Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-01
Not Charged with Murder, but
Is Held by The Police.
Thought Father Of The Woman
Found in Springfield, Mass.
Says His Daughter Was Formerly
EIlzaihbsth G. 0'Brady.

New York, May T.-DetectlveS
delving into New Yorks latest sensa-
tional murder faced a deepening mys-
terry tonight upon reading letters in
the rooms of the woman whose de-
composed body was found lime eaten.
in a bath tub early yesterday. There
are two sets of these letters. one APP
parently from the father and the other
from the mother of the victim. and
each writer seems to have addressed
the missives to a different person at
different addresses. The woman who
signed herself mother dated her let
ters from Blue Island, ILL.,. and for
warded them to Mrs. Henry A. Schieb
or Mrs. Lillian Schieb at 167 West 63d
street Letters from Father" were
dated 81 Thomas street, Springfield
Mass, and sent to Mrs. Hugh Ash
man at 147 West SID street, 10 doors
away.
The body has been identified as that
of Mrs. Schieb by the victims hus-
band. Henry a. Sehieb. whom the po-
lice have locked up on a technical
charge of driving his employers au-
tomobile without a license. Sehieb
was piled with questions by detectives
for three hours this afternoon. He is
said by them TO have admitted that
he himself wrote letter addressed to
himself and signed Annie which the
police took from his pocket when he
was arrested.
i was going TO show that letter to
my wife when she came back" he is
quoted as having told his inquisitors
to prove that other women liked me-"
His handwriting is said to tally
closely with that of the person who
penned the missive. Alexander Karlin.
the prisoners lawyer, obtained a writ
of habeas corpus today from the SUI
preme court. directing the warden of
the Tombs prison to produce Schieb
in court tomorrow morning. Stimuli
taneously, the coroner fixed tomorrow
afternoon as the time for holding the
inquest into the cause of the victims
death.
The police are trying to find the women
acquaintanees of her husband Henry A
Scheib
The Scheib woraan had evidently beer
dead four months. The apartment was
vacant and dusty The janitor SAYS that
Scheib paid the rent regularly.
Scheib declares that his wife was zeal
Gus of him. but denies any knowledge of
how she died. Letters written to Scheib
by women were found in the apartment.
Scheib was born in Chicago His wife
passed most of her girlhood in Holyoke.
Mass.
II is believed that the murderer had at
tempted to hide the evidences of the
crime by filing the bath tub with some
corrosive acid The police have a bottle
fun of the residue of the liquid, but have
not definitely ascertained its nature
Holyoke, Mass. May 31-A further in.
vestigaton in this city has convinced the
police that Mrs. Lillian Glover Scheib
who body was found in bath tub in an
unoecupied New York house yesterday
was never resident of this city A Clio
yer family formerly lived here. but their
daughter if living, would not be more
than IA or 10 years old at the present
time
1t had been reported that Mrs. Scheih
had recently visited her father. John
Glover of Springfield, Mass. Inquiry al
Springfield resulted in the announcement
that no person named John Glover lives
in that city, nor has anyone of that name
ever lived there so far as any record
can be obtained.