Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-05
Lawyer of Widow in
Death Mystery
Comes Home.
WOMAN'S ADMINISTRATOR
in OTHER MYSTERIES
Counsel for Victim of Bronx
Murder in 1906, Which
Never Was Solved.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Burton ".
Gibson administrator of the estate
of Mrs Rosa Menschik Szabo, widow
of an Austrian nobleman, who was
drowned while boating with Gibson
on Greenwood lake, Orange county,
on July is, last, was today served
with an order from Surrogate Fowler
to show cause why he should not be
removed as administrator. The order
is returnable September IL It was
served on Gibson at his office, So Lib
erty street, by a lawyer from the
Austro-H Hungarian consulate-general.
The order was granted by the sur
rogate yesterday when DR.. Fritz
Fischerauer, the Austrian vice-con-
sui, filed petition which recites that
there were suspicious circumstances
in Mrs. Szabo's death, and asks on
that account that the Austrian vice.
consul be made administrator of the
estate in Mr.. Gihsons stead.
Gibson, who had been touring the
Adirondacks in an automobile with
his family, returned to his home, 292
Carmita avenue, Rutherford, n. j..
today.
Mr. Gibson declined to make q
statement, saying that he would wait
until later when he had acquainted
himself with the situation.
The British consulate interested it.
self in the case today. According to
John j. Broderick the acting CONSUL
general for Great Britain, Mr.. Glib
son was counsel and adviser for John
Rice O'Neill, a British subject, WHO
disappeared more than year ago
after winning a $4,000 damage suit
from a railroad company for loss Of
a leg. The British consulate made
efforts several months go to trace
O'Neill, but without avail.
Mrs. Szabo's will. drawn February
Q of this year by Mr.. Gibson, left her
whole estate, amounting to between
$4,000 and $4,000, to her mother, Mrs.
Petronella Menschik. Mrs. Menschik.
according to the will, was Mrs Sza-
bo's only living relative. but the reply
| to cablegram sent by the Austro-
Hungarian consul-generals office. de-
c1ared that Mrs. Menschik died in
| February, 1910 and that her five
brothers and three sisters are living.
| This cablegram was sent after
waiver of citation purporting to have
been signed by Mrs. Menschik was
read.
The boat from which Mrs Szabo
was drowned was overturned. Mr.
Gibson was found clinging to its side
by a rescue party. According to the
petition filed with Surrogate Fowler,
he Immediately went to Mrs Szabos
apartments, as West Sixty-fourth
street, New York, examined her per-
sonal effects and prepared everything
for shipment. Clothing and small
articles he turned over to Mrs Stern,
of 6S West 104th street. who bought
Mrs. Szabo's furniture
Accused of Perjury
Mr.. Gibson, an affidavit filed by
Alphone P. Rinck, a Pinkerton de-
tective, declares, has already drawn
several thousand dollars that be-
longed to Mrs. Szabo from various
banks Implied accusations of per-
jury, subornation of perjury and con-
: spiracy are in the af1idavits filed
with the surrogate
In 1906 Gibson was counsel for Mrs.
Alice Kinnan. who was killed in her
home in the Bronx. The murder was
never solved. On the recommends
tion of the coroner's jury Gibson was
held in $4,000 bail pending investi-
cation of the case, but he was re-
leased on a habeas corpus writ, and
the matter was dropped. He subse-
| quently brought suit for false arr
rest.