The Detroit times., 1909-07-20
BY n. D. WHEELER.


SAN JOSE, Cal, July 20.-In a cell
in the city prison here. just after DC
had pleaded guilty and had been sen
fenced TO seven years in the California
penitentiary, 1 talked for upwards oil
20 minutes with Christian G. Ander'
son, or Jonn Madison, or John Z. An
derson, or whatever may be the Dap
tismal name OF the man OF many
wives and aliases whom the police dc
clare has married ten women ana
duped for their money at least Ii
more, and who is believed TO have
record In nearly every large city Oh
the country.
johnson, who has admitted two mar
riages. talked mostly OF women. And
this Is about the impression or the
bigamist's standards that carried out
OF the cell:
All women are fools. Women being
fools, deceiving women. wrecklns
their homes and their lives, is joke.
Therefore, the more women deceived.
the more homes and lives wrecked.
the bigger the joke. II the quickest
way to woman's heart Is through her
baby, then the baby Is part OF tho
joke.
didn't enjoy my talk with Johnson.
1t isn't at all pleasant to bear gray
haired man expressing his contempt
for the law, speak lightly, jestingiy, OF
his betrayals, his home wrecking, or
the love of the good women whom he
led TO sacrifice all dear-for a joke.
Intelligent But Uncultured.
Johnson said he was 65 years old.
He looks ten years younger. His hair
Is gray and his skin sallow, almost
yellow. But his face In unwrinKled
save for a few shallow burrows about
the eyes end mouth. His eyes are
soft blue and his features delicately
cut. He Is little dear, little sioop-
ed. l found him intelligent, but un-
cultured. He speaks slowly. ploddlng-
ly, his voice without cadence. LOOK.
ing at him. I could not discover the
deadly fascination that enabled him to
become, probably. the most astound-
ing bigamist OF the age. He Is hand
some, In a way, but when he smiled
thought OF a wolf. Perhaps II was
because Of what knew Of him, but IN
his face thought I discerned re-
nection of the deformity OF his. soul.
A cynical smile was his answer to
my first question. I had asked MIN
II he didn't think II would have paid
him better 10 devote his life to one
good woman.
How better7" he parted.
well, for one thing. you would not
have been In Jail"
'0h, the Jail" and he shrugged.
Evidently the Jail, too. was a part
Of the joke.
"Then you are thoroughly satisfed?'
Satisfied? No. haven't been sat
isfied for 80 years. was born in
Schleswig- Holstein. ] loved a young
girl there. She is dead. For 30 years
her spirit has haunted me, making all
other women appear ugly and ridicu-
lous."
Ridiculous In what way?"
why, they're fools. All women are
fools. Once l wanted the compan-
ionship of one good woman. adver-
tised here for a wife. got 200 an
swers. Foolsf should say So
fools. marriage mad"
And again Johnson's face wrinkled
into that wolflsh grin.
''They say you are q hypnotist,"
suggested. "Is hypnotism part of your
secret Of winning women"
There 10 No Secret
There Is no secret The man who
wins q woman Is the man who finds
the quickest way to her heart"
"And what" I asked as quietly as
could, lis the quickest way"
Through being good to whatever
abe thinks most Of With a mother 1t
IN most likely to be her baby" There
IN evidence standing against Johnson
to show that In repeated cases, he
won the love OF married women
through Stimulating love for their chill
dren.
with an unmarried woman II may
be her hair or her eyes or one OF a
dozen other things or persons that she
is most fond Of. Whatever II is, she
can't resist attention and fiattery.
Married or unmarried, they are all
fools, with fools appetites for praise
and fiattery. They're all the same.
Whether a man makes them scream
or dream, they're all infinitely tire
some. equally FOOLS"
had had enough. left him there
In his cell, this despoiler of women
whose stock In trade is the knowledge
Of the wonderful, beautiful truth that
the quickest way TO mothers heart
is through her babe, to whom the be.
trayal OF good women, the preying
1pon pure womanhood-is a joke.
There are no jokes in chloroform.
There are not many in prison And
since under our modern civilization,
we don't chloroform men like John.
sin, II is fortunate that we do have
jails.