The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1905-09-06
BIGAMIST WITHHOLD
MEMBER OF VILLIANOUS
MARRIAGE BUREAU
Woman Proves thrt Bigamist is Con-
nected with the Matrimonial Syndi-
cate that Proved upon Girls in
Government Offices.

NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-The trail
of DR. George Witzhoff was taken up
today by Charlotte Smith, p resident Of
thess Woman's National and Interna-
tional league, with headquarters in
Washington, and with branch in
this city.
Miss Smith saw in picture publis-
he'd in metropolitan he wspaper like
ness to a man who attempted to marry
a girl whom Miss Smith had rescaed
several years ago in Boston. She
further recognized the picture as that
of the man who married and deserted
a young Washington widow now WORK
ing in the Treasury Department in
the national capital.
II aided in retaining girl in Bos
ton about four years ago. said Miss
Smith. "This girl our organization
brought to this city and started in a
hairdressing establishment. Her place
was on Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth
street. We had q call from her later.
She said a man wanted to marry her
and she was willing as he would invest
some money in her shop. I warned
her against this man, and she did not
marry him. When saw the newspa-
per picture of the man known as DR..
Frederick A. Schetze, who turns out
to be DR.. W,tzhoff in disguise, imme-
diately identified the picture as the
man who attempted to marry our girl.
"A woman used to come to our
Washington office two years ago trying
to get facts about girls working in
government offices. She asked so many
questions concerning the financial
standing of these girls thai | wanted
to know her reason for it. She told
me she was getting from $40 to SIS a
week from a syndicate of marriage
brokers in New York, that she often
used to don male attire and run about
from town to town disguised in order
to get her facts easier.
She said she kept for her employers
tabulated lists, giving all the inform
alton she could gather about certain
,,, WochInot0., nd Notr- V0r1-
just how much they had saved, how
much their husbands left them, if they
were young widows, and in fact every
thing that could be learned about the
financial condition of marriagea BILE
women.
lone woman's husband had been
dead about six months. He left her
about $4,000 life insurance. A man
was introduced to her through the mar
rage broker syndicate in New York
city. She married him in week s
time and in two week he had all her
first husband money and had deserte1
her. After the desertion she showed
me his picture. 1t is like the one of
DR.. WITHHOLD published to-day. The
mblance is such that there IS no
question that Withhold, as he is called
married this Washington girl
Miss Smith saio she had been aware
for years that there was a marriage
syndicate working on the esat side.
''This syndicate has men out who
do nothing but marry girls" Miss
Smith continued. They have money
to carry on campaign with, and make
large sums by the game. | am assur-
red from our agents that in the United
States if we could tabulate census uf
betrayed girls who have suffered from
this game, we should easily find $4,000
women that in the last ten years nave
been married. robbed, and then deeser-
ted by them Acting district Attor-
ney Mott said today that there is
bench warrant calling for the arrest of
Witzhoff on two indictments for biga-
my, found in June, 1904, and in the
hands of the detectives.
Faint heart ne'er got mixed up i'll a
breach of Oromlsa suit