Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-14 | Page 3 | Alleged Murder Conducts Own Case

ALLEGED MURDERER COiUCISlI CASE Burton W. Gibson Wins His First Point in Court at Middletown, New York. By International News Service. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Sopt. 13. To the finely spun distinction between a "consent" to an adjournment and a "request" for the same,' Burton "W. Gibson bent his keen intellect here today to-day in tho first clash of his Kelf-con-ducted battlo for frocdom of thetchargc of killing Countess ilosa Mcnschik Szabo. Gibson won. Ho prevailed upon District Attorney Rogers to request re-quest a postponement of tho hearing until September 24. and then induced Judge Royce to overrule himself and consent to that arrangement. It is Gibson's purpose,-apparently, to act as his own chiof counsel. Unshak-on Unshak-on by his night in tho Middletown jail, ho appeared in tho recorder's court thi? morning" and conducted his own case with the ease nnd skill of a lawyer having only a professional interest in tho proceeding under way. Gibson realizes that it is tho charge of strangulation that ho must face and ho has resolute' set himself to the task of disproving this. Ono of his first moves will be to have tho body of Mrs. Szabo exhumed onco more in order that physicians of his own choosing choos-ing may make a minute examination.