The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1905, Page 3

~~ PRIC OE ONE CEI Two new names are added to-day to the growing list of Bignmist George | Witzhoff's known wives, The police say they will have the names of more than fifty of Witzhoff’s wives in a little while. cn record in addition to the six young women he married in as many days in Long Island City five years ago. The two latest wives toycome to the front are: Sophie Youcker, married to Witzhoff Oct. 12, 1900. Deserted after he had gotten her $1,800. Annie Davis, married to Witzhoff In 1900, Detectives were scouring Harlem last night for the bigamist. port reached District-Attorney Jerome that the man was seen in that vi- cinity within the week and that he had been carrying on his marrying pro- gramme right up to the time his career was first exposed in The Evening World. A Dance Hall Beau Brummel. Dr. George A. Witzhoff, well dres easy mannered, kind, consi terice light fluent talker, mor nd and a willingar spend it, appeared at danc the upper west side t He was the sort of maa attend these dances ed well, and his dri yenrs MORE VICTIMS OF ARCH BIGAMIST TELL OF ROBBERY Witzhoff, Who Married Scores of Women in All Sections of the Country, Be- lieved by the Police to Be Now Hiding in Harlem. There are now six wives Deserted after he got $700. aekson, with whom he had been asso- and subsequent de she married w d not prove to dventurer the police claimed him to be. much better than the dr average man who freau dar His mustache w to the Up of perte his student to excess—if He was ry da hose who recall t hoff these name Dr. ¥ just plain Mr. drank ays don't Weston, or Dr. Mun- Whitman, Witzhoff repre: he was a physicta was a chemist. ( he was em, in th son factory in New Jerse ever tloned that he was represeatid himself, unless it was|" to some that he| rnea that If they questioned him, it was put) Life down to JSeuloi re. , Seven Wives in One Week. — | were children That Witzhoff was an adventure fail, when ft was learned that in) Kaiser, seven days he had married just seven sfneer women, and every woman became his) Mrs. bride only to leary later that she had) du been robbed aad deserted M Dorf, both of this city | afaua, he police of Long Island City were! 1 the first to lea that Witzhoft was marrying a new girl nightly, and rob- bing her immediately after the wedding At that Ume Witzhoff was boa: at the kome of a man named Vokes, who lives at U6 Alden str: West Orange. He would come into New York after his day's work, where It 4 Immediately after is said he was employed at the Edl- A ie launch took fire and was burned to the en he learned | Water's edge. Bon factory a8 & chem for the dance halls, W that the pole skipped oud fron not before he hi of o sum of m young woman of By this tme the police net was clos- ing in fast on Witzhoff. To Mr, Vokes he was known as Dr. George Weston, rt and mike | were after New Jers roubed Mr. ‘Vol nim he y t wark Tt was learned that he had also rob! ry Mr. Whitman, of No. 0 Broidway Three change Court, of and a man ni ARCHITECT STONE CUT ‘an office at No. 55 Broadway, who fivea| 4 at No. 43 Washington Square, South, | Cover: Was killed last night by a train at} Offenbere has been followed peraist- a, ently by the unknown miscreants who confer With a contractor, and-was de. | Mave Made & business of killing horses tained, He drove to the junction in a] 2M the east aide. cab to eateh a New York train. and| past year his horses have been fed ar- Princeton Junction, N. Mr. Stone had been ‘to Princeton to while the driver went to a nearh: shed to hitch his horse he ‘went te. ward the station, senie. not be found, ‘Laver h covered lying by ine Ho had ‘been 31-10% train and his body cut to p Mr. Stone is survivad by is body was dis- of the track, Who has saved money in his anxiousness to get ahead in the world and Kr you will be |} | 5 eke, miss one of ‘They into this chy from his life's best 1 | distrihuted throughout the Greater lis, j In tubs bearing no revenue stamp. morrow, to avail himself of one | Comm.ssioner Kracke sald this afters noon that by the plot against the Gov- the Internal Revenue Depart- ment hag sustained a loss of hundreds | of thousands of dollars, opportunitles if he neglects, to- of the unusual chances to make money that will be described in the |] | “r2ment SUNDAY WORLD'S There Business Bargain Bulletin, |e {ax | FALLIN WATER Three Women and Five Chil- Shimane ts otters Dr''Whenee | dren Among Those Who to many that] Escape Drowning. “| Eleven persons were hurled into New- ; y the explosion of a tank on a launch, Three of the some of the men he met at the dances, | P*rsons were members of the Volu of Greenvitie, were women and the other five All of thet had narrow be- | escapes from drowning. came known Just tive years ago this! tm the launch were Commodore James Richardson and ark Bay ha ving Corps in Ri Hayden and s Daisy Farre Two of his most recent victims have| Herrick, sons of been Miss Anna Parkhill and Miss Dora | captain of the Life-Saving Corps, and Dorothy and Pauline Hayden, launeh had just pulled from the aving § when the explosion ught by the tide a help came, The supported by the Ife- arrived in a sec MDS ling when children wer: ers until the explosion oped Me Nght! TWELVE HORSES ARE POISONED. berg's Killed and Three Others WII Dic, The horse TO PIECES BY TRAIN. are busy f the east aide Thiee of twelve a mals in ithe stable of Owdye Offenberg, William FE. Stone, an architect, with| contractor 1 to-day and three others cannot re- Several times in the On account of, the rain When the man sousht Stone he coula| were not taken from their stalls yester- day, and twotmen were about the stable night Offenberg dis- eces, covered that ail of his horses were sick, a widow, | He called a veterinary, who said that they were poisonin, yy it westbound] Ml day, yet up a iitte |]] PLOT TO CHEAT UNCLE SAM. Manulacturers Fall to Pay the Rey the office of F. stant Commissioner of the jon of the New York Stato Department of Agriculture, to-day un- #4 , pointing out a plot to cheat Uncle Jemargarine figured. uff was brought New Jersey, of Oleomargarine Inspesto nd Di covered a gigantic man who will Sam in which and the husband visit on colored Sleomargarine and @ 20 per id swins ig, sopeleted ud thi cvadine the LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY es La Savole Adrift. NORFOLK, VA., ANG. %—La Savole, m Cherbourg to of the French New Y Line, rk is driftini about In Guif sireum off Cape Henry, unable to come in because of the contrary gale. vnpartel. was compelled to abandon the big steamer and put in here The tug for harbor, Cable Disables Steamer. NORFOLK, VA. AUG. eteamer Washington, bound fo folk, to-day fouled ‘the cable United States torpedo-boat anchored off Old Point, eon Wound around ‘her. towed here. Girl Relative Shot Him, NEVADA CITY, CAL. AUG. 26.- Robert L, Wimberly has been shot and Killed at Downlev lle hy his sister-In- teen yea w, Rertha Rennett. ae old, The cnuee Is not berly was killed with bi Mise Pennett, who Ww placed under arrest. refust Five Drowned In Flood § CHARLESTON, W. VA., AUG. The house of Mr. Pickering was wi own, Wi own revol to talk. away and he and ‘his four children by a sudden rise in Elk were drow River to-lay Blaze in Furniture Factory. NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 26.—Fire et building occupied m Manufacturing ‘om- Bank s' of furnitui i this noon caused a loss ¢ Meteal owned by John L, Gobin Clinson County, closed {ts doom to-day. Immedistely mated at $35,000, | Bank Closes Its Doors. ILL, AUG 26—The Bank ai! FOUR DEPUTIES ON A HUNT FOR nN E. MADDEN Turfman Had Been Declared in Contempt of Court— Warrant Is Issued. If ett toga and answer questions f in the trial of his wife's suit for separation and alimony, which !s set for Sept, 11 In Cincinnat The or was at the Sar: before the Commissioner, but on the vice of his counsel refused to ane questions on the ground that the York Supreme Court had no Jurisdiction over a mere v ltor to the State, Motion was made before Justice Burr, in Brooklyn, to have Madden declared fler a red- hot argument between the opposing lawyers, Justice Burr adjudged him 1 contempt, He fixed the punishment to-day, and a warrant was immediately placed in the bands of Under Sheriff Gray, who despatched four deputies to unt the turfman, LOVE PHILTREFAILS, GIRL TAKES POISON in contempt of Court, and Poon Hypnotized Her, She saya, and She Wants to Die. Johanna Schuer, a wor her home, No, 343 Hospital, ‘The poilce way that the woman's mind has been turned by the bellef that she Was hypnotized through drinking a love philtre, purchased from a fortune-(eller with the Idea of winning back the love of a former sweetheart The tune-teller, ——SS— Se SHOOTS HIS WIFE AFTER SEPARATION, Fred Renn Goes inflicts Wounds Which May Prove Fatnl, ¥red Reum, a laborer, this afternoon | Attempted to murder his wife, M: No, %8 Willis avenue, He shot her in the lefe breast, in the right arm end in the mouth. Reum Was arrestet and the woman In Hospital, where | r condition ix considered serious, The Reums sepirare d his with to-day for the ‘of secing: five years. ————— EOLCOTT HURTS FLoun TRADE, | Advices! SEATTLE, WASH, AUG, ved by a large Mae oe compu this city flour trai between, Pacine Sanat por and Ohin: fave dn | since Jul a suly ie ‘tad acis for POOL SENDS RICH MAN TO ISLAND; WIFE'S PLEA FAILS Henry Simon Offered Certified Check or Real Estate Se- curity Without Avail, LOST tild JOB BY STAYING HOME T0 COMB WIFE STAIR John Gamley Asked Court to Decide Whether He Should Keep It Up. er of four alert deputies sent out by Under Sheriff Gray, of Brook- . can get thelr clamps on John E Madden, turfman, he will spend Sunday ymond Street Jall, and twenty- nine days beyond that, fine of $2, for contempt of the Su- preme Court in not obeying tts order to appear before a commissioner in Sara- Adams Street was called upon wisdom of Solo- Jolin Gamley a appeared before ing to know usband to always comb the wite's hair. gi Pulton mar- has a lone sult of before he Magistrate Pool to-day dealt out some New York jus' c Market Court. for faiing to support although the Police Court, both demand besides paying a husband and she ‘ fused a ball estate secu- want him sent a bond backed by serted that he didn't ried six months Wich was John’s pride use and discharged a woman accused of vs grancy half an hour before she 4 was served on Madden, who es. He appeared doesn’t know how to fx iin I have to enough to} have lost sey- 1 married ida,” first victim of the Pool brand what disposition was to be case of assault eral good jobs Ida Nodded Assent. Joon talked Ida r head in ass charge that she didn't know how to fix against his wife, Sa Uved happily your husband don’ x declared Magistrate Pool to Mra, Simon. “He ts a good husband everything I want,’ treat you righ and gives me replied Mrs, 8i- | ever learned it at home," ventured “He 4s nothing of the kind.’ the Magisirate. plaine of non-suport against him Against her Simon offered to fled check for $1, would not lis “And she never learned how to cook, t to sew ep, to do nothin’ "You make out at ave his wife asked] ot » but L an of thirty, attempted to commit suiclde to-day at st Fifty-elghth Atreet. Sh8e sipped carbolle acid from a tumbler with a spoon. Before she had taken sufficeint poison to kill her she fainted and was removed to Flower Is showed that dowdy?” “John hesitate Ida for a yes, that's y dered her discharay, appeared with her and when. th “mp dressing down. “LKILLED MY HUSBAND, "WIFE : TES POLE BUFFALA, N. ¥., Aug. 24—Mrs Car rie Honer, widow of John A. h former proprietor . to-day walked int et station and told Capi. | Reagan that she had murdered her hus- Honer died yesterday after an 1 nes of several death had boen diagno gestion and heart disease. told the police that she had given 2 husband a done of carpo.! te acid, Why He Is Not a Dude, ore T took | Spetiber uc 1 can't] After s sin uy Bucks and buttons ott ‘iny) trousers e decided that jt wae Win you Lt was w dude, ce are looking for the for- WU of combing her ha § for a course ued John to Wa Her Home and hard and learn ay course without delay LAMP CAUSES EXPLOSION, Noy Seriously Burned by Naphita Witllam sir das acute in \ month ‘ago, = home he told the vos his child, @ little girl of naphiha in the yacht to {don't know why 1 did tt. Was dead myself, Detectives were | to Investigate the eae Deputy Medical exam.ned the body and reporied there Were no. suriuce tndicattons of Ho ordered the body for an autopsy. of Mra, Honer si have, ‘been affected by t taken to Roosevelt a bastly Yi : once set to work UMBRIA NEARS PORT, rd liner Umbria, pool and Qu am its agent in Hongkong| miner Howland siate that the Chines boycott of Ame joan goods has completely paralyzed ¢ siclegrapi igntantp at fan a wil probably dock about 8 o'clock toe reins is WITTE HANDS ULTIMATUM OF of Sakhalin, but Pay No Indemnity. th Navy-Yard in thelr moto! were arriving. natum of the Cz him the ul Petersburg 1s. that Russia will to the division of the be made to Japan sian pris shall be p KAISER STANDS BERLIN, Preas to-day communicatt nthe Foreign Oley Associated Pr ports over the eppositi oT eo mmeditat of Py Roose are absurd. The E gards the with admirati interest in the e, in whose begin personally ‘assisted WEDDED POOR GIRL AND THEN si Causes Investigation of Marriage Brokers. pare for the Insp a charge th ers on thi marrylng young men has pri grand J riage br urlng the cash. Celia 8; broker, of No. 83 Rivington st giving the name of Max Silverman, deserted her in th: her savings of years n and her att ir a regular business of mar and aling thelr money. | Not Real Name, They Say. They have ¢ ered that aor name {is Max § inick A thi a wife and four children, with wi he Mves while not activel: n of marrying ay a servant, had sa cone’ Thuna, who said that for $0 he wo! get her a husband worth $10,000, he only trouble," Bp 8a. id she had Keeper If he i money, In 4 troduced hi Silverman Pike of The own an hour Afteen ywing her the man dis bank thai he had $1,000 on dep displayed a check for $1,000, All of | | too! oftice ‘0. 1% Vater Money hy contract dn Th Vy HAN Boay et BY An ui Lain y ond CUBAN “TATESMAN DEAD, HAVANA, Aug. dua r of Public to-day, Ho had been a ¥ sears of a cancerous Bt and notwithstandin, a und its accompanying dis: ment, wi one of the most ei jtneinbers of the government CZAR TO JAPS Russia Will Divide Island PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. %—Tho session of the peace conference sched- uled for three o'clock this afternoon, began seven minutes after that hour. The Russian plentpotentiaries reached ‘ar short- ly before five o'clock. The Japanese ten miutes behind th Russians tn It ig believed Mr. Witte took with] Ths.) are few crimes committed. Then the next week, for according to a despatch from St.| and of Sak- hatin, and that Mberal payments: shall or the car of Rus byt that no Indemnity BY ROOSEVELT 2%6.—The Associated d the following ‘The Forelgn Office empowers the ss to declare that all re- n of the Em- nperor ndeavors of the Preaidcat und takes the greatest cosas of the labors for the Em- STOLE SAVINGS Charge of Celia Speilberger Assistant District-Attorney Lockwood tion of the . mare ast side make a women with money for the sole purpose of se : iIberger, of No. 89 Sixth sireet, acousés Max Thuna, a marriage eet, of | Introducing and marrying her to a man who days with $09, Investigation by the Speilberger wom- 8. C, Noot, of No. Broadway, has convinced them that the man known as Silverman madk ng women has | om nyaged in 1 Speiiberger out of her earnings ed $450 when she \ied she would marry, She visited Thuna told Miss is that he keeps a fine big of days Thuna in- —_ CRIME Wie UZZLES JEROME ee eh 'District- Attorney Admits That It Exists, but Cannot Explain It—Fresh Outbreak of Daring Robberies in Various Parts of Town. District-Attorney Jerome declared to-day that his . record of crime during the past week showed an in- creased number of offenses against the law. He said: “* By following my chart I find that crime comes in waves. Some weeks the city is peaceable and there no apparent reason, there will be an increase.’ This is a psychological condition that I will not attempt to explain.’ 2 Every day swells the list of crimes committed In New York, some of them in the very heart of the busiest sections of the city. On the stairs of the Sixty-sixth street elevated station in Columbus aves,. nue Miss Lilllan Williams was knocked down at 6 A. M. to-day by a West Indian negro, beaten and robbed. A badger woman became so bold that she attempted to rob a detective in the Tenderloin. She had spent « busy night along Broadway before she’ was arrested, and is believed to have robbed many victims. ++ —_—_—_ — GIRL THROTTLED AND ROBBED ON “L” STAIRS. y of the Sixty-sixth nue. then through Sixt, . directly In front of! into Central Park W, The cabmati ant and under the gained on him and, going up Central of a group of cabmen, Willlam) Park West, was only half a block be- rs, a gigantic West India negro, | hind, and yelling “Stop thief!” Police: early to-day throttled Miss Lillian Will-| man McConnell heard the cries and at janis, a delicate young girl, struck her enty-second street nabbed the high- in the face and Knocked her down and) wayman, seventh street }ran off with her purse containing $6 Miss Williams sprang from the cab and a diamond ring, and den Willlam Rogers was one of the cab-| men who saw the assault, As the negro fled he darted up the stairway, carried the fainting girl in his arms and put her in his cab, then drove off at top speed in pursuit of the fleeing negro. Thief Caught in Central Park. The negro darted up Columbus ave HUGS AND KISSES COST DETECTIVE HIS CASH. o Sergeants Tunney and Shea| 1fOne. Bho finally was tanded at the Sergea'ne corner of Forty-| est Forty-seventh street station. The nd Broadway at 4.00] found Tunney's money in nD. An assortment a cab drove| he bosom of her « up and a tall and stately young won 118 of various denominations found alighted. ‘Throwing her arms er parts of her clotning showed nney's on ghe hugged him impul- sohighwaywoman with the hug sively, weeping just a litte, and waile| /#d spent a busy nigit alone Broadway, she showered him with kisses she soft- reprimanded: i did you stay away, dear? I for you all nig’ ham nded her purse from the negro, tknow you. I haven't got your he replied. » pocketbook was not on chim, A was made and it was found in 5 plot in the rear of the Dakoia nt When Miss Wiliams open- Hit she found only The diamond was missing, ntity Detect ore standing third — street oelock this morning w! natron Fi 1 have been searching Don't ever treat me so again glad to find you." Tunney wasn't tn the least bit of a hurry to establish a case of mistaken “Sorry I'm not the right one, sald Tunney, » dete maybe we could help you find hare q words seemed to startle the Let UsiGlo he You, woman greatly, She hardiy waited to “Value” is situated three ay "Thank you" befors she climbed blocks east of Broadway GOS pail WAR delving ot Ha on Walker St Tihereis a {ito the cab Tunney canmeit a fash of | bigger price” blocking hosiery, Somet mut her hos your way to the nearer made the detectivey feel for his money location, Yes, bigger by oll contalning $80 was missing 34'4% on the same mer- ney darted after the and clmbed in, He had a stre strus chandise, © wiih the brunette, wag was big and Moe Levy & Co., FIGHTING TO GET | J 119 t0 125 Watker St. Three blocks east of Broadway. 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