Dakota Datebook

Gladys Gibson

by Merry Helm

June 29, 2020 — On this date in 1935, a 12-man jury decided the fate of Gladys Gibson, a Dickinson woman on trial for murdering her husband a year and a half earlier.

The case would have delighted today’s tabloid writers. Nathaniel Gibson’s job as a mail carrier brought home $200 a month; with this he supported his wife, Gladys, two teen daughters, Glady’s brother, the bro…