The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-09
BURIED WITHOUT
RELIGIOUS RITES
GRAVE DIGGERs THOUGHT BODY
OF COUNTESS szABo THAT OF
POOR PAUPER.
THOUSAND IN BANK
ATTORNEY NAMED As EXECUTOR
WITH HER WHEN DROWNED
AND sUPERINTENDENT
THE BURIAL.
THOUSAND IN BANK

afternoon OF July 18th. last, under the
name of Rosoia Rite. was lowered
into a grave In an obscure section OF
Bay View cemetery, Greenville, n. J.
This information was obtained from
employees of the cemetery today.
The funeral was said to nave been.
the strangest which ever passed
through the gates of the iit:le bury
ing ground, which overlnoka New York
Bay. None of the hardened grave
diggers could remember ever having
witnessed a funeral which could com
pare with that of the woman whose
death is under investigation by the
authorities OF Orange county.
Some unfortunate who died in pow
erty.'' they whispered as tbs body OF
the drowned woman, who, when she
died, had more than $4,000 in the say
ings banks. was lowered into the
ground,
Gobson Takes Charge.
According to the officials in- charge
Of the cemetery, the body was accom-
panied by TWO men. One TvEB t'1rtr'H
w, Gibson, and the other was short,
thick-set man. With black moustsehe.
The coffin was In an undertaken q
wagon. NO otbFr NcH&te u any 'aN
scription followed.
Gibson took charge of he i0rm%fi-
ties Mt the cemetery office. and tnen
the black wagon went Slowly 10 lie
cedar lawn section OF the graveyard,
where in a. few minutes II WAS low
cred into grave number ~, rox 80.
After the box had been covered with
dirt, the two male fnourners left. The
covering OF the grave Is the Same to-
day as IT was when the last spssdesuil
OF dirt was thrown over it, No flow
ers Of any description was placed over
IL, nor was a slab of stone, which
iaighs identify the dead person. ersct-
ed. .-...
Attracted Attention.
II never pay much attention 10 the
funerals which come daily into the
mia re. = Frederick Tilden. the su-
perintendens Of the cemetery. declared.
but this one / remember distinctly.
A man, who said his name was Sur
ton W. Gibson, made the arrange
ments He said the womans name
was Rosaia Ritter. and that she was
thirty-three years old. The records
here show that the woman was BORN
in Austria, and that her last place CT
residence was No. AZ West Sixty-ilrst
street. Manhattan. The cause of death
tE given as AcCtdcAtdi ato~EAAs-'
undertaken was E. 8. Boyaston. OF
Harlem
f =. Boylston has an undertaking
esta biishment at 2335 seeead avenue,
He was not at his home, No. 4e1
East One Hundred and Twenty Sec
ond street. today.
My father doesn't want TO be mixed
up In this at ALL declared his N
..He knows nothing about IL. Some
undertaken up al Greenwood Lake had
charge OF the funeral"
Asked whether Mr.. Boyiston tonk
any part whatever in the ftnsral, ths
young man stated he did rat know.
When told that the records at the
cemetery showed that his father was
the undertaken, he replied.
New Jersey records and New YORK
records are different"
Austrian Government axes interest.
Countess Rosa Menschik Sxabo was
droN ned In Greenwood Lake, tsratsttt.
county, July nth. while boating with
Burton w. Gibson, an attorney with
an Office at So Liberty street. Glib
son was named as administrator or TIE
wonaans estate. and tie representa-
tives Of the Austrian government h;:s
asked that his appointment he can
cefed.
u
In the case of Mrs. Alice Kinnan n.
another of Gihsons clients. who Nas
killed in her home in 1906 t;inson
was arrested in connection with the
murder, but proved an alihi and was
released. ---4--.-zz-zz- z-.
Expect an Arrest.
According TO detectives, an arrest
! in the case may be expected within
| forty-eight hours.
Adolph Rink. the Pinkerton detee-
| tive, VINO has been conducting the In
| vestigation. declared at Greenwood
| lake today that he had located the
| wifi. as we'll as the woman who. after
/ the Austrian woman's death, posed III
! her mother.
The stenographer. IL is declared
will testify that she heard Mrs. Sxabt
/ say that she desired Will drawn
leaving her property to her broth,
/ ers and sisters in Austria: that Iatei
/ win was dictated TO her which. de
| xisea the property to Mrs. Sxaho's
mother and made sihsan- her- exec.s.
I TOR, that ttrts document WAS late,
| signed by Mrs. Szabo, after she haze
\ been led to believe, through a false
/ reading aloud to her of the .docu
/ ment. that it was drawn In accord
! ancr with her wishes
i T The alleged mother. according II
/ DETECTIVES Rink, IS now where the de
tectives can place their hands on hel
/ whenever she Is wanted.
Suppfenienting tiris DR.. FsIscherau
er, deputy consul-general for Austria.
/ Hungary. said:
I'VE got something late last nigh
4 which clinches the whole thing"
| Important as any witness who viii
/ lie called in the case. is Mrs. Louis,
( Marat who was a neighbSr Of Mrs
Sxab0 in the apartment house In
1 West Sixty-fourth street. and next Ii
!! Importance TO her. Is Mrs. Burke, whit
/ Is also neighbor
Story or Romance.
Mrs Marat, supported by Mrs
/ Burke told an amazing story toRigh
Of the final days Of the pretty Aus
] tr an woman. who, it Is learned wa
once i popular concert hall singer Ii
Vienna AZ such she met her hus
band. the alleged Count ssxa bn. VIII
u was an officer in an Austrian caralr.
\ regiment Sxabo's relatives disowne,
him when he married tho actress. ant
! together they came to the Unite,
States 10 begin life anew.
i III was not an intimate friend o
Mrs. Sxnbo," said AIRS. Afaret .'hti
had INSTRUMENTATION u witt
I her. and we had many tastes lii com
i men. She came here about yea
/ ago. her husband having Just died,
sne said Mr. Gibson Wis ted her FIRE
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