The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-16
TOLD AMAZING TALE.
Continued From Page One.

autumn sOf l90b. HIS confession, in
part, follows:- Fg.4 ss.s4
Il came to the United States in
1871. / landed in New York. in Octo-
Der of that year and went to work in
the Union Iron and Steel works in
Trenton, NJ. -. fr
Il 81 got job from the United States
government in 1876 buying horses on
commission. was buying for them
little over three years, then / got a
recommendation to, the British min
lister in Washington and 1 bought for
the English government on and off
for. thirty years, horses, mules, ponies
and mustangs and also shipped for
them.
"In November, 1905, L married the
first woman, Mrs. Mary Brown, of
Springfield, Mass. She was well to do
widow. | went to Springfield and
married her inside of month. She
gave me $500 on the wedding day. I
left her because ] didn't like her. She
didn't suit me and simply left her.
Married in New Orleans.
RI l. WtIlG lIOIIi tHtit W NEW oIlcuilS
and then to San Francisco. My Sec
ond marriage was to Mrs. Sylvia Pol
lard de Bonnet. l first met her in
San Francisco. / think | lived with
her about two weeks and then told
her l had to go to Germany on i'm
portant business. Then / went to Port
land. There | put an advertisement
in two daily papers for a wife. I do.
not know how many answers ] got. |
think there must have been 500. /
was then going under the name of
John Madison. | got $500 from her
because she said she loved me. could
have gotten $4,000 from the woman;
am sure l could have. lived with
her for two weeks.
"At the same time ] was paying
court to the other nine women. | had
the best time there / ever had in my
life.
81 spent the money that / got from
Mrs. Jones, in fact, Mrs. Jones and l
started from Portland to San Fran
cisco. / left Portland because / was
afraid my wife would find me out.
left her right in the city hall in Oak
land.
"At Memphis I became acquainted
with Mrs. Bertha King and we lived
together six weeks in Memphis. At
that time | read in the newspapers
that the police were hunting all over
the country for John Madison for
marrying Mrs. Jones in Portland and
robbing her of the $500. | left Mrs.
King in Louisville and then went to
Chicago, and then to New York and
later to st. Louis. 1t was then that
1 met Mrs. Minnie Allen. 1 never
married her, though, but / made vio-
lent love to her and she paid me 5000.
was counting seven other women at
the same time and 1 got money from
at least five of them.
"Mrs. Catalina Baughman was one
of them, and / couldn't exactly say
for sure how much l got from her, not
over $3.50. | promised to marry her
and she let me have $50, which l took.
One of the seven women whom l
courted and promised to marry was
Mrs. Alice Richardson, of st. Louis.
She was widow and living off her in
come. She gave me $500 and a dia-
mond ring, which l have since lost. In
st. Louis l met woman who was the
head nurse at hospital at 3l44 Grant
avenue. Her first name is Catherine. |
don't remember what her last name
is now. She gave me 5000. She was
one of the most beautiful women 1
ever met and she certainly did love me.
1t was really shame to take her
Money.
I'm East ST. Louis / met Mrs. Mary
Frick, widow. l made love to her
but she was too smart for me and |
never got cent out of her, but | did
get ST, 400 from Mrs. E. NJ. Johnson,
of lola, Kan. a.; ~.
Made Quick Trip to the Coast
81 went to San Francisco again. On
the second day l put an advertisement
in a San Francisco newspaper, adver-
Using for wife, and | received over
two hundred answers.
HldIElcu MIS-. Icopofu JIG VIII
teenth day of February and got $500
and left her that same night. I then
went to Stockton and stayed one week.
1 met Mrs. Tretheway there and mar.
ried her on the fifteenth of May here
in San Jose.
81 tnen went over to Oakland to see
Mrs. Josephine Hemingway and got
$500 from her after promising to
marry her. There was one woman in
San Francisco whose name l cannot
recall, from whom got 1920 She
owns hotel near Golden Gate Park
and she thought that l was going to
marry ner.
"You ask me how / happened to
gain an influence over any woman l
have met. Well, l can answer that
by saying that / am not a hypnotist,
but l only had to meet woman a
few times and 1 knew just how to
handle her and how to talk to her.
81 nave found that it did not pay
to be soft and sweet with woman,
be little distant and she will come
to you"