The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-05

street. where Mrs S,aho rad lived He
learned there from Nrs Mar.;; hat on
july = the day after ihs woman was
drouned. Burton " Gibson ven, TO the
house and examined ~ personal erects
o: the woman and began 20 prepare the
same for shipping He gave all the cloth
ing 10 Mrs Stern OF 50 West iO.th street
and sold tho furniture ~ her for cash
Two or three davs later the man col.
lected the remaining property .nto -iN
trunks and had the. 'rl.aNs shipped 20
himself az Rutherford hy Ne.ls Fargo EX-
press
Among the property sold at the time by
Gibson We're a parrot and - canary
both VI which were very old. |; .s
also known that on AuEUs, : Gibson
went 10 the Greenwich Savings Bank.
at Sixth avenue and sixteenth street.
and drew a sum of money as the
executor OF her estate, and in the same
capacity on August IL drew money from
tn" American Savings Bank. at ili
Yves; Forty-sccond street; THIS was
within thirty days ot the death ~ the
woman.
Rinck quotes Mrs Mare,t a. saying
that Gibson was Il daily visitor AT the
house. spending nearly all his time with
her.
RinCk then retells the story of the
drowning. concluding with statement by
Deputy sheriff Degraw. who said that
after Gibson had returned alone he ex-
citedly ran 10 the room occupied by the
deceased in said hotel and took her hand
bag away and left Greenwood Lake at
once
Affldavits which will be held for further
litigation will he those of George Teich
mann and his wife Teichmann and his
wife say they We're under the impression
l,.t h.. L..l
see her people. as she had said SHE would
when few days after July 10 Gibson
came to their home and asked for the
letters addressed 10 Rosa Ritter. which
was name sometime assumed by Mrs
Szabo
sne asked Where - she'"
oh Rosa has gone TO Chicago 10 marry
a rich old man,
"Oh no. she has not. answered Mrs
Telchmann. She was going home. She
did not know anv old man IN Chicago"
Yes, she did, was tha positive answer
why she has been writing 10 him for "A
long tir'...
Now know that is not true. re orted
the woman. for Rosa could not read nor
write my husband always wrote her
letters for her
hat ended the conversation and Gibson
left, 1elchmHnn became suspicious and
started an investigation No one could
say what had become of the woman He
learned al the Franklin Savings Bank
that she had been drowned and AT once
wrote to her family near Budapest
Communicated With Consul.
II was Teichmann who first commu-
nicated with the Austro- Hungarian Con-
sul-General in this city and he wrote his
letter just about the time the Orange
county authorities had come TO the con-
clusion that there should be further in
vestiGation of the Greenwood Lake
tragedy.
The chief of police Of Vienna had
already heard from the family. who had
been notified bv Teichmann
Further investigation Yesterday still
further complicated the case with refer
ence TO the will and the prohating Of 1t
] he will was signed with the name of
Mre. SZabo and il was said 10y her friends
that she might have done that. because
she had learned 10 sign her name auto
matically But the testimony Of the other
persons added 10 the mystery, for they
alleged that in the Office of Gibson at
the time the will was made Rosa Szabo
presented as her mother Petronella Mem
schik. No one would say that the first
woman was Mrs. Szabo, but one witness
remarked that Mrs. Menschik seemed
to be singularly youthful TO be the mother
Of the forty-year-old Mrs. Szabo. She
spoke no English. Both women wore
wells and accompanied Gibson out of the
office
Lyons Doesn't Remember.
Donald Lyons, the notary public who
certified the waiver Of citation of Mrs
Petronella Menschik the heir to the es-
tate of Rose Menschik Szabo, on july 81.
1912, was found in the real estate Office
Of Edward Lyons at sos Nostrand avenue
yesterday. While acknowledging he
knew Gibson and had certified such a