The evening world., 1911-05-31
HAS TOLD MANY
= CONFLICTING STORIES,


CONFLICTING STORIES.
The police to-day began a systematic
inquiry into Schelb's past. lie has sd.
nnitted that he came here from Chicago.
When asked IL he had ever been arrest
"a there he said he had not been. but
when told his picture a. | measurements
we're to be sent to the police there Just
the same. he Ia alleged to have cx.
claimed:
Well. you'll probably ind that rye
not been an elder down angel In Chi.
cago."
Then he added. the police say;
lust because my wife Was found Head
In III bathtub Is no reason I set FIRE
10 Dreamiand Park" They do no,
Know whether he was trying to be witty
or was 80 ''rattled" he didn't know
what he was saying.
They are investigating a rumor that
MS real name Is Wells and that his
homo 10 In Sacramento. Cal.
- Headquarters men on the strength
OF . letter found In Scheib's pos
session. visited Miss Ethel Mullin
at h home OF her parents. No. G3j
Ninth avenue. Miss Muliin ? she and
her friend. Miss May Flannery. me.
achieb about four months ago through
another girl. whose name they declined
W give. He had been attentive. but al
rays brought them home carly. She
haid he had never said anything abou,
being married. The last time they saw
him was last Wednesday. Miss Mullia's
mother c~orroborated her.
May Flannery was found to-day by
an Evening World reporter at No. $50
West Fifty-eighth street. where she
lives with her aunt. Mrs. Jackson. May
- seventeen years old. small. dark and
attractive. She Is employed as "A clerk
. Broadway department store.
GIRLS LIKED TO RIDE WITH
scHEIe, THEY SAY.
Ethel Mill!n and I met Schieb." she
said to the reporter. early In April
whom he spoke to US. We told him we
didn't know him mt he said he was all
right and We could call up the garage
and ask all about him. lie invited us
10 ret into his car and took Us to No.
s35 Ninth avenue. whero' we both lived
at that time.
II never liked ,ScheiJ, but / did like
70 ride In his automobile. Ethel and !
vent out In the car with him -four or
Eve times. and once he took US to see
Rebecca of Sum, ',rook Farm We
used to ride up to the Bronx or West
chester and he brought us home carly.
He passed with us as a single a
but he never said or did anything that
40 49, 1- ~ aAt..aa mn AtfA
had an idea that he had a wifo."
4 letter that Is puzzling the police
since they found 1t In a bureau drawer
In scheib's room IL . badly worn one
addressed to william Alien. from II. s,
Allen. his brother. at Avalon. Catalina
Island. II was dated y rch e. 1911. in
closing $40. sent In response to a tele-
gram for money. 1t vas said at the
Cimmiotti garage q william Allen had
worked there. but recently dropped out
OF sight. No one knew how Scheib
came into possession OF the letter.
The most important clues found since
the discovery Of the body OF Mrs. Schelb
have been discovered by newspaper re-
Cortsrs.
Or. Leblanc and Detective Mcmahon
also found In the kitchen OF the nat q
copy Of the Sunday World OF March %.
In the bathroom were found two pieces
OF the Sunday Worlds magazine sec
tion dated April
xasss discoveries make II certain
thas some who had easy recess TO
b 0oAstb apartment had been there
At least twice STAGE the death Of Mrs.
schsib = while the body lay In the
patASue. for Ur. Leblanc 10 convinced
nat st sss -FOUR months have elapsed
sipoe Mrs. 0chsib died.
Ths pieces OF the Sunday World so
lose to the body were hrst pointed out
TO the police by a reporter.
TO ANAlYZE THE FLUID FOUND
IN TUB.