The New York herald., 1922-08-17
FAILS
TO DISPROVE WIFE'S
VERSION OF MURDER
No Evidence Yet to Sustain
Charge Against Mrs.
GibersOn.
THIRD ROBBERY TALE
Woman Twice Before Told
Of Being Gagged by
Thieves.
MAN FRIEND OUT OF. CASE
Detective Satisfied Ganun Was
Innocent Friend of Lake
hurst Prisoner.
THIRD ROBBERY TALE
MAN FRIEND OUT OF. CASE

Special Dispatch TO THE New YosK IglaLp.
LAKEHURsT. N. j., Aug. 16.-While
County Prosecutor Jayne and the "best
detective" Ellis Parker. are striving
to prove Mrs. Ivy Giberson murdered
her husband, William Giberson, they
haven't so far discovered any reason
why she should have done so or con-
vincing evidence of her guilt.
On tho other hand, there are points
in her history that are interesting, to
say the least. She has had. according
to Detective Parker, no less than three
self-related adventures with robbers
who bound her and stole her money.
Parker says the police records Of Tren-
ton prove that about ten years ago,
when Mrs. Gibersoh and her husband
had restaurant in the New Jersey
capital, she reported having been tied
up gagged and robbed of $4,000. About
year and half ago, after the Giber-
sons moved to Lakehurst. she told of
having been held up in her home and
was taken. In neither case were the
robbers caught. Now Mrs. Giberson
tells Of having been girded about with
twine and gagged by the men who
Monday morning. and when railroad
men found her that was her plight.
The detective says he has also as
certained that virtually all the prop
erty accumulated by the Giborsons is
in the Widows name. including real
estate and cash.
Ganun Offers AIfbf.
Harold Ganun. the construction worker
who wrote letters to Mrs. Giberson which
were found in bureau drawer in her
home, appears to be fading out of the
picture. Prosecutor Jayne said this
sfternoon he had no further expectation
cf connecting Ganun with the murder.
Ganun showed a Polo Grounds rain
check for last Saturday afternoon and
t Is understood offered perfect alibi for
all the period between then and now.
George MCGEE of Lakehurst has given
Mr. Jayne a detailed story OF having
seen two men-one long and The other
short, of course-arguing woh Giberson
in front of the latter's house Sunday
morning. Giberson Is supposed to have
cleaned them out" in a crap game.
Ganun who came to Ocean county vol
unfairly with the Prosecutor yesterday
and was brought face to face with Mrs.
Giberson In the county jail at Tom,
River early this morning, continues to
insist he and she were good friends and
nothing more. He says he looked upon
| Ter as, upon a relative. Jayne and
| Parker believe Ganun tells the truth.
Mrs. Giberson and Ganun separately
| tell stories which coincide. and I am
inclined to agree with them," said the
detective tonight.
According to Parker. Mrs. Giberson
corresponded with Mrs. Ganun as well
as with her husband in the same
friendly vein. and sometimes met both
the Ganuns in places other than Lake
hurst.
May Quiz Ganun's wife.
Parker would like to have Mrs Ganun
husband says he won't let her set foot
In New Jersey. She is in Germantown.
y. Y. Prosecutor Jayne hasn't decided
whether TO send for her or no.. There
has been an intimation that he has
already received from her letters sent
by Mrs. Giberson to Ganun, but Jayne
will not admit It, and some persons
believe the letters do not exist.
Mrs. Giberson telephoned last night
f... f.4g r~Its
Gibersons sister. living In Trenton. ask
ing her to buy flowers for the funeral,
which will take place-at 2 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. Detective Parker
was asked II she would be allowed to
attend the funeral.
"She didn't cry when Giberson died"
said he. "and see no reason why she
chould CO."
| The small sum OF circumstantiai evil
dence against Mrs. Giberson to-day re-
ceived these additions: Not only have
two bottles containing chloroform come
TO light In the Giberson home. but an
empty bottle which had contained the
same drug. The chloroform In this
third bottle was not bought In Lake.
| hurst. Lakewood or any town In the
| direction OF New York, the authorities
say. They are trying TO run down the
source and the buyer In relation TO
the theory that Giberson was chloro-
formed before he was shot, there is
offered the fact that square piece OF
cotton cloth. wadded, was found I'm an
otherwise empty coffee can IN the house
and that 1t was slightly damp. 1t did
not smell Of chloroform or anything else,
according to the most sensitive nostrils
In this region.
Giberson. the Prosecutor learns had
81 700 IN cash few days before his
death. Its whereabouts now has not been
as ,ertained. Detective Parker SAYS
Giberson was not gambler. in which
he is disputed by certain men OF the
town. who say that. busy as GIberson
was. he was not too busy TO drop OF
once In while and take hand in a
stir crap game.
A new figure bobbed UP to-day In the
person Of Mrs. Giberson's son by her
first marriage. Joseph Richmond. He
Ia 21 years old. He says his rieh, name
Is Joseph Meehan. Mrs. Gibcrson's frs