New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1930, Page 13

o Can Solve the is Wedding- “ve Was It a Madman, a Robber or a Jealous Rival Who Set Russell Gibbs’ Car on Fire After Beating the Sole Occupant to Death Just a Few Short Hours Before He . { Was to Have Been On Thi Bt N, Wl ' Married? the Death of Russell Gibbs on His Wedding Eve Hinged—Until (Doris Kuns, Who /as to Have Been Young Gibbs® Brid Declared That She Wrote Tt—to Some Other Girl Named Doris. HEN a scorching Summer Sun lifted its ruddy faceabove the horizon of the sleepy little town of Clyde, Ohio, only a few months 8go, all the beating hearts among the populace tapped out a rhythm of joy. Something was in the air. That something was the nuptial atmo:- phere—church bells would soon be ringing, a church organ would soon be pealing, and a delightful young girl and a handsome young man would be joined in the bonds of marriage. In a town of somewhat less than four tho{;xiand inhabitants an impending i 4 7 wedding makes itself felt. Evervone p—_—— ) by : ¥ : i i : WG SRS Tl G i 4 5 ¥ 3 % > ; | Doris Kuns. the 21-Year-Old Clyde. 4 ARSI AL it M A m AP IR I AN I ) NI U0, I 2 2 L L & s mmm L Ohio. Girl Who Sit at Home Among sorrow or the cheer Joy Her Wedding Presents and Gazes With e frtgionse A & diete : b4 : . ; Sorrow at the Marriage License Which iches everyone. SE o B Mo i o ¢ : ; . ; Will Never Be Used. A Few Hours n_the morning of July 28, 1930, J i : ; ’ ol TR ; Before the Wedding Was to Take Place. Russell Gibbs was to meet Doris Kuns . i T . B Her Fiance Was Cruelly Beaten and at the altar of St Paul's Lutheran ¢ el [ ok . X Burned in His Car, in a Lonely Church. He was 22 and she was a : e ; / : ’ Spot Off the Highway. year younger. They were childhood y - ; ; ¥ i sweethearts. They had graduated : 224 e g | together from Clyde High School and : g 3 . | ; ng young garageman was leading a had together attended a business col- > 2 - y e life. 2 lege in Sandus! . T s , it if the motive was 15y, why On Sunday evening they parted with b : N 4 5 i = e Mo - kisses. And what a day Sunday had d X ; ¢ A been, with Monday the day of their . : ) . . : i - wedding! The last day as boy and ; % 3 . L . . . g Y " . £10 o0 ML maid—how many hopes and wishes #igh e < ) " ¢ T oy = e Ty oo and blessings and fervent declarations ‘ } 5 : 9 . . . g cncic of love were aired! One who has not ¢ 7 ) : . ; : 2 been through it can only imagine the p v % x pure ecastacy of it. = ' 3 : Sunday night Then Russell drew Do to hi ' f by & ’ o et cquaintances who had or and kissed her good nigh / ¥ . 5 | e b into the house, gave her trousse: final inspection and went to bed. 1l do? ion has as yet not 3 @ iy i % i { 2 2z z O I RO I RN G v i‘a{/' it s Russell Gibbs was the son of a prominent Clyde family, and part proprietor of a large garage in the Toledo suburb. Doris Kuns is the daughter of one of the most prominent food product packers of middle Ohio, and had o been a stenographer inthe office of the food association controlled ~ The Death Car, Which Was kound Off an Ohio Highway on the Morning When Its Owner. Russell Gibbs, Was by her father. . to Have Been Married to Doris Kuns. Everything, Including the Body of Young 2 On_the morning of the wed _ . Mysteriously Charred Beyond Recoznition—Escept a Cryptic Note, Which Many Belie . ' e ding Doris Kuns was waiting at i b Been Written by the Bridegroom-to-Be to Another “Doris.” 1 e her home for her childhood ! asped the sweetheart to arrive and ac ; ’ ; PO S : v i : car off company her to the church for : : ; e ; ; : ad . e the ceremony. ; - g youne. N fro @ han obbed him. Then came the firs i i e 3 : ralusenee o Hnegonihe report that her 4 1 _ ¥ o : 5 ! bridegroom had en murdered in his automobile just three miles from her home. The car had been set on fire to hide the identity of the slain man, but license plates and young Masonic ring and spec tacles found on the floor soon cnabled Sheriff Tom Pask to identify the burned body. o ' Miss Kuns fell in a dead faint [ arrived hundreds of | o : ; Doris—in_the case, when she was told about the p i sons | : i > ad been robbed merl tragedy. Weeks have now passed c i ; since the murder without de- tectives finding the slayer, and the girl who was to have been a bride broods day by day over the gifts and over the bridal ve she was cheated from wearing. A few days after the date on which the wedding would have been held young Gibbs was buried. Ordinarily the funeral s ; 1 B would have been held in St. & i : R cage, A Paul’s, but the unfortunate fiancee hard-working youn who was not X % the sla fpat : aid sy RAN NN 987 wm——r | - Spite of the Nimble Mind of Detective Frank Delora, of Toledo. Famed Sleuth, No Hint as 1o the Identity of Gibbs® Slayers Has Come to Light. Now the Case Is Dropped. Ostensibly at Least. garage sobbed out a protest against this known to have an en world? : e Rus 3 » ; il s the auth “Don’t let him be buried from there! What was the motive, if any? These . . : Al o pieHD BE Tl Oh, please, don’t! Please, oh, please!” questions are as yet unansw ered. i . 4 nd closely ex 1 ’ : e & : it of the And Gibbs's parents, moved to pity “Arrest in Gibbs Murder Expected 4 _ i : for poor Doris, arranged with the pas in Few Hours,” newspaper tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church throughout Ohio proclaimed of Clyde to read the services in his after the charred body of t edifice. He agreed, and practically had be everyone in Clyde and surrounding ) towns turned out for the unhappy fu meral service. ‘ by e An air of deepest mystery still sur- girl who had be rutally ac rounds the death of the young bride- and slain by Cha Hoppe, a cou groom-to-be. Even with the expert as Before Hoppe went to the electric sistance of Detective Frank }l‘)eLorla of chair for the murder h 1!‘..1\1 bee i there have into telling about his dual life g E:eecnj;,fleg?:espome s famous Toledo clubber who h 1 Russell Gibbs, Who Was Cruelly Murdered on Who could have killed this upright, several Toledo women two years : His Wedding-Eve. obbed of