El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-17

'She is the best woman in the world
4 I couldn't have her and nobody else
could have her" With this declaration
to Jim Page as his reason for killing
Mrs. Phillip Gibson, George Caven haY-
ing already shot himself in the head, sent
a bullet into his own breast at $50 Sat
urday night at the home OF his sister
Mrs Paul TraylOr, 1417 Montana street.
Mrs. Gibson was already dead in the
hall of the same house Gavin died three
hours later in a hospital
After killing Mrs. Gibson and once
shooting himself, Caveu dragged him
self to the telephone on the stairs at
his sisters home and, calling central,
asked for 2973, the home Of G. ".
Crutcher, father Of the woman he had
slain, and when the telephone was an
swered by Miss Helen Crutcher, he
sObbed out: Il have killed Pauline and
shot myself. By the time you get here.
we will both be done for"
Then he staggered down the stairs
placed q pillow beneath the head
OF the woman he had slain, went to his
trunk and looked at some papers, fired
a second shot into his own breast and
fell close to the dead body Of Mrs.
Gibson, where he was still lying when
coroner Z. B. McClintock arrived a few
minutes later 7 want TO be placed on
a bed. I am dying" he murmured as
the coroner bent over him
A few minutes later as he was being
placed in the ambulance to be conveyed
to the hospital, CaVen opened his eyes
and recognized the father Of his vic
tim, who had hurried in his automobile
from his home, $500 Bliss street, and
said: 4 did it because I loved her"
This was the last he said so far as
known, dying later, unconscious from
the moment he had spoken to the grief
stricken father.
He had just said to the police as they
were placing him in the ambulance. Z
am drunk. I shot her because I loved
her"
Unrequfted Love.
The tragedy was the elimination OF
an unrequited love affair that had torn
Caven's heart for Is years. Caven, Mrs
Gibson. who was then Miss Pau
line Crutcher, and Phillip Gibson,
present husband of the slain woman,
were all children together in Dallas,
where Mr.. Crutcher was at one time
mayor. They went to school together
and attended young folks parties to-
gether. The families were all friends,
among the oldest families there. Caven
and Gibson were both suitors for the
hand of Miss Crutcher, who was then
only in her teens
The Runaway Wedding.
One night, u years ago, Phillip Glib
son and Pauline CrutCher ran away
and were married, her parents opposing
any wedding because Of her youth
Mr.. GibsOns dead mothers wedding
ring became the ring with which he
pledged his love to his bride; this ring
was on her finger when she was killed
Saturday.
At the time OF the wedding Miss
Crutcher was only Is years OF age.
CaTen disappeared and for time il was
believed that he had ended mis- life, but
Gibson and his bride had gone to Mexico
to live. Then the Gibsons went TO
Cuba for a residence OF several
years; then to Brazil. Meantime, Caven.
whose interest in the opposite sex ap-
peared to have vanished entirely, went
to Mexico and went into business. A lit
tie over a year ago he come to Fl
Paso The GibsOns had returned to
Dallas from Cuba and Mr.. Gibson was
connected with the Buick Sales COM
pany.
Mrs GibsOn's parents decided to
move to FL PasoT and came here a year
ago last fall shortly after Caven came
here from Mexico. The Crutcher fam
RraZOs flats, moving TO their new Bliss
street home only recently. Phillip Glib {
son in the fall Of 1911, was offered a
position on the Mexico North Western
fic manager 7. r Ryan, for whom he
had worked in Mexico, and he came, |
too to FL PasO, with his wife and little l
son, Phillip, ir-, aged 10. They bought /
a home at 2909 Bliss street and were
living very happily Caven's sisters, |
Mrs. Paul TraylOr and Miss Jennie |
Caven, had moved here, too, and soon
the Gibson, Crutcher and Caven fam
friends of the past naturally would
Families Were Friendly.
Caven his two sisters and his mother,
who visited them here for a time, fire.
Guently visited with the Gibson and
Crutcher families Gavin was often
with Mr.. Gibson, and when Gibson was
initiated into the Elks a few weeks
ago, CaVen. a member of the order 5es-
cOrted Gibson through the lodge in the
iuitiatOry exercises. Caven bought a
Buick automobile from Gibson during
the past winter and frequently called
for the Gibsons TO ride with himself
gotten the old love he held for Mrs
Gibson He was drinking heavily, how
ever, at times and his surviving rela-
tives say that seeing her happy with
his former rival was the cause of it
Two weeks ago Caven went to San An
tonic, for the announced intention Of
entering a sanitarium. Friday he re-
turned.
Accidental Meeting With Caven.
Saturday afternoon about 1 o'clock, /
Caven met Mrs. Gibson on the street He |
influence Of liquor. Mrs. Gibson had
come to the city to take lunch with
her husband at 1890, and. just as she
and Mr.. Gibson were about to enter an
automobile at the international Auto
ComDanys sales rooms in the TOltec
building a man dropped in for a car
demonstration, and Mrs Gibson con-
Guided that she would lunch alone, and
told her husband she would meet him
again at o'clock to accompany him
home. She then went to her lunch, and /
il was after 1unching that she met