New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Widow I'm Cell
Sends w reatIl
For (,il,erso1l
Som of Accused Woman by
Former Union Attends
Funeral and Is Watched
by Prosecutor S Detectives
rider Still Mystery
Defense Hires Mem TO Trace
the Slayers and Robbers
Described by Prisoner
From . sag Correspondents

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TOMS RIVER, N. j., Aug. 17.--Will-
lam Emerson, murdered proprietor of
prosperous taxicab business in Lake
hurst, was buried in Riverside Gene
terry here to-day, while the wife ace
cused Of shooting him, wept in her cell
In the red brick jail of the Ocean
County court house.
Mr. Giberson's son by former mar
Yiage, twenty -one-year-old Joseph Rich
mend, was one Of the small group who
6fed past the open grave and looked
dswn upon the coffin or the murder
victim. As he paused there, young
Richmond, who has adopted his
mothers name, knew that he was be-
ing watched by detectives working for
Prosecutor Wilfred Jayne jr. The
young man bit his lip but gave no
other sign of strain. He has said
frankly there was no love lost between
himself and Giberson.
Potter and Martha Giberson, parents
of the man in the grave, clung to each
other, as they stood at the brink OF the
pit, but made no sound. Then came
their daughter, Mrs. Nellie Bowers, OF
Trenton.
"Dh my poor brother she cried out
and then her voice rose almost to q
screann as though she was trying to
call him back to life.
None but members of the Giberson
and Richmond families and close
friends were admitted to the apart
ment on the second floor of the store
lock which was one of Giberson's prin-
eipal investments in Lakehurst. Leroy
Richmond, father of the accused
w!dcw, and his three sons and their
families, all were there. Mrs. Giber-
son could not come, but she had sent q
floral pillow of roses and dahlias
Worked in the center in pink felt let
ters wera the words "At rest"
Defence Seeks Slayer
The pressing establishment, the
barber shop and the pool room in the
building next door, Giberson's tenants,
were closed oet of respect to his
memory during the services. which
were conducted by the Rev. Simeon
Magee, pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. At times the ministers 3
voice was lost in the hysterical cries
Of Mrs. Bowers. Then came the seven
mile drive to the cemetery beneath a
burning sun and over dusty road.
Straps were stretched across the
tarpaulin-hn grave when the funeral
eortege arrived. An undertaker's as
sistant in black frock coat that
shrouded him to his knees brought the
seven Aoral pieces and placed them at
the head of the grave before giving the
signal to the pail bearers.
The coffin was lowered quickly and
almost before the mourners had reached
the grave the straps were whlstllng
against The sides as the grave diggers
withdrew them.
Former Judge William Fl. Jafrey,
Mrs. Giberson's attorney, disconnected
the county authorizes to-day by inn
porting two detectives of New York
agency and giving them instructions
TO "find the two men who, killed Glber-
SON" The county officials have made
no effort to hunt the burglars Mrs.
Giberson says killed her husband, be-
cause they say they are creatures OF
Mrs. Giberson's mind.
Suspects Local Men
'sY told the detectives" said Judge
Jaffrey, 'they could find their men in
Lakehurst if my hunch was right.
don't know, of course, but think the
two men who robbed and killed my
clients husband and bound and gagged
her are residents of the town Of Lake
hurst and were in position to know
that he would have a sum in excess
Of $500 in his house last Sunday night.
"The prosecutor has not developed 8
single fact to controvert the story told
by Mrs. Giberson. He has not shown O
single reason to support theory that
she would want to see her husband out
OF the way"
During the day Harold A. GaNun, the
construction superintendent of Hoe