The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-18
LAWYER IN TROUBLE.
CHARGED With NUMBERING A
RICH WOMAN CLIENT
BODY Sank In THE LAKE
'rhe N-oman's Name Was hrs. Szabo
and the Lawyer is Burton Gibson
He Is Charged With Numbering
the Woman to Get Her Money
Testimony Is Strong.

a dispatch from New York says al
night long Wednesday night priv4s'
detectives hung about Burton w. Glib
sons home at Rutherford, N. j.
| while the headlights Of automobile
were turned on the Gibson house 81
that all the exits could be watched
Evidence submitted before Count.
Judge Royce, of Middletown, upol
which warrant charging Gibson
with murder in the first degree VA
issued, was most sensational
DR.. Schultze, coroner's physician
Of New York, swore that Mrs. Szabt
was so injured before she fell 1nt<
the water that she never breathet
after she had sunk below the sur
face. The surgeon said there were
tricks of jiu jitsu whereby Mrs. Szabt
could ha.a Inflicted sharp blow II
the throat which 80 affected a nerve
as to close her air passage, thereby
making it impossible to breath. Dr.
Schultze said that there was not
sign of water in the lungs and nc
congestion.
Only expert kowlkdge was required
to do the trick, said DR.. Schultze
who then asked Judge Royce to per
nit him to show how II, could be
done. Quickly the surgeon pressed a
pont on the judge throat. The Judge
gasped and not long after that issued
the warrant. It was planned to ar.
raign Gibson before Judge Royce
Friday.
Gibson came to New York Thurs.
day morning trailed by private de-
tectives and a squad Of newspaper
men. AS he ualked through the
streets to his office a crowd OF sever
al hundred people followed him. Glib
son, with a private detective, went to
his Office and awaited the arrival OF
Deputy Sheriff DeGraw. -
Gibson said to the detectives: u
should like very much TO go to Mid
dletown and surrender myself II 1t
can be arranged. Can not you see the
sheriff and have this thing done IN
as gentlemanly a way as posslble!'
The private detective said he would
talk to Deputy Sheriff DeGraw when
he arrived. The detective waited for
some time for DeGraw to appear and
then leaving Gibson in the company
of the newspaper men remarked: Il
guess I'll have to 80 and hunt up
DeGraw. He seems to be lost"
Gibson issued a statement just be-
fore his arrest reasserting his inno-
cence and insisting that there had
been no struggle, either in the boat
or in the water. 81 am not prepar-
ed" he said, "to believe that the re-
port will show that Mrs. Szabo died
of strangulation. There certainly
was no struggle in the water between
Mrs. Szabo and myself. When she
came up she did not hit the boat In
such a manner that would cause her
to die of strangulation. I certainly
did not clutch her by the throat
Gibson's greatest sorrow was in
leaving his little daughter at her
home in Rutherford, N. ]. Being
separated from her, he said, was "the
worst feature Of the case"
When Deputy Sheriff DeGraw en-
tered the building where Gibson has
his Office, he met Gibson in the cor
rjdor and seized him roughly by the
arm. Gibson protested and said he
had been assured by the detectives
he would not be molested until noon.
DeGraw took him into his custody
Notwithstanding.