THE MASTER SHEIK

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 20

THE MASTER SHEIK

FIFTY WIVES IN TWO YEARS.

The /'Master Sheik" of tho United States .who, within the last two years, has married 50 wives, all of them wealthy, in as many cities, was arrested a few woeks ago at Philadelphia. He* is described as a fascinating man of 50, who posed to his victims in a dozen different characters, ,To one wife he was an English peer j to another, Baron. Siginund Engel. Ho met Mrs. Martin, an attractive widow, of "Washington, in ,the lobby of a leading hotel. Mr. Charles E. Hughes, then Secretary of State, passed the couple. The Austrian, baron —this was the character in which he was then masquerade, ing—bo-yed deeply to the widow, and, excusing himself, walked rapidly towards the Secretary of State, slapped him affectionately on the back, crying jovially, "Charlie, how are you?" He returned to Mrs. Martin before the astonished statesman could grasp the situation. A week later the baron married Mrs. Martin, whom ho abandoned after a brief honeymoon, taking with him her jewels, worth £30,000. . Shortly., afterwards he was in New York courting a fair wi!'.: :r named Burken. She entrusted him with diamonds worth £17,000, and a few days later her lover was at St. Louis, where he lured the pretty wife of a fur dealer from her husband, and likewise obtained her jewels. The polico trailed him for a year, and caught him recently through his habit of giving tips of £5 to hairdressers and waiters. His real name is Carl Fischer, and he is a native of Vienna, where he graduated as doctor of medicine at the university.