Beacon - 28 Dec 1900
Inez Gibson. About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, the dead body of 13 year old Inez Gibson, the niece and adopted daughter of T.D. Gibson, a prominent grocer of Malvern, was found hanging in a closet which opened from her bedroom. Her little brother Otto found her. Several years ago, the parents of the girl were divorced and neither one wanted the burden of the care of the children. They were accordingly "farmed out", Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson taking the 3 children. Recently the child's mother wrote to the Gibsons that she would soon come and get her daughter. When told of this, the girl seemed depressed and said she would rather die than go to live with her mother.
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Thank-you to Contributor Tory Westhoff (50818847) for the following:
Malvern Leader
December 27, 1900
Death of Inez Gibson: In the long list of unusual and startling causalities that have occurred in Mills county during the past two months none has so shocked and pained the people of this community as that which culminated in the death of little Inez, the lovable and beloved neice of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Givson, Friday afternoon.
In this case the shock and sorrow incident to sudden death was intensified many fold by the mysterious and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the childs demise. The facts in the case as nearly as can be ascertained are as follows: Early in the afternoon of Friday Inez came home from school, having most successfully finished the term examinations in her various studies. She was in excellent, almost buoyant spirits, and after playing a few minutes with her pet parrot and joking with the house girl, she took her jumping rope and with her little brother Otto romped awhile about the porches and lawn. Finally tiring of this she suggested to Otto that they go up stairs to their play room. Otto did not wish to go just then, however, and Inez went alone. Perhaps fifteen minutes had elapsed when Otto went up stairs to join his sister and was horrified to find her body hanging by the jumping rope in the closet off her room. After trying in vain to take her down he ran screaming through the house and down to the store where he told Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. In the meantime the girl went up stairs to ascertain the cause of Otto's distress and was so paralyzed with fright at the sight that she could do nothing. Mr. Gibson arrived quickly and took the little form down and placed it upon a bed. Drs. Scott and Love came a few moments later and every mode of resuscitation was exhausted without avail. Coroner Whitnall was notified and upon his arrival empaneled a jury composed of L. W. Boehner, Wm. Kneeland and W. L. Summers and an inquest was held. The jurors found their task a most difficult and trying one because of an utter lack of any positive or direct evidence then at hand and the first impression was that death was self-inflicted. However later information and a thorough investigation into all the circumstances and conditions surrounding the childs life, her temperament, habits, etc., led to the unanimous conclusion that her death resulted from accident and a verdict rendered accordingly as follows: We, the jury, find that Inez Gibson came to her death through accidental strangulation, caused by climbing to reach an upper shelf in a clothes closet and slipping, her skipping rope catching around her neck in such a manner as to choke her to death
Signed: W. L. Summers,
Wm. Kneeland
L. W. Boehner
This verdict was in line with evidence showing that Inez was of a uniformly cheerful disposition; that she had secured 100 percent in several of her studies that day and for which her uncle had agreed to pay her 25 cents for each 100 percent; that she was particularly happy at this time in buying and making Christmas presents for the members of the family and friends. In short, not
one plausible reason could be found upon which to base a theory of self-destruction. Upon the other hand, it was shown that frequently after jumping her rope Inez would throw it about her body or neck and carry it up to the closet where she kept it on a high hook; that in reaching the upper shelves and hooks in her closet she was accustomed to step upon a low camp or folding chair and from thence clamber up by holding to the hooks. This chair had closed up and fallen
flat on the floor when she was found. A knowledge of all these facts led the jury to the above conclusion, one in which the public universally coincides.
Brief services were held at the bereaved home Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. H. P. McDowell. The profusion of floral offerings from friends, teacher and schoolmates were a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of one whom it could most truly be said "None knew her but to lover her".
It is needless to say that Mr. and Mrs. Givson have the deepest sympathy of the community in their terrible affliction. Their more intimate friends have common knowledge of their great love for the three children whom they took into their home several years ago and upon whom they have never ceased to lavish care and affection seldom equalled and never surpassed by own parents.
Inez was an especially tractable, lovable child, bright and womanly beyond her years, happy in the love of her uncle, aunt and brothers thoroughly appreciative of all that was being done for her and under such conditions it is not strange that she had grown to be the idol of their hearts and home.
May the bereft ones be comforted in this trying hour by Him whose sympathy and love is both human and divine.
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Inez Gibson. About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, the dead body of 13 year old Inez Gibson, the niece and adopted daughter of T.D. Gibson, a prominent grocer of Malvern, was found hanging in a closet which opened from her bedroom. Her little brother Otto found her. Several years ago, the parents of the girl were divorced and neither one wanted the burden of the care of the children. They were accordingly "farmed out", Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson taking the 3 children. Recently the child's mother wrote to the Gibsons that she would soon come and get her daughter. When told of this, the girl seemed depressed and said she would rather die than go to live with her mother.
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Thank-you to Contributor Tory Westhoff (50818847) for the following:
Malvern Leader
December 27, 1900
Death of Inez Gibson: In the long list of unusual and startling causalities that have occurred in Mills county during the past two months none has so shocked and pained the people of this community as that which culminated in the death of little Inez, the lovable and beloved neice of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Givson, Friday afternoon.
In this case the shock and sorrow incident to sudden death was intensified many fold by the mysterious and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the childs demise. The facts in the case as nearly as can be ascertained are as follows: Early in the afternoon of Friday Inez came home from school, having most successfully finished the term examinations in her various studies. She was in excellent, almost buoyant spirits, and after playing a few minutes with her pet parrot and joking with the house girl, she took her jumping rope and with her little brother Otto romped awhile about the porches and lawn. Finally tiring of this she suggested to Otto that they go up stairs to their play room. Otto did not wish to go just then, however, and Inez went alone. Perhaps fifteen minutes had elapsed when Otto went up stairs to join his sister and was horrified to find her body hanging by the jumping rope in the closet off her room. After trying in vain to take her down he ran screaming through the house and down to the store where he told Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. In the meantime the girl went up stairs to ascertain the cause of Otto's distress and was so paralyzed with fright at the sight that she could do nothing. Mr. Gibson arrived quickly and took the little form down and placed it upon a bed. Drs. Scott and Love came a few moments later and every mode of resuscitation was exhausted without avail. Coroner Whitnall was notified and upon his arrival empaneled a jury composed of L. W. Boehner, Wm. Kneeland and W. L. Summers and an inquest was held. The jurors found their task a most difficult and trying one because of an utter lack of any positive or direct evidence then at hand and the first impression was that death was self-inflicted. However later information and a thorough investigation into all the circumstances and conditions surrounding the childs life, her temperament, habits, etc., led to the unanimous conclusion that her death resulted from accident and a verdict rendered accordingly as follows: We, the jury, find that Inez Gibson came to her death through accidental strangulation, caused by climbing to reach an upper shelf in a clothes closet and slipping, her skipping rope catching around her neck in such a manner as to choke her to death
Signed: W. L. Summers,
Wm. Kneeland
L. W. Boehner
This verdict was in line with evidence showing that Inez was of a uniformly cheerful disposition; that she had secured 100 percent in several of her studies that day and for which her uncle had agreed to pay her 25 cents for each 100 percent; that she was particularly happy at this time in buying and making Christmas presents for the members of the family and friends. In short, not
one plausible reason could be found upon which to base a theory of self-destruction. Upon the other hand, it was shown that frequently after jumping her rope Inez would throw it about her body or neck and carry it up to the closet where she kept it on a high hook; that in reaching the upper shelves and hooks in her closet she was accustomed to step upon a low camp or folding chair and from thence clamber up by holding to the hooks. This chair had closed up and fallen
flat on the floor when she was found. A knowledge of all these facts led the jury to the above conclusion, one in which the public universally coincides.
Brief services were held at the bereaved home Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. H. P. McDowell. The profusion of floral offerings from friends, teacher and schoolmates were a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of one whom it could most truly be said "None knew her but to lover her".
It is needless to say that Mr. and Mrs. Givson have the deepest sympathy of the community in their terrible affliction. Their more intimate friends have common knowledge of their great love for the three children whom they took into their home several years ago and upon whom they have never ceased to lavish care and affection seldom equalled and never surpassed by own parents.
Inez was an especially tractable, lovable child, bright and womanly beyond her years, happy in the love of her uncle, aunt and brothers thoroughly appreciative of all that was being done for her and under such conditions it is not strange that she had grown to be the idol of their hearts and home.
May the bereft ones be comforted in this trying hour by Him whose sympathy and love is both human and divine.
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Beacon - 28 Dec 1900
Inez Gibson. About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, the dead body of 13 year old Inez Gibson, the niece and adopted daughter of T.D. Gibson, a prominent grocer of Malvern, was found hanging in a closet which opened from her bedroom. Her little brother Otto found her. Several years ago, the parents of the girl were divorced and neither one wanted the burden of the care of the children. They were accordingly "farmed out", Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson taking the 3 children. Recently the child's mother wrote to the Gibsons that she would soon come and get her daughter. When told of this, the girl seemed depressed and said she would rather die than go to live with her mother.
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Thank-you to Contributor Tory Westhoff (50818847) for the following:
Malvern Leader
December 27, 1900
Death of Inez Gibson: In the long list of unusual and startling causalities that have occurred in Mills county during the past two months none has so shocked and pained the people of this community as that which culminated in the death of little Inez, the lovable and beloved neice of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Givson, Friday afternoon.
In this case the shock and sorrow incident to sudden death was intensified many fold by the mysterious and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the childs demise. The facts in the case as nearly as can be ascertained are as follows: Early in the afternoon of Friday Inez came home from school, having most successfully finished the term examinations in her various studies. She was in excellent, almost buoyant spirits, and after playing a few minutes with her pet parrot and joking with the house girl, she took her jumping rope and with her little brother Otto romped awhile about the porches and lawn. Finally tiring of this she suggested to Otto that they go up stairs to their play room. Otto did not wish to go just then, however, and Inez went alone. Perhaps fifteen minutes had elapsed when Otto went up stairs to join his sister and was horrified to find her body hanging by the jumping rope in the closet off her room. After trying in vain to take her down he ran screaming through the house and down to the store where he told Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. In the meantime the girl went up stairs to ascertain the cause of Otto's distress and was so paralyzed with fright at the sight that she could do nothing. Mr. Gibson arrived quickly and took the little form down and placed it upon a bed. Drs. Scott and Love came a few moments later and every mode of resuscitation was exhausted without avail. Coroner Whitnall was notified and upon his arrival empaneled a jury composed of L. W. Boehner, Wm. Kneeland and W. L. Summers and an inquest was held. The jurors found their task a most difficult and trying one because of an utter lack of any positive or direct evidence then at hand and the first impression was that death was self-inflicted. However later information and a thorough investigation into all the circumstances and conditions surrounding the childs life, her temperament, habits, etc., led to the unanimous conclusion that her death resulted from accident and a verdict rendered accordingly as follows: We, the jury, find that Inez Gibson came to her death through accidental strangulation, caused by climbing to reach an upper shelf in a clothes closet and slipping, her skipping rope catching around her neck in such a manner as to choke her to death
Signed: W. L. Summers,
Wm. Kneeland
L. W. Boehner
This verdict was in line with evidence showing that Inez was of a uniformly cheerful disposition; that she had secured 100 percent in several of her studies that day and for which her uncle had agreed to pay her 25 cents for each 100 percent; that she was particularly happy at this time in buying and making Christmas presents for the members of the family and friends. In short, not
one plausible reason could be found upon which to base a theory of self-destruction. Upon the other hand, it was shown that frequently after jumping her rope Inez would throw it about her body or neck and carry it up to the closet where she kept it on a high hook; that in reaching the upper shelves and hooks in her closet she was accustomed to step upon a low camp or folding chair and from thence clamber up by holding to the hooks. This chair had closed up and fallen
flat on the floor when she was found. A knowledge of all these facts led the jury to the above conclusion, one in which the public universally coincides.
Brief services were held at the bereaved home Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. H. P. McDowell. The profusion of floral offerings from friends, teacher and schoolmates were a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of one whom it could most truly be said "None knew her but to lover her".
It is needless to say that Mr. and Mrs. Givson have the deepest sympathy of the community in their terrible affliction. Their more intimate friends have common knowledge of their great love for the three children whom they took into their home several years ago and upon whom they have never ceased to lavish care and affection seldom equalled and never surpassed by own parents.
Inez was an especially tractable, lovable child, bright and womanly beyond her years, happy in the love of her uncle, aunt and brothers thoroughly appreciative of all that was being done for her and under such conditions it is not strange that she had grown to be the idol of their hearts and home.
May the bereft ones be comforted in this trying hour by Him whose sympathy and love is both human and divine.
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Inez Gibson. About 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, the dead body of 13 year old Inez Gibson, the niece and adopted daughter of T.D. Gibson, a prominent grocer of Malvern, was found hanging in a closet which opened from her bedroom. Her little brother Otto found her. Several years ago, the parents of the girl were divorced and neither one wanted the burden of the care of the children. They were accordingly "farmed out", Mr. and Mrs. T. Gibson taking the 3 children. Recently the child's mother wrote to the Gibsons that she would soon come and get her daughter. When told of this, the girl seemed depressed and said she would rather die than go to live with her mother.
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Thank-you to Contributor Tory Westhoff (50818847) for the following:
Malvern Leader
December 27, 1900
Death of Inez Gibson: In the long list of unusual and startling causalities that have occurred in Mills county during the past two months none has so shocked and pained the people of this community as that which culminated in the death of little Inez, the lovable and beloved neice of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Givson, Friday afternoon.
In this case the shock and sorrow incident to sudden death was intensified many fold by the mysterious and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the childs demise. The facts in the case as nearly as can be ascertained are as follows: Early in the afternoon of Friday Inez came home from school, having most successfully finished the term examinations in her various studies. She was in excellent, almost buoyant spirits, and after playing a few minutes with her pet parrot and joking with the house girl, she took her jumping rope and with her little brother Otto romped awhile about the porches and lawn. Finally tiring of this she suggested to Otto that they go up stairs to their play room. Otto did not wish to go just then, however, and Inez went alone. Perhaps fifteen minutes had elapsed when Otto went up stairs to join his sister and was horrified to find her body hanging by the jumping rope in the closet off her room. After trying in vain to take her down he ran screaming through the house and down to the store where he told Mr. and Mrs. Gibson. In the meantime the girl went up stairs to ascertain the cause of Otto's distress and was so paralyzed with fright at the sight that she could do nothing. Mr. Gibson arrived quickly and took the little form down and placed it upon a bed. Drs. Scott and Love came a few moments later and every mode of resuscitation was exhausted without avail. Coroner Whitnall was notified and upon his arrival empaneled a jury composed of L. W. Boehner, Wm. Kneeland and W. L. Summers and an inquest was held. The jurors found their task a most difficult and trying one because of an utter lack of any positive or direct evidence then at hand and the first impression was that death was self-inflicted. However later information and a thorough investigation into all the circumstances and conditions surrounding the childs life, her temperament, habits, etc., led to the unanimous conclusion that her death resulted from accident and a verdict rendered accordingly as follows: We, the jury, find that Inez Gibson came to her death through accidental strangulation, caused by climbing to reach an upper shelf in a clothes closet and slipping, her skipping rope catching around her neck in such a manner as to choke her to death
Signed: W. L. Summers,
Wm. Kneeland
L. W. Boehner
This verdict was in line with evidence showing that Inez was of a uniformly cheerful disposition; that she had secured 100 percent in several of her studies that day and for which her uncle had agreed to pay her 25 cents for each 100 percent; that she was particularly happy at this time in buying and making Christmas presents for the members of the family and friends. In short, not
one plausible reason could be found upon which to base a theory of self-destruction. Upon the other hand, it was shown that frequently after jumping her rope Inez would throw it about her body or neck and carry it up to the closet where she kept it on a high hook; that in reaching the upper shelves and hooks in her closet she was accustomed to step upon a low camp or folding chair and from thence clamber up by holding to the hooks. This chair had closed up and fallen
flat on the floor when she was found. A knowledge of all these facts led the jury to the above conclusion, one in which the public universally coincides.
Brief services were held at the bereaved home Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. H. P. McDowell. The profusion of floral offerings from friends, teacher and schoolmates were a beautiful and touching tribute to the memory of one whom it could most truly be said "None knew her but to lover her".
It is needless to say that Mr. and Mrs. Givson have the deepest sympathy of the community in their terrible affliction. Their more intimate friends have common knowledge of their great love for the three children whom they took into their home several years ago and upon whom they have never ceased to lavish care and affection seldom equalled and never surpassed by own parents.
Inez was an especially tractable, lovable child, bright and womanly beyond her years, happy in the love of her uncle, aunt and brothers thoroughly appreciative of all that was being done for her and under such conditions it is not strange that she had grown to be the idol of their hearts and home.
May the bereft ones be comforted in this trying hour by Him whose sympathy and love is both human and divine.
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