The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-10-10
GETTING MARRIED As A sPECULA.
IIUS.
A SHlndler Who Rad SIX Wives LiT-
Ing ana was About 10 Marry
Two Wore.

a singular procession filed into the
Office of Assistant District Attoruey
Leary yesterday. There were siI
women, all dressed il black one bad
q baby IN her arms. Two were elderly
ana very large, two were younger
sprlghtly, and goOd-looking and the
other two were hardly more than
girls. They came together to the
District Attorneys Office to pour out
the six vials of their wrath upon the
devoted head Of one man. They all
wanted to talk at once, and it was
with some difficulty that Mr.. Leary
could persuade them to allow one OF
them to tell her story uninterrupted.
Antonia Giger, she said, was her name
and she had been Lying at No, I4j
East Thirty. ninth street. Several
months ago she married Adolph Hoff.
man, alias A. GrunwsId, alias a.
Housman, alias A. Eckstein. She
thought the first was his real name.
Recently she had discovered that her
husband Was married to at least five
other wives In different parts OF the
city, and there were several districts
to hear from yet. She thought the
real number OF his different marital
unions was not less than q dozen. She
had brought with her some Of his
wives, whom she hunted up.
She told how she made the discOv-
cry of Eer husbands perfidy and poly.
gamy. Not long ago she found in his
pockets some letters and advertise
ments. In the latter he said he want
ed housekeeper, calling himself a
rich widOwer. These letters were
answers to these advertisements.
Not understanding how he could
want any other housekeeper than
herself, she determined to solve the
mystery. she learned that he visited
different women upon different
nights, and further, that each claimed
to be his wife. Then for the first
time she discovered how he had
swindled her. When they were mar
ried she had $500 in the Bleecksr
Street Bank. He told her that the
bank was weak, and she therefore
took the money out aud put it into
his hands. That was the last sbe
ever saw OF the 5000. She had him
arrested for swindlinR her, and he
now lies in the TOmbs awaiting trial
on this charge.
His method, as AntOnia Giger said
she afteTWard learned from other un-
fortunate women, was to put in the
Stddts ZeitItHg, and other German
papers, an advertisement asking for q
respectable hOuseKeeper to take care
Of the home of rich widOWer. He
would call upon those who answered
his advertisement, and IL he found |
that they had money, he would pro-
pose to each one in turn that she |
should be married to him. After he |
had got possession of her money the |
women would see him seldom, he |
giving different excuses to each.
Mr.. Lesry took only the affidavIts |
Of two Of the women, these being |
to found an indictment for 1
bigamy. These affidsvits were those |
OF AntOnia Giger, who said her mar.
riage took place June 18th, 1873, the /
ceremony being performed by q pastor
Of church In Fortieth street. The
other affidavit was by Fannie Eiks-
tine, Of No. ], ,296 Third avenue, who
was married to Hoffman Aug. 26th,
1873, by the Rev. Mr.. Schultz, Of q
Protestant Episcopal Church in
street. The other wo.
men seemed to be disappointed be-
cause they could do nothing to help
punish the offender. The two young
girls were not married to Hoffman
but were engaged to be. and the full
Of six wives was made by
one now in ElrOpe aud an
other in Greenwich street, who did /
not join the party. 1t is understood
that the matter is TO be brought at
1nce before a grand jury.-NeJO York
Tribune