The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-13
Warrant Charges Law
yer With Murder in
First Degree.
MAKES DENIAL
OF ACCUSATION
Taken Into Custody at His Or
hce on Arrival in Morning
From His Home-Just Be-
fore Leaving for Middle
town Telephones Wife
to Take Courage.

New York. September l2-Burton
". Gibson. the New York lawyer.
whose client. Rost Menschlk szabo.
lost her life while boating with him
on Greenwood Lake :. Y. July Is. was
taken into custody to-day ~ Deputy
Sheriff De Graw. OF Orange county. on
Warrant charging Gibson with muir
der IN the FIRST degree. Gibson was
arrested at his Office
Gibson came 10 this city this morn
.ng ,ra!led by q private detective and
T. squad OF newspaper men AS he
walked through the streets TO his office
crowd Of several hundred people FOL
lowed him Gibson. with q private de-
tective. went 10 his Office and awaited
the arrival Of Deputy Sheriff De Graw
lie said TO the detective.
4 should Ike very much 10 20 70
M!ddletown ana surrender myself II II
can be arranged. Cannot you see the
sheriff and have tails tn!ug done IN
as gentlernaniy a way as possihle7"
The detective said he would talk TO
Deputy sheriff De Graw when re ar
rived. The detective waited some time
for De Graw to appear and then .eav-
Ing Gibson IA tho company OF the Sc
cret service men, remarked Il guess
III have 70 60 30 hunt Up De Graw. He
seems 10 BE- lost
train en route 20 Middletown. Gibson
called mis- vife on TIE telephone at
Their home At Rutherford and babe her
take courage
Re brave. ne SAID This vii. be
only matter OF : few days vii!
come back All right, Don, be In
Nlenccd by any reports and don't read
any stories ABOUT nc There is nothing
iA 'Ais charge and you know il, 7
VIII conc out all right. dear For the
e Se @, Grace. be brave. Number four
Refers TO Child's Rhyme.
THOSE ~ho heard taa message given
cql.d only conjecture that Number
ionr meant -Four. ! love Win all my
heai t IN the chiid IS rhyme beginning
One love"
Gibson issued a statement Just before
n.s arrest, .easseriirg his innocence
and insisting ,aat there had been no
struggle either ia the boa, or IL the
water an not prepared" he said.
Ae"cFe tnat the report nlll SHOW
mat Mrs Szaho died ot straugt,!s,io,
Here certainly was no struggle In
'ne water between Mrs szaho and my
SEX "n!ch would result in her being
strang!ed. when she came IN sbe az
"'' nv the ooat ia such manner that
"ot!a cause Aer 10 die OF strarculs
ton. certainly did not clutch ~ Nv
tne throat and there was n, way bv
~nioh she could have died in mat man.
Gibson explained that willie he was
not worrying saou, the s,ranrula,ion
charge ne had Eel, Bit ANXIOUS 49,
the outcome Of the autopsv fA.-,,r
inat po!son in the embtlmine a,,i5
would Lead 70 mistaken irnpressio,'
that : poison mad been a5n,irl.,.ro5
iie added, however. that no had ,onl.d
up the law and found tha, the yss d.
an emhalming nuid containlns.
I'VE or irr!tant poison WAS n, lonror
nj y case. to worry after mat sand
H9son,s greatest sorrow was in lea,
ms ms little daughter I'm thetr ho.,,
rutherford, y j. Being sansro o,,'.
rom her he said was the nors, ~.
trre Of the case" 'S' Yea
When Deputy sheriff Deer
terea the building whore Mir C;ihsor
corridor and seized him roe.,,' ~ ne
ne, ne arm Gibson protested Ann
, mat. ne had been assured bg II" '' do ,@''
,y. , that ne would no, b.. ~, n,o qe'sc,
uh,'l noon DeGraw took him i n,a s''.s
'ody Notwithstanding