Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-09-12
GIBSON is PUT
UNDER ARREST
Warrant Issued After Physi-
clan Swsars Mrs. Szabo
Mas StrangIed to Death.
HER BROTHER is COMING
Slayer Showed a knowledge
of Jiu jitsu Anatomy
and Physiology.
HER BROTHER IS COMING
Special BY United Prsss Wtrs.

New York, Sept. 12.-Still claim
ing his innocence and asserting he
was victim of circumstances which
could easily be disproven, Burton w.
Gibson, the Rutherford, N. j., law
yer, submitted to arrest in his office
there today. He was formally charg-
ed with murder OF Mrs. Rosena
Szabo.
Gibson arrived early at his office
and awaited for a half hour before
deputy sheriff arrived with the
warrant. He sent for Detective Rink
who has been watching him for for
ty-eight hours. "See here, Rink"
said Gibson, II want this sensation
alism cut out. have been obliging
SO that you would not be bothered
with extradition proceedings. Now
all ask is that this arrest be made
in 4 gentlemanly fashion"
Gibson was the most unconcern-
| ing member of the party when 1t left
his office en- route to MiddletowD
New York. for the arraignment.
The crowd around the building
where Gibson has his offices became
so great when 1t was learned that
his departure to Middletown, N. Y,
had been delayed, that 1t became ne
| cessary to call the police reserves to
/ preserve order. Traffic was i'm
peded generally, and the police were
at times compelled to use force to
keep the streets open.
The action taken by the Orange
county judge in ordering the arrest
of Gibson was only after District
Attorney Thomas c. Rogers had laid
a strong first hand case of murder
| before him. A delay in granting the
writ was due to the insistence of the
Judge that DR.. Otto H. Schultze, cor
oner's physician of Manhattan, who
assisted at the autopsy, appear per-
sonally before him to give oral testj-
mony.
Or. schultze swore before the court
that Mrs. szabo died by asphy1iation
by stranguIation and not by asphy xia
ton by submersion. which would have
been the case If she had been drowned
when she foil out Of the boat on Green
the physician. who has conducted
many autopsies, swors that Mrs. szabo
was 20 injured before she went into
the water on that day that she never
brsathed after she had sunk below the
surface Of the water. The testimony
Of the surgeon injected into the case 4
new feature Of murder which combines
the Japanese 1iu Jitsu. with an expert
knowledge Of anatomy and physiology.
Dead Before Reaching Water.
! According to the surgeon, when Mrs.
Szabo went out of the boat on that day
she received a sharp blow On the throat
which 10 affected the laryngtcal nerve
as to close her air passages, making
1t impossible for her to breathe. The
fact that she had never drawn breath
after she was struck WAS shown by the
fact that although she was in the wa
ter there was not 4 single sign Of water
in her lungs. She stopped breathing
before she fell and died In consequence.
| In his further testimony DR.. Schultze.
who went further into the case.
testified that the blow which was ad
ministered at the apex Of the throat.
lust under the chin, might have been
single sharp application Of the thumb
by man who knew absolutely what
he was doing or 1t could have been
done by the use Of several fingers
Of the hand applied for an infnitesmal
part Of minute. Expert knowledge
was the only thing necessary. Once
the pressure was properly applied there
| was no further work to be done. The
| woman would 60 overheard, sink with
out a struggle and die without ever
taking breath.
The testimony of the surgeon COM
pieted the murder case in the belief
Of the district attorney Of New York
and DR.. Fitz Fischerauer, tho vice
consul general Of Austro Hungary.