New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-17
Relative
May Be Held i'm
Cibersor1 Case
Woman Accused i'm Staying
of Her Husband Refused
Permission to Attend
His Funeral Tomorrow
Buys Huge Floral Pillow
GaNun, Named i'm Crime,
Has am Alright Alibi,
Som Closely Questioned
speciaE Dispatch, to The rrioxns

"peotoF biSpucch 10 The Tribune
TOMS RIVER, N. j., Aug. 16.-The
arrest of relative of Mrs. Ivy Rich
mond Giberson was planned by the
Ocean County authorities tonight as
the result of their investigation of the
murder Of the woman's husband,
William, automobile liveryman. None
OF the developments has disturbed the
outward calm of the accused woman.
The authorities declined to enter
tain a suggestion from Mrs. Giberson
and her counsel, former Judge William
Jeffery, that she be permitted to attend
her husbands funeral at Lakehurst to-
morrow afternoon. The burial is to be-
in the cemetery here. Mrs. Giberson
when convinced that she would not be
permitted to follow her husbands body
to the grave, sent an order to Lake
hurst florist to make huge floral pill
low to be placed on the coffin.
The part of Harold GaNun in the
tragedy is about finished. Ellis Parker,
detective of Burlington County, said
tonight that he was convinced that
GaNun was in New York at the time
of the murder and that the construe-
tion superintendent had an alright
alibi---if he ever needed one. GaNun,
himself, exhibited far more concern
to-day over his wife's attitude than he
did about any suspicious the authori-
ties might entertain.
Used Third Degree Trick
From Judge Jeffery it was learned
that Prosecutor Jayne had used
GaNun in a third degree trick to which
Mrs. Giberson was subjected at 8
o'clock this morning. The woman was
awakened abruptly, according to her
lawyer. GaNun was pushed into ner
line of vision and then, according to
Judge Jeffery. GaNun said:
"Mrs. Giberson I have told every
thing"
aWell, Mr.. GaNun." replied Mrs.
Giberson sleepily, "I guess there is
nothing more you can do" According
to her counsel she then climbed back
on her cot and went to sleep again.
GaNun said to-day that his wife and
daughter were in Germantown, N. Y,
for vacation. He said he had had
no communication from his wife and
had sent her none since his name was
brought into the Giberson murder
case.
How Prosecutor Jayne obtained a
package of letters Mrs. Giberson had
sent to GaNun was mystery to-day.
The prosecutor limited that they had
come from Mrs. GaNun, but several
circumstances indicated that they had
been turned over to him by the recip-
lent. GaNun told newspaper men there
was nothing of compromising charac-
ter in any of The letters. The Prosecu-
tor has declined to show them. Jayne
did say that Mrs. Giberson and Mr..
GaNun had corresponded without Mrs.
GaNun's knowledge as recently as Au-
gust a.
Son Figures in Case
Joseph Richmond, the twenty-one-
year-old som of Mrs. Giberson by q
former marriage, became an important
figure in the case to-day when he adj
mitted that his mother had quarreled
with Giberson frequently and nearly
always because of himself. The mother,
it seemed, wanted to share the Giber-
son home with her son, but Giberson
objected to such an arrangement.
Several times during the day investi-
gators working for the Prosecutor ques-
toned the youth, who until recently
was a student at Riders Business
School in Trenton. One of these men
was told by Richmond that when he
arrived at his mothers home about
two hours after a bullet had been fired
into the brain of Giberson there was a
strong odor Of chloroform in the at
mosphere. Investigators found several
small bottles Of the anesthetic in a
medicine cabinet in the home. Coroner
Brown, however, said he had not seen
anything in the condition of the body
that suggested that death came after
Giberson had been chloroformed.
Judge Jeffery said to-day that he re-
garded as helpful to Mrs. Giberson a
statement by Frank Peterson, a tele-
graph operator, that on the night of the
murder he observed Gibs-son in heated
conversation with two men he Old not
recognize. The trio stood just across
the street from the Giber pn home.