Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-11
TO ARREST GIBSON
IN SzABO DEATH
Warrant Issued in Orange
County-Woman Was
Strangled.

access of air. The lungs were fiat
and contained neither water nor air.
This condition, the physicians de-
clared, could not have beer brought
about by the submerslon of the body
In water nor by the struggles of a
drowning person. Strangulation of a
person by this means, it was ex-
planned, is simple and ordinarily will
| leave no outward sign of violence.
Particularly is this true if the person
making the assault has some knowl-
edge of anatomy and knows where
to strike.
Casket Lid Not Tight.
One remarkable thing about the dis
interring of Mrs. Szabo's body was
the discovery that the lid of the coffin
containing 1t was not screwed down
tight, out bulged at its sides. admit
ting the air. Luckily Mrs. Szabo's
body was particularly well embalmed,
otherwise decomposition that would
have made Intellectual any attempt to
establish the cause of death would
have set in before the body was ex-
humed.
i. lS Sdiu ltidl NIitH lit DOdN WAS
taken to Jersey City from Undertaken
Lazear's establishment at Warwick
the casket lid was fastened so as to
make 1t alright. The lid was re-
moved by Manager Manning, of the
Boylston undertaking establishment,
this city, at the request of Gibson,
who asked that he be allowed to take
one last look at his clients body.
VIII Question Undertaken.
Manning admits hat he has con-
suited Gibson in a professional way
and says he looks on him as a good
friend. He will be questioned as to
his part in the burial of Mrs. Szabo.
Coroner Houghton, of Hudson
county, will hold an inquest into the
death of Mrs. Szabo September Is.
This he has the right to do under the
common law of New Jersey because
the body was buried In this State.
He will make no attempt, however.
to interfere with any criminal pro-
ceedings in another jurisdiction.
A sworn statement by DR.. H. J. r.
W~allhauser, of Newark, who exam
ined Mrs. Szabo's body and pro-
nounced death due to drowning, with
out, however, performing an autopsy,
has been placed in the hands of Dis
trict Attorney Rogers. This state
ment is as follows:
ION July Is, 1912, / examined the
body of Mrs. Szabo at Sterling for
est, lying in a rowboat, shortly after
1t nae been recovered. Mr.. DeGraw
a GlKad mo m IL. Yha oxro ~ srrt,.,
THE body was clothed in a bathing
suit, with stockings, but without
shoes. | looked all over it for exter-
nal evidence of injury, and found
none The eyes had some mud m
them, and the skin showed the effect
of the period of immersion. 1t was
in good physical condition.
"I saw Burton w. Gibson, who hau
been in the boat with her twenty
four hours before the recovery of the
body at Hohokus camp. whore he
came in a motorboat. He explained
how the accident had occurred, and
when I asked him if any of the wom-
| ans relatives had been examined, he
replied:
Some of them
I'm explaining the accident he said
he and Mrs. Szabo went almost to
the bottom of the lake. she clasping
him with her arms, while her legs
encircled his body. | understand
that at the point of the lake where
it occurred the depth is from twenty
eight to thirty feet.
"When Gibson came up, he ex-
planned, he grasped the side of the
boat and looked for her. Gibson vas
particularly reticent.
s"H. j. f. WALLHAUSER."