Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-26
Fate of Gibson
 In Juy's Hands
NOTIFIES JUDGE OF INABILITY
 TO AGREE.
WEES LONELY VIGIL
Paced Up and Down in Rain in Front of Courthouse For Some Time-De- tective Also Waiting.

Goshen, N. r., Nov. 26.-The jury trying Burton W. Gibson on the charge of murdering his client, Mrs. Rosa M. Szabo, on Greenwood lake last July, deliberated till 2.05 o'clock this morning without reaching a verdict
 Mrs. Gibson's Long, Lonely Vigil.
 While Gibson sat in his cell await ing word from the jury room, his wife, worn by her long vigil, was rest ing within call at a nearby cottage after having paced up and down in front of the courthouse for some time in the rain.
 Detective Waits to Arrest Gibson.
 In the courtroom at the time sat a detective armed with a warrant on which Gibson would be rearrested in case he was acquitted of the murder charge. This warrant charged Gib- son with the larceny in 1910 of s17,000 from Hugh Trainer, an aged awning maker and former client of the prisoner. The warrant was based on an indictment found by the grand jury In New York county recently.
 Couldn't Agree at POS A. M. At 2.O5 the jury sent word to Jus tice Tompkins that it could not agree. The justice was summoned to the courtroom.
 Locked Up at 2.25 A. M. Jurors in the trial of Burton W Gibson were locked up at 2.25 o'clock this morning after seven hours de- liberation without having come to an 1 agreement.
 Manslaughter Verdict Impossible. The court eliminated manslaughtel l from its charge and directed that ont | of three yerdicts be returned, murder | in ihe first degree. second degree ol acqui1tal
 nur.ng the long summing up of tn, case fer the defense and the state to. l day. Gibson drowsily nodded in hi! clair. and Mrs. Gibson, sitting clost by him, c;o-ed her eyes as if asleep.
 Mrs. Gibson Becomes Agitated.
 When the assistant district attorne! told the jury that her presence there snuggled closely to the prisoner, who's arm encircled her, was to elicit thei sympathy, she awoke with a start ant became agitated. She would have risel to speak had not her counsel held he back
 In summing up for the state Isador Wasservogel told the jurors that ther were mo two ways of looking at tn evidence" At great length he proceed ed with word picture of Greenwoo lake, fin the sunlight that gloriou day in July" and of the man an woman seen on it in boat.
 District Attorneys Argument.
 We see him grasp her around tn Eneck and thrust his hand to he throat" he declared. We see theI fall into the water. We see the ma alone emerge. Next we see this ma hurrying home. Two days later " see him lay the woman in a nameles grave with kith and kin far ava, Next we see him in the surrogate eur. asking for her money, That our case, sketched on the witnes stand Where does it fail?"
 The Judges Charge. Justice Tompkins ,in charging tn jury referred to contradictory expla nations given by Gibson of MT
 Szabo's whereabouts after she had mt her end.
 'Tf these inconsistent, contradictor ! and false statements were made b the defendant" he asked, why wei
 they made? Why did he say she wa in Chicago when he knew she ws lead? Why did he say she was goin
 to Europe In six or eight months What do these statements indicate to the guilt or innocence of the d.
 fendant in connection with the deat
 of Rosa Szabo?
 "ConfIicting and False Statements |, |, If her death had been an acciden would he have told these stories would he have told frankly just ho 2 the accident happened? What was u 4 defendants motive in telling thel . different stories? Was 1t to conce ! from her relatives and friends the ia , of her death and thereby pre- vent a1 possible investigation of tho case?
 Do these conflicting and fal
 statements, made by the defendar [. tend to corroborate the other test a mony and to establish the guilt of u r defendant? These are questions v s must put to yourselves in the jul !. room and answer"
 : Warned Against Sympathy and Mer ee Justice Tomplzins asked the jury 2 consider why the bogus Mrs. Petr relia Menschik had not been produce In closing, he warned the jury to req, = its verdict without sympathy or merc Gibson heard the charge with dow
 cast eyes. His wife. pallid and ha
 gard, drew closer to him when t Il acra. snment became severe.