The evening times., 1897-05-24
MANY TIMES A CRIMINAL
Side Lights on the Career of
Eugene Fleiseher.
IT CLOSES WITH SUICIDE
Some Sensational Developments in
the Pittsburg Real Estate Dealers
and Accuses Hitn OF Embezzlement.
Suspected OF Committing Murder.

Pittsburg, Pa. May "a -Sensa ional
features are piling up around the nlys-
terious case of Eugene s. Fleischer, the
prelninent real estate dealer. whose body
was found Thursday night in the water
under a lonely. bridge at Silver Lake.
His pockets were turned inside out, to
give the idea Of rebbery and murder.
Instead, it may have been the final act
Of man, the curtain of whose past life
is Just being drawn aside He had been
living here an upright citizen, prominent
in lodge circles and once a candidate for
alderman His tragic death led TO the dis
covery OF q son and former wife at Al
toona, Pa. La speaking Of his father the
son says.
He left Tnilidaysburg about fifteen
years ago, when was about four years
old He left nly mother and me and went
away with a woman by the name of A nnie
Williams, / think, who is his wife now
/ had not seen my father for fifteen years
until last June, when went to see him
He was surprised to see me, but treated
me very cool When he left Hollidaysburg he
belong 10 him, but TO other parties. My
mother is his second wife, and he has his
third"
His mother, who W as restored tOher maid
en- name, is Miss Louisa Warner, of Al
toona She makes Il statement tonight
accusing the murdered man OF desertion,
higamy, embezzleInent and Of having Teen
connected with the muIder of an unknown
man in 1870 at Hollidaysburg. The wom-
an saws she was married to Flcischer
in 1877; he was then an insurance agent
in HolHdaysbrng In 1885 she says he dis
appeared, Ia king with him much money be-
longing to the insurance company and "A
IlIssO1ute woman named Annie Williams "
She traced them to Pittsburg, where she
found them living as man and wife. She
applied for divorce, which was granted
FIeischer had lett her with fCm-y -year-old
child, without "a cent 50 they had TO de-
pend on charity.
The Warner woman VS. Christian House,
Of Altoona a, has a letter on the alleged muir
leT in ! $50, which has never been made
public 1t is from a Mrs Fox, wife of
FIeisCheTs ; formt business partner in the
wagon building business in Holl-daySburg.
In this letter Mrs. Fox says her husband,
then dead. had On his dealhbed confessed
that he and FIcischer had decoyeda strang-
er with much money TO a lonely place in
the mountains and killed him, then hanging
the corpse 10 tree to make TIE theory of
suicide strong. The finding Of a dec ou-
posed body swinging on a II ee Oh Chimney
Rock. a wild part of the mountains, in SO,
is distinctly remembered by the Blair
county people.
The present Mrs. FieisCher is the Annie
Williams referred to by the Warner
woman. In an interview she says:
II first met Mr. F1escher about fifteen
years 70 at Hollda ysburg. where l visit
ed. After the death OF his first wife we
were married, in Johnstown. August l,
1898, by Squire Jones, For years after
our marriage his daughter Mary, now Mrs.
Tottcn, lived with US. She resides now in
Hutchinson. Kas. / never heard that my
husband had deserted a wife for me.
never knew he had another son beSifles
Frank, who Yorksin the Girard House Mr..
Fleischcr often went back to Holidays
burg, nd he certainly would haye been
accused Of stealing that money if ne had
done So
1t is said that FleisCher married Louisa
Warner on the same day he buried his
first wife He insured many farmers
in an insurance company which had been
dead for years, flying from Hollidaysburg,
it is alleged. with $4,000, when it got
too warm for him. taking the Williams
woman, now wife No. 3, with him.