The Washington herald., 1912-09-15
TRACING ESTATE
Of DEAD WOMAN
Attorneys Piling Up Evidence to
Use Against New York Attor.
ney Of Mrs. Szabo.
MONEY WAS WITHDRAWN
BY GIBSON FROM BANKS
Affidavit Made Shows Mrs. Szabo
that Gibson Knew Was
Viennese One.

Gibson, who Is accused Of causing the
death Of Rosa Menschik Szabo. was
busily engaged In the jail at Goshen
to-day preparing his defense. A. A. kre-
mer. counsel for the Austro-Hungarian
the funds of the dead woman's estate.
lIt was learned that Gibson had with
drawn 1857 from three Of the four banks
in which she had deposits aggregating
about $4,000 The balance of about 5000
was in the Franklin Savings Bank. but
officials of that Institution refused to
turn it over to Gibson.
The total OF 1887 was then deposited
by Gibson on August Z, 1872. in a GER
tain bank. the name OF which Is being
withheld. and on the same date drew
a check against the account as executor
of the estate, which he deposited to his
personal account in the same bank. On
August he drew another check for
$500, on August 10, one for $500, and on
August 16, one for S, SOo leaving a bal
ance of s2s7S in the account of the
estate. What became of the money
drawn from the account outside of the
$500. Mr.. Kremer has not yet been able
to discover.
In the belief that Gibson may have
placed the money in another bank under
his own or an assumed name, Mr.. Kremer
has invited the corporation of bank Of
ficials OF the city in tracing the funds.
under the promise to respect their con-
fdence. In the course OF his inquiries,
he learned that Gibson has only $3l.so
balance in his personal account with the
bank where he opened the account as
executor of Mrs. Szabo's estate.
A letter made public to-day by Mr..
Kremer is pointed to by him as further
&~s1 lNx,<
to return to her home in Austria, con-
trary to the statement attributed to Glib
son that she went to Greenwood Lake to
finds place 70 stay for a few weeks
The letter was dated July g. and was
written to Franz Szabo, brother Of Mrs.
Szabo. by George Tiechman. the friend
of the dead woman. who started the
investigation into her death.
Letter to Brother.
II will investigate the matter, and will
write fully in the next few days" wrote
Tiechman. "She (Mrs. Szabo) has sew
eral times told US about a lawyer who
was a fervent suitor of your sister. and
wanted to travel to Vienna with her."
Although Gibson persists in his denial
that the Mrs. Szabo he knew was-the
Viennese Mrs. Szabo, Anthony Gaytz,
proprietor of a lodging house here. made
an affidavit to-day recounting his ac-
quaintance with Mrs Szabo and her hus-
band that tends to confirm the statements
of the Austro-H Hungarian consul general
that she was the Austrian woman. Gaytz
stated that he bought a rooming house
at N1 West Seventeenth Street In 1893
Dr. Villa Szabo had a room there at the
time He told Gaytz that his father was
i nobleman in Austria and intimated that
he had been disinherited because of his
attentions TO Rosina Menschik. a model.
'Szabo showed me a crown on his
linen" said Gaytz and one tatooed on
his left arm. He said he and Miss
Menschik were married here at the city
hall.
Mrs. Szabo did not live with her hus-
Rand, but had an apartment in Forty
thi9d Street, between Seventh and
Eighth Avenues. The man had no
means, but obtained an income part of
the time by giving music lessons, and
when pressed for funds would obtain
money after a heavy snowfall by work.
ing as a snow shoveler for the CITY,"
Gaytz sold his rooming house and
bought another. Szabo kept his room in
the old place, but ate his meals at the
new one. In 1894 Gaytz learned that
Szabo had died and that he had left his
widow absolutely penniless. He called to
see the widow at the Forty-third Street
apartment. There he said he met two
men, one Of whom he asserted resem-
bled the published pictures OF Burton w.
Gibson.