Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-20

A sWINDLER WHO HAD SIX WIVES LIVING
AND WAS ABOUT TO MARRY TWO MORE
singular procession filed into the office az
assistant District Attorney Leary YESTERDAY.
There were six women, all dressed in black
one had baby in her arms. Two were elderly
and good looking. and the other two were
hardly more than girls. They came together
to the district attorneys office to pour out the
of one man. They all wanted to talk at once
ana II was wit h some difficulty that Mr.. Leary
could persuade them to allow one of them to
se e esd STORY har sh An Gser
ing al No. l45 east seth street. Several mon h
ago she married AdolPh Hoffman. alias A.
Grunwald, alias A. HOusman, alias A Eek
stein: she thought the first was his real name.
Recently she had discovered that her husband
was married TO at least five other wives in dit
1erent parts OF the city, and there were sew
the real number of his different martial
unlonS was not less than dozen. She had
pror ght with her some Of his wives, whom she
had hunted up.
She told how she made the discovery of her
husbands perfdy and polygamy. Not long
ago she found in his pockets some letters and
advertlSem ntS. In the latter he said he
wanted hOusekeeper, calling himself rich
widOwer. The LET erS were answers to these
advertisements. Not understanding how be
could want any other housekeeper than her
self she determined to solve the mystery. She
learned that he visited different women upon
different nights and. further, that each claim
eu W Dc MS wire. linen Tor the nrSt time she
discovered how he had swindled her When
they were married she had $40 in the Blocker
Street Bank. He told her that the bank was
weak, and she therefore took the money out
and put 1t into his hands. That was the last
she ever saw of the $500. She had him arrested
for swindling her, and he now lies in the
tombs awaiting trial on tits charge.
Ills method, as Antonia Giger said she at
terWard learned from the other unfortunate
women, was to put in the Stats Z2ituno, and
otter German papers, an advertisement ask
ing for respectable hOusekeeper to take care
OF the home of a rich widower. He would call
upon those who answered his advertisement,
and ii he found that they had money he would
propose to each one in turn that she should be
married to him. After he had got possession
OF their money the women would see him sci.
dom, he giving different excuses to each.
MIR. Leary took only the afiidayitS of two of
the women, these being sufficient to found an
indictment for bigahy These affidavits were
those OF Antonio Giger, who said her marriage
took place June Is, ISIS, the ceremony being
performed by the pastor of a church in iQtn
street. The other affidavit was by Fannie Eek
stein, OF No. 1896 Third avenue, who was mar
ried to Hoffman August o. 1873, by the Rev.
MIR. Schultz, OF Protestant Episcopal church
in SD street. The other women seemed dis
appointed because they could do nothing to
help punish the offender. The two young girls
were not married to Hoffman, but were en-
gagged to be, and the full number of six wives
was made up by counting Que now in Europe
and another in Greenwich street, who did not
join the party. 1t is understood that the mat
ter Is to be brought at once before the grand
jury.-[N. Y. Tribune, 18th.