Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-01
VICTIM LIVED
A DUAL LIFE
Father Knew Mrs. Schsib
as Lillian Sherman.

New York, June 1T has developed
that the woman whose body wal
found in q hathtub in the tenement al
611 East seventy-eighth street OF
Monday and thought to be MrA h. A
scheib was known under 4 different
name In Springfield, Mass, her home
city. Chief Of Police GUILTY Of Spring
field went to 81 Thomas street Of thai
city, where letters found in the deaf
woman's home Indicated that her ia
Their lived, and found Conner O'Gra'
dy, who declared that be bad a daugh
ter named Elisabeth O'Grady, who
was known to some Of her friends al
Lillian O'Grady said that she had
been married to Hugh Allerton Sher'
man in New York, and the last time
ha heard Of her was In November
when she was on Long Island.
Among the correspondence found In
the apartments were many letters ad.
dressed to Mrs. Hugh Sherman and
signed Father" These letters were
from 81 Thomas street, Springfield,
and addressed her as Lillian" There
were also messages for Hugh"
-Four letters and several postcards
were found addressed to Harry A.
Scheib from his mother in Blue Island,
III. These letters spoke Of him only
as Harry" and carried love for LII
Ian. Inspector Russell after examin'
ing the correspondence has come to
the conclusion that Scheib or Sher-
nan was living under two different
names In New York unknown to bis
mother.
The Springfield chief was asked to
take a hand in the case by Commits
sioner Dougherty and Inspector Rus
sell, In charge Of the New York de-
tective bureau, after reading a mass
Of correspondence found In the apart
ment. This correspondence included
seven letters addressed to Mrs. Hugh
A. Sherman at the several addresses
at which the Scheibs lived and signed
Father These letters were dated
from 81 Thomas street. Springfield
In them there always was a message
Of love for Hugh" Mrs. Sherman
was addressed as Lillian" There
also were four letters and several post
cards from scheib's mother from 173
Western avenue, Blue Island, III.
These were addressed to Henry A.
Scheib, spoken of inside the letter
usually as Harry, and always carried
love and kind words for Lillian. From
the correspondence the police are In
clined to believe that Scheib was
known as Sherman to the family OF
his wife.
ScheIb when put through a thse-
hour quiz by Commissioner Dougherty
and 4nsrcator Russell told the officials
that he himself had written the letter
signed anna" which was found In his
rooms at 993 Amsterdam avenue be-
cause his wife was jealous of him and
he wanted her to think when she re-
turned that he had been having a good
time while she was away. This, he
said, was intended as a lesson for her
not to u away from him again.
: The prisoner, however, did not make
this statement voluntarily. When the
first questions about Anna were put
to him he started In to tell about her.
She was a waitress. he said, and he
had met her 1rst In a moving picture
show. He continued with details OF
Anna while the questions kept pin
ming him down a little closer. Finally
he relaxed q little and said:
II might Al well tell you there isn't
any Anna that I know Of. I wrote
that letter myself" And he went on
to tell how he had evolved this scheme
to teach his wife a lesson.
In the course Of the examination
Scheib told Commissioner Dougherty
that his wife's name was Lillian Low
or, not Glover, as he had given the
name before, and that he had met her
here In New York and had been mar
ried to her on July s, 1905, In Jersey
City. he could not recall the name Of
the mar who married them or whether
he was a minister II a Justice Of the
peace. nor could he remember the
place where the ceremony was per
formed.