St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-12
THREE WIVES LIVING.
A Polygamous Preacher Captured in Mis-
souri, Tells the Sensational Story Of
His Life.
San Francisco the Scene Of an Att empted
Murder, the Would-be Murderer
Killing Himself.
An Illinois Farmer BrutaIly Stabbed
and Robbed--A New Orleans
Negro Hanged.
CattIe--A Fiendish Wife Slabs
Her Husband.


Special to the Globe
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 1.-THE good people of
ST. Charles, Mo-, are considerably worked
up over the exposure of scoundrel who
has been occupying the chair of professor
of languages in the St. Charles college
several months The exposure was first
made by some of the Episcopal clergy in
charge OF the college, and to-day the pro-
fessOr. whose name is ID. K. Campbell,
publishes in an extra issue of the county
paper confession over his own name,
filing two pages and a ha.f of the paper,
acknowledging all and throwing himself on
the mercy of the public. According to this
statement Campbell has had d remarkable
career. Receiving thorough collegiate
education in England, his native country,
he incurred the ill-wll of his parents by
joining the Catholic church and studying for
the priesthood. Becoming dissatisfied. he
returned to the Episcopal church and be-
came teacher III a grammar school. He
then went to South America, and in 1871
and 1872 was on whaling expedition in
the North Pacific. Returning to England
he married girl
BENEATH HIS STATION,
and after living with her six months left
her and went to South Africa and became
a teacher in st. Andrews college. In the
spring of 1877 he married again and became
deacon of the English church. The close
of the year found him in the interior of
Africa at the head of a government school
and pastor of q church. Exposure came,
however, and the next two years he spent
serving out a sentence in penitentiary for
bigamy. Then he turned Catholic and was
made superintendent of the Catholic Sun
day school in the prison. His first wife
got divorce from him, and his second one
refused to live with him after his release,
and the priests sent him to Capetown and
from there to Australia. Not being able to
get a situation as teacher in any Catholic
college there, he tried his hand at running
billiard hall and, failing, accepted posi-
ton in Prince Edward college, a Methodist
institution. Here he gave himself up to
dissipation, but recovered and became en-
gagged to an estimable young lady. EX-
posture came, however, before marriage, and
he sailed for England. July. 1882,
FOUND HIM IN AMERICA,
where he found himself in Burlington Mill
tary college of New Jersey. He now Of
ticiated as Lay Reader in the Episcopal
church. In 1888 he accepted a position in
the Freehold institute, New Jersey, and
last year changed it for one in St. Barnabas
college, Omaha, Neb. Last fall he went to
Chicago, but. failing to improve his stua-
ton there, he went East and married a
Pennsylvania girl, then became tutor of
some Japanese students Of Poughkeepsie,
N, Y, and last September accepted po-
sition in the st. Charles college. This, in
brief, is his history as told by himself. He
has had three wives, all still living, and one
child by each wife. and has occupied the
pulpit of three different denominations.