Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-17
MRS. GIBERsoN rEsr1FIEg
 IN HER OWN DEFENSE

Toms River, N. !. oet. 1s.-When Mrs. Ivy Giberson. charked with the rnurder-of her husband, William F. Gib- erson, at Lakehurst, on August 14, took the stand in her own defense late today, she did not reply upon words alone to present to judge and jury her story of having been bound and gagged by rob bers who ehot her husband Springing from the witness chair, she twisted her body, shuffled her feet and proceeded from the stand to the jury box as she dramatized her account of | the way she managed to free herself i from gag and bonds after the murderers, as she contends, fled from. the house.
 She began her story by relating in de- | tail the routine events of Sunday, the day before the murder. It was on Sun- day, she said, that she was taken i'll, ! and remained so for a week. Neverthe- less, she said, she was able to get her i; husbands breakfast and send him of on call to Asbury Park. Giberson re- turned at six o'clock and they had SUD- per with Edward Howard, a chauffeur lemfployed by her husband she said
 When Howard had left her husband went to a wondow and stood there while 1 he counted roll of bills. finally an- nouncing they totalled $500. she said. | He returned the money to his trousers
 
 to bed. That was about II o'clock At that time the light was on in the kitch- en, the bedroom window was open, but the dining room dindow was closed" She did not know how long afterward her husband came to bed, she testified but she recalled seeing him switch on the light, powder his face at the mirror
 according to his custom, and then get
 into bed, after switching off the light
 T fell asleep again." Mrs. Gibefson tes.
 tified, and was awakened by a noise
 in the kitchen. I got out of bed, ant
 while feeling along the wall in the kitchen for the light switch was seized by two men. One of them placed hi, ! hand roughly over~my mouth. T can't remember whether. fought O, struggled, and forget just what did oc . cur" One man tied her arms behind her she said, and then evidently left he ; while the second man was tying he ankles. It was then, she said. that sh, heard shot coming from the sleepin, room in which she had left her husband l The man tying her ankles, she said l called to the other. What in hell did you do that fol? j? ) With an oath, the man in the bedroom ) called back, according to the witness l He was waking up.'
 5 It was at this point that Mrs. Gibersol t arose quickly fro m the witness chai ! and demonstrated by gestures and move
 ments of he entire body the story sh
 told.
 Finally. aroused myself and sli
 along the or until I reached the wal }. Then I managed to brace myself agains
 the wall and loosen the gag" she test I fled.
 t T didn't know my husband was dea : until the doctor arrived" Mrs Gibel $ son told the jury.
 y In regard to her relations with he Y husband, Mrs. Giberson said that a l. though she had found he was attentiI n to another woman eight months befor
 the shooting, they had become reconci e ed.
 O She denied she had hidden the revolyt # in the world" and that implied criticisl e only revolver she knew her husband y have, she said. disappeared during u
 visit of her nephew, Charles Bowers, h Trenton, to her home.
 It Mrs. Giberson vas still testifyir ,e when court adjourned until tomorro y- afternoon.