Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-25
AS BAD AS H0CH.
Swiss Dentist Has Wives All I Over the United States.
INDICTED IN NEW YORK CITY.

INDICTED IN NEW YORK CITY.
 District Attorney Jerome Is Trying
 to Catch Much Married Man Who
 Was Betrayed by 8 Dupe In Brooklyn.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Dr. George
 Witzhof, or Winnitzhoff, a Swiss
 chemist and dentist, is being sought
 by many women in various parts of
 the country, all of whom declare he
 s a glib tongued adventurer who mar ried them only to rob and desert them.
 An indictment charging Witzhoff with bigamy has been found in New
 fork, and District Attorney Jerome Is trying to catch him.
 Facts in the possession of MT. Je- rome and Attorneys John H. Rogan and Benjamin Franklin, both of 115 Nassau street, show that Witzhoff has been going about the country marry Ing every trusting woman who would have him. In the cities he has visited 1 he has left trail of weeping wives. His record is only equaled by the en- l terprising bigamist Johann Hoch, the Chicago murderer now under sentence { of death.
 1 Attorney ROgan is counsel for Miss Anna Parkhill, Brooklyn girl of con- siderable means, and it was he who laid the matter of her deception be- fore the grand jury. By a strange coincidence Attorney Franklin, who has offices adjoining Rogan's, was en- gagged about the same time by Miss Dora Dorf of 2027 Third avenue, an other victim, to prosecute Witzhoff. Hardly had communication between the two unfortunate women and the lawyers been established when Miss Elta Randall, formerly of 28 Forest street, Somerville, Mass, and now of t23 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, \. J.
 Witzhoff married Miss Parkhill in Brooklyn in September a year ago. Shortly afterward her father died, and then he induced her by threats to lend him S1,200 belonging to the estate left by Mir. 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 Boston he called himself Dr. George A. Muller. He said then that he was dental surgeon by profession and also n doctor in chemistry Miss Randall lent him $500 feruth expenses aof the honeymoon, because he said he was temporarily embarrassed by the non- arrival of remittance from Switzer- land. In few weeks he disappeared. Since then his victim has borne him child and has been compelled by cir cumstances to support herself as stenographer.
 It 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 It was rapid courtship, and Witzhoff 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 a house of evil repute and, with a pistol at her head, forced her to give him $500 of her say ings which she had drawn from 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 a victim to Witzhoff's wiles. He took every cent she had in the world. and it is struggle for her to get food At the time of this marriage Witzhoff told the woman that he was employed as a chemist in the laboratory of Thomas A. 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 doctor with a good practice wished to meet a woman of means with the object of matrimony.