New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
StranguIatiOn, Not by Under
taker, Produced Mark on
Mrs. Szabo'S Throat,
Says Or. G. W. King.
eNACTS STRUGGLE FOR JURY
Accused Lawyers Hand Went
Toward Upper Part of Wom-
ans Body Before Both
Went Out of Boat, Says
Lake Storekeeper.

IRON stsT Correspondent Of The Tribune
Goshen, n. Y, Nov. 20.-Although
burton w Gibson and his wife came
into court this morning in the care
free and almost merry manner thathas
characterized them since the lawyers
trial began, they went away at the end
Of to-day's session visibly disheart-
ened. The ordeal Of to-day was the
most dscouraging that they have
undergone since Gibson was arrested
for the murder of Mrs. Rosa Szabo
witness after witness contributed
damaging facts to the case which the
prosecution is building. The two chief
witnesses were John Minturn and DR..
George W. King, Of Jersey City, and
against their evidence the lawyers for
the defence centred the hardest blows
OF their REORGANIZATION, without
succeeding either in confusing them or
in drawing additional statements
which might tend to weaken their testi-
mony given under direct examination.
Dr.. King Disappointed Defence.
II was admitted by the defence that
Or. King also had been subpenaed as a
witness for Gibson, and it is known
that this action had been based on the
belief that DR.. King would give testi-
mony adverse 10 DR.. Otto Schultze, who
declared at the preliminary hearing
that the woman met her death in
Greenwood Lake by strangulation ap-
Piled from without.
However, DIR. King, who performed
the autopsy with DIR. Schultze, sup
ported Schultze in every way to-day,
making in some respects even a
stronger witness than DR.. Scuhltze did
at the hearing.
As DR. Schultze did at that time, Dr.
King described minutely the position in
which he FOUND the organs of the throat
forced against the roof OF the woman's
mouth. and declared il 10 be his firm
belief that such condition could have
been caused only 10y pressure applied
from the outside.
He also brought out the fact that a
woman's pneumogastric nerve would
have been affected by this pressure, the
result Of which would be TO produce al
most immediate death, OF at least un-
consciousness.
Taking up the question, raised by the
defence yesterday, that the contorted
condition of the dead woman's throat
might have been caused by the manip-
ulation of the undertaken in twisting
the head into a straight position pre-
paratory to burial, Assistant District
Attorney Wasservogel asked DR.. King
in a hypothetical question whether a
condition like that could have been
brought about by such means.
1T could not" replied DR.. King.
The defence, however, was not ready
to abandon the hope Of establishing an
undertaker's agency I'm producing the
situation found in the throat. DR.. John
J. A. O'Reilly, a medical juris- consult,
who took charge Of cross examining DR..
King for the defence, asked whether a
prop. such as undertakers sometimes
place under a dead persons chin TO fix
The natural position of the head, might
not have caused condition similar to
that found in Mrs. Szabo's throat
"A short time after 1 performed the
autopsy on Mrs. Szabo's body" replied
DR.. King, Il saw a body lying in the
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