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LAKEHURST MAN
SLAIN IN HOME
Wife Suspected Of Shooting
Husband TO DEATH
FIND REVOLVERS IN HOUSE
Woman's Version is Thugs Entered
Home, Bound Her, Killed Husband
Said to Be Motive.


Said to Be Motive.
Lakehurst, n. J., Aug. l3.-Aftel
having sobbed Il dramatic tale that
two burglars truSsed and gagged hel
and compelled her TO listen While they
Giberson, wealthy lumherman anG
garage owner. Mrs. Ivy A. GiberSon
the wife. was arrested on suspicion OF
having slain him.
Il am innocent release me, please
for Justices sake" she wept as SHE
Ocean county otticiHlS who Took tltl
into custody.
The circumstances puinr II YOU IL
your husbands murderer" returlet
one
God knows | am innocent" erie,
the 3G-year-old woman Historically
Il would never harm dear Will. He
and | were inseparable. | could no
have shot him
Weeping. appealing to her custo
dams to free he" and permit her t,
aid in a search for the Two men she
insists killed her hu>nHmI for $500
Mrs BiberSon WAS pat in Il motor cal
and taken to Tom : River. where SHE
was locked up in IL" ocean count,
Jail.
Officials said ii love affair with an
other man" WAS thG motive Whicl
~ n.
woman Lad dee !.,l''d thclt, We're onl,
three pistols iii the GiIperSon home
Detectives found Two III the house
one hidden under clothing of the wifi,
i'll Il closet. \ third pistol was fount
in an oCthuilding, which the wife ha,
visited frequently while the murde
was being investigated. The detec
tiveS also found in closet Il pocket
book which the wife claimed the burg
lars had stolen No money was in il
According to Wilfred James. Ocean
county prosecutor, Mrs. Giherson il
involved il Il mass Of contradictor,
statements she made following tn,
discovery Of her husbands body.
The woman, said Mr. james, insist
ii that her husband struggled witt
! the burglars. She said he was Sho
between the eyes. the bullet piercing
MS brain.
Prosecutor James and New JerSe
state police found that the shot hal
entered the rear of Giberson'S head
Mrs. iberson also declared tina
after being bound and gagged, AM
hearing the shot that killed her hu>
band, she rolled downstairs, craWle
10 a window and her shouts attracte
three detectives of the Central Rail
road of New Jersey.
Gibers0n was 10. Although he VII
reputed To have saved "A cOmfortabl
nest egg from SawmillS and his gal
age, he and his wife drove iitneyS
their passengers being chiefly officer
and enlisted men STATIONED at the M
val air station here.
Mrs. GiberSon, explaining the shoot
ing To Ocean county authorities afte
she had summoned them by telephone
said that she was sleeping in a rOOI
next to the bedroom occupied by he
IuSDdllu, W Ilth Sllt W as aNdheHt'l u
two men .grasping her.
She said before she could Struggl
one thrust Il biz of cloth into he
mouth and then swiftly knotted rope
about her wrists and ankles.
AS GihersOn lay moaning on hi
bed. before he died, the two men walk
ed into the room where she lay, Mrs
GiberSOn said. They stopped over he
TO see if she was truSsed securely.
What did you shoot him fOr?" in
CURED one of the burglars of tn
other.
II bumped him off because he wa
awake and was making trouble" sal
the other, with a laugh.
Overcome by the horror of the Grim
and her inability to aid her husband
Mrs. Giberson declares she sank int
unconSciOuSneSS.
The burglars then carefully ran
sacked the two bedrooms, she says
From Gibersons mattress they too
three 500 bills by Sitting it at til
top, bottom and sides and runnin
their fingers through the hair unit
they found the crisp banknotes.
In Il drawer of chiffOnier the
found $500 in bills of small denomin
alton. Then they fled without leavin