The Cairo bulletin., 1905-09-04
RESCUE LEAGUE
AFTER B|GAM|ST
Another Attempt of the Noted
New York Wife Deserter
GOT SUM FROM WIDOW
I'M WASHINGTON - ANOTHER
BARELY ESCAPED BEING
DuPED--EAsT SIDE MAR
RYiNG AGENCY.
COT SUM FROM WIDOW

New York, September 3.-The trial
of Dr. George A. Witzhoff was taken
up yesterday by Charlotte Smith, pres
ident of the Woman's National and In
ternational Rescue League, with head
quarters in Washington and with a
branch at No. 126 West Twenty-third
street in this city.
Miss Smith saw in picture publish.
ed likeness to man who attempt
ed to marry girl whom Miss Smith
rescued several years ago in Boston.
| She further recognized the picture as
| that of man who married and desert.
ed young Washington widow now
working in abe Treasury Department
in the National Capital.
4 Il aided in reclaiming a girl In
! Boston about four years ago." said
Miss Smith This girl our organiza'
tion brought to this city and started
In a hair dressing establishment. Her
place was on Sixth avenue, near
Fourteenth street. We had call
from her later. She said that man
wanted to marry her, and that she
was willing, as he would invest some
money in her shop. |. warned her
against this man and she did not mar.
~ him. When the papers published q
picture of the man known as DR.
Frederick A. Schotze,' who turns out
to be DR.. Witzhoff in disguise, i'm
mediately identified the picture as the
man who attempted to marry our
girl
"A woman used to come to oui
: Washington office two years ago try
ing to get facts about girls working
i. in Government offices. She asked SC
, mank questions about the financial
: standing of these girls that | wanta
to know her reason for it. She told
me she was getting from $40 to $li
, week from syndicate of marriage
brokers in New York, and that offer
/; she used to don male attire and trave
: about from town to town disguised
/. in order to get her facts easier. Sh'
| said she kept for her employers tabu
. lated lists, giving all the information
E she could gather about certain womei
: in Washington and New York; jus
D how much they had saved, how mucl
their husbands had left them, and
they were young widows, and, in fact
everything that could be learned abou
the financial condition Of marriage
$ able women.
n Zone, woman's husband had bee
!. dead about six months. He left he
o about $4,000 life Insurance. A ma
% was introduced to her through tn
4 marriage broker syndicate in Ne
York City. She married him in
weeks time, and In two weeks he ha
all her first husbands money ami d
Q serted her. After the desertion 81
t showed me his picture. 1t is like II
one Of DR.. Witzhof published in II
papers. The resemblance is such th
there Is no question that Witzhoff,
he Is, called, married this Washingtt
girl"
Miss Smith said she had been ava
for years that there was a marriai
syndicate working on the east sid
- such as Witzhoff and Jacob, ALT
Harry Kaufman, now in Sing Sit
led.
en This syndicate has men out th
10. do nothing bu tmarry girls" MI
4, Smith continued "They have mon
to carry on campaign with, ami ma
~ large sums by the game. am
lcr surcd from our agents that In
M United States, II we could tabulatc
,od census Of betrayed girls who have $
fcred from the gang, we should q
. easily $4,000 women that in the y
al ten years have been married, robl
'os- and deserted by them"
Acting District Attorney Mott =
inc yesterday that there is q bench "
III rant calling for the arrest OF w
MI hoff on two indictments for bigal
ON found in June, 1904, In the hands
nay the detectives Of the District Attorl
and that the moment WItzhoff Is fol
~, there will be an arrest
also trying to find out whether st
'e TO the effect that Max Thuma. arr
day ed for impersonatlng lawyer, In
office, No 80 Rivington street. Ii