New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
Woman Calls at TombS, Thinking
She Recognized His Pictures.
GIRL OF SIX A WITNESS
Mrs. Scheib Must Have Dled
Four Months Ago, DR.. Leblanc
Insists at Hearing.


in the bathtub of their fat was reviVe1
yesterday when a woman visited the
Tombs and said she wanted to see him. as
she thought from his pictures in the paper
that he was her husband.
Scheib was in the counsel room at the
time consulting with his lawyers. Wnen
told that there was a woman claiming
him as her husband, he asked that she
be brought In Immediately, according 20
his counsel. as he had no fear Of being rec
ognized as husband by any woman me
visitor took long look at him.
mo. that is not my husband she sald'
looking disappointed. IT am sorry, but he
is not the man"
She said she was Helen Foley OF NO 81
Beach street, and that she was anxious 10
find her husband, who deserted her FOUR
years ago. She was we'll dressed. appar-
emily twenty-five years old, and was ac-
companied by her brother.
The police said yesterday they were co.,
fldent they would be able 10 obtain the con-
viction Of Schelb. They said they mad
over twenty-five witnesses 10 produce In
court against him. who. together with the
evidence they had and expect to turn up
later, would make out perfect case.
I'VE have him right" said George Dough-
erty, the Second Deputy Police ComInis-
sioner. who has been giving his personal
attention continuously to the case 1T looks
five times better for us to-day than IL dlh
Yesterday, and We were pretty well sats-
fed with the way II looked then
II developed that one witness BY whom
Nh. rolice set much store was Eileen Nc
Cumbie. a sx-year-od child, living at NO.
f0s Fast 18th street She said Yesterday
that she saw Scheib enter the apartment
house where he lived. at No. OIL East 'o'h
street, on May IS. the day before the Mon
day when the body was found. Sne sdlu
she did not actually see him in his own
apartment or going I'm. but she saw MN
Mace the KEY in the door. She said that
she knew Mrs. scheib well. and often
visited her In her Nat. When she no ions
or was seen. scheib explained 70 the ch'in
that his wife was sick. THIS was eS ia'o
as last Sunday. she said.
Because of her years. the police ana rep
resentatives OF the District Attorney OIL
fee admitted they were doub'tui 90 10
how much Importance the court would AT
tach 20 her testimony. She was not pro-
duced IN court yesterday. but Alexander
Karlin. counsel for Scheib, wheh asneu
about the assertion OF the police that IA.
client was seen entering the apartment
90 discriminating n time as the day Dei''o
the discovery Of the body, said tnat ITO VIZ.
rr.rared 20 account for every moment OIL
scbe,b. time on that date. and 70 sho"
thu, n. could not possibly have been any
whore near No. 5ll East 18th street
Or. Leblanc Again Testifie''
IT.. nre,iminary examination OF scheip
m the formal charge Of murder mace III
tho ar,daytts OF Inspector Russell ana Dr'
I.bs,e coroner's physician. was coh-
,,nu.d Yesterday afternoon IN the Tonnos
oo,r, NJ Karlln announced that Ed"aru
or,,,rs Tovne would be associated WIFI
h,,, In tho defence Instead OF continuing
the examination OF Inspector Russell WV
was Oh tho stand when an auyou. i'''e'I'
"a, taken Thursday. Theron h 0uone'
Who "a conducting the case FOR inc p''''i-
,,,ornev.s Office. placed Or. timothy -
Iehane on the stand.
nv r,ebane testified ne had performed n"
.,,orsv IN the body IT the morgue Oh
Nav 30. at which time he had ne'oi ~
that Mrs. Schelb had been deau a.
four months He said he based his oon
c,u.,ons on the condition OF inc oou,'
,rb,cb he said his experience IN ti'
1T ,,vstery. the Elsie Sigel case INC
- =, tho Armenian priest ana other Nv
..arcos taught him could not have reache'
a,.o,coa a state OF decomposition III
49,, ,our months He also said no
-, la an examination ~ the bathtup'
,s r,as satisfied that the body had peeh
,hers that full length OF tlne ana oou''
not have been brought there supseq
=, cro.a-examining DR.. INhane. Hcheip j
oo,rseI attempted 10 bring out mo IAN
ru,,y NJ such testimony as that oueFeu oS
r ohor, by getting him TO admit tha' 'ho
,,,,gb, have been there three months
and three weeks. but Lehohe "ou'u
talk. a day from his four months 10 WIN"
J.. stuck stoutly. He said that inc mum
,,,ec,t,on Of the muscles on the iegs anu
lick and the disappearance OF the ViscefA
hid not admit Of any other scieh''Ho
opinion. t,-
,rho, J,arlin attempted 10 make the VIZ
80. odrri, that no had based his findings
CARLY on the remark OF Scheib hinseh,
rho told him at the morgue that ne hao
not seAn his wife since February :.
81 had completed my autopsy ana reac"e'
my decision entirely on the evidence pre-
,xrted by the condition OF the BODY before
saw Scheib and before he made tha'
remark TO me-" was the reply, which many
question. by Karin could not get Leblanc
70 deviate from. He said lie had taken at
x,tn
in connection with his opinion
The witness then testified that his exam
,nation OF the fat had shown him that the
walls were so we'll built and the doors
md windows SO closely fitted tnat the
o6ors ~ the body could not have escaped
so as TO attract attention
Must Have Noted Odor.
The odors could have escaped from the
hath room into the rest OF the nat, he
said through the keyhole or under that
narticulsr door, so that a man who was
not intoxicated or upder the influence OF
5rues could not have endured 1t. Scheib
TO have been In the fiat and 10
l-av. slept there Oh more than one occasion
without noticing anything wrong.
When Leblanc was asked by karlin
whether there were any marks Of violence
on the body, he said positively there We're
not, either knife cuts or bullet wounds, In
any part Of the flesh or bones, which he
would surely have discovered had they
been there. He also said that In case
there had been any deodorizer placed IN
the tub It would not have interfered with
his work, but that he would not offer an
opinion, not having qualified as chemical
expert. rs TO whether or not any deodoriz-
ing agent had been placed there.
He refused also to give an opinion on
the nature Of the liquid found In the tub