The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-14
$1,000 A YEAR
PROFIT IN MAD.
SONS WOOING
MAN ACCUSED OF BlGAMY SAID
TO HAVE RECEIVED SUMS
FROM MANY WIDOWS.


police have turned Christian Johnson
alias Madison, over to the San Jose au-
thorities, to which city he has been
taken to answer to a charge of bigamy
preferred by Mrs. Josie Tretheway, of
Stockton. All the police departments
in the United States will be communi-
Gated with and every effort made to
ascertain whether any other crime
than that of bigamy can be laid at
Madson's door.
According to the accounts so far re-
ceived, Madison netted in gifts or loans
from matrimonially inclined women
about $4,000 in the last three years,
and probably more So far as known
he received:
From Mrs. Minnie Allen of ST. Louis,
loan obtained before marriage in 1907,
$3.50; from Mrs. Katherine Baughman,
of st. Louis, property converted into
cash. $1,000; from Mrs. Elizabeth
Jackson, of lola, Kan, proceeds of the
sale of her house, $4,000; from Mrs.
Josie Tretheway, of Stockton, Cal,
loan of $780, from Mrs. Alice Richard
| son, of st. Louis, borrowed as prelim-
mary to marriage. 5000; from Mrs.
Maggie E. Bloom, of Hannibal, Mo,
proceeds of sale of home, $500; from
Mrs. Mary Brown of Springfield, Mass.
all her money, supposed to be about
$500; from Mrs Sylvia Pollard de Bon
net, of San Francisco, part of proceeds
of sale of house, probably about $500;
from Mrs. Henrietta Leopold, of San
Francisco, $500. Total, s6,470.
While these are the only sums
which the women have admitted hav-
ing given him, the list of his alleged
engagements during the last three or
four years takes in almost a score
or more names and it is thought like.
ly that he received about $4,000 a
year.
SAN FRANCISCO, July A.
Christian c. Johnson, who was taken
70 San Jose to serve seven years in
the penitentiary for bigamy, is re-
ported to have confessed that he is the
mysterious "John Madison" wanted
in many parts of the country for
matrimonial ventures. Johnson's al
legged confession, however, is SO full
of inconsistencies, and so at variance
with statements he has made since
his arrest, that police authorities art
not inclined to give it full credence
The confession says he has bee,
married to so many women he can
: count them off-hand.
'In 1906 he says, II quit my bust
ness Of Erying horses, and from tina
day to this have been making my liy
ing by marrying and making love t
T women, getting their money and thel
, deserving them"
i One of his most amazing feats, az
cording to his own confession, wa
making love to ten women at one tim
in Portland, Ore. Johnson declare
that in every instance he spent tn
money he received upon the victim
herself
"They kept me broke all the time
Is the way he expressed it.
johnson married eighteen women
according to the confession, amonI
whom were Mrs. Birdie King, OF Ho
Springs, Ark, and Mrs. Bertha hlne
of Memphis.
| He married the first of his man
wives in Springfield, Mass, in 1905
She was Mrs. Mary Brown.
'T married only one woman unde
the name of John Madison johnson
declared. Her name was Jones-1
remember rightlv-Agnes jones'
got 81 800 from her because she SAL
she loved me. could have gottel
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