New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-18
Arrives from Vienna and Recog-
nizes Photograph of Woman
Gibson Is Said to
Have Slain.
PROOF OF MOTHERS DEATH
Adjournment in Will Hearing
Taken-Gibson Gets Chance
to Tell What He Has
Done with Mrs.
Szabo's Money.

ton w. GlDsOn 10 ADD MS voice 10 those
who charge the lawyer with murder
| ing Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szsbo while
out rowing on Greenwood Lake on July
| 1s. It was Franz Menschik, bringing
with him absolute proof that tho
woman whom Gibson is accused OF
stranglng to death In order 10 gain
for himself the $4,000 she sought TO
| leave by will 10 her own relatives. was
| his sister. and also the daughter "f
| the late Mrs Petronella Menschik, I'll
| Vienna.
lie brought also legal proof that Mrs.
| Menschik's death occurred IN Vienna
OH February ., 1910, although Gibson
has persistent said hat the mother
| appeared before him - Broodlyn In
August of this year and signed paper
as sole beneficiary Of Mrs. SZabo's will.
| throwing the entire disposal Of her
| money into his hands as executor Of
| her estate.
| Mr.. Menschik came In the first cabin
at the expense Of the Austrian govern
ment. He is well dressed man Of
thirty-six. Of more than average in
telllgence In appearance. and wearing
mustacbe that gave him noticeable
! likeness TO the German Emperor. lie
was At once escorted to, the Austro-
Hungarian Consulate, In state street,
/ this city, and in the presence ~ Ernest
Kirchknopf, acting consul general, and
DR.. Fischerauer, the vice-consul who
has been personally pressing the In
terests Of the Menschik family. looked
at a picture OF the murdered woman.
"Yes, Il 10 Ny Sister"
II was one that WAS taken OF her
shortly before her death, and wa. pro.
duced by George Teichmsn, close
friend of hers. Mr. Mcnsehik booked at
il carefully for some moments and then
tears flooded his cyes, and he said with
broken voice:
Yes. yes; II is my sister: II is my
sister. surely. 7 can recognize her.
even though IT is nineteen years since
] saw her
Then he took from his own valise two
pictures Of his sister which he had
brought from the family album In
Vienna. one showed her as a girl OF
eighteen, taken twenty-four yours ago:
tho other was taken five years later,
iust prior 70 her departure Tor this
country 20 marry Bila Szabo.
These pictures, in turn. were handed
N Mr. Teichman. who scrutinizcd them
carefully.
.There can be no doubt he said,
that those are pictures Of the woman
7 knew as Mrs. Szabo. Tho likcness is
unrnistakable."
When the three pictures were COM
pared. there could be little doubt that
they were all likenesses OF the same
person. despite the years that had
elapsed between the various times at
which they were taken. in addition to
the obvious evidence OF these photo
graphs. Mcnschik brought documentary
proofs. in the form OF certificates,
showing the family history OF the Men
scb,ks. These were duly authenticated
nv the authorities at Vienna and at
tested before the American Consul
there.
"rhere were nine children in our
family" said Menschik. through Ger
man Interpreter, in telling his family
history. Rosa was the youngest OF
three girls. We lived first in Prerau,
Mahren, Austria. where my father kept
an inn. Rosa worked in the Inn, and
il was there that she met Bila Won
Szabo. son Of an Austrian knight him.
self soldier and an educated man.
After my father died we moved to
Vienna, and there she continued her
fr,endship with Szabo. He incurred
the dispIeasure Of his family. and left
home for America, Rosa promising TO
follow him.
Mother Approved Of Marriage.
"Nv mother knew Of her intended |
marriage to him and approved OF II,
for Szabo, as son OF knight, was OF a |
family that was higher socially than
ours He sent her money and size came |
"a America in 1894, when was seven
teen. and we received a letter from |
Szabo telling of her safe arrival and !
their marriage.
"They took the name Of Ritter which |
4, the German word for knight. Szabo's |
rlShtful rank. and lived under that |
name for some years, as they told US
in letters received from them. Finally |
we lost track OF them until the first Of |
this year, when through the Vienna |
police authorities my sister found |
where we were living and BEGAN once |
more to correspond with us through |
George Teichman, who wrote her let
ters for her, she being unable 10 write
herself. II was then that / wrote in
forming her of our mothers death in
1910. Her letters TO us Informed US OF
the fact that she had saved about S10,-
600 and was intending 10 sail sor home
on July - to settle down. She did not
come on the boat she said she would,
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