The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-09-12
TO REVEAL
DEATH MYSTERIES
Body Of Mrs. szabo, Which
Was Buried Under Another
Name, To Be Exhumed.

New York, Sept. 1o.-To determine, II
possible, whether death was due to
any agency other than drowning, Dis
trict Attorney Rogers, of Orange
county, New York, will cause to be
exhumed today the body Of Mrs. Rosa
Szabo, an Austrian woman, who met
death in Greenwood lake while in q
rowboat with Burton w. Gibson, a
New York lawyer, now executor of her
100000 estate. The proposed autopsy
will embrace not only an examination
for wounds, but a chemical analysis of
the contents of the stomach.
Gibson had the body buried under
the name Of Mrs. Ritter in a ceme-
terry near Jersey City, but he ha ex-
pressed his entire willingness to have
it exhumed.
consulate, detectives have found the
woman who posed as Mrs. Rose Men
schik, mother OF Mrs. Szabo and bene-
iciary under the will. The contention
of the consulate is that the victims
mother was dead at the time the will
was drawn and that. therefore, the
waiver of citation p%urported to have
been signed by Mrs. Menschik is q
forgery. This phase of the case Will
be threshed out before the surrogate
On September II. when a brother Of
Mrs. Szabo. now on his way from
Austria, will testify as to his mothers
death.
Executor is Missing.
mother unexplained disappearance
and one more mysterious death have
been added to the deepening mystery Of
the Szabo will case.
George I. Malcolm. executor of the
estate of Mrs. Louise Stenton, which
had a claim of 500, 900 against Burton
w. Gibson, mysteriously disappeared
on OF about October 8, 1910, and has
neither been seen nor heard of since.
Michael Shippo. a tenant on the
Stenton estate at the time Mrs. Alice
Kinnan, daughter Of Mrs. Stenton, was
mysteriously murdered, and whose wife
testified at the c%oroner's inquest that
she heard Mrs. Kinnan say "The law
yer hit me-" after being strangely as
saulted In December. 1907, was finally
found dead in two feet of water on the
edge Of Pelham creek late in December,
1909.
There is probably no more striking
series of condolences in the history of
the law.
Starting wiz the investigation of
the Austrian government into the cir
cumstances attendant upon the making
of the will of Rosa Menschik Szabo,
these developments came %tumbling for
ward in rapid succession:
1t Is found that Mrs. SZabo met
death in a drowning accident in Green
wood lake, New York, on July Is. while
In company with Burton w. Gibson,
her lawyer. Following her death, Glib
son produces a will Signed by her in
which she devises her entire estate to
her mother, and makes Gibson her exe-
cutor.
Lawyer Drew Money.
After he has withdrawn a consider
able amount of the estate from saw
Ing banks, the Austrian consul steps
n and produces sworn affidavits which
allege that Mrs. Szabo's mother died
two years before her daughters will
was drawn. that the woman whom Glib
son produced as the mother of Mrs
Szabo was an imposter, that contrary
to the sworn statement of Gibson that
there We're no other heirs, there are, ir
fact half a dozen brothers and sisters
of Mrs. Szabo living near Vienna.
Slain in Mystery.
Following this, attention is drawn
to the fact that in 1906 a Mrs. Alice
Kinnan was mysteriously killed at hel
mothers home in the Bronx. The
~coroner's jury does not fix the respon
sibility for death, but Gibson was heiG
IN aZo,OOu bOnd ana re
leased on habeas corpus.
Later Mrs. Gibson is sued by a neph.
ew of Mrs. Louise Stenton, mother on
Mrs. Kfnnan. for the Of $780,.
BOO worth of property alleged to have
been misappropriated by Gibson. Mrs
Stenton dies while the suit is pending
placing the responsibility for continu.
ing the action upon her executor.
Conducting Own Suit.
Whereupon according to the records
Of the court. Mr.. Gibson produces {
copy of an alleged will written by Mrs
Stenton, which makes him her exc.
cutor, thereby, If the will is probated
leaving with him the responsibility o
continuing an action against himsel
for S100, 900. Surrogate Thomas throw.
the will out. plainly intimating In hi
decision that he regards the copy az
bogus.
George l. Malcolm is made executor
Of the estate. And on or about Octobe,
8, 1910, Mr.. Malcolm. a weIl-knowr
stock exchange broker. mysteriously
disappears and is never heard Of again
He is currently reported to have com
mitted suicide, and the theory which
prevails is that he threw himself from
a Sound steamer through grief owe
the loss of a son. The case was never
more than perfunctorily Investigated.
Five Strange Cases.
By a strange series of coincidence.
Malcolm'F disappearance Is the fourth
case of either a disappearance or dealt
by violence of persons who have beer
associated in one way or another will
Burton w. Gibson.
The first was the murder Of Mrs
Alice Kinnan.
The second was the disappearance
of George I. Malcolm.
The third was the tragic drowning o
Michael Shippo.
The fourth. the disappearance O
John r. O'Neill, who tina
he was going to call on Mr.. Gibson II
relation to the return to him of ST. 90,
entrusted to the lawyer. he has no
been seen since.
The fifth was the death by drowning
of Mrs. Szabo, and the subsequent rev
Citations concerning her will, which
are now under investigation.
NAVAL CHANGES MADE.