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Show THREAT OF DEATH 1 m WOMAN Dual Murder Eye Witness Sits Home In Fear of Death. ty ;i r.K E TAVLOK International Mews Horvioe tCopyrighl 1912, by International News Service j NEW BRUNSWICK. N J , Oot, 28. With a threat or death hanfflhf QV r her. the Iron courage of Mrs. Jane Gibson, picturesque "eye witness" of the tiail-MlllS murders, nas Deen shaken shak-en and tonignt imds nei cowering In, her ramsnacKie carmnouse near thlH town, fearful that tho consequence of her determination to speak out tho whole truth" Will be her own undoing. A "death note" was received by Mrs. Gibson laM nignt it bore no signature, but read There Is still cue bullet b it, and It can bo uci to good advantage." Mrs. Gibson hud dictated her wholo story to me at the kiu hen table in her I house on ruiay and us publication, exclusively lu theBf dispatches, crea- ed a hH.it BenaauoB. puoiisned exactly ex-actly what he tells me and this mrn-ing mrn-ing sue telephoned to me to "corao quloki) to iier pig farm something Important had Happened 1 took a taxi to the Hamilton road ' piggery" aim arriving, tounu my way oiocked by a slau- trooper lien 1 QXtllblted my credentials, tiowcvvi, ne aaid that I Mrs. tiibaon nau yiveu worn tnat she Would see no one out me, ami I passed and lound the central ElgurQ in the now famous mystery silting in a broken brok-en rocking chair ui lair ueurootn, her lap tilled wltn letters. MKm H hi vi U THUEIA1 "Oh, nerc you ai'o ut laat," she said. '"What do you think O! tills V She hhvjwcd me Hie death threat, scrawled on a sheet ui common paper, '1 thought I was a pretty steady woman," wo-man," she said. ' 1 told you l was not afraid Of anyone, because there la no reason wn 1 bmniM be. but tins is the llrst time anyone ba said they'd shoot me, and 1 must eontess tliai 1 am .scared " She was trembling. The shutters of tho rude farmhouse had been ciosod. The (logs wars barhing outside, sirain-uik sirain-uik ai tneir chains, it was creepy. That letter is prouaoiy rrom oonio crank,'' 1 saii, but Mrs, unison was too much under the Ihtiuence ui nei t right to accept any sucn reassurance. No. they lntonu to Kill me lor telling tell-ing the truth," she Bald "You have other letter;, there, are they all m r eats (" i aaked. No. there ae many ffOOd lottery 1 bav bad an apron lull ot lottors. Most of them are very kind See " and sbe hamied over a bundle of missives from all sorts ot people. "YUl 1US HRAVfi WOMAN" One aaui. ' lull are a brave woman to tell thr: trutn wneu every ops eiso Is lying and wnen tho murderors uro so powcrrul witn so muph money," 1 called the slate troop- rs in to protect pro-tect me When 1 lead UUs ono about the builet. They noucod thai lliu letter had come iro-m the Newark poatofflee. 1 also Bent wora to ITosiscutor ilott that I was being thruatotnod. He tuld me that tho state of New Jersej Stood behind me and not to worry' But now can ono keep from worrying? " I told Mrs. Gibson tnat some of the evening newspapers had big headlines head-lines that she had disappeared "You can e-co how much l nave disappeared. dis-appeared. ' sho replied. "X suppose it woji thought so. because i closed the shutters. The otnor reporters probably prob-ably saw tho houso shui up and concluded con-cluded I had gone away. i ney do not like il because I told thorn the whole story of how I saw tho muraers and came i licit ana oaw that woman sitting by the corpses ot the ltev iiail and Mr3. Mills." Mrs. uibsen isald she was not concerned con-cerned ever stories mat eizorcs were being mode to oreaic aown ner stoo'. and to impeacn ner credibility as a witness. 00 |