JJ aphcato the case and tliat the ,fWi tWea aCa'st him would bo proven. i,"C 'oson UKiintaincd his norvo tonight, n-lit X a straightforward version of U10 ftj ei trapody and declaring hin belief t ho would be discharged after the llminary hoaring. Ho said ho -would need any counsel besides himself. y.rd :-.s, V'13' to a cel' i the local jail irrj "a.,d ne hai "ot taken the caso se-St se-St fIy until today.