The Washington times., 1907-08-05
HAS TWO WIVES,
FLEES HOSPITAL,
POLICE WANT HIM
Man Also Took Live
Teddy Bear Up and
Down Broadway.

NEW YORK, Aug. SIT was case
of jumping from the frying pan into the
fire for Charles b. Geissenhainer. when
a warrant charging him with bigamy
was sworn out He had just made his
escape from a sanitarium In an automo-
bile and got away by racing down the
Ramapo mountains at sixty miles an
hour with another machine fled with
armed attendants in not pursuit. Flee
ing from one woman to the arms of
another, he has now lost both of them
and is himself a fugitive.
Cfeissenhainer was committed to Dr.
Carlos f. MacDonald's sanitarium at
Central Valley, where Mrs. Henry NJ.
F1agler is a prisoner. In the latter part
of June. after he had electrified the
Great White Way by taking live
Teddy bear up and down the line and
into the rathskeIler Of the Hotel Al
bany. where the animal sank its teeth
IN the leg of a waiter and otherwise
dispOrted itself
Married" Again.
He-the man. not the bear. which has
been lost sight Of in the exciting events
OF the last few weeks-had just returned
from a wedding trip 10 Canada with
wife No. 2. whom he married at Yonk-
ers one night rather than put her to
the inconvenience Of explaining her re-
turn home at an unconventional hour.
Returning to tne Wyoming. at Sew
enth avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
where wife No. ] still has an apartment
with the Teddy bear in tow, Mr.. Gels
senhainer was negotiating for the privi-
lege OF driving a four-in-hand drag
through the park when he was induced
to enter an automobile by two affable
strangers. The next thing he knew he
was safely lodged in Central Valley
Sanitarium.
Fortunately for Mr.. GeissenhaineI
he had friends who are as resOurCeful
as they proved themselves to be reCk-
less Guarded by an attendant, he was
grounds OF the sanitarium at 1875
o'clock one morning recently when a big
automobile whiZzed past the guards al
the gate, made a sharp turn. and as II
reduced speed Geissenhainer made a leap
10 board Il.
Fought for Him
As Geissenhainer threw himself toward
the automobile the attendant caught
him by one arm. The men in the ma
chine had Geissenhainer by the head and
shoulders and for an instant 1t looked
as II part OF him would be rescued and
the rest left behind.
One OF the men in the auto reached
over and dragged the attendant into the
machine by his collar. Throwing him
into the bottom Of the tonneau they
made him understand with the aid of a
big army revolver that It was safer for
him to remain quiet than to further op-
pose the rescue
at q
the s8nitarium grounds at speed that
precluded any attempt to check the
machine IL shot down the narrow noun
tain road at a mile-a-minute gait toward
Central Valley a mile away Close be-
hind was another automobile containing
two guards and a woman, supposed &c
be Mrs. Geissenhainer No. l.
Pursuers Left Behind.
At Hohokus. the rescuers and rescued
party stopped long enough to eat {
hasty luncheon. ad then sped on through
Arcola and Hackensack to the Fort Leu
ferry. Crossing TO New York. theI
drove down Broadway to the Empir,
garage. at Seventy-six street There tn
kidnapped attendant was sent about hi
business. Mr.. Geissenhainer and hi
rescuers jumped into a cab and wer
driven downtown His WhereabOuu
since that time have not been ascer
tained.
What the next move will be in Mr.
Geissenhainer's domestic troubles ap
pears to depend upon whether the war
rant for his arrest for bigamy is served
Mrs. Geissenhainer No. l denies hersel
to callers at the Wyoming, and at tn
apartment Of her aunt, Mrs Southard
at $50 West F1fty-eighth street whert
wife No. has been staying, II was sail
that she had been In the country 70
the last week.