The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-14
WITH OF RHYMES
WRITES WEIRD
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
PoLYoAMIsT WHO MARRIED TWO
DETROIT WOMEN AND THIRTY
OTHER puPEs TELLS OF HIS
wRoNo-poINes.

LONDON, Feb. 14.--The Evening
News publishes today the hrst instai-
nent OF an autobiography OF Arthur
Hynes or Hyne, the bigamist who was
sentenced yesterday at Bristol 10 sew
en- years penal servitude. In the AUTO
biography. which was written In iSoo'
Hynes says:
Il give the real facts of all my
wrong-doings."
The document shows that Hynes
real name is +. A. Schotz. Among the
aliases he has borne are Weston ana
Witzhoff, The headlines to the auto.
biography were written by Hynes nim'
self and read:
WiTzHOFF TELLS HIS LIFE STORY
The Man With Thirty Names and Thir-
ty-Two (Marrled) Wlves--btg-
amy az a Means Of Livelihood.
In a. short preface, the writer says
there Is no truth in the reports that
he possessed 100 wives. He married
only 32 women.
In his remarkable narrative, Hynes
says he was born In Neufchatel. Swift
zerland, in 1864 and emigrated to the
United tSates In 1881. He was ap
prenticed to dentistry in Philadelphia.
Afterward he practiced with an asso-
ciate. Both were arrested for mai
practice and placed under bonds OF
$4,000 each. II was the friend who
provided Schotz's bond who suggested
marriage as means OF repaying.
Fought Duel With italian.
Schotz then gives list OF the many
women he married and from whom he
secured all the money he could and
then abandoned them. sometimes on
the day after marriage. When he re-
turned to Europe he continued to seek
fresh wives The father of one of his
Italian wives discovered his son-in-
laws guilt and the two fought with
daggers. The bigamist was stabbed
twice. Afterward he returned to New
York and started practice on Lexing-
ton-ave. Thence he went to St Louis,
Washington, Chicago, Detroit, where
he Is said TO have married two WON.
en-; Cincinnati. Minneapolis, Milwau-
kee and elsewhere, defIauding women
whenever he found an opportunity.
The most money he obtained from any
of his wives was from his first wife.
named Russell and whom he married
In Montreal In 1896. He got $4,000
from her.
Some American Victims.
Among the American women whom
Witzhoff says in his confession he
victimizes he names these:
Miss Dora Dorf, married after O
three weeks courtship In 1900, under
the name of DIR. Geo. A. Weston, and
left her penniless on her wedding
night after securing $500 from her In
a strange hotel.
Mrs. Sophie Youcker, 2O7 Broome-
ST., married through an east side mat
rimonial broker. under the name OF
Arnold Youcker in 1900; secured ST.
800 from her after threatening her
life with a revolver.
Ella Goldbaum, married In 1900, un-
der the name OF Whitman: secured
$500 from her and decamped.
Mrs. Anna Davis, OF Stanton-st., mar.
ried under the name OF GOldstein In
1900. and robbed her of $1,000. after
to shoot her IL she ever
reported his disappearance to the POI
lice.
Mrs. Rosa Schwartz, married under
that name In 1900: secured $3.50 from
her while she was III in bed, shortly
after the ceremony.
Mrs. Nina David, married under thnt
name in 1900. and secured 500 from
her; she was widow with two chill
dren.
Mrs. e. Watson, living at 215 East
One Hundred and Thirteenth-st.;
when he married her In 1900 he Ce-
cured all the money she had and left
ner.
Mrs. M. wechsler, address unknown,
married In 1901.
Mrs. Mary Thorpe. Brooklyn, mar
ried under the name Of l.. ID. Laurence,
and robbed her OF 5000.
Mrs. Anna Times, Sayville, l.. L..
married In 1903. when she was Miss
Otto and secured through her $4,000
from her father to start dental Of
fee at Bridgeport, Conn.
Alta Randall. married under the
name of Muller In 1908; she discover
ed that he had another wife at the
tiilC III DiiubCppibs SVihsf aha aVhOW
ed him there from her home In Somer-
Vile, Mass.
Mrs. Herman Adler, st. Louis, mar
ried under the name of DR.. Solomon
Adler in 1902. and robbed her OF 5000.
Mrs Marie Obermyer, Duluth, Mimi,
married at her home there In 1902 and
robbed her OF 5000.
Mrs. Johann Peiser. Detroit. married
her in Detroit under the name Of Ar
thur Hauser and robbed her OF $1,000.
OF was reported that he also married
another Detroit woman.)
Mrs. LENA Reisner. Hartford, Conn.
married, but deserted. her at a mar
rage brokers' Office when he disap-
peared.
Pauline Zelochovitz. Philadelphia.
met through marriage broker and
got $1,000 from her. afterward going
to New York