Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-08-25
THIS MAN AS
BAD AS HOCH.
Swiss Dentist Has Wives All
Over the United States
Is Now Indicted.
TRYING TO CATCH HIM.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Dr. Georgt'
Witzhoff, or Winnitzhoif. a Swiss
chemist and dentist. is being sought
by many women in various parts OF
the country, all of whom declare he
is a glib tongued adventurer who mar
ried them only to rob and desert them
An indictment charging Withhold
with bigamy has been found in New
York, and District Attorney Jerome
is trying to catch him.
Facts in the possession Of Mr.. Je
rome and Attorneys John II. Rogan
and Benjamin Franklin, both of III
Nassau street, show that Witzholf has
been going about the country marry
1ng every trusting woman who would
have him. In the cities he has visited
he has left a trail of weeping wives.
His record is only equaled by the en-
terprising bigamist Johann Hoch. the
Chicago murderer now under sentence
of death.
Attorney Rogan is counsel for Miss
Anna Parkhill, a Brooklyn girl of con
siderable means, and it was he who
laid the matter of her deception be
fore the grand jury. BY Il strange
coincidence Attorney Franklin, who
has officesSadjoining Rogan's, was en-
gagged about the same time by Miss
Dora Dorf of 2027 Third VENUE. M
other victim, to prosecute Witzhoff.
Hardly had communication between
the two unfortunate women and the
lawyers been established when Miss
Eta Randall, formerly Of 2S Forest
street, Somerville, Mass, and now of
1913 Summer street, Boston, wrote that
she too had also married WitZhoff and
been robbed by him.
Upon the three women comparing
notes the identity of the rascal who
had abused their confidence and blight
ed their lives was fixed beyond ques-
ton, and each learned enough from the
other to lay in the hands of the attor-
neys a record of Witzhoff, showing
that he contracted marriages in Kan
sas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, st.
Paul, Long Island City, in Newark,
the Oranges and Menlo Park, n. j.
Witzhoff married Miss Parkhill in
Brooklyn in September Il year ago.
Shortly afterwGrd her father died,
and then he induced her by threats to
lend him $1,000 belonging to the estate
left by Mr.. Parkhill. A few days
later he disappeared. He had repre-
sented himself to the Parkhill family
and married Miss Parkhill under the
name of DR.. George A. Westhoff.
When he married Miss Randall in
Session he called himself DR.. George
A. Muller. He said then that he was a
dental surgeon by profession and also
a doctor in chemistry. Miss Randall
lent him $500 for the expenses of the
honeymoon, because he said he was
temporarily embarrassed by the non
arrival of a remittance from Switzer-
land. In a few weeks he disappeared.
Since then his victim has borne him Il
child and has been compelled by cir
cumstances to support herself .as a
stenographer.
1t was following the Randall bigamy
that Witzhoff came to New York and
under the name of Weston wooed and
won Dora Dorf, a pretty German girl.
1t was a rapid courtship, and WITHHOLD
appeared to her to be all that an ideal
husband should be. Her dream was
shattered on the wedding night. She
testified before the grand jury that
WitZhoff took her to Il house of evil
repute and, with a pistol ut her head.
forced her to give him $500 of her saw
ings which she had drawn from a bank
the day before, believing that she was
to be taken abroad for her honeymoon.
AS soon as he got the money Witzhoff
left the house, and she has not seen him
since.
Attorney Rogan is in communication
with a widow in Newark who fell Il
victim to Witzhoff's wiles. He took
every cent she had in the world, and it
is Il struggle for her to get food. At
the time of this marriage Witzhoff told
the woman that he was employed as Il
chemist in the laboratory of Thomas 4.
Edison at Menlo Park. The widow be-
came acquainted with the bigamist
through a personal in a New York
newspaper, which ran for weeks and
set forth that n doctor with n good
practice wished to meet a woman of
means with the object Of matrimony.