Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-11
TO ARREST GIBSON
AS MURDERER
OF MRS. SzABO
Warrant Issued and
Is on Way from
Orange County.
LAWYER DRAGGED FROM !
DEATH BY REPORTERS
Victim of Alleged Drowning"
Was StrangIed, Say Doctors.
Hunt Poison in Stomach.
1rrom a star correspondent.l ]

NEW YORK, sept. ll.-lhe oiio
of Burton W. Gibson for the murder
of Mrs Rosa Menschik Szabo, VINO
was strangled to death while boat
ing at Greenwood Lake, Orange coun-
ty. n. Y, July 16, is expected To-
day.
Judge Herbert C. Royce, OF orange
county, issued a warrant for the law
yers arrest this afternoon, and Dep
utv Sheriff Degraw, of Orange coun-
ty, Is bringing 1t to this city.
The warrant was issued on the pres
entation of affidavits from physi-
clans who yesterday performed an
autopsy on Mrs. Szabo's body ana
reported that death had come from
strangulation, not from drowning, as
was at first believed.
seek Poison In Stomach.
These affidavits were presented TO
the court by District Attorney Rogers,
of Orange county, who received them
from Deputy Sheriff Degraw. A fur
ther affidavit is expected from Cor
oner's Physician Schultze on his COM
pletion of an analysis of organs taken
from the body. Circumstances that
led the surgeons who performed the
autopsy to suspect that poison might
have been administered to Mrs, Szaoo
made the analysis necessary.
When Gibson went to luncheon at
noon he gave the detectives watch
ing his ohce the slip. He went to the
Astor House and partook. of meal
of milk and crackers. iced tea and
ample pie. 1t cost him 40 cents and
~ Of a Tt00 hill.
To the Evening Star reporter who
accompanied him to the restaurant
Gibson said he did not fear the con-
sequences of arrest.
Mrs. Menschik is alive and | VIII
produce her at the proper time was
the only statement he would make,
the same statement that he has made
again and again since ssgslsfyfcfon was
directed toward him.
Following a conference today be-
tween Acting District Attorney Was
yervogel A. "A. Kremer, representing
the Austrian consulate, and Dr'
Fischerer, it was announced that the
authorities had in their possession an
affidavit made by Otto Bohm, Vien-
nese priest, setting forth that MRS
Petronella Menschik had died on Feb
ruary 5, 1910, and had been buried on
February following
When this information was con-
veyed to Gibson he denied the au-
thenticity of the affidavit.
statement given the Evening Star
correspondent by one of the investl-
gators of Mrs. Szabo's strange death
had 1t that the circumstances of the
death corroborated the poison theory.
Mrs szabo, this man declared. was
vigorous and an expert swimmer She
never could have been overpowered
and thrown into the water, nor could
she have been drowned unless she had
been weakened by some means, prob
ablv by the action of a slow poison.
Gibson Unmoved by Autopsy Verdict.
Gibson arrived at his office, 55 Lib
erty street, at S:55 today. He was
distinguished by the same cold, un-
troubled demeanor that has marked
him since publicity in the present case
first was leveled in his direction. He
declined to make a statement, al
thougf. a small army of reporters be-
sieged his office, augmenting the
guard of Pinkertons, reporters and
nhotoeraphers that had trailed nim
from his home in Rutherford, N. j.
Gibson had a narrow escape when
he stenped from the Erie train that
leaves Rutherford at STA in Jersey
citv TODAY. He started to cross the
tracks, followed by the usual stream
of newspaper men and detectives
when locomotive bore down on hlm'
He was dragged from the track when
the engine was only few feet away
Al Rutherford last night GIBSON
evidenced the first cordial treatment
he has given to newspaper men. a
battery Of cameras was leveled at MIN
&c be descended from his train, and
instead of lodging away as he mas
heen wont to do, Gibson bade tne
photographers follow him to his nome,
when he reached his lawn he stooo
still and posed complacently, Whlie
the picture men snapped him'
shortly after midnight. Gibson ano
bis v,fe's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
o,Dwver. with whom he lives, CANT
o,,t on the front porch of his nome
and engaged in a heated discussion
Thair voices rose high and they ges'
+iculated wildly. Finally Mr. and Mrs
o,nwver left the porch and began tt
naoa I'M and down the lawn. Wher
reporters approached them they hur'
ried TO the house and went INSIDE
nassing Gibson, who stood in the door
,,,a.y without taking notice of him.
Death Due to stranguiation.
The autopsy on Mrs. Szabos body
rerformed by County Physician King
pf Hudson county; Deputy County
phvsician Hasking and Coroner
pbvsician Schultze, of this county Is
said to have shown immediate eVi-
dence that her death was the result
of strangulation.
The condition of some of the organs
o,so led the physicians to suspect the
presence of poison. and Or. Schultzt
will analyze them at the Cornell Uni
varsitv laboratories today
The cause of death, according to the
technical report of the physicians
was that the thyroid cartilage of the
Iarvnx. or Adams APPLE was dis
rlaced and forced into the trachea
or windpipe, thereby shutting off al