New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-19
NOT CONTENT WITH SIX WIVES.
GETTING MARRIED AS A SPECULATION
A swINDLER WHO HAD SIX WIVES LIVING AND WAS
ARoI-T To MARRY TWO MORE


sWINDLER WHO HAD SIX WIVES LIVING AND WAS
ABOUT TO MARRY TWO MORE.
A singular procession filed INTO the Office of
Assistant District-Attoney Leary yesterday There
we're six women all dressed In black; had 0aby
in her arms Two elderly and very large, two were
Younger sprghy. and good looking, and the other two
were hardly than girls They came togethert 10
the office pour out the six Walls
OF their wrath upon devoted head of They
all wanted to talk at once, and 1t was with some diff
Guilty that Mr. Leary could persuade them TO allow
Of them tell her story uninterrupted Antonio Giger
she said, her name, and she had been living at No
I45 East Thirty-ninthst. Several months she mar
ried Adoph Hoffman, alias A. Grunwald. alias A. Hous
man. alias A Eclstein; she thought the frat was his
real name Recently she had discovered that her hus
band was TO at least five other wives In diner
ent parts OF the city, and several districts TO
hear from yet. She thought the real number OF his
different martial unions not less than dozen. She
mad brought With her OF his wives, whom she had
hunted up.
She told bow she made che discovery OF her husbands
perfdy and poygamy. Not long ago she found In his
pockets some letters and advertisements In the latter
be said that he wanted hOusekeeper, calling himself
rich wldOWer The letters answers TO these ad-
yertsements Not understanding how be could want
any other hOusekeeper than hersel she determined to
solve the mystery. She learned that he visited different
women upon different nights, and, further that each
covered how he had swindled her. Wien they we're
married she had 5000 in the Blocker Street
Rank He told her that the bank weak,
and she therefore took the out and put 1t into his
hands That was the she Of the $780, She
had him arrested for swindng her. and he now lies In
the Tombs awaiting t1al on this charge.
His method, as AutOnia Giger said she afteTward
learned from the other unfortunate women to put
IN the Stats Zeitaa other German papers, an adj
vertsemen asking for respectable housekoeper to take
care of the home rich wtdower He would call upon
those who answered his advertisement and II he found
that they had money. he would propose 20 each in
turn that she should be married 10 him. After he had
got possession Of her money the would see him
| seldom h. giving different excuses 10 each.
Mr. Leary only the adavits OF Two OF the women
thase being sufficient found indictment for bRamy
These afidavits those Of Antonio Gger, who said
her marriage took place June 49, 1873 the ceremony
being performed by the pastor Of church In FOrtieth
a. The other affidavit by Fannie Eckstein, OF No
| 296 Third-aVe. who was married 10 Hoffman August
90 1873 by the Rev. Mr.. Schulz Of Protestant Eps
| eOpal Church In Eighty-third-st. The other women
seemed disappointed because they could do nothing e
help punish the offender The two young girls were not
married Hoffman but engaged to be- and the full
number OF six wives made mp by counting one now
In Europe and another Greenwloh-st, who did moi
Ou party IL is understood that the matter s 20 be
| brought at once before the Grand Jury.