The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

| SOME ANNA
REMARKABLE PART THAT q
ING MEN
CT. Louis Republic.)
The chattering of a family parrot
may send a New York lawyer to pris-
on in connection with the death Of 2
HUNGARIAN m whom he 10 charg-
ed with staying.
From time to time some animal ID
the cause Of a murderer being punish.
ed or some thief being apprehendedl
Horses have led men to the galiows
and there are many cases In police
history that are as strange as those
dreams Of Edgar Allen Poe in 1.-THE
Murders Of the Rue Morgue."
Burton w. Bibson, lawyer. o. New
York, is held at present charged with
the murder of an Austro-Hungarian
woman, Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo:
The Identification of the woman n
Of her family in Austria has been
made through the croaktngs and NUT
terings of this parrot.
Gibson has contended that the wo-
man whom he knew, whom he acted
for as executor and whom no 10
charged with numbering. waa not the
woman known to the authorities OF
Austria. He held that they were dit.
ferent women despite the similarity OF
the name. which was identical.
Then comes the parrot owned by
the Austrian woman and upsets all Ms
contentious BY calling over AID ovet
again the name Of a ma whom she
is known to have married.
Of Mrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo and he
contends that the mother OF mrs.
Sxabo, the woman whom he knew y
alive. Frans Menschik. q brother. OF
tho dead woman. swears that Mfs.
Sxabo's mother is dead; that she died
in Vienna In 1910.
It was owing to doubt about the
death Of Mrs. szabo's real mother that
the Austro.Hungarian consulate began
an Investigation into the death OF Mr&
Sxabo and delayed the execution Of the
will. The consular offfctais aIleSe
that the Mrs. Menschik. who Gibson
is the mother Of Mrs. Szabo and
beneficiary under the will, 10 an I'm
poster.
There has arisen some question -
to the identity Of the Mrs. S1abo who
was drowned while boating with Glib
ION on Greenwood lake.
It il evident there were two women
who went by tho name OF Mrs. 8saho'
Ono may have . mother still Twins,
but It IL certain that the other Mrs.
Szabo's mother died in Vienna In Tan
uary. 1910.
Or. Fischerauer, who has been &C.
tive in Investigating the case, saye
AA-A ->--...A., AAA ~aNRAA fARVnAR1p
owned by Mrs. 8zabo will be placed on
the witness stand and used to prove
that the woman drowned in Green
wood lake was Mrs. Rosa Menschlk
Szabo, daughter Of Mrs. Menschtk,
who died In Vienna
Mrs. Albert Stearn. a friend OF Mrs
Szabo, now owns the parrot and u
keeping It in her apartment at No. %
East Thirty-fifth street. New York
city. When DR.. Fischerauer callad on
Mrs. stearn during his Investigation
he was suddenly struck BY the fact
that the bird kept cailing:
Rosa! Ohio, Rosa! Bila! Bila!"
Now" says DR.. Fischerauer. "Rosa
was the name of the woman drowned
in the lake. Bila must have been the
name of her husband. as shown by
the fact that the bird continually re-
peats the name and couples It with
"Frans Mensch,k. a brother Of Mrs.
Szabo, Is here from Austria. and ne
will show that his sister married a
man named Bila and that her mother
- the woman who died IN ial0. The
parrots prattle establishes the fact
that the drowned Mrs. szabo was the
wife Of Bila Szabo."
There was a raven in Dickens Bar
--A,. n.,A-oV kh~k vmoAa pNRoNpoN A1alnD~
ing its owner into confusion ut critical
moments. Possibly the parrot of. the
Szabos will DO tina most dramatic fig.
ure in the tragedy. while the tale that
Dickens told was comedy.
II the ~gorgeously plumaged bird "a
brought into court and. is admitted "a
an exhibit In tho cas- It will be the
first time that an American court has
admitted the evidence Of a dumb an
imal in a trial for murder. It 10 GER
tain that the parrot knew Gibson and
was familiar with his voice and man
nerisms In speaking.
tho citizens Of Paris was q purely Inn
aginative story, and yet there have
been Notifications Of its Possibility IN
moro than one instance. In Sydney,
Australia. in 1885. a man vas found
dead in one Of the rooms Of q SUI
burban hotel. He had been murder
ed. His throat had been gashed with
one horrible wound. The flesh wat
parted SO deeply that the police were
certain he had been killed with one
stroke from an extraordinary power
full arm. No weapon was found. but
1t was agreed that a rasor or some
other very keen-edged weapon had
been used. .-. ,.
The Investigators were absolutely al
a loss for a motive. and, In fact. could
not zee how anyone could have Eained
access to the room. The door had
been bolted on the inside. and the one
window to the roo raj open. but
looked on a court from which there
waa APPARENTLY no Access to tho room.
Surgeons agreed that the wound
could not have been self.infictsd. Who
could have done the deed7 What cause
had n person to murdef a man Who
was known to be honest. in moderate
circumstances. and to have lived q
quiet life as n bank clerk.
The case had been practically Fele.
gated to the class of unsolved mys.
teries when a similar murder waa ra.