The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-16
THE ADVICE OF A sIeAmlsr
Warns Women Against Marrying Men
Who Talk Too Sweet


Christian c. Johnson, alias John
Madison WHO recently entered the
state prison at San Jose, Cal, to serve
a sentence of seven years for bigamy,
has made a full confession. This is
a document which, in addition to the
names of the seventeen women he is
| able TO remember who were either his
| wives or victims, contains advice on
| how to subdue a woman Johnson
| says he left his business of horse buy
| ing to buildup his matrimonial scheme
| When he first came to this country
Johnson was woman hater because
| he had been separated from a sweet
heart who died later.
Il am not a hypnotist," SAYS John
son, but | only have to meet a wom-
an a few times and | know just how
| TO handle her and how to talk to her.
The women / met fell in love with
me after l talked with them only a
few times | have found it did not
pay to be soft and sweet with a wom-
an Treat her little harsh and be
little distant. and she will come to
you. If | saw woman that | really
liked / made up my mind that / would
make her fall in love with me and it
was very seldom that | failed.
"Once started on the idea of getting
money from women. / continued to
dupe them and did not marry these
that / could get money from without
so doing and it was only where !
found it impossible to get money
otherwise that | married them.
My advice TO women who want TO
marry is to never marry through a
matrimonial agency. You never can
tell who you are going to meet. Look
at my case, for instance.
After my first marriage to Mrs.
Brown went about the country WITH
deliberate intention of getting money
from women, even if l had to marry
them to do it.
Il would also warn women against
marrying a man who talks too sweet.
Marry a business man, one that will
talk business always"
This is the list of seventeen women
whom Johnson remembers he mar
ried or victimized:
Mrs. Catherine Hoen. San Diego, Cal.
Mrs Josephine Tretheway, Stockton.
Cal.
Mrs. Sylvia Pollard De Bennett, San
Francisco.
Mrs. Henrietta Leopold, San Francis
co.
Mrs. Mary Brown, Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Frances Hepburn. Oakland, Cal.
Miss Minnie Gather, San Francisco.
Mrs. Josephine Henninger, Oakland
Cal.
Mrs. Birdie King, Hot Springs, Ark.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Jackson, lola, Kan
Mrs. Mary Frick. East St Louis.
Catherine" hospital nurse, st. Louis
Mrs. Alice Richardson, st. Louis.
Mrs. Catalina Baughman. ST. Louis.
Mrs Minnie Allen, St Louis.
Mrs Betha King, Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. De Loem, wife of a sea captain,
Portland, Oregon.
Johnson says he married only one
woman out OF the ten under the name
of John Madison. Her name was
Jones. She had been divorced from
ner husband and she owned a third
interest in the biggest coal and wood
yard in South Portland. He got $500
from her but says he could have got
$4,000 from her.
Johnson tells in detail of his wooing
and marrying women in Louisville.
Chicago and Kansas City. Then he
appeared in San Francisco put matri-
monial advertisements in papers, got
money from several women, and mar
ried Mrs. Tretheway of Stockton. He
deserted her when she found he mad
been corresponding with other wom-
en-.