The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-23
BIGAMIST MADISON
HAS VICTIM HERE
Mrs. Sylvia de Bonnet Prey TO
WiIes of Much Wanted
Schemer
Poses as Wealthy StOckman
and DupeS Many Women
in the East

san Francisco has victim OF the
Wlies OF John Madison. alias c. c.
johnson. the reputed California stock
man who is now swiftly scurrying
. away from Missouri and Kansas with
determined women from both of those
states on his trail The san Franciscan.
who until MadsOn's matrimonial career
was exposed in the Mississippi valley.
heieved herself 10 be his wife, is Mrs.
sylvia de BonneteJ ohDson, now living
quietly in Stanvan street She was
married 10 the swindler in San Rafael
IN Christmas week, 1907. 1t was a six
weeks romance Mrs. de Bonnet. a
divorced woman. met the fellow three
weeks before the wedding bells were
runE and three weeks after that fovous
occasion he kicked over the bucket OF
the milk OF human Kindness that there
iofore he had carried about with him
and skipped
Mrs de Bonnet was left With her
son. boy 5 years old. on her hands
Johnson as he called himself at that
time, old not rob Mrs. de Bonnet OF
any money, bat her marriage 10 him
caused forfeiture Of her alimony
MRS. DE BONNET IN sECLUsIoN
Joe - Jordan. an attorney in the
Pacific building and a friend OF Mrs
dc Bonnet-JOhnson, was adverse 10 dis
q
Bonnet is In seclusion IN this city and
desires that. her where's bouts shall not
he known But Il Madison. or Johnson
SIS arrested she VIII appear and prose
cute him Yes. it is true, as the records
~ Marin county show. that Mrs de
Bonnet was married 10 Johnson in San
Rafael shortly after Christmas, 1907
She went with him 10 the license office
and the ceremony was performed by 8
clergyman whom Mrs de Bonnet knew
II was not q pseudo maria ge."
Jordan refused further TO discuss the
case.
Mrs. Nellie S. White, 4l7 Pierce street
= friend OF Mrs. de Bonnet also verified
The report that the san Francisco
woman was the wife OF Johnson, OF
Madison. the much wanted husband
AT the time Of Johnson's disappear
ance. said one Of her friends yester-
day. Mrs. de Bonnet said that heI
husband had met with foul play Now
she knows that he did not. But he
did not set any money out of her, she
claims. lie represented himself TO be
a rich stockman, but his ways were
100 crude 60 fool any one, should
think"
POSED As WEALTHY STOCkMAN
At the time Of her marriage to John.
son Mrs. de Bonnet told her friends
mat she met MN at q Social ana lndl
he was very wealthy. Now It is re.
ported that she met him through the
dang erous medium OF a matrimonial
gencF. Johnson's eastern operations
were carried on through matrimonia.
agencies. II is thought that when h'
married the San Francisco woman h
.overestimate6 her competency, as sh
oreresumated his
Many eastern women are the dupe
of johnson Madison They are Mrs
Elizabeth n L. Jackson Of lola, Kan
who accuses the man on a warran
issued in St Louis OF having stOleI
sls00 from her during their engage
snent- Mrs Minnie Allen Of 14lSA Madi
son street. st. Louis, who was mar
RED" 20 Madison with a spurious cere
mony and who loaned him money; Mrs
katherine Baumann. proprietor Of tn
NevpOrt hotel Seventh and Chestnu
street. St Louis. but now living Il
sacramento. who lost $1,000 through
this operator, and Mrs. Maggie L
Bloom. a widow Of Hannibal, Mo-, VIII
sold her house TO get money for IN
svindler. who posed as a Cahforni'
stockman % great wealth