The Washington times., 1921-12-25

FOR q rev years he had been
keeping company" with Gussie.
But they broke up. They seemed
to have gone from each others
lives until that fatal night Of Oc-
tober q last.
Garbe was found In the gutter in
a dark spot Of Woodhaven avenue,
near Old South road. Woodhaven,
that night. There were two bullets
in his body. He was rushed to st.
Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. There
his plight was found to be hopeless.
He died on November Z in the
hospital.
But within an hour after he
reached the hospital Garbe was
being quest oned by detectives. A
stenographer took down his state
ment.
DEATHBED ACCUSATION.
In this statement he is alleged to
have declared that Gussie induced
him to take walk with her and
that she framed" him. In a fur
Their statement in her presence that
night he charged her with having
lured him to his death. She heat.
eddy declared he was lying.
The police had acted quickly.
Immediately after Garbe named
Miss Human they rushed to her
home. They found she had gone to
a dance in Schwaben Hall, Ridge
wood, with Joseph L.basci, twenty.
of ~ Troutman street, Brook
Ign, They induced the girls father
to telephone for the girl. Sh.
rushed home with Libasci. Both
were arrested.
Their indictment came in a few
days. From the outset they insisted
they could prove they were at tho
dance hall all evening and had not
rushed there after the shooting.
Libasci was without a cap and
wore somebody else's overcoat.
This seemed a suspicious circum-
stance. He explained that In the
rush to leave the hall after Gussie
received the telephone call he for
got to get his cap and mistakenly
took. somebody else's coat.
The police placed them in cells.
He brooded over the girls plight.
She worried over his situation.
They tried to provide her every
comfort possible in Jail. But she
was blue and Respondent. She
worried about Joe and about her
parents. She worried at the thought
Of being accused of completely In
murder. She spent Thankssiv ing
in a cell. They would not permit
her mother to visit her.
SURE OF ACQUITTAL.
But however glum her demeanor.
she was never nervous as to her fate.
knowing herself to be innocent, she
was certain Of the exoneration that
now has come.
One thing only she pleaded for to
tighten her ordeal. She wanted to
have her mother visit her. For days
and days and days this boon was
spurned by the authority. And the
girl became wan and pale and seemed
on the verge Of illness. SO they
nipped the red tape. They permitted
her mother to call at the cell every
day.
Instantly Gussie's mien changed.
She began issuing hopeful state
ments. She talked with sunny dis
position to interviewers. She was
not at all worried now. She was
concerned only that there might be
delay in beginning the trial. Would
she be acquitted2 She was actually
vexed that the interviewers could
possibly conceive such a question.
Gussie is a girl given to enjoy
ment of life. Her repute is good.
She is a home girl, who goes out
only with the youth she considers
her steady" Just now tina
STEADY ls Joe LlbaSCl.
In her actions and in the appoint
ment of her attire. Gussie shows a
strong attachment for the fads and
fancies of the very youngish girl.
SWEET GIRL" SAYS MATRON.
The matron. indeed, spoke of her
as "a very sweet girl" She talks
in simple language, with wonder.
ment in her wide brown eyes. She
takes the swapping Of her photo.
graph as a frivolous incident to be
giggled at with glee. Throughout
she is the child, perhaps, Of less
years in spirit than there are in her
age. Her hair is made prominent
TO the eye by curl that waves far
down to a point between her brows
she is well built; Jail life, since they
permitted visits by her mother, has