Donley County, Texas - Obituary - Monk Gibson *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** Banner Stockman Clarendon, Texas Friday, 2 July 1908 Monk Gibson died this afternoon for the murder of the Conditt family in Edna in September 1905. He was executed. He was led from the jail to the gallows erected in the jail yard, open to public viewing. He made no confession and all that he said when on the gallows was “not guilty”. 3,000 people came to Cuero to see the hanging. Gibson is the second to pay the death penalty for this crime. Felix Powell having been hung at Victoria last year. The history of the crime was the husband and father were away from home, when the mother, a 14 year old daughter, and three sons were butchered at their home, the two women being out-raged. Monk Gibson was convicted on circumstantial evidence.