Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-06
WATCH SUSPECT IN
GIBSON CASE AS
MRS. MENSCH|K'
Detectives Say They
Have Found the
Mother. =
BROOKLYN WOMAN is
UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Arrest Expected-Eye Wits
nesses to Drowning of Mrs.
N. Szabo Are Found.

NEW YORK, Sept 6.-Detectives
who have been Investigating the will
left by Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo.
who was drowned while boating with
her attorney, Burton w. Gibson, at
Greenwood Lake, Orange county, on
July IS. are today watching Brooks
lyn woman, said to be the one who
impersonated Mrs. Petronella Mem
schik. Mrs Szago's mother, who was
named in the document as sole heir
to the $4,000 estate. Mrs. Menschik.
according to a cablegram received
from the chief of police of Vienna,
Austria, died two years ago.
A waiver of citation was signed II
Mrs. Menschik's name by womans
described by witnesses to the will as
about 80 years old. This was Mrs.
Menschik, according to Lawyer Gfb-s|
son, who says his clients mother is
still living, and that he can produce
her. Mrs. Menschik is described by
advices from Austria as having been
42 years old and of youthful appears
ance when she died two years ago
Suspect to Face Witnesses.
The woman, whom the investiga4'
tors have discovered In Brooklyn, will
probably be brought here to face the
witnesses to the will today. Her
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| ""s ~ e'
/ invesusatins Woman's Drowninss
| inquiry INTO the strange elreuIi@
s'ances OF MIS- szaoo oea'n anu The
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man oozen sources. me olstrlcs
a''o'ncS VI oianee eoun.s mas nesAa
working en- the case almost sincq
tro-Hungariaa consulate entered INTO
tne ailaiI because uis' ozaoo was =
NATIVE Oh that country. Inc pli.isA
| consulate mas become interested De-
cause or the conneetion OF hpson
| with John hice ONeiil, britlsn sllpz
Ject, who mysteriously vanished after
a visit to the office OF Gibson, who
was his attorney. and District Attor-
ney Whitman has started an invests
| cation of the implied charges of per~
jury, subornation of perjury forgery
and conspiracy contained In the peti~
ton for Gibson's removal as admins
istrator. filed with the surrogate by
the Austro- Hungarian consu1-gen>
eral
II is probable that the entire case
/ will be reopened in Orange county.
District Attorney Thomas G. Rogers
there has said he is awaiting word
from the New York county authors
| ties to instruct Coroner S. B. Heaton.
who originally brought in verdict OF
| accidental drowning. to7hold new
| inquest.
| Mr.. Rogers has also suggested that
he NAV bring the affair before rna|
October Orange county grand Jury.
s.,, r,nh. ON o.hsr ca.es
,rha r',bIinitv which the presentI
case has been given has been sha
| causa of reviving the inquiry into
! other "a ses he handled Chief anona|
| tbasa is the O'NeilI case. mentioned
above and tho unsolved mystery sd
| the murder of Mrs Kinnan. in the
pronx several Years ago Gibson
,,,ho ,,,,s attorrey Cor Mrs T<innants
r,athar Mrs st.nton drafted the
,nnrdarad n ,ynr,an,s will
psts - tbasa % eos wore ;nvastil
aatas hy the authorities and dronpefl1
So D.,, char,es T,ecraw of orangs
oount, - wba hos bean investigati,,a
tbe drowntng NJ Mrs Szabo. said yes.l