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Show QUESTION NEGRO ON PASHMS Statements Made by Prisoner Condemned to Die Are Being Investigated LOS ANGELES, Cal.. July 24 A telegram asking if Moso Gibson, negro, "ho, according to the police h.is con-fe.aed con-fe.aed to seven murders, admitted murdering Mrs. Susan B. Clark and .Mrs I.Tiir.n Marshall at Orange City Junction, Kla., November 11, 1919. was received here today by Sheriff J C Cline from Sheriff Lee Morris, of De-lande, De-lande, Kla. officers yesterday aald Gibson confessed he murdered one woman at "range City Junction in November 1919 Gibson is in the stif penitentiary hi S-.m Quentin under sentence In hang September 2-1 for his confessed murder Of Hoy Trapp Knllerton, Cal. rancher Sheriff Morris. In his telejrram asked ask-ed Gibson If a while man was Implicated Impli-cated In tho Orange City Junction t murder. Ho said both Gibson and a white man, whose name he did not l give were suspected. CHECKS NTATI VKVl s SANTA ANA Cal . July 24 Police in localities where Mose Gibson, negro confessed he committed murders and robberies are to be a3ked by Santa Ana officials to check the nesro s statement:!. Sheriff E. F. Jackson announced an-nounced here today Gibson could not remember the names of three of the seven people he admitted he killed, according to (Sheriff Jackson, who made the concession con-cession public yesterday. The four victims whose names he gave were Hoy Trapp. Fullertbn, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Erardt, Phoenix, Ariz., and J. R. Davis, Baton Rouge, Junction, La. The man remembered Hevls' name, the sheriff said, because Revis had j agreed to sell all stolen articles Gibson Gib-son took to him Gibson claimed, according ac-cording to Jackson, that he killed Reus Re-us in a Quarrel over proceeds of the sales. DENIES i: ULRO kDIXG" SHREVEPORT. Lai.:. July 24. Mose Gibson, negro condemned to hang in I California, is "Monk" Gibson ho In 1917 was sent to the Louisiana state : penitentiar.v. according to Judgf AVill-jttim AVill-jttim C. Barncite, of Shrevcport. who said today that as district attorney he prosecuted Gibson for shooting at an-I an-I Other negro from ambush. Judge Bar-inetie Bar-inetie denied Gibson was "railroaded" I to the penitentiary. oo |