The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-14
LONG HUNT FOR A
GET-NED-QUICK MAN
SChatChen introduced Him.
Marriage Followed at Once;
In Three Days He Fled.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Mrs. E. Dorf
of No. 215 East One Hundred and Thfr-
teenth street, is hunting far and wide
for one Henry Weston, who a year ago
in March married her daughter, Lillian.
and three days afterward. she alleges
left her after receiving the $1,000 that
was the brides wedding dowry- Mrs.
Dorf had warrant sworn out against
Weston in the Jefferson Market court
last April, charging him with grand
larceny, and since then has devoted all
or her time to tracing him. She says
she has found about twenty-five other
women who have been married by the
same man under another name, and
VINO nave been deserted after his re-
celv1ng their money and their jewels.
About year ago." said Mrs Dorf
i was approached by a. schatchen who
said that she had a nice young man
TOT my daughter, and If Lillian was
Wiling TO be married she would bring
him around to my house.
Loved Him at First Sight.
"The next day she brought a man
whom she introduced as Henry Wes-
ton, dentist. He was a fluent taIlxer
and prepossessing. Lillian immediately
1eIl In love with him, and I made haste
10 inform my husband of the young
man."
Mr.. Dorf is a clothing dealer on upper
Third avenue. He said:
Last March while l was in my store
my wife came running around to me
ana SAID there was young man up at
the mouse who wanted to marry NV
daughter and that l should come home
Immediately. On the way to the house
my wife told me that Weston did not
nave money enough to buy Lillian a
ring and asked me to get one. You
know nowadays the women rule the
men, so what could do but obey?
Il went to a jewelry store and then
came nome. Weston was there and I
was introduced to him. He was fine
appearing, wore gold pince-nez eye
glasses, was tall and we'll dressed. He
SAID ne was ready to marry my daugh-
ter that very night. and my wife told
me to go out and find a rabbi / got the
Kew. Dr. Goldsmith and he performed
the ceremony. The next day drew out
$1,000 from the bank and gave it to my
new son-in-law to start in married life.
furnished them a fiat at No. BIT West
seventeenth street, and they went in
for housekeeping
"A couple of days later my daughter
came home and said that her husband
had deserted her"
Il VI tAS last year L nave hunted high
and low for some trace of Weston"
says Mrs. Dorf. I'm my search L have
come across many more women who
have been dupes of this man.
Il Will furnish to the police a LIST OF
many more of the women he has mar
rled and swindled. | have found out
that he operates on the East side. He
can speak eight languages, and his
speciality is marrying widows and
young girls who have just come over
from Europe. L have the names of five
OF these women whom he has duped
Early last year the police officials in
Long Island City notified me that they
were also looking for a man who had
married many women in the Long ISL
and towns and that they had received
the same letters from him as my daugh-
ter had received.
My clues have led me nearly all over
Long Island, New Jersey and New York
and l have always encountered the
same description Of the man who mar
ried my daughter. He had black hair.
wore eyeglasses and was quite tall"