The Washington times., 1906-03-01
FISCHER WON'T AID
HIS DYING SISTER
EX Congressman Refuses
Even to See Her.
SHE HELPED ELECT HIM
Has $4,000 Job, But When Asked to
Fender Assistance He Alleges
Blackmail.
SHE HELPED ELECT HIM

NEW YORK, March President Is
raeI +. Fischer, OF the board of general
appTaisers-one Of the most important
positions here in the gift Of the Presi-
dent of the United States, and which
carries with it a salary of 5000 year
former Representative in Congress from
Brooklyn and formerly Republican lead
er of the Twenty-tirst assembly district.
refuses 10 aid his sister Adeline. who
Is dying from incurable cancer in The
German Lutheran Hospital, in East
New York avenue, Brooklyn.
Blackmail Is Alleged
Fischer admitted that he knows his
sister is i'll in hospital, but asserts he
Goes not wish 10 have his name coupled
with hers. He talked about bldckmail
and said he had supported his mother
ana two sisters since lie was seventeen
years old The other sister died in q
hospital several years ago, and Fischer
refused TO see her. The sister who is
diving CicCtioucercu for Fischer ia his
FIRST TWO campaigns Tor Representative,
hut the third time he was nominated the
ysIranEemen nL had come and she cleo
uoneoTed against him He was defeat
eu.
Through the influence Of Mark Hanna
and Senator Plat, Fischer was appoint
ed 10 his $500 place by President Me
kinley-
In 1895 Fischer built a home in Arling-
tor avenue and gave his mother and
sister 10 understand that the home was
Tor them, IL IS said
Sister ElectiOneered for Him.
II his FIRST two campaigns there was
no more enthusiastic worker III the dis
trict in FIschers interests than his sis
ter. Adeline. The mother was old and
feeble and she counted on remaining IN
the house Tor the rest OF her years. Jusc
before he was nominated for his third
term the dreams of mother and sister
were shattered, when Fischer told then.
Of his intended marriage with Miss
Clara Groedel, q Baltimore beauty The
ceremony was performed IN BaiumOre
and the beautiful bride was taken nome
10 the Arlington avenue house.
There are TWO versions OF the incl
dents that caused the esJrangemenL Al
any rate mother and sister left Fischer 5
home ana went TO live with his brother
Louis II WAS there that Mrs. Fischer
died. Louis Fischer had TO move South
and his mother and sister went 10 live
with Col. Coleman Cohen, who is
Fischers bTOtheT-in-IaW. Colonel Cohen.
a Grand Army veteran, says he took
Miss Fischer 10 his home TO keep her
out Of the almShoGSe. When she became
i'll Colonel Cohen sent her to the Ger
man Lutheran Hospital, which is a few
blocks from Fischers home
Fischer was extremely nervous When
questioned il his home, and said:
Says He Paid Her Board.
Il wish 10 have nothing to 90 with
my sister We have been estranged for
ten years. / have refused 10 see her. Il
refused to be blackmailed. It is not
true that I put cut my mother and sis
ter from this house They went away
themselves. It is all n family affair.
and I cannot see what interest the pub~
lie has in it, It is true that my sister
electioneeTed against me, I have paid
her board since my sister has been away
from my home
Whom Colonel Cohen was told thar
Fischer had said ne had paid board for
his mother and sister, he said it was not
true. and asserted he had not received
one penny for the support Of Miss
Fischer The position held by Fischer
is a life appointment though the PTesi-
dent always mas the power of removal
for cause,