Evening star., 1912-09-13
Decides to Engage Counsel.


perhaps he had been little hasty in de-
Gliding not to have lawyer. Il am go
ing to try to get one soon," he added; lin
fact, l have already sent word to an
Orange county lawyer asking him if he
| will take my case.
Gibson, who appeared without counsel.
won his point in an argument with the
court as to whether the examination
could be postponed without his making
formal application.
When the matter was taken up Glib
son said he wished the complete case dis
closed. Mr.. Rogers, the district attOr-
ney, he added. has told me it would be
| Impossible to assemble his witnesses and
get his case in shape prior to September
Rogers
Cites Law to Judge Royce.
Il shall have to ask you to apply for
the postponement," Judge Royce directed.
otherwise 1 can only postpone it for
two days"
II believe the law says the accused
lawyer replied, that the examination
may be postponed longer If the accused
applies for or consents to postponement.
do not wish to be placed in the position
Of having to apply for postponement of
nearly two weeks. but I consent to it,
e
right, he announced.
| District Attorney Rogers then formally
applied for the postronement, and it was
granted.
Until the day set for examination Glib
| son will be confined in the county jail
at Goshen.
Following his arrest by Deputy Sheriff
De Grow at his Office in New York yes
terday, and while en- route to Middle
town, Gibson talked freely about the
ipSt do
| fense in detail
THE name of the woman I am charged
with staying" he said. lis not Szabo. 1t
| is Ritter. Further, she is not the Vien-
nese Mrs. Ritter at all. My client was
beginning to show the advance of age
She wanted to come up to Greenwood
Lake, and at her invitation / accompa-
MED her. We went rowing on the lake
and there came up a thunderstorm.
rowed under a boathouse, and Mrs. Ritter
became confused and stepped out Of the
boat into two feet of water. That was
| the first time We came up here, but 1t
convinced me that / would have to be
on my guard against a repetition of the
accident.
Starts to Change Her Seat.
THE next time we went rowing, several
days later, on the occasion Of another
visit to Greenwood Lake, we had on our
bathing suits. I was in the end Of the
| boat and Mrs. Ritter wanted to change
seats. She was sitting in the other end
The boat was round bottomed. She got
UP and started toward me. / hadn't
stood up, but was just halfway out of
my seat when the boat suddenly tipped
and we both went into the water.
Il don't know what it was that made
| the boat tip over. We went into the
water simultaneously The boat was
drifting, kee. up. when I came up. Mrs.
| Ritter was between me and the boat.
| and, although she could swim a little,
saw she was in trouble and went to her
| aid. Now, ! am not q good swimmer; in
/ deed, l can hardly swim at all. She was
struggling to reach the boat, apparent
| ly, and when / went to help her grasp
| ed her. We went down together. She
| had me around the neck with her arms
| and her legs were around my waist /
got free of her, but l am quite sure that
| did nothing more than break her hold
did not strike her or harm her in any
way-of that l am sure, All this was
under the water. When I came to the
surface l thought 1 saw Mrs. Ritter but
it may have been only her bathing cap.
Launch Rescues Him.
Il chung to the boat when 1 came up
and launch picked me up. There were
| four persons In that launch. and they
know what l say is the truth.
| "A great deal has been said about my
| having tried to pass off fake mother
| for my client. / did nothing Of the sort.
What happened was this: Mrs. Ritter
| brought a woman to my office and intro
/ duced her to me as her mother. Mrs.
Ritter had no reason to deceive me in SO
doing / don't believe she was deceiving
me-although she may have been-and /
don't believe that the people across the
water will be able to prove What they
| claim.
There is every reason to believe that
Mrs. Menschik. Mrs. Ritter's mother. is
alive / know where she lives and will
produce her at the proper time.
Il am convinced now that have made
two mistakes in this matter-frst, in fail
| ing to take it seriously until today. and.
second. in not being represented at the
autopsy. I believe that the three or four
doctors who performed the autopsy will
be fa'r-minded. but ! am very much
to prejudice because of these other cases
of sudden death which my name has been
| coupled with"
"Be Brave for Grace's Sake"
| Just before he was escorted to the train
en- route to Middletown Gibson called hs
wife on the telephone at their home in
Rutherford and babe her take courage.
"Be brave" he said. This will be
a matter of only few days. will come
back all right. Don't be influenced by
any reports. and don't read any stories
about me- There is nothing in this
charge and you know It, I will come
out all right. dear. For the sake OF
Grace be brave. Number 4.
| Those who heard the message given
could only conjecture that number four
meant -four love with all my heart" in
the chi,d's rhyme beginning. "One love" :"
| Besides the SZabo tragedy there has
been a chain Of curious CO nc:dences link
| ing Gibsons name with cases Of sudden
death or disappearance of clients Of the
lawyer or persons connected in one way
| or another with cases in which he was
| interested The first of four such cOincf-
dences occurred when Mrs. Alice o. d.
| K,nnan, daughter of an aged woman
whose property Gibson handled. was MUIR
dered at her home in the Bronx. The
murder mystery was never solved. Glib
i held handing iaNeafian fi0Yl