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Donald Farnham Gibson was a slim young graduate of Yale medical school when he hung out his shingle in Danbury, Conn, as assistant to the town's leading surgeon. That was in 1929. Over the next ten years he made one of the best reputations in Fairfield County, specializing in urology...
After wartime duty in the Navy, Dr. Gibson went back to Danbury. An aging physician, Leslie B. Griffin, invited him to live in the ample house where the older man was rattling around alone except for his housekeeper, Elizabeth May Ayres. For her faithful services over 20 years, Lizzie Ayres inherited Dr. Griffin's estate (estimated at $60,000 to $100,000) when he died in 1947. Dr. Gibson went on living in what was now 'Lizzie Ayres's house. Within two months, the 71-year-old spinster made him her sole heir, named him co-executor...
...Widow Wetmore. The year after Dr. Gibson became the spinster's heir, one of his patients died, and the doctor gave the widow, Ann Wetmore, a job as his receptionist. Lizzie Ayres was a bit jealous of Ann, but her fondness for Dr. Gibson did not cool: in 1949 she changed her will, making him the sole executor. In the spring of 1950 Gibson got a divorce, helped by Lizzie's testimony that his wife, from whom he was separated, had deserted him. That month, according to later testimony, he asked an official at Yale medical school...
...Races. Last week, Donald Gibson, 50, looking like a puffy Clifton Webb, sat in a Bridgeport courtroom charged with manslaughter by negligence in the death of Lizzie Ayres. The state knew that it had a weak case, but the witnesses paraded to the stand and told amazing stories...
...Danbury physician, Frank T. Genovese, told of being called in by Dr. Gibson for consultation in June 1950. He visited Miss Ayres often, said Dr. Genovese, but he prescribed no medicine for her. Neither did he ask what Dr. Gibson was prescribing. Sometimes when Dr. Genovese called, the bedridden woman was alone in the house. Dr. Genovese wanted to take X rays and make laboratory tests, but Dr. Gibson said she refused to go to a hospital...