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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN JAIL WISHES MURDER MYSTERY
WERE SOLVED.
WILSON JUD 2-PALS
K)B0an0-
DRAWS LIFE TERM
5E
Mrs. Ivy Giberson Quickly
Convicted and Sentenced.
Three Are Taken Without
Giving Battle.'
THE MORNITG OREGONIAff, TTfURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922
HUSBAf
CAPTURED BY POS
TWO OTHERS FACE TRIAL
Mrs. Catherine Rosier, Accused
of Killing Spouse and Stenog
t rapher, Before Jury,
STATUS OP JfTBDER TRIALS
FACED BY WOMEN.
Mrs. Ivy Giberson gets life
term for murder of husband
at Toms River, N. J.
Trial- of Mrs. Catherine
Hosier, charged with killing
husband and stenographer,
begins at Philadelphia.
Eleven witnesses testify in
case of woman accused of
killing her twins at Ham
mond, Ind.
(Bv Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
TOMS RIVER, N. J.. Oct. 18 Mrs.
Ivy Giberson . of Lakehurst tonight
was found guilty of the charge of
murdering her husband, William F.
Giberson, 38 years old, garage
owner, in his sleep on August 14
Jast. She was sentenced to life Im
prisonment at hard labor.
The jury brought in a verdict of
first degree murder at 7:40 P. M.,
after four and one-half hours' delib
eration. Only two ballots were taken. A
unanimous vote for conviction was
cast on the first ballot but one juror
voted to send her to the electric
chair Instead of the life imprison
ment. Woman's Nerves Do Not Pall.
Mrs. Giberson's "nerves of steel"
Id not fail her in the end. She re
ceived the verdict without a tremor,
her face expressionless. Facing
Judge Kalisch in the lighted court
room as he sentenced her, she stood
as erect as a defeated general and
eppared as stoical. In pronouncing
sentence Judge Kalisch said:
"I shall add nothing to make you
feel more the punishment that is to
be inflicted upon you. The sentence
of the law is that you are to be con
fined in prison for the time of your
natural life at hard labor."
A small crowd remained to hear
the verdict. Public eentiment fa
vored the conviction and those who
eat through the trial were convinced
the jury would convict.
Joe Richmond, son of the defend
ant, and Potter Giberson, father of
the murdered man, were present
when sentence was pronounced.
The defense lawyer, William H.
Jeffrey, will appeal the case on a
writ of error, he announced. The
case will go to the court of errora
and appeals.
Innocence I Maintained.
In a statement Prosecutor Jayne
Baid:
"I prosecuted with a conscious
ness of the woman's guilt."
The weakness of the case pre
sented by the defense, the improb
ability of Mrs. Giberson's story that
burglars did the killing and failure
to put Joe Richmond on the stand
were considered the strongest fac
tors in the conviction, which was
entirely upon circumstantial evi1-
dence. '
Sitting on the side of her prison
cot, Mrs. Giberson received report
ers, after her return to jail. She
smiled and chatted in the manner of
a hostess entertaining guests.
"I am sorry," she said, "but I am
not downcast. I am just as innocent
as I was the day the trial began."
The prosecutor said that the
woman had taken $2300 from her
husband and discovery of the fact
was impending when he was killed.
MRS. HOSIER'S TRIAD ON
Woman Accused First of Killing
Husband's Stenographer.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18. Mrs.
Catherine Rosier, who on January
21 shot and killed her husband, Os
car Rosier, and his stenographer,
Miss Mildred "Jerry'' Reckitt, in
Roster's advertising agency, came
to trial today. Maurice J. Speiser,
assistant district attorney in charge
of the commonwealth's case, elected
to try the defendant on an indict
ment charging her with the murder
of Miss Reckitt alone, a procedure
strongly opposed by counsel for the
defense, who urged that she be tried
simultaneously on.this and the in
dictment charging murder of Rosier.
Judge Barrata ruled in favor of the
prosecution.
Among those called as witnesses
wae Mrs. C. Mathewson, mother of
Christy Mathewson, famous baseball
pitcher. She is a grand aunt of the
defendant. ,
1TCKDEB OF TWINS DENIED
Eleven Witnesses Are Heard,
Some of Whom Tell of Hoax.
; (By Chlca pro Tribune Leased Wire.)
HAMMOND, Ind., Oct. 18. Eleven
witnesses were produced by the
state to testify today against Mrs.
Hazel McNally, charged: with the
murder of twins which she says
never were born to her. The wit
nesses, if they accomplished nothing
else, convinced the spectators in the
courtroom that, whether guilty o
innocent, Mrs. McNally perpetrated
one of the most cleverly conceived
and executed maternity hoaxes of
court record.
The recital of how, with two doll
heads attached to baby clothes
Btuffed with straw, Mrs. 'McNally
fooled her .husband, her neighbors
and even the woman who nursed her
following the twins' arrival, pro
voked outbursts of laughter from
the spectators.
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PEARL BAHMER AND HER GUARD.
This' shows Pearl Eahmer as she appears in her cell in the Somerset
county jail, Somerville, N. Y. This 15-year-old girl, accused of Incor
rigibility, her arrest resulting indirectly from Raymond Schneider's "con
fession," wishes that the whole affair was cleared up, she says.' Nicholas
Bahmer, father of Pearl, arrested on her charges, still remains in jail,
but it is said that he has been eliminated as a murder-case factor.
mis ks n
MEN TESTIFY TO SHRHBKS
COMING FROM SHED.
Xo Assistance Is Given to Victim
r
Because of Fear lor Own
Safety, Say Witnesses.
(Oontiimed From First Page.)
ties said they had not accepted her
explanation that this package con
tained nothing but the vestments of
the slain rector. ' , -
New Evidence Is Ponnd.
Word was received from Bound
brook of the continued optimism of
the prosecutors, which revived sud
denly at the height of preparations
to turn the entire matter over to
the state authorities on Sunday,
when promises of "definite action
were made to Governor Edwards.
The governor is expected in New
Brunswick tomorrow, but whether (
directly in connection with the
Hall-Mills murder could not be
learned.
According to the prosecutors,
their optimism Is based on valuable
evidence, the nature of which can
not be learned through the pall of
mystery and secretiveness which
they successfully have drawn about
them.
A second series of the letters said
to have been written by Mrs. Mills
to Rev. Mr. Hall was made public
today by the authorities.
Lore Notes Are Revealed,
Unaddressed and unsigned, the
letters are filled with terms of en
dearment. In them the minister is
often referred to as "sweet, ador
able babykins." They Bpeak of a
"love nest," of a woman's dreams
of "true love" and describe the
varied moods of a woman "loved and
loving without the conventions."
Excerpts from the letters follow:
"Dearest, dearest boy, wasn't I
happy to find a sweet note, for I
didn't expect you would risk leav
ing one for me yesterday! Such de
licious eclairs!
"My darling, how well you seem
today. ... I am tired want to
lie . . . and rest for hours. Oh,
you sweet, adorable babykins of
mine."
". . . I'd build a waiting leve
nest . . . People would mean
nothing. I had rather watch the
bugs and ants as they crawl along.
Don't you love to watch an ant as it
creeps along, honey?" -
"And. darling sweetheart, i . .
I love for our love to me the truest
. . . ideal ... as pure as we
can make It, for then it ia truest to
nature. . . ."
Jealousy of Work Confessed.
"I know I'm a crazy cat .
Charlotte talks . . . then Don
asks questions, then annoys, so' how
can I write?"
"Darling mine, didn't you feel me
purring . . . blissfully content
ed? And close to you, too-"
"My sweetheart, true heart, I
could crush you. Oh, I am wild
tonight"
"One time I told you I hated your
work I hated your parish. I guess
it is because I am jealous of it be
cause it must come first in your
life. Not because of its conven
tions, but because you love it so.
Oh, I know it because you are a
true priest born for it."
"I have the greatest of all bless
ings a man's deep, true,' eternal
love and my heart is his my life
is his all I have is his.' . . . 1
am his forever."
"I will hate the winter nights.
When I dream of curling up in a
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chair with you oh, what dreams
I have. Will it ever be?"
"I am holding my sweet babykin's
face in my hands and looking deep
into his heart and reading there
the message that makes me live
gives me strength and life."
MRS. HALL BADLY SHAKEN
Delay Is Asked in Further Inves
tigation of Love Notes.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct 18.
Although publicly professing that
her faith in her murdered husband,
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, was un
shaken by the love letters and diary
confessions attributed to him, and
asserting her belief none of them
were authentic, Mrs. Frances & Hall
was so nervously affected today by
the continued publication of these
and of the answering missives of
Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, choir leader
of Rev. Mr. Hall's church, who was
slain with him, that at Mrs. Hall's
request a duay in the examination
of the contents of her safe deposit
box in the National Bank of New
Jersey was granted.
Other developments today in the
double murder mystery, in which
the twice semi-officially forecast
arrests again failed of materializa
tion, included:
A). Expert testimony that the
couple were slain on the spot where
the bodies were found.
IB). Prosecutors obtain affidav
its from two men seemingly estab
lishing the scene of the slaying as a
shed in a lonely section two miles
outside of New Brunswick, from
which the bodies were transported
in a swiftly moving automobile to
the spot where they were found.
(C). Publication of three addi
tional letters, written by Mrs Mills
to Dr. Hall.
That the murder took place sev
eral miles from the Phillips farm is
contradicted by the report of chem
ists of the E. R. Squibbs laboratories
of New Brunswick, on an analysis
of earth, stones and grass, taken
from the spot where the Bhdies lay
when discovered. This report was
made today to Prosecutor Beekman.
Mrs. Mills' throat was cut after
the heart action stopped, the exam
ination of the earth established. The
opinion of the chemists is that the
slaying occurred where the bodies
were founj was based on tests of
162 pounds of stones, soil, grass and
roots, which were conducted by Hor
ace B. Holaday, analytical chemist.
The amount of blood found, the
laboratories report states, "is very
good evidence that Mrs. Mills was
killed before her throat was cut.
Nor is it likely that we would have
found 0.08 of a pint of blood if the
bodies had been transported to the
spot after the murder."
If Mrs. Mills' throat had been cut
before her death, in the opinion of
the chemist, there would have been
a loss of six and one-tenth pints of
biood.
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OLD PLANS GIVE CLEW
Sheriff's Men , Find r Fugitives
Where They Planned to Hide
After Break In April.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 18. The
three Jail breakers. Herbert Wilson,
mail robber and convicted murderer;
Adam Blaszyk, convicted murderer,
and Guido Splgnola, convicted rob
ber, were recaptured here today
after 24 hours of liberty. They
were taken without a struggle in
the home of an ex-convict.
The fugitives were taken in a
house not far from where the auto
mobile which they had stolen was
abandoned. Information of their
presence there was obtained early
today by a deputy sheriff, and Sher
iff Traeger and a posse of deputies
surrounded the resllence and
effected the capture with the same
suddenness that the trio had sur
prised the jailers in their liberty
break yesterday morning.
Old Plans Effect Capture.
The capture resulted from the use
of plans Wilson had formulated for
concealment after the attempted
break last April, which was frus
trated by sheriff's deputies and in
which Herbert Cox, partner of Wil
son, was killed. Wilson was con
victed of murder as a result The
trio was captured in the place where
they had planned to hide last April.
Sheriff Traeger learned in April
that Wilson planned to use the home
of Tom Garwood, registered in police
records and known as a pal of
Wilson. Immediately after the
escape yesterday morning the sheri
iff placed the Garwood home under,
surveillance. The reward came
early today when watchers saw
three men slink into the house. The
sheriff was notified and a heavy
posse rushed there, surrounding the
place.
Same Sangfroid Present.
The same mysterious sangfroid of
the ex-evangelist as exhibited since
he was known to the authorities
was present in Wilson's greeting to
the captors. There was no con
fusion and Wilson and his fellow
fugitives . peaceably surrendered
when they saw the large number in
the cordon around the house.
Wilsori's f'rst Question was con
cerning the -- condition of Turnkey
Purrier, whom he rendered uncon
scious in the break yesterday morn
ing. - He smiled and expressed satis
faction when informed Purrier was
not seriously hurt.
Wilson talked freely of movements
of the trio after escape from the
jail yesterday morning, how they
hid in a chicken coop all day with
two men who were in the automo
bile they seized Immediately after
the escape' and then left the two
men and went to Garwood's home.
They went to bed at 9 o'clock and
all lights were unscrewed" from
sockets so that in event of officers
entering the place at night they
would have to work in the dark or
with flashlights.
Crude Stills Seized.
ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 18. (Special.)
-Two of the crudest stills ever
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found in Clatsop county were seized
by Sheriff Slusher yesterday in the
marsh land near Westport. . The
stills were made of tin, which was
covered with rust, had no coils and,
as the officers stated, could distill
nothing but the rankest of poison.
While the plants showed signs of
having been operated recently, no
one was about them and no arrests
were made, although there probably
will be as the names of the owners
are known.
Missing Girls Are Sought.
OLTMPIA, Wash., Oct. 18. (Spe
cial.) The local police were asked
today to institute a search for Pearl
and Elsie Baker, 16 and 11 years old,
who have been missing from their
home since early Monday afternoon.
They are -said to have left home
with two soldiers from Camp Lewis.
Chief of Police Troxell is investi
gating the case.
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