The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
BogusC Count Has Wives
From Manhattan Isle
to Frisco.
FORTY BLUSHING
BRIDES ARE HIS
Love Finds Way to Keep Emil
Karl Won Muller in Funds,
Each New Affinity With All
Her Worldly Goods
Endowing
Him.
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Especial to The eTimes-Dispatch.l
New York, January 14.-Emil Kari
Won Muller. the good-looking waiter
who claimed to be a German count
and whose specially seems TO have
money from his wives" will be
brought at once to Hobokon. to stand
trial for biganly, from LOS Angeles
CAL where he was arrested vest erday.
Chief Hayes, of the Hoboken police,
who received a telegram from the LOB
Angeles police notifying him OF Won
Muller's arrest. believes the count
has married right and left from New
York to California, and that the list
OF the women who have fallen vic-
tins to his wiles and given him
money Will reach a figure between
forty and fifty. 1t was through the
investigation of tho Islip murder mys-
terry. following the discovery of the
skeleton of Anna Luther Mueller In
a lonely spot in the Long Island woods
that the bogus counts" record was
looked into by the police. In this way
his dcception of Regina Verhelmann, of
NO. 2051 Third Avenue. whom he mar
ried. and who charges him with OBJ
tanning all her savings-$e,700-be
came known He is to be brought
pdCk 10 lace her charge.
First Heard of Him.
Won Muller had disappeared before
the investigation started, and the tele-
gram from the police at Los Angeles
lis the first word that has been heard
of him. Detective-Sergean Weinthal,
of Hoboken. will start at once for
Los Angeles with extradition papers
to bring him back.
Won Muller is believed by Chief
Hayes to have been one of the most
daring "Blnebeards" who have fallen
into the hands of the police In twenty
five years. Detectives have been in.
vestigating his record in New Jersey
cities in the vicinity of Newark ever
since Regina verhelmann secured a
warrant charging higarny. and already
no has evid erce1 of 4 t,velyts iirtancey
ei.nilar to ;herscase.
Regina Verhelmann says that she
and Won Muller were married by JUS
tice OF the Peace Frank Okcefe, in
Hoboken, and that she believed her
bridegroom. who pretended to be a
German count. She gave him her
savings, amounting to $1,000, and soon
afterward he disappeared.
.I will not give out the names of
the twelve women whom I know Won
Muller has married. e said Chief
:. L
of them will disappear to avoid prose.
cutting him, but have the evidence
right on him.
Tho list takes in women In New
ark, Hobolsen, Montclair, Union Hill
and other nearby towns. and In every
instance he has secured from 500 to
$500.
II believe the list will grow, and
that if he can be trailed across the
continent it will be found that he has
married between forty and fifty wo-
men,"
Has Winning Ways. ,,,,
Won Muller is tall and hand some,
and has winning ways with women.
In the investigation into the death
of Anna Luther Mueller. who was founa /
slain at Brentwood. near Islip. sus-
picion fell upon Won Muller. The po-
lice looked carefully into his record.
although he had disappeared seeming.
ly without leaving a trace.
They found he had been cutting a
wide matrimonial swath In this part
of the country He said he was In
terested in real estate at AmitYville.I |
L. l., and as this is near the spot |
where the skeleton of Anna Mueller
was found. it was regarded as cir-
proved that he had no connection with
the Islip tragedy.
One OF the first traces OF his traf-
ticking In hearts that the police found
was through Mrs. Alexander Schmidt.
who operated a clearinghouse and
agency at go East 116th
Street. Mrs. Schmidt introduced him
to Bertha Albrecht servant who
worked In Brooklyn. Her heart he
won in short order and proposed mar
riage. They set date for the we'd
ding, and in the meantime the count"
borrowed all of his hancees savings
$1,190.