The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-17
A REMARKABLE STORY.
DID MIR. Waldorf Marry His Own
Daughter?
So Says q Han Whose Name Rabbi PuIver-
macher Does Not ISnow, but on Whose
Word He Says lie Relics.

NEW York, July PA remarkable story
OF the marriage OF q man to his own daughter
each being i'll complete ignorance of their re-
lations, appeared in the brooklyn Standard
Union yesterday 1t is related that q Polish
jew, whose name is given; as Isaac Waldorf,
and who is said to be wealthy, met a woman
about Is years Of age, and with unmistakable
Jewish features, on Broadway eighteen months
ago. His attention was drawn to the girl from
the fact that she was weeping and seemed to
be in distress. He spoke to the girl, and asked
her the cause of her trouble. She told him
that she had just come from Vienna where she
had left her mother behind her. and while wan
dering from Castle Garden she had lost her way
Her name. she said, was Maud Sterling. Mr.
Waldorf, who is represented as widower
with three children, took the girl TO his home
and, finding that warm attachment had
sprung up between her and the children soon
installed her rs housekeeper. Mr.. Waldorf
fell in love with the pretty stranger and with
III SIX months made her his wife, the marriage
taking place in orthodox jewish fashion. The
young wife frequently wrote to her mother
and with the consent of her husband sent her
money and other presents. Finally, when she
was about to become a mother herself, she
sent a letter to her mother urgently pressing
her to come to New York and enclosing a
ticket for the voyage. The mother arrived in
due time, reaching the house of her daughter
during her husbands absence and q few DAYS
after her confinement When Mr.. Wal
dorf reached the house the old lady from
Vienna almost tainted when their eyes
met. WHO is that MANI" she asked her
daughter "He is my husband" she replied.
With tears streaming down her face, the
mother gave her the startling piece of informa-
ton that she had married her own father and
that he was her husband. The story then
details how Waldorf, while serving in the
German army twenty years ago, married o
woman he did not love, and whom he deserted
i'll two months. He then came to this country
and in five years married n second wife, by
whom he had three children. He was pros
porous in business, happy in his domestic re-
lationS and obliViouS of his wife in Germany.
The latter moved from her native village to
Vienna, changed her name and never told
her daughter, who was born eight months
after her husbands flight, the name of her
father, or what had become of him. When 10
years old the girl came to this country to better
her condition. In the report the name OF Rabbi
Lewis Pulvermacher, who has charge of the
Jewish congregation worshipping in tho insti-
tute in Washington street. Brooklyn, is men.
toned, and it is stated that he has been in
possession of the facts for some time, and had
been consulted by the sorrowing husband and
father as TO what should be done,
Rabbi Pulvormacher was seen last night ut
his iewelry store POP Atlantic avenue, Brook
Ign, by u reporter of the Sun, and questioned
as to his knowledge of the strange story. He
said: II can tell you all know about tho
matter in few words. Although l do not
know the names of the persons or where they
live, l have no doubt whatever that the story,
strange as it seems, is true. The facts sub
stantially as they appear in the report, were
tod me about five weeks ago by man ON
whose word | place the utmost reliance. /
have known this man for long time, but do
not know his name or where he can be found.
This man has called on me three or four times
in the past five weeks, and he has referred to
the case on each occasion. He was in the store
this morning and told me that the man who
married his daughter was under arrest In New
York. He did not say on what charge, but
suppose his arrest has some connection with
his marriage. The persons all live in New
York, and / understand that the case has been
referred to Grand Rabbi Jacob Joseph of
Wilma Russian Poland, who arrived in New
York on Saturday. So far as tho Jewish law
is concerned, there will not DO much difficulty
in arriving at n settlement but tho American
law, to which the man is amenable, may in
troduce some complications / have no idea
where my informant can be found, but l fully
believe his statement"
Grand Rabbi Jacob Joseph said last night
that he knew nothing whatever of such q case.
A Sun reporter questioned about twenty Jews
in the seventh and tenth wards last evening,
all of whom said they had heard the story, but
did not know the names of the persons. They
did not believe tho story, and had paid little
attention. Some of them had heard that the
father was q tailor, and that the girl was in
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