Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-16
SENSATION limited
IN GIBSON CASE
New Witness Found Who Saw
Alleged Slayer "Rock
= the Boat"

GREENWOOD LAKE, Sept. ia
new witness whose testimony ii is
said. will be sensational has been dis
lowered today by the officials in
charge of the prosecution of Burton
W. Gibson. now held in the Jail at
Goshen, N. Y, charged with the muir
der of Mrs Rosa Menschik Szabo on
Greenwood Lake on July II.
An investigation will also be made
today OF two more deaths that have
attached themselves to the career of
Gibson. The first is that of Count
Szabo, husband of the dead woman.
who died in 1904, and the second is
that of William Schumann, for whom
Mrs Szabo, was housekeeper, follow
ing the death of her husband. Both
deaths were supposedly from pneu-
monia. ,ssse1s
tant to both sides will be taken to-
day, when the little lake will be
measured by surveyors in order to
officially determine whether Mrs.
Szabo died in the State of New York
or New Jersey. The State line runs
across the lake and the settlement at
this time of the question as TO just
where the woman was drowned will
avoid many legal technicalities later.
Guide New Witness.
The new witness is Tom Garrison,
the guide who brought the body of
Mrs. Szabo to the surface of Green
wood Lake and turned it over to the
coroner.
The story Garrison tells is that he
saw Gibson and Mrs. Szabo hire a
boat and row out into the lake.
II saw Gibson and Mrs. Szabo in
their boat not a hundred feet from
where we were casting.
Just as they got within about a
hundred feet or so of my boat the
man (Gibson) stood up and made as
IL to go forward. At the same time
the woman dropped the oars and stood
up, too.
Gives Heavy Lurch.
"Just then, as we both saw plainly,
the man gave a heavy lurch to one
side, as though about to fall. But the
lurch had upset the woman, and she
had fallen to the bottom of the boat.
The man picked her up and they went
through the rest of the operation of
changing seats.
II sawNnothing more of the couple
until helped drag Mrs. Szabo's body
to the surface and afterward spoke
with Gibson ashore But the day the
woman was drowned If she was
drowned, l saw in the distance what
must have been their boat, though l
couldn't distinguish just who was in
it on account of the distance.
II saw both the people standing up
and then / saw one lurch overheard.
The other person followed Immediate
ly afterward. But l couldn't tell ex-
actly what had happened to cause
either of them to fall into the water.
There are some other things no
ticed around the lake, however. par
ticularly after Mrs. Szabo's body had
been recovered / heard a conversa-
ton between Gibson and another man.
which l will never reveal except to
District Attorney Rogers. or a judge
or jury before whom l am a sworn
witness. 1t is of too important
character for the prosecution, in my
mind, to make public in any other
way"
"Ouster" Proceedings.
A. A. Kremer, attorney for the Aus
trian consul said he will file to-
day with the clerk of the surrogate's
court a supplemental bill of the evil
dence to be introduced when the
hearing of the case to remove Glib
son as executor of Mrs. Szabo's will
is to be held 1t is probable that the
hearing will be postponed to enable /.
/. APPEL and Matthew M. Black, rep
resenting Gibson, to prepare evidence
in behalf of their client.
The investigation of the financial
affairs of Gibson has brought out the
fact that around August ! several
creditors were pressing him very hard
and that he assured at least one of
them, who had large bill for auto
mobile supplies, that he was putting
through large deaP' and would have
plenty of money to meet all his bills
in the course of month or so.
Henry Heink, son of Nine. Schu-
mann Heink, singer, has been asked
by Gibson to take up the work of pre-
pairing his defense. Heink runs a de-
tective agency in Paterson and Is said
to have become acquainted with Glib
son in a professional way.