Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-09
BODY OF
MRS. SzABO TODAY
Seek Drug or Wounds as
Cause of Her Death-Fore-
told Tragedy.

NEW YORK, Sept. $40 determine
if possible whether death was due
to any agency other than drowning.
District Attorney Rogers, of Orange
county, N. Y, will cause to be X
humed today the body of Mrs. Rosa
Szabo, an Austrian woman, who met
death in Greenwood Lake, while in a
rowboat with Burton w. Gibson. a
New York lawyer, now executor of
her 500 90 estate. The proposed u
topsy will embrace not only an exam
nation for wounds but a chemical
analysis of the contents of the stom-
ach. Gibson had the body buried n
der the name of Mrs. Ritter in a
cemetery near Jersey City, but he
has expressed his entire willingness
TO have 1t eXhumed.
According to the Austro-Hungarian
consulate, detectives have found the
woman who posed as Mrs. Rose Mem
schik, mother of Mrs. Szabo, and ben
e~ficiary under the will. The contention
of the consulate is that the victims
mother was dead at the time the will
was drawn, and that, therefore. the
waiver of citation purported to have
been signed by Mrs. Menschik is a
forgery. This phase of the case will
be threshed out before the surrogate
on September II, when a brother of
Mrs. Szabo. now on his way from
Austria, will testify as to his moth
er's death.
According to detectives an arrest in
the case may be expected within tor
ty-eight hours. Adolph Rink, the Pink
erton detective who has been conduct
ing the Investigation, declared at
Greenwood Lake hat he has
located the stenographer who wrote
Mrs. Szabo's will as well as the wom-
an, who. after the Austrian woman's
death, posed as her mother. The
stenographer, 1t is declared. will tes-
tify that she heard Mrs. Szabo say
that she desired a will drawn leav-
ing her property to her brothers and
sisters in Austria, that later a will
was dictated to her which devised
the property to Mrs. Szabo's mother
and made Gibson her executor. that
this document was later signed by
Mrs. Szabo after she had been led to
believe, through a false reading
aloud to her of the document that
1t was drawn in accordance with her
wishes.
Mrs. Maret. supported by Mrs.
Burke. told an amazing story last
night of the final days OF the Austrian
woman, who, 1t was learned, was
once a popular concert hall singer in
Vienna.
Il was not an intimate friend OF
Mrs. Szabo," said Mrs. Maret, but |
had frequent conversations with her
and we had many tastes in common.
u am going boating. ! shall be
back this evening If he doesn't turn
the trick today. lie tried last Sun
day, and he might try again. She
laughed nervously when she said this.
and / understood hat she was refer
ring to the boating accident of the
previous Sunday. She never came
back. Wednesday I heard the parrot
talking in her apartment and | began
to worry about feeding the pets.
Then that night Mr.. Gibson came. 1
heard him coming upstairs.
"'Where is Mrs. Ritter | asked.
Rosa Ritter, you know. was the name
ny winch Sne was known here.
"'Oh, she isn't coming back, he re-
piled. I've come to tend to the birds
and cats
II had a key and he let himself
into the apartments. Two days later
an expressman came after Mrs. Rit-
ter's trunks. Mr.. Gibson came up
the stairs and opened the door for
the expressman."
In connection with the will a new
witness is expected to verify a report
to the effect that the instrument Mrs.
Szabo signed making Gibson her sole
executor was not the one which was
read to her. 1t has been brought out
that Mrs. Szabo could neither read
nor write and that deception of this
kind could easily have been practised
upon her.