Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-16

a mechanical dentist. He was known there
as Muller, Hauser, westhoff and Wexler,
and always posed as dentist, physician
and professor. A woman calling herself
Catherine Westhoff says that she had been
robbed OF 5000 by a man answering the
description of Witzhoff. He married her
under the name of westhoff
It was at Cleveland that Witzhoff stud
led mechanical dentistry and was known
in many OF the dental shops. 1t is also
asserted that, posing as an evangelist In
the Shaker community in Wilkesbarre, he
had married a girl there and robbed her
of the little money she had saved A
woman in Cleveland wrote to the detectives
asking for a picture OF WITHHOLD as she
| thought a man who married her two years
ago, and who was dentist, might be the
| man she was after and who had robbed
her of money and jewels worth 800
seven weddings in One Week.
One woman declared that she knew he
married seven women in one week and in
each case under a different name An
amazing feature of the doctors marital
transactions is the manner in which he car
ried out the religious end Of them. If the
girl he was counting was a Roman Cath
! Ole he would be OF the same faith; II a
Protestant, he would vow that faith and
| the same with Jewish girls and all others
He was read in religion and portions of the
| Bible he could speak word for word
The woman who so positively Identified a
| picture OF DR.. Witzhofr as the man who
married her and then deserted her after
| taking about $500 OF her money Is Sophie
Youeker, who lives at 2O6 Broome street,
New York, and who. when Lawyer Frank
lin showed her a picture taken in Mime
apolls Of Witzhoff said that II was with
| out doubt the photograph Of her missing
I husband.
Miss Youcker said she knew that after he
assumed at different times the names OF
Abraham, Kreiger, Herowitz, Quicker
Schwartz, sCohen, Calm, Goldstein and
Stein, and that under one or the other of
these names he married different girls
only to rob and desert them at the first OPP
portunity.
Married Two in a Week.
Under the name OF Goldstein the man
married Rebecca David Of "a Stanton
street. He married a week later another
girl named Rebecca, who lived in Attorney
street, and In ten days deserted and robbed
each woman.
These marriages were all arranged
through a schatchen, or marriage broker
The broker participated in the plumber and
was one OF the gang. The idea was, accord
ing to Sophie Vouchers knowledge that all
OF the gang participated in some way in the
| plumber, which has reached, she says, al
least $4,000.
man known as Harry Kaufman as
sisted Witzhoff in his schemes, she said
ana the two had been making a wholesale
business OF marriage. robbery and deser-
ton for years
Witzhon's FIRST exposure came through
MS marrying and robbing Anna Parkhill
Mrs. Parkhill tall and handsome, had been
| divorced from her FIRST husband, Philip
Farkhil, when she met Witzhor. She had
son, Herbert. She met Witzhon, as he
called himself, in dental parlor IN West
Forty-second street, where he was en-
ployed She was impressed with his re-
nnement and good looks, and soon they
were friends.
Mrs Parkhill then had a furnished room
house at No ns schermerhorn street.