New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-03
HIS WORDS HOLD SCHE|B
He Might Have Gone Free but TOR
Tale of Visit on April %.
POLICE OFFER THEORIES
Say Either Jealousy or Boredom
Would Be Motive for Killing
Proof Still Lacking.

Say Either Jealousy or boreuolh
Would Be Motive for Killing
Proof Still Lacking
The fight Of the police to keep Henry A.
Scheib I'm custody until they have accu-
INFLATED enough evidence to make case
against him on the charge OF killing MS
wife again met success yesterday VINE"
Justice Bischoff. in the Supreme Court as
missed the latest writ Of ha beas corpus
sworn out by his counsel. The commit
ment signed by Magistrate Corrigan, In the
Tombs police court, late Thursday AFTER
noon. after an all day struggle on the part
of the police TO detain Scheib, was heId
Tombs
Owing to the peculiar circumstances sur
rounding the case II has demanded the IN
verse order Of procedure. for instead Oh
procuring the evidence and then arrest'ng
the man indicated. the police have had 10
arrest their man first and then build UP
their case It was admitted that as yet no
crime had been established. as the woman
whose body was found in the bathtup
might have died from natural causes VI
might have committed suicide. Upon the
chemical analysis Of the contents OF the tuo
and of the tissues Of the body depends me
proof of crime.
This work is in the hands of DR.. John n.
I.arkin. assistant to the coroners' ply
scians Owing 10 the extreme difficulty OF
the case he does not expect TO be able 10
make q report for al least three weeks
hrtE 1aNiGlnE
means for keeping Scheb In custody aS
they are finding evidence TO convict MN
He almost slipped through their fingers
again Yesterday. when he appeared before
Justice Bschoff on the writ of haoeas cor
nus. The affidavit Of Inspector Russell on
which Scheib was committed. was at
tackled by Alexander Karlin. his counsel
on the ground that it did not state tha'
Mrs Scheib had met her death by violence
while the circumstances may show mat
there il a suspicion that the defendant
knew Of :he death OF the decedent' YET
see nothing 10 show that the reIator
(Scheib was I'm any way concerned or
that tho woman met her death ny Nlo-
lence' the court objected 10 me Cun,. ,
ton Of the District Attorney that me cds
cumstances under which the nonE was
Why Habeas Corpus Failed.
The District Attorney then pointed "u'
frat the affidavit contained the statement
~. mr. Leblanc that the BODY had been IN
tho tub for more than month prior 10 the
time April o. when Scheb admitted. ac-
cord,ry n Inspec,or Russelrs affidavit. that
he ,.jsited the fat and took bath In the
tub. The District Attorney argued that ne
therefore must have seen the BODY an"
that his silence about his discovery gave
reasonable ground for the suspicion that
there was a Killing
scheih's attorney objected that there
must be ground for a ressonable con-
cIusion that there was killing.
81 think there is enough for that Judge
RischoN announced. IF he visited me
APARTMENT he must have found the body
The odor would have told him that II was
there He failed to report it. and I think
that leads TO a Reasonable conclusion tina;
crime was committed ! dismiss the writ
II was thought yesterday afternoon that
the case of the people was considerably
improved hy the fndns ~ boules III inc
fat containing poisons. One was oottle
of iodine and the other was one-ounce
bottle containing ether. Only one-third OF
the ether had been used
Although the theory was advanced In m"
District Attorneys office that II the amount
Of ether missing from the bottle were al
ministered to an intoxicated person uncon-
seriousness would ensue. ana ~ woulo men
have been an easy matter To have drowned
the victim in the tub Coroner's Physician
Leblanc said he considered the finding or
the iodine and. ether entirely without i'm
pcrtance. as there was not enough or the
etbey gone 10 have been used with III ef-
feCts
Scheib frankly admitted his knowledge OF
the presence OF the iodine and ether In his
house. The iodine he said. had been used
by his wife 10 treat bunions. and she had
purchased the ether TO remove some tar
stains from a dress.
The police said Yesterday that although
they could not make public the nature OF
their recent discoveries they had new evil
dence which they thought would make their
case complete II was said they were
working on two theories Of motive for
Scheibs killing his wife
one was that he was jealous Of other
men. having found that she went out often
with men other than himself. From Winni-
neg. Manitoba. Canada. came advices that
John Mackenzie. a real estate broker of
that place. met her when he was in New
York in April. 1905. and that he correspond
ed with her frequently. addressing her. at
her request. as Lillian Mae Stearns. through
the general delivery. so that her husband
would not know she was receiving letters
from another man.
Il was supposed that Scheib learned Of
this last fall. and that he then became
Jealous Of his wife. Letters have been
found the police said. indicating an
unhappy married life. They professed
TO have learned also that Mrs. Scheib
left her husband once while they
were living I'm Amityville, AT which time
Scheib declared his belief that she had
committed suici lie
Another possible motive The police were
working to tablish was that Scheib had
become tired of her. chiefly on account Of
her al health and general frailty. The po-
lice said they he'd established his "proms-
cuous fondness" for other women. and
that II was possible he found he could not
both support his wife on his salary and
indulge IN as much dissipation as he liked.
so killed her 10 get her off his hands.
Word has been received from Chicago that
Mrs. Frederick Carstern. formerly Mrs.
Antonio Scheib. the prisoners mother,
when told OF her sons predicament made
Immediate arrangements to come on TO