The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-09-12
CRAVE TO Reveal
DEATH MYSTERIES
Body Of Mrs. Szabo, Which
Was Buried Under Another
Name, To Be Exhumed.

Name, To Be Exhumed.
New York, Sept. 10.-To determine. II
possible, whether death was due to
any agency other than drowning. Dis
trict Attorney Rogers, of Orange
county, New York, will cause to be
exhumed today the body Of Mrs. Rosa
Szabo. an Austrian oma who met
death in Greenwood lake while in a
rowboat with Burton W. Gibson. a
New York lawyer. now executor Of her
$1,000 estate. The proposed autopsy
will embrace not only an examination
for wounds, but a chemical analysis OF
the contents Of the stomach.
Gibson had the body buried under
the name of MRS. Ritter in a ceme-
terry near Jersey City, but he has ex-
|pressed his entire willingness to have
1t exhumed.
According to the Austro- Hungarian
consulate, detectives have found the
woman who posed as Mrs. Rose Men
schik, mother Of Mrs. Szabo and bene-
Hciary under the will. The contention
Of the consulate is that the victims
mother was dead at the time the will
was QrdWn anu IIldI, tiieTelOTC, LIE
waiver of citation purported to have
been signed by Mrs. Menschik Is g
forgery. This phase of the case will
be threshed out before the surrogate
on September IL. when a brother of
| Mrs. Szabo. now o. his way from
Austria. will testify as to his mothers
death.
Executor is Missing.
Another unexplained disappearance
| and one more mVStGrlOllS death nave
been added to the deepening mystery of
the SZabo will case.
George I. Malcolm, executor of the
estate of Mrs. Louise Stenton, which
had a claim of 500, 900 against Burton
| w. Gibson, mysteriously disappeared
on or about October 9, 1910, and has
neither been seen nor heard of since.
Michael Shfppo, a tenant on the
! Stenton estate at the time Mrs. Alice
Kinnan, daughter Of Mrs. Stenton, was
mysteriously murdered, and whose wife
testified at the c%oroner's inquest that
! she heard Mrs. Kinnan say, "The law
yer hit me- after being strangely as
saulted In December, 1907. was finally
found dead in two feet of water on the
edge Of Pelham creek late in December.
1909.
Their is probably no more striking
series Of condolences in the history of
the law.
Starting wiz the investigation of
the Austrian government into the cir
cumstances attendant upon the making
of the will of Rosa Menschik Szabo,
these developments came tumbling for
ward in rapid succession:
1t is found that Mrs. Szabo met
death in a drowning accident in Green
wood lake, New York, on July Is. while
In company with Burton w. Gibson,
her lawyer. Following her death. Glib
son produces a will signed by her In
| ny hioI chs In1rtcnc hny a,,fir~a nctota fr
her mother, and makes Gibson her exc
cutor.
Lawyer Drew Money.
After he has withdrawn a consider
able amount of the estate from saw
ing banks, the Austrian consul steps
IN and produces sworn affidavits which
allege that Mrs. Szabo's mother dice
two years before her daughters will
was drawn, that the woman whom Glib
son produced as the mother of Mrs
Szabo was an imposter, hat contrary
to the sworn statement OF Gibson thai
there were no other heirs, there are, II
fact half a dozen brothers and sisters
of Mrs. Szabo living near Vienna.
Slain in Mystery.
Following this, attention is drawn
to the fact that in 1906 a Mrs. Alice
Kinnan was mysteriously killed at he1
mothers home in the Bronx. TIL
c%oroner's jury does not fix the respon.
sibility for death, but Gibson was heii
In $4,000 bond and subsequently re,
leased on habeas corpus.
Later Mrs. Gibson is sued by a neph'
ew of Mrs. Louise Stenton, mother o
Mrs. Kinnan, for the recovery Of 500,
300 worth of property alleged to hav,
been Incorporated by Gibson. Mrs
Stenton dies while the suit is pending
placing the responsibility for continu
Ing the action upon her executor.
Conducting Own Suit.
Whereupon according to the record
of the court, Mr.. Gibson produces
copy of an alleged will written by Mrs
stenton, which makes him her exc
lcutor. thereby, If the will Is probated
leaving with him the responsibility o
continuing an action against himsel
for s100, 900. Surrogate Thomas throw
the will out, plainly intimating in hi
decision that he regards the copy a
bogus.
George I. Malcolm is made execute
of the estate. And on or about Octobe
, 8, 1910, Mr.. Malcolm, a well-know1
stock exchange broker. mysterious,
disappears and is never heard of agar
He is currently reported to have com
mitted suicide. and the theory whicl
prevails is that he threw himself fror
a Sound steamer through grief owe
the loss of a son The case was neve
more than perfunctorily Investigated.
Five Strange Cases.
By a strange series Of coincidence
Malcolm's disappearance is the fourt
case of either a disappearance or deaf
by violence Of persons who have bee,
associated in one way or another wit
Burton w. Gibson.
ms first was the murder Of Mr..
Alice Kinnan.
The second was the Disappearance
of George 1. Malcolm.
The third was the tragic drowning G
Michael Shippo.
The fourth, the disappearance c
John R. O'Neill, who announced tina
he was going to call on Mr.. Gibson 1
relation to the return to him of $40
entrusted to the lawyer. he has nc
been seen since.
The fifth was the death by drownin
, of Mrs. Szabo, and the subsequent rev
, Citations concerning her will, whic
are now under investigation.