Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-30
THE BUFFALO MYSTERY
Murderer of Lawyer Gibbs Is as
 Yet Unknown.
REVENGE THE PROBABLE MOTIVE.

| 1t Is Suspected TEnt He Was Decoyed to Empticd a Revolver st Eim-IVhat I've Boys saw.
 BUFFALO, April 3o-Nontgomery Gibbs, who left tho city editors desk of the old | Evening Republic, this city, to go into lawyers office 19 years ago and who ke- came one of the best known of the younger members of the bar and a prominent real estate dealer, was mysteriously murdered on Delaware avenue, BufTalO's most fash, ionable street, and the tragedy is still un. ' explained.
 Residents of Delaware avenue, near the corner of Bryant street, heard three re- volver shots in rapid succession late Satur- day night. A man named Sloan, who lives in that vicinity, rushed out of his house and saw the body of q man lying on the roadway leading into the premises of Miss Squire at No. fl. A man named Sutton, who was wheeling baby carriage on the opposite of the street, ran across the road, and the two men examined the body in the roadway. They saw that blood was squirting from bullet hole in his temple, and Sloan ran to call q doctor. In the meantime crowd had gathered, and somebody identified the wounded man as Montgomery Gibbs.
 The patrol wagon came from Station 6, and shortly afterward the ambulance from the General hospital arrived. Gibbs was taken to the hospital, but died just after he had been lifted on the operating table, or about three minutes after he had ar rived.
 Every detective from headquarters and many from the special precincts were put fO bo Ta1oN, ho nOIina fess that they have not single cew. They are completely batfied.
 Plainly Not a Suicide.
 The first theory was suicide. This was effectually set at rest by the autopsy. This showed that two of the three bullets fired at Gibbs had taken effect One en- tered his elbow. The other entered his right temple. He could not have fired the shot into his left elbow, nor could he have fired the shot into his head, for the bullet took a downward course, and he was a tall m.-! His assailant was out for revenge, for the last bullet was doubtless fired while Gibbs was on the ground The second theory is footpads. This is tenable. Buffalo is infested with high | waymen, and holdups are frequent. But Gibbs was not robbed. He had money in his purse, a diamond on his shirt, and his valuable gold watch was in his pocket Then, again, foOtpads would not wait to fire shot at man who was down.
 The third and most plausible theory is that there is 8 woman at the bottom of it The police think he was decoyed to the spot where he was killed. No trace of his movements on Saturday night between the time he left his home at 7:30 o'clock and the time of the murder can be found. He did not live on the avenue and while his home on Main street was not far distant he was not walking toward it.
 Boys Furnish a Clew.
 The only thing that resembles clew is the tale told by two small boys who were delivering shoes for a local shoe store They say they were out on the avenue about 10 o'clock and heard the shots. Then they saw two men running down the road way leading into the Squier yard at the street end of which Gibbs was found.
 So far as known nothing has been found among Nlr. Gibbs papers that duplicates him in any questionable transactions. Gibbs was 33 years old and had always lived ill Buffalo. When he left the high school, he became reporter on The Even ing Telegraph, now dead. He was city editor of The Republic for three years, He studied law and was admitted to the bar, dealt i'll real estate and had a future full Of bripht DrOmjSp