New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09
cosrch Will Be Made on Ex-
IV b''med Body for Minute Wound
Near Heart or Braln-More
witnesses Appear.
TELL OF GIBsON'S DoINGS
Three Women Describe Stealthy
visits of Lawyer to Apart
ment of Dead Woman
Bogus Mother Said to
Have Been Found.

p;,kerton detectives have found the
uo,nan who posed as the mother Il
Mrs Rose Menschik Szabo at the time
,Nrs szobo made her will with Burton
W Gibson. her lawyer, as executor.
Tho woman IS under surveillance and
will soon be produced.
District Attorney Rogers, of Orange
c,nnty. is ready to exhume the body
of Mrs. Szabo. in New York Bay Gene
terry. Jersey City to-day. Deputy
Sheriff De Graw. of the county. and
Dr Fritz Fischerauer, the Austrian
yiee-Consul. and two private detectives
,sra at Greenwood Lake examining
the rowboat in which Mrs. Sza6o ani
Gibson were rowing when Mrs. Szabo
was drowned. on July Ii. Detectives
we're searching yesterday for hatpin
worn by the dead woman. The main
reason for the elimination Of the body
was to discover whether an agency
otber than drowning caused Mrs
Szabos death.
The detectives have a theory that an
sptonsv will reveal a minute wound
near the heart, caused by the incision
n hatpin. IF the wound is not found
near the heart they expect TO find one
near the base of the skull or in
region where the penetration Of the PIN
caused injury 10 the spinal n~rve.
The other DEVELOPMENT in the case.
according 10 the detectives, is the dis
coyery Of a new witness. q stenogra-
pher employed by Gibson at his law
offices 40. - Liberty street. who
will make startling disclosures about
the drawing UP of Mrs. Szabo's, will
on February j. last. Ut is said that
this witness will describe how Mrs.
Szsbo expressed a desire 10 leave her
property 10 her brothers and sisters,
and that a true will carrying out her
wishes was drawn up and read to her.
The witness will, it is believed, also
testify that different will making
Gibson her executor was given to her
20 sign
Search for New Witnesses.
Arpad 4. Kremer. counsel for Dr..
Flscherauer the vice-consul. has re-
eeyed letter from a person who it
is believed. will throw some light on
the whereabouts OF woman who
procured the bogus Mrs Petronells
Menschik to act As a witness 10 the
waiver Of citation.
Mrs George Teichmann, who knew
Mrs Szabo said yesterday that the
woman wrote last May to the Chief
Of police Of Vienna. telling him that
she was 10 return 10 Austria after an
absence Of eighteen years and that
The Chief Of Police wrote back telling
her that her mother. Mrs. Menschik,
i'ed in Vienna IN 1910
All day yesterday Deputy Sheriff De
Sraw and Or. Fischerauer made dill
gent search for witnesses 20 the drown
ing An important witness Is said 90
oe q nephew Of oscar Straus. The
Young man was in canoe and was
one Of the first 10 help pull Gibson out
u 'he water as he clung to the boat.
several other witnesses. one a New
iOrA woman, who witnessed the trag
wy rom houseboat, are being
sought.
Vne witness. guide called jim
O's'man' at Greenwood Lake, is said
" nave told the detectives that he saw
we aIlair from the porch Of the Lake
s'oe Hotel His version is that Mrs.
ezaoo and Gibson were standing up in
"ie boat and that the woman appeared
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