The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-20
FINE CLASSIC IN
CRIMINAL ANNALS
Arch Bigamisf lured Thirty.two
Women Into MatrimoDy
DOCTOR is IN LIMBO
BUT EVEN THERE WiTZhoFF
MANAGED TO WIN ANOTHER
RRlDE-sTRANGE STORY
or CAREER.

New York, Oct IA classic /
criminal annals, the story Of how DR.
! Georg A Witzhoff the arch bgamIst
lu!ed 80 women into matrimony fol
their money, and then deserted them
comes in cable dispatches from Lon
don. Wtzhoff has written to Mis-;
Alice Bell. whom he married and
abandoned in New Cross, near Lon
don. telling he. what he asserts Is the
unvarnished tale Of h s career. The
letter is dated Bucharest, Ronmania
but il is suggested that WitZhoff is in
New York and that ne sent his story
t. England through an accomplice
He declares that he has bitterly re-
pented his crimes, and intends 20 set,
tie on Roumanian farm.
WtzAof, according to his STORY,
had the germ of crime in him long
before he began marrying His
father was surgeon of excellent prac.
tice ANA reputation Upon the par
en's death, when an inheritance fell
10 the son he studied chemistry. He
established pharmacy in Chicago in
1889.
He says he mel a renowned surgeon
who was engaged in illegal practice
Chicago, and that they practicei
jointly until 1896. when they were ar
rested Witzhoff jumping a bond OF
5000 and going TO Canada Nicola
Badillo furnished the bond Witzh0ff
as Montreal dentist, took the name
Of DR.. c. Colby He Identified himself
W th the Christian Science movement.
Early one morning Badillo aroused
Witzhoff and demanded the $4,000
Not rece wing IL, the bondsman, the
letter says. suggested that Witzhoff
yisiE a widow of wealth and matri-
monhl inclinatfons The deal was
made, and the men were TO divide
after the $1,000 had been paid Thus
the marriage career began because of
the necessity for paying debt, Dur
ing the honeymoon the woman told
him that she had child in Pittsburg
He offered to get the baby and cajoled
the woman into letting him have
81 900.
WitzhOn said he paid Badillo part
of the debt and flod TO this city, open
ing a dental office on Fourteenth
street In two weeks he had another
wife, but he discovered she had no
money went to Philadelphia and by
another marriage got $500
Witzhoif went to Springfield Mass, |
advertised for wife and got one with
$500. Her name was Mrs. Westiield |
eays hurt his soul to marry
lcr. as she was NOT to his liking. He |
'eJurued to the New York wife and a
week later he went TO ST Louis ana |
married a farmers daughter whom |
le deserted in week with $500. with
which he set mp as dentist in De.
: oft.
Mrs. Piser was the next vict m
left her after six days, going
o Pittsburg, and five daysafter meet
o Pittsburg. and five days after meet
ever saw, he says-married her, got |
Ter money aud went 10 Cleveland.
There he received II answers TO a
advertisement and
elected only three wives. Mrs.
loore, a Mrs FREEDMAN an a nurse.
ne nurse gave him $l50. He came
D Brooklyn. where Cleveland detec-
ives found him and took him back
Even in jail he married. the wife
living him $200. which he used as
all Four days later he got si00 from
he father Of a woman he was to
larry. but had to fee. a farmers
aughte- with $1,000, was the next vic
m. also of ST. Louis, and in six days
Eitzhoff sailed for Roumania, where
e lived as DR. F A. Shotz He again
arried getting 1000 francs
Benjamin Franklin. attorney sfor
Iree of the mans victims, believes
at Wiizhoff is in New York. {
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