The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-12
RUSE DIDN'T WORK
LAMBS IN PRISON

NEW YORK Special Herman
Fieber. a fiashily dressed young man,
twenty-seven years of age, led two
wives anu Two bOndsmen to believe
him dead two years ago last July
He left his clothes in an empty row
boat three days before he was to an
sWer in the COney Island Police Court
the charge OF stealing a diamond ring.
Now, after chase Of two years, lead
ing across the ocean and back again
he has been clapped in the Paterson
On. j. county Jail to await trial
Charges against him include bigamy
lnndellty, deSertOn, nOn-suppOrt. lar
ceny and embezzlement, and DEC
ttVes from a number Of cities are on
hand TO identify him.
Fieber. few days ago, hired rooms
at 1856 Clifton Avenue. on the out
skirts OF Paterson. There Chief VIII
liam Coughlan, of the AQuacknonk
force, found him and made the arrest.
Bertha Neumann. whose home is in
Germany, was arrested at the same
time and held as a material witness.
Two years ago, on the complaint of
Edward Sally, Jersey City lawyer.
who was Strengthening out the AT
fairs OF beef company with which
Fteber had been connected. two de-
tectiVes went to Germany TO arrest
Fisber, who had fed there. He es-
capped TO England. the police saw.
they have been after him ever since.
Wife No. = Charged Theft.
II was his arrest on the charge of
his second wife, Katherine Morgan. an
actress or $40 Fifth Avenue, Brook
lyn, that first brought Fieber into no.
tee. He had persuaded the woman
10 marry him by showing her a "di-
vorce' decree signed John Deem.
Judge OF the Hall of Records New
York City" In June. 1909, she had
Cd h.
ing her diamond ring from their
homo. at that time on Surf Avenue
and West TWenty-third Street. Conev
Island. Beyond bigamy Fieber. de-
spite the best efforts OF q battery of
QusstionSrs. will admit nothing. But
the sleuths confidently predict mai
more wives will come forward with
the publication OF his arrest
No sooner had Katherine Morgan.
whom he married ON February Z.
ISVS' made her complaint against him
tnan there appeared from his home,
leo Stockholm Street, Brooklyn, Mar
garOt Miller Ffeber, who said that
che was his wife. Magistrate Voorhis
held him in $l.e0e bail, which was
furnished by his mother.
Fieber jumped his bail, went home
and packed a trunk and suit case with
his best fnsry and departed for a
more hospitable vicinity. He was next
heard OF in Jersey City. and again
the Nemesis on his trail was his sec
ond wife" Katherine Morgan. Once
more bail was furnished, and then
Fisber's sense of humor seems to have
run quite away with him.
Telling his mother on the afternoon
OF July I'd that he was going fish
Ing. he went to Canarsie and hired
a boat. The next day the same boat
was found floating around in jamaica
Bay, empty. His clothes were picked
up on the shore, and the presump-
ton was that he had been drowned.
Wives, bondsmen and family went into
found that after all he had certain
virtues.
But He Was Not Drowned.
They were soon given an opportu-
nifty TO recall the other side OF his
character, for on July I4th Fieber
sailed for Germany on board the
Hamburg-American liner President
Lincoln. This was not disclosed un-
til Edward Sally, thinking there was
a better chance that Fieber had gone
to the old home in the Fatherland
than TO the bottom of the bay de-
cided to cable Berlin. The German
police quickly located Fieber and two
days later detectives set sail in pur-
suit.
But Fieber got word somehow and
fled TO England. taking Bertha Neu- |
mann with him. The detectives, |
finding the bird had flown from Ber-
lin, wired Scotland Yard. Fieber.
however, stayed right on in London |
until he tired of that city and then. |
with his companion, crossed over to |
France.
IL time, however, the trail became
too hot and Fieber and the girl set
sail Tor America. They returned 70
F1eber's former home in Canarsie and |
moved thence to the Paterson ad- !
dress, where the arrest was made on |
so many charges that it took half an /
hour to read them to the thoroughly |
bored prisoner.