Show Impulse se Killers Killer's Defense I Plans Appeal of Sentence LANCASTER Pa March 17 UP UP Attorneys Attorneys for college senior senior sen sen- Edward L L. Gibbs planned Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day to appeal his death sentence for the impulse slaying of a pretty Franklin and Marshall college college college col col- col- col lege secretary The 25 year old old ear married G G. G 1 I. student slumped forward in his chair with a muffled groan Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night when a jury of five women and seven men convicted him to the electric chair for the slaying bludgeon of pretty Marian Baker er 21 Deputy Sheriff Elmer said Gibbs was dejected and not too good from emotional exhaustion exhaustion tion lion after his return to the prison to await an appeal from the first- first degree e murder conviction He was I J kept under contant guard to prevent prevent pre pre- vent any suicide attempt Father Suffers Attack The condemned youths youth's father suffered a heart attack when the verdict was read He was taken to the home of a local clergyman under the care of two physicians Gibbs maintained that a senseless sense- sense less ess Him impulse pulse made him beat the oung young brunette to death with an I automobile lug wrench on a lov lov- ers' ers lane near here last Jan 10 He testified that something snapped inside me when he choked her as they sat in his automobile automobile auto auto- mobile and that he lie blacked out until he found himself standing over o her body with drenched blood-drenched hands holding the wrench Deliberate Four Hours Flours The jury deliberated four hours and 27 minutes before returning the scaled sealed verdict Two of the women jurors hardly could walk as they filed into the courtroom Gibbs whitened slumped forward forward forward for for- ward and pounded his fists against his temples as the jurors were polled and each replied Guilty first degree death It cant can't be he lie gasped |