The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-01
Letters Found in Vic
tim S Room Puzzle
Detectives.
HER HUSBAND
UNDER ARREST
Wrote Tender Missive to Him
self, Signing It Anna" to
Prove to Wife That "Other
Women Liked Me"-Denies
knowledge of How She
Came to Her Death.

New York. May 31-Detectives
delving into New York's latest SEN
sa,ional murder faced deepening
mystery tonight with the reading OF
letters in the room OF the woman
whose decomposed body was found.
line eaten. in bathtub early yestcr-
day. There were two sets of the let :
ters. one apparently from the father
and the other from the mother of the
victim. each writer addressing the
missives to a different person at diff
terent addresses.
The woman. who signed herself
Mother" dated her letters from Blue
Island, H.. and forwarded them TO
Mrs. Henry A. Schieb. or Mrs. Lillian
Schieb. at l67 West Sixty third Street.
Letters from Father were dated 81
Thomas Street, Springfield. Mass. and
sent TO Mrs. Hugh a. Sherman at 147
West Sixty third Street. ten doors
away.
The body has been identihed as that
OF Mrs. Schieb by the victims hu..-
band. Henry A. Schieb. whom the po-
lice have locked up on a technica,
charge of driving his employers au-
tomobilc without license
Piled With Questions.
Schieb was piled with questions by
detectives for three hours this after
noon. He is said by them 10 have
admitted that he himself wrote a let
ter addressed TO himself and signed
Anna" which the police took from:
his pocket when he was arrested. II
was going to show that letter to my
wife when she came back" he is
quoted as having told his inquisitors.
ito prove that other women like me-
His handwriting TALES closely with
that Of the person who penned the
missive.
Alexander Ksrlin. the prisoners law
yer. obtained to-day q WRIT OF habea
corpus from the Supreme Court d.
recting the warden of Tombs Prison 10
produce Schieb in court tomorrow
morning. Simultaneously. the coroner
fixed tomorrow afternoon as the time
for holding the inquest into the cause
OF the Victims death.
In their efforts to md the murderer
of Mrs. Schieb. the police are trying to
hnd the woman acquaintance of her
husband Letters written to Schieb by
women were found IN the apartment.
Acid in Bnthtub.
1t is believed that the murderer had
attempted TO hide the evidences OF the
crime By filling the bathtub with some
corrosive acid. The police have bottle
full of the residue of the liquid, and
have not definitely ascertained Its ma
ture. a
In applying last September for the
,hree-room flat at No. 5ll East
seventy eighth Street. Schieb told the
agent he was removing from No. PAT
West Forty-eighth Street. Last night
Mrs William Case. the landlady al the
latter place, said she never had heard
of Schieb or Mrs. Schieb. and that
no tenants left her house last Sep
TENDER. A
Contrndicted by Agents.
According to the police. Scheib said
he left the seventy eighth Street fiat
on his birthday, February 2,l9ll, when
he paid the Instalment of $40 on the
rent TO Daniel Smith, the superinten-
dent. He added that on that day he
found a note from his wife saying
she had decided to leave him.
Smith and the clerks in the office of
the renting company. which Is on the
same floor of the East Seventy-cightil
Street house as Is the fiat occupied Ly
Scheib, Insist lie had not been seen In
the building since late In December,
and that the weekly rent instruments
always We're received from him by n
messenger or by letter.
Visited Flint I'm ApriI
Scheib told the coroner he Went back
to the fiat about tho middle of April
10 get an old coat, and while there
slept all night and then took a la tn
In the tub. He denied that there was
AIRY body there then. The coroncr.s
physician is sure the woman had lain
In the tub five months
woman who knew Scheib we'll. hut
does not desire to he named in the
case, said.
"He told me his wife was a ,Wal,es-
lev graduate and an accomplished mu
sician. He said he Kept plano fer
her. and that recently she became III
and was operated on 1T German hos.
pital.
Later he said she went to her
father's home at Springfield. Mass. to
recuperate. He said her father was a
we'll TODD merchant of Sprlngheld."