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Show MRS. MENTO MOORE DEFENDS HUSBAND VINCENNES. Ind, Dec. 2. In support sup-port of her husband's plea that he fchot and killed Charles Ed wan Hib-! Hib-! son. a wealthy oil field operator in a period of madness Induced by her confession that she had been intimate with Clbson, MrK Men). Moore, related re-lated hor story today to the jury before be-fore which Mojrc is being tried. Expected to Find Husband. Mrs. Moore said that Gibson had pursued her persistently. Ills offico wad in the same building as that of her husband who Is manager of the circuit of theatres. Gibson she said told her that ber husband was not true to her, and offered of-fered to prove it by taking ber to a certain placo on a certain night last July, where, ho said, ber husband had an apartment with a wrinian. She accepted ac-cepted and they drove in a buggy to a bam on a lonely road. Her husband was not there. Forced Her to Continue Relations. Mrs. .Moore testified lhat Gibson attacked at-tacked her and thereafter forced her to continue relations with him by threatening to expose her to ber husband. hus-band. She made trips with Gibson to Cincinnati during her husbands absence ab-sence from homo Her confession lo her husband followed his receipt of an annoymous letter advising that his wife and Gibson were being talked talk-ed about. She said on the morning of October i, Mci.ro met Gibson at tho railroad staiion and without warning warn-ing phot him four times During his wife's recital. Moore sat apparently lu a stupor In the prisou-erb' prisou-erb' dock. |