The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-24
A HOT TIME FOR
HUMELTENBERG
The Man Who Married Hattie
Voeller Wanted for
Bigamy.
Especial to the Advertiser.1

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15-There is a
hot time awaiting a present resident of
Honolulu when he comes here. William
f. Humeltenberg is accused of bisamy
by his wife, who lives in San Francisco.
She says that in October 1901, he mar
ried Miss Hattie Voeller. of Honolulu.
and that he had never gotten a divorce
from her whom he married ten years
ago The matter is now in the hands
of attorneys. and the police authorities
may take it up. The Chronicle. which
publishes the story exclusively this
morning, says:
1t was through an advertisement OF a
local fortune teller that Mrs. Grace HUI
meItenberg, who, with her two children,
lives at as Golden Gate avenue. learned
that her husband had married another
woman in Honolulu without the formal
ity of obtaining a divorce from his wife
in this city, with whom he continued TO
correspond after having married the
second one in Honolulu. William f
Humeltenberg. who is accused of having
deserted his wife and two children and
married another woman in Honolulu, Is
a native of San Francisco. where he Is
very well known. His father, Meinrad
HumeltenbeTg, is the superintendent OF
the Golden State and Miners Iron Works
and reputed to be wealthy. VIII Humei-
tenberg as he is generally known, was
employed as machinist and engineer. at
times in the foundry of which his father
is superintendent and at other foundrleS,
and was also for time salesman for
Miller. Sloss & Scott, and for the George
W. Gibbs Company. About ten years
ago he married Grace Cummings, a very
handsome and well educated woman.
Two children were born to them-Har-
old, nine years of age, and Dorothy, who
is about eight.
In last April the husband ard father
left here for Honolulu, having been
advised by his father that the Islands
offered a better field for him. He found
work readily, and wrote to his wife quite
often and very affectionately, though,
in response to her urgent pleas, he only
sent her $40 for her support and that or
their children during the entire time OF
his absence He referred to the hard
ship of being separated from wife and
children, and in one letter he intlmated
that he would have the family join him
at the Islands. Since then the wife mas
received positive proof that her husband
has married a Miss Hattie Noeller at
Honolulu
Miss Hattie Voeler. a young woman
of Honolulu, while visiting in San Fran
cisco in the spring of 1901, patronized
one of the local fortune tellers, who pre-
dicted that her visitor would marry in
| Island home met Humeltenberg, who
posed as a bachelor and he made love
| to the young woman. Miss Noeller re
membered the prediction of the fortune
| teller imagined that her sutton was the
affinity the seer had discerned in the
dim future. accepted him, and on Octo-
Der 1st the couple Were married. The
young wife was delighted over the
event, and evidently having faith in the
predictions of the fortune teller wrote
! to the latter informing her of the happy
! marriage and incloSed in her letter the
announcement of the marriage. cut from
one of the Honolulu papers. The fortune
teller made extensive use OF the lnIor-
. nation. and advertised the whole a1aif
lliberally reproducing the letter and no
! tice of marriage in the daily papers OF
San Francisco That attracted the at
tention of Mrs. Humeltenberg, who at
first regarded the whole affair as Joke.
| At last she was persuaded to call on the
fortune teller and inquire whether the
letter and announcement from Honoiuiu
were genuine or merely myths gotten M
for advertising purposes. She was SHOWN
the letter signed by the new Mrs. HUI
meItenberg formerly Miss Noeiler.
She then consulted Attorney Joseph
Rothschild, who made thorough m
vestigation and obtained all the PROOF
that FumeltenJerg married the Homo
lulu woman without having obtained a
divorce from his San Francisco we
Among the papers he received Is dupI''
cate of the marriage license issued &c
Humeltenberg. the report of the mar
rfaee sent by the officiating minister
Rev. w NJ Kincaid. to the Registrar
and a letter from Florence T. Yarrow
assistant of the Central Union Churcf
at Honolulu. in which she says that KEY
Mr., Kincafd performed the marriaSf
ceremony of w F. Humeltenberg an6
Miss Hattie Voeller a his home on &c
tober l. 1901. and that Miss Noeller Is
, member of the Christian Endeavor SO
ciety.
In the last letter which Mrs. Humel
tenberg received from her husband, az
, ed December 10. 1901, he wishes his WIZ
and children a merry Christmas, and eN
nresses the hope to be reunited with hi
: family very soon. and then contin les a
, follows: u have charge of the 1nhChin
l shop at the an The MANAGER told m
that If I IVES married | coulc orlng m
, family 10 the vlart.-i1n anI have
l cottage and a cook furnished free.