you're the mother of eileen gibson? yes. i'm very proud to be the mother of eileen gibson.or the whole of her life, how was her health? excellent. she was one of the finest types of english womanhood. physically, mentally and morally. in december 1916, did you hear that she had been taken ill? never. did you know your daughter was going about with several men in johannesburg? my daughter was not going about with men. she was not interested in men. her career was her life. did you know that she was telling everybody that she was pregnant? my daughter was not pregnant. the account of gay gibson's character as described by her own mother simply doesn't fit with what other witnesses from the time have said. it does seem that most people were aware of her having some form of a problem. and there might be one way that we can definitely find out. within the police files saved by the hampshire police society from destruction, there is an item that actually belonged to gay. her hair brush. and on it, some very obvious strands of hair. could these hold genetic information about her h