The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-12-01
KILLS HIS MoTHER.lN-LAW AND
THEN CUTS HEAD FROM BODY
1H|RS1ING FOR MORE BLOOD
He Goes to School House and Drags
Murdered Woman's Daughter to
the Door and Stabs Her 10
Death and Escapes.

Iavernia, Texas. Nov 30.-Laver. |
MIA and vicinity were thrown into |
almost hysterical excitement today
| by the brazen boldness and atrocity
manifested in the killing Of a woman
and girl. his relatives by marriage,
by Louis Gibson. a negro, one mile
from town, at . O'Clock this morning
Posses composed OF whites and
blacks alike are securing the coun-
try under the leadership of Sheriff
VIII Wright and deputies. but up to
a late hour tonight Gibson was still
at large. The governor will be re-
arrest. The portentious mutterings
and grim visages of the man hunters
augur Ill for their quarry should
he be found away from the protec.
ton OF the law.
lIasty but thorough investigation
of the occurrence developed hor-
rifying narrative Of brutality and
crime. the like of which the annals
of this county had not heretofore
contained. Gibson, his wife, and moth.
er-in-law, Betty Taylor, were at Glib
, sons home, located on the county
road about mile from Lavernia
The wife left the house on some
routine mission. and during her
absence her mother was killed The
head of the woman was all but Sc.
=. yered from the body. being Joined to
the neck merely by thin shred or
skin. A bloody AK found near the
q corpse indicated the means Of the
a slaughter. The womans skull was
crushed. the result OF blow before
or after that which cut her throat
'el Hearing outcries OF anguish from
the house Gibson's wife rushed back
glance was sufficient to reveal the
major details of the tragedy. and
the absence of her husband. With
out delay she ran to the home of q
her home. whence her husband was
traced to the school house. II was
noticed that a repeating riue owned
by Gibson was missing from its Gus
tomary place. On the way TO the
school house II was discovered. Sc
: creted in a clump OF bushes
i Reaching the school house. Gibson
9 called for his sister-n.law, Cora
e Taylor. daughter of the woman he
1t had so recently killed The schoo
y teacher refused to permit the girl
II to leave the room. Gibson strobe in
Il grasped the girl and carried her
e from the room. At the entrance tc
d and plunged II into the girls neck
' making CHASTITY wound from which
e the blood rushed in sickening vol
- umc. The teacher rushed out al
this iuncture and Gibson released
u the girl, who tottered fifty or sixty
L feet from the building and sank.
n Kissing a warning to the teacher
N Gibson rushed upon the girl, drag
OF sed her quiyering form in semi
= erect posture and plunged the knit,
II again into her neck, almost severinC
Is the head from the body. He loosenet
his grasp only to pick up two heayl
stones and with them beat to q
pulp the head of the girl already
dead.
Finishing his awful work, Glib
" son escaped to the woods heading
1t is thought. for the Elmdorff com
munty
While no immediate incentive 10
the killing has been reliably advanc
ed it is known that there has beer
., rupture OF amicable relations he
tween Gibson and his wife's family
dating almost from his marriage |
is thought that some recent eruption
OF this chronic disaffection precipi
tated the assault on the woman
and that the girl was killed to satisf.
an insane desire for vengeanc
against her mother.
RS The community in which the twt
killings occurred is rather thickly por
m ulatcd, the school house being a
al the juncture OF the Sunset rallroa,
and the county road
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