Burton Wilkes Gibson was born in New York on 13 Dec 1874 to Joseph Wilkes Gibson (1843-1915) & Emily Alletta White (1851-1943).
Burton was a lawyer who had a large number of incredibly unlucky clients. People who hired him had a distressing habit of dying or disappearing in various mysterious ways.
Below are photos of crowds waiting outside to see Burton come out with cuffs on.
Some newspaper articles on the Burton Case: 1910-1912
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Another victim was Rosa Szabo
In July of 1912, Rosa Szabo went boating in New York’s Greenwood Lake with her attorney, Burton W. Gibson. During this outing, Gibson later explained, she fell out of their boat and drowned.
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He was married to Maude Isabelle O'Dwyer (1879-1922) 7 Sep 1898 in New Haven, CT.
They had two daughters:
Maria Emily Gibson
1901–1902
Marion Patricia Gibson (Photo below)
1906–2001
Burton's parents:
Family photos were shared on Ancestry by: Ron Goins originally shared this on 09 Jan 2011.
Burton had graduated from Yale University, what a sad waste, he might of been a great lawyer if he was so greedy.
Israeli Lawyer Moshe Strugano says, Despite his wife being classified as a widow in the 1920 census, nothing else about him could be uncovered, not even a death date or location.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your comment. Sometimes we just don't find it all. I made him a tree on Ancestry so maybe someday.
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