New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-01

| anything. According 10 the story he told |
Dougherty. he met his wife In New York
some time In 1896. and her name was Lillian
| Lover. After he had known her for ten
months he married her. July S, 1905. some
where IN jersey City, he said. but he did
not remember exactly where. He did not
| recall that the ceremony was performed
by Unitarian minister He himself was
| an Episcopalian. he said Up to the time
| he married. he continued his wife was
servant employed by family named
Greene. living In West 2st street. between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
He told Dougherty that on April c5 he
visited the fat and slept there. and that he
did not at that time notice any odor. To
| this statement the police opposed the fact
| that on April / a family by the name Of
Moskouitz moved out Of an adjoining
apartment because they could not stand
| the stencil
| Other tenants in the house had been dis
| turhed by this same condition. and floors
had been ripped I'D IN search for dead
rnts. Although the superintendent Of the
house had KEYS TO all the apartments, u
was rule that no apartment should be
entered without the express permission IF
the tenant u was not thought the pres
ence of an unexplained odor in the house
was sufficient TO warrant breaking this
rule and searching the Scheih fat for q
POSSIBLE cause until the rent had become
TWO weeks overdue. was the case when
the rooms were entered last MONDAY
May Have Had Two Wives.
Another development that added mystery
10 the case was the failure Yesterday Il
determine positively the identity Of scheihs
wife II brought With II the possibility
mat he had two wives. Thirty letters were
found IN the house and taken by Coroner
Wlnterbottom. These letters tell into two
sets. One set. addressed 10 Mr. End Mrs
Harry A Soheb were from, Mrs Antonio
Scheio. Of Blue Island. III Scheib told
the police his mother. Mrs John A Scheih
lived az No 173 Western avenue. Blue Isl
and. Ill. and that his father was dead
Letters from this source were signed
Mother" the last date being December
O. 1910
Two other sets Of letters were addressed
10 Mrs Hugh a Sherman and were signed
rather. They came from No a. Thonas
street. Springfield. Mass Tho last letter
from this source vas d,ted IN October.
1910 When these two names we're put NJ
10 Scheib nv the police he refused to OK
plain the circumstance The letters con
tanned nothing that throws any definite
litht on the domestic relations Of the
Scheibs
Following NJ the Clew given bv the let
ters signed Father" from Springfield.
Mass. the local police asked Marshal
Guilty. Of that city. to ascertain whether
Mrs. Scheib's fathsr. presumably man
by the name Of Lover lived ~ No g.
Thomas street. Marshal GUILTY replied that
patti olman sent TO the house found
man who said he was Conner O'Gradv and
that his daughter. Elizabeth g O'Grady.
wax married three years ago TO Hugh
Allerton sherman in st Francis Xavier
Church. in this city. by the Rev. S J.
Donnely. lie said he had not seen or
heard from his daughter since last Novem-
her. when he had letter from her bearing
| the rostmsrk Amityville. Long Island.
Among the letters in the Mrs. Hugh A
sherman SCI were three bearing the ad-
dress Amityville. LONG Island. care of Or.
la Roche. Others bore the addresses No
! AZ West SD street No. AS West 37th street
and No. 81 East 18th street. At the SD
street and 18th street addresses no one
could he found who knew anything about
| Mrs Scheib
| Whether ScheibS wife was Lillian Lover
or Elizabeth O'Grsdy IS A mystery. The
| body Was so far gone that none could
| identify her. Scheib alone seemed 10 have
| tho key and he identified her only by the
| filings in her teeth. work done after she
| left home 70 become his wife The dentist
who did the work is dead. SO he cannot be
called on to throw any light on the matter
The letters we're taken up chiefly with
! family gossip and affairs Those from
/ Father" in Springfield had TO do chiefly
/ with the sickness Of Eileen. A Young daugh-
! ter sister 70 the woman 10 whom he wrote
As Mrs Hugh 4. Sherman. She was taken
! With measles. and the father was par
! ticularlv distressed about the condition OF
| her eyes.
| She was 10 have paid the scheibs a visit
! after she cot well. and apparently some
| preparation was made for her coming for
I'M the fat IN East 18th street number
| Of children's TOYS were found Tenants in
| the house said they never saw any child
| about the Scheibs' rooms. and Scheib said
| he and his wife never had any children
| The letters signed Mother" or Mrs An
tonic Scheb. from Blue Island dealt also
with family affairs, particularly worfirnent
over son. apparently wayward Another
| letter from her showed an interest In
| Portuguese affairs. All the letters contain
| words Of affection and always bore the
message love TO Lillian"
Name Can't Be Glover
| In their EFFORT 10 determine the identity
Of the dead woman the police also com
| runicated with the police of Holyohe.
| Mass 4 remark in one Of the letters hav-
ing led them 10 believe that she nigh. he
relsted IN the Glovers in that city. inves-
I tgation convinced them that she was not
| rsIated 10 a Glover family which hal orig
| traIlv lived there. as their daughter. If liv-
| ,,g would not he more than fourteen or
| ef,een Years old II was also reported
that Mrs Scheib had recently visited her
| Gather said 70 be John Glover, Of spring
| neld. Mas
| Gpoutrv resulted in the reply that no per
| 80, named John Glover lives in Springfield.
| -. bae any of that name aver lived there
| - ter az any record showed The police
! h.re are satisfied that the dead woman
| ,.rre WAS Lover and not Glover.
| oouehertv said yesterday that scne'o
| e,e,o.d IN he making an effort TO oonceel
| 10 uife's name from the police as n no
| we're anxious 10 keep them from discover
| &c ANYTHING about her or her relations
| ,,t,b MIN through her relatives or through
| ,..1rs che might have sent them complain