MURDER CHARGE AGAINST LAWYER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15124, 15 October 1912, Page 8

MURDER CHARGE AGAINST LAWYER.

AN AMERICAN SENSATION. [FROM OUR OWN" COKRESI'G.N'DENT.] San Francisco, September Jo. The arrest of Burton W. Gibson, a wellknown New York lawyer, charged with the murder of one of his clients, Mrs. Rose Menschik Szabo, has caused a sensal ion all over the United States. Gibson is accused of having strangled the woman and thrown her from a rowboat into Greenwood Lake, upon which they were rowing. The death of Mrs. Szabo occurred after the Jawver had collected nearly £2000 for her in the capacity of administrator cf her mother's estate. That Gibson and the woman went vowing together there is no dispute; neither is it questioned that the lawyer returned without his client. He says that she fell overboard and was drowned'before he could rescue her. But medical testimony at the Coroner's inquest was to the effect that Mrs. Szabo died by strangulation, and not by drowning. The doctors stated that before die went out of the boat she bad received a sharp blow on the throat, which so affected the laryngeal nerves as to close the air passage. Gibson, it is contended, possesses expert knowledge of Japanese ju-iitsu and anatomy. In inquiring into the lawyer's career the police have discovered that other clients of his have mysteriously disappeared-. , . . .