Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-09-11
GIBSON ARREST
SEEMS CERTAIN

New York, Sept. 11.-Burton w. Glib
son will be arrested on a warrant
charging him with the murder of Ru-
sen Menschik Szabo, also known as
Mrs. Rosa Ritter, the client with whom
he was boating on Greenwood lake
lily 10, when she met her death. The
decision to obtain a warrant was
reached when it became known posi-
lively that Mrs. Szabo was not drown
ed, but was strangled. The autopsy
= eormed In Hughes morgue at Jer-
lad the chemical Inc analyti-
cal examination made by DR.. Otto H.
Schultze, %coroner's physician OF New
York county, in the Cornell college
medical labor 1tories made 1t certain
that strangulation was the direct cause
of death.
When County Physician King of Hud-
son county, his assistant, Dr.. Hasking,
and DR.. Schultze prepared to make the
autopsy they examined the outer sur
face closely first and found no traces of
external injury such as might have
caused death ever indirectly.
But when the dissection began the
physicians discovered that the lungs of
Mrs. Szabo were debated and fiat, emp
ty Of water and air. This proved at
once that drowning had not been the
cause of death, and the physicians pro
ceeded TO make a most careful exam1-
nation of the throat and air passages.
eF1bar found thnt thn thrrof6 nortil a ga
of the larynx, known to the layman as
the Adams apple, had been displaced
and forced into the trachea, thereby
shutting off all access of air to the
trachea or windptpe.
The superficial appearance Of the In
ternal organs was such as to warrant
the surgeons In retaining some of
them not only for microscopic ex-
animation, but for chemical analysis
as we'll. No surgeon would use the
word poison" but the inquirer was
told to draw his own conclusions.
Gibson Awaits Arrest.
Gibson himself expected to be ar
rested. So soon as he heard what
had come out OF the autopsy he tele-
phoned to his family at Rutherford,
N. j., that he might not be home and
sat down to wait in his office at 80
Liberty street. He chatted for an
hour with a private detective on gen
eraI topics and said he would not
leave until he was told positively moth
ing would be done that day. When
the man went home he was followed
to the tube by a crowd of about 800
persons.
When Gibson was asked II n OF
the witnesses of Mrs. SzabO's drown
ing had seer him standing up In the
boat after she fell overheard, he re-
piled:
Nothing of the sort. / did all In
my limited power as a swimmer to
save her. l went overheard, but am
not an expert swimmer and was soon
exhausted and compelled to seize hold
of the boat.
Says He'll Produce Mother.
81 never approached a single person
for any signature in connection with
Mrs. szabo's will except Mrs. Szabo's
mother and I Will produce her when
necessary, although I am not compelled
to do So"
A letter written by Mrs. Szabo's
brother, Franz M~enschik, In Austria,
Aug. s, to George Teichmann Of this
city, who notified him of her death,
was made public. In 1t the brother
said he was surprised at the sudden
happening to Rosa and did not know
what to think of It," He said he had
received no photographs from her al
though she wrote that she had sent
them. 81 beg you will be kind enough
to investigate the case as we fear she
has met with foul play" the brother
asked.