The New York herald., 1922-10-18
GIBERSON CASE WILL
REACH JURY TO-DAY
Murder Panel Expected to Be-
gin It's Deliberations Be-
fore Noon.

Special Dispatch to The NEw YORK HERAlD.
TOMS RIVER, n. j., Oct. 17.-Both
sides rested late this afternoon in the
trial Of Mrs. Ivy Giberson for the al
legged murder of her husband at Lake.
hurst last August.
The State completed its rebuttal testi-
mony. and when the defense announced
il would have no more witnesses, Justice
Samuel Kslisch adjourned court until
tomorrow morning. Summations will
begin then. After an hour from each
Of the attorneys the court will charge
the jury. Tho jurors are expected to
begin their deliberations before noon.
Prosecutor Wilfred H. Jayne and
former Judge Maja L. Berry will sum
up for the State. Mrs. Giberson will
be represented by James Mercer Davis
and former Judge William H. Jeffrey
1t was learned tonight that Mr.. Jayne
intends to LAY great stress upon Mrs.
Gibersons testimony in which she said
that the tall burglar who she alleges
was tying her feet, asked the short
burglar why he had killed Giberson.
He will contend that her testimony
shows that neither she nor the burglar
knew who had fired the shot
Kept Handbook Together.
He also will emphasize the fact that
Mrs. Giberson told Frank Peterson. who
united her hands. that burglars had
robbed the house and shot her husband
While in her direct testimony she said
she did not know that Giberson had
been shot until she was told by DR..
Pitts.
Mrs. Giberson completed her testi-
mony to-day. She said she had thought
her husband was bootlegger. as Sher-
III Holman had warned that unless Glib
erson stopped selling liquor ne would be
arrested She said that once, when her
husband returned from Mount Holly, he
brought quantity of liquor, and that
she had told him he must cease such
work.
In testifying regarding the alleged al
tered statements from the Peoples Ma
tional Bank at Lakewood. she said that
she and her husband both attended to
the bookkeeping of their account. Mrs.
Giberson denied she had made the false
entries in the books or in any way
changed the statements sent them by the
bank. She said that she did not know
how or when the changes were made
Surprise Attempted.
On cross examination the defendant
declared her relations with Harold A.
Ga Nun of New York were purely
friendly and that the only reason she
did not show her husband his letters
was that she did not want TO make
trouble. She said he might not have
understood her friendly regard for ca,
Nun. Mrs. Giberson denied that she
ever had gone TO New York to meet
Ca Nun. She admitted that she and
her husband had quarreled over a
woman at Toms River to whom Giber-
son was paying attention and that they
we're about to separate when Giberson
promised to avoid the other woman.
After their relations were as before
she said.
The defense attempted a surprise by
putting Leo Whalen and Malcolm
Prickett on the witness stand. They
testified that between one and two
O'Clock on the morning of the murder
they saw tall man and q short man
lettering near the GIberson home. Mrs.
Elizabeth Excl, by deposition, testified
tnat she had seen tall man and q
short man several times on Sunday
evening near the Giberson home. At
III o'clock that night. as she was
talking to Giberson. she said. the men
passed and Giberson said he knew them.