"I left Chicago as Dr. Weston and went to St. Louis, where I started an office in Olive street as Dr. A. Dresser, and there I advertised and selected from a number of letters that of a farmer's daughter that had $1,000, and married her (Katie). Six days after I left her and left America and went to Roumania, and married a girl, a Jewess, in Pitest, and lived in Roumania as Dr. F. A. Shotz. "Happy six months; I got 3,000 francs, and we left for Germany. There we had a quarrel, and she returned to her parents." Dr. Witzhoff further states that the number of all the girls and women he merely promised to marry and secured money from would reach over one hundred. One of the women Witzhoff married lived in Chicago, Ill. May 13, 1903, John J. Marietta (alias Homer C. Reid, Harold C. Mills, A. S. Anderson, C. H. Huston, C. B. McCoy, H. C. Jones, Harold C. Reed) was arrested through exposure by Laura E. Strickler, a beautiful young girl from Cincinnati, Ohio, who boarded at the Young Women's Association, Chicago. She had been lured to the Newport Hotel, 73 Monroe street, where he proposed marriage and attempted liberties. Miss Strickler became frightened, jumped from the second story window and was badly injured. Marietta married no less than six women, three of whom, Sophia Headley, Marie Butler and Flora Beals, appeared in court to prosecute him September 28. He was convicted. Judge Brentano's court of bigamy, and given five years in the Joliet penitentiary. [Illustration: TITLES ARE CONSIDERED GREAT ORNAMENTS "For as it was in the beginning, the American girl came over and energetically pursued the Lords."] [Illustration: (Men appealing to lady sitting on chair)] Marietta said he secured most of his wives through the marriage agency. Mills said to Miss Headley, after meeting her the second time: "How anxious are you to marry me? Make me an offer in cash of the sum you are willing to settle on me." "Three thousand dollars," she answered. "All right," he replied, "but you know I am from Missouri, you will have to show me." She gave him the $3,000 and they were married. At the time of his conviction Marietta had in the bank $25,000, said to have been secured in the above manner. [Illustration: (Man and two women in fancy clothes)] BREAKING INTO THE NOBILITY. HOW TITLED RAKES USE THE AGENCIES. The marriage bureau is not a distinctly American institution. They know the animal in Europe, only there the operators refer to themselves as marriage brokers, and are decidedly more careful than their American prototypes to steer clear of crime.