The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-13
GIRL u KILLED BY
AUTO LEAPED TO DEATH
Coroner Decides Miss Gibson
Ended Life in Dependency
Over Illness.
BODY SEEN AS TT FELL

Miss jeanette Bartram Gibson. tho
young Brooklyn girl who was found
badly injured near her homo asi IAfay.
cite . and who died soon after.
ward. was not struck ~ an automobile
whose driver speeded away. according
to the first belief Of the authorities, but
was q suicide.
as his preliminary verdict last night
after the introduction of a new witness
INTO tho case I'M the discovery Of new
facts from tho girl's father. William
II. Gibson. for thirty years connected
with X. @. Dun g. Co. The Coroner aid
that he believed that Miss Gibson. in q
fit OF melancholy because Of recurring
attacks Of epilepsy, jumped from the
roof OF a house near her home. He will
hold the formal inquest next Wednesday
morning, but he said last night that he
believed hts preliminary verdict would
etand.
saw Oarl's Body Fall.
The new witness Is Dennis Deegan OF
eto Clifton place, an elevator operator
In Pratt Institute. He says he saw the
girls body in the air after she had
Jumped from the roof Of tho apartment
house in which she lived. This and the
facts hat Mr.. Gibson admitted that his
daughter had been under treatment
for epilepsy. that on Friday she was
very ~despondent because Of this af-
fiction and that yesterday morning he
found tho door ana ecuttie leading 60
the root unexplainably open caused a
had been etruck by an automobile Tho
only basis the police had for this belief
In the first place was that Emil Kfleger
Of 2l5 Emer0on place, the only witness
found On Friday evening. said he saw
an automobile some distance down La.
fayette avenue, although he had not
seen II strike tho girl.
Coroner Wagner held HE preliminary
hearing in the Classon avenue station
Yesterday evening. after the police had
, found Deegan. At the hearing were
! acting Capt. McClosky. In charge OF
The detectives on the case: the girls
| father. Deegan, Or. Forbes j. Munson
who had been treating the girl for
| epilepsy, and Assistant District Attor-
ney Rubin Wilson.
Thought IL . DfS Dundle.
peeran said that on Friday evening
he was hurry Ing 10 work. He was IN
Lafayette avenue, passing the corner
! OF Ererson place, he said, when he saw
what he thought was a big bundle fallins
through the air. Apparently II cam,
from tho northwest corner OF the roo:
Of the apartment house.
1T struck the sidewalk near the curb
! right near the telephone pole he said
~ ran over to IL. and got there at the
same time AZ another man presumably
Emil Kr,eger1. He said. IT'S a woman
get a doctor The nearest doctors
sign that ] cav was that Of DR.. Homer
Jones. 332 Lafayette G ran
| there. rang the he'll. DR.. Jones came
to tho door, and l told hNn a woman
was hurt up tho street. and asked him &c
help her. | sale I didn't have time to
walt. as I had to get to my work.
Then I went TO work. On Saturday
I went fishing from Sheepshead Bay.
/ took a paper with me. but | didn't read
1t until I got out in the boat. Then
! saw the police thought an automobile
had struck the girl. l knew better and
when ] got back l told al eN-policeman
who works IN Pratt Institute
DR.. Munson OF 32s Lafayette avenue
said that he had been treating Miss Glib