The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-23
GIBSON GIVES LAWYER
SzAB0 CASE HISTORY
Takes Nearly Three Hours to
Tell of Relations With
Woman Client.

GosHrN, y. V. Sept % - Robert "
Elder of New York, attorney for Bur, on
W Gibson. went to New York tonight
with a stenographer. who carried in her
notebook the complete history " the hfs
and experience of Gibson with Rose
Menschik S7Gho. tho woman he is accused
of putting to death at Greenwood Lake
on July ia.
Tho history IS complete in every dot al
and upou the truth Of il Gibson is pre-
pared TO stake his life The telling Of it
took NJ nearly three hours and the 8, ,cno1-
rapher VIII take at least dsv so trans
scribe il
No details Of the history vero obtain
able tonight either from Gibson or from
the LAWYER before he took the train Gen
orally speaking. IT. was ~ id to begin with
Gibson : first mesting with Dr Be- Sza ho
| hack IN 1902 and To end with his eJpiana-
tion Of vile. N" did with the s7.lop he
drew ont Of the Nassau National Bank
Of New York to give to Mrs Petronella
! Menschik. he mother" in Chicago
! II told IN sr wha' circums, a noes Glib
son mel the men and how and wran he
me; the woman |; told Of IS many
| meet ing, with tho oman as Gibson could
remember. Of the death of Szaho in 1904
and what Gibson did for tho widow in
| lcgfl matters thereafter.
\ II describes how ha met he lpts William
! Schumarn. for whom Mrs Sz,ho rcted ?.
, hou-ekceper until December Of lol,. and
talso tellS of any meetings Gibson may
have had with the woman curing the
eight years she was employed wv Mr.
Schumann II tells exactly what Gibson
knows about the collateral cases which
were en,winet during the eight wears
in which Rose Szabo could have been
connected
There WAS the Trinor case and the
mysterious Rose Guerra" the kinnan
case the O'Neill case and all others. Mr..
Elder went into the cell short ly after
noon and he was primed with uIies, ions
He insisted that Gibson toll evervt hing
without single re>arva' ion. and the
LAWYER defendant readily consented TO
do 1t.
1t is known hat after tho ceath h a. Ms
SChumann the history becomes a,mC s.
4 dav to day narrative This was the line
tra' Gibson and Mrs. Szaho made demand
for her bank books on Schumann'- Tcla-
luve. and gu' hem II was ihan thar
Gibson asocrtain"i positively hat Tho
woman had l''tl" more man s,""r IN
tho savings hanss
Mr.. Elder ehhaus' cd everything abou,
hat before he left and got v"um no ris
answers He then Went over 20 the mo
OF the making of ihe ei'i. Nho sugges, ed
il. why i, was sugCesi cd how II MAS done.
under wha, circumstances, and liv
n large cha ptc i dcvui ed 10 the mot her "
P.rronells Manschk of Chicago
There j. n long chapter devoted to the
lirageGv Il seli aud all the events preced-
ing and following it. The attorneys had
heard Gibson tell wha, happened on july
10 before. I'm, they heard " all overagain
together with his explanations for SC ng
Ito Greenwood and his explanation for
the apparent uniNlp bet tween he genera lv
accept ed th.lrv that Mrs. SZabo was to
"a il for Trieste on July IS ard then on July
-. and G'bsons own statement that She
had no idea Of going there al all. He tells
what he did with the ODssessions of Mrs
Szabo, the trunks and other things
Mr.. Elder returned 10 New York last
night He would not discuss the history
| Il am better pleased with the si'Ua' ion
tonight than nave been before he "a ld
Il am in position to devote the ont ire
week to preparation for the eXaminat ion
which begins next Monday"
! Mrs Albert Stern reported Yesterday
that a foreign looking woman around
40 years had called AT her home in West
1hirty-ffth street and asked for a black
crepe dc chine dressing sack which had
belonged 10 Mrs. S2aho, Mrs, Stern
purchased Mrs SAabos belongings from
Gibson The woman did not say. accord
ing To Mrs. Stern, what she wanted the
sack for 1t was remarked that de-
! script ion Of the woman corrcsponded with
that givcn Of Rose Guerra hy Gibson.