The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-03
Which Wife WILL
CLAIM B|CAM|ST?


SPOKANE. Wash When Charles J.
Fischer. 30 years old, naSscur and for
mer oil operator. comes out pt the
Walla Walls pen,cn,lary at the end Of.
one nc-to-iiye year team, 10 which one
Of his two wives will ne return,
Fischer has just started his sentence
for higamy
Both Are Innocent.
Mary Fawcctt Fischer, the older
woman and second wife, i' bitter
His other wife and ! are both his in
noccut victims" she said
Alta b. Fischer the younger. takes a
different view OF their mangled domcS-
iIcly
When lc,uS was on earth she said,
''he iorga,c seven times. guess
should forgive once.
Other Still Cares.
III could save Charley and make a
man Of him. I'd sacrifice my life for IL
/ could forgive him II thought he was
sincere. for | still care for him" Z .
For nearly a year Fischer lived alter
natcly with the two women and was
loved by both Of them Neither su'-
pcctcd the others existence until late III
/ February OF tins year. Then the storm
broke and a week later Fischer was
/ headed ior prison.
The Two Msrriages.
/ Fischer married Alta y. Fischer At
( Redwood City, Cal, in September OF
/ 1914 and took her 10 Los Angeles and
/ established his home IN a pretty white
bungalow. They were happy
Three months later he had taken a
second bridc-Mary Fawcett, widow ol
British army surgeon and mother OF
22-year old son. She was IN the suit
and cloak business n San Jose, Cal. lie
met her near Los Angeles in an auto
his first wiic's money had helped to buy
I. The wedding was performed IN the city,
almo,, under the nose OF his bride Of
three months,
1T was debt Of gratitude" he said
in his cell here. 81 was swept off my
icet. lost my head
The second Mrs Fischer returned t'
her loh in San Jose after the ceremony
and the double w,Ned man went back
20 his Young bride in the white bunga'
low
In Oil Business.
Fischer was IN the oil business then
which called him frequently away from
Los Angelo, Every three or four weeks
he went 20 San lose and spent the week
end with wife No. 2.
More than year and half ago h,
disappeared from Los Angeles, without
parting word to his first wife. Sh,
made a lone iigh, to keep up the home
to preserve her pride and TO keep from
her people the suspicious that were il
her mind She told them Fischer ha,
gone to Europe to fight
But a search she had started gave he
clue that brough, her to Spokane OF
hurried trip. She had not cxpec,e,
things as she found them In her con
fusion she told the police and they di,
the fcSt-ior Fischer
he had been living with wife No
and had built M profitable huSlneS
a, a maNeut in Spokane's most fashion
able hotel
The arrest sent wife No. , to bed witt
nervous ptos,tation
Asked for Money.
I, developed in the confessions ,ha
followed that Fischer and Mary Faw
cclt were engaged At the time he mar
fied the Young woman They had me
! wear before IN Vancouver. n E
but" said wife No ;, "he did No
forget me lie needed money wa
earning S27N a week. lie did not for
, ge, me. The daily letter, KEEP, comm
IN"
And 80 later he married her. cauSin
, lot oi trouble for himself and the tw
A women
/, The two wivc, have expressed tho
, attitude towards the cfting man F,schc
A. vet Is silent as to his feelings toward
y them.
When h, comes out oi prison whic
one will he seek the Younger woma
! Nho u willing lo forgive him NJ m
Older one WIN has earning power
S5N per week.