The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11
MORE CLAIM MAN
OF MANY LOVES
Additional Victims of Madison
Appear and Dupes Now
Total Twenty-nine

John Madison, leading man of many
loves. prolific wooer and champion big
amist, was taken to San Jose yester-
day morning to answer to a charge of
bigamy preferred by Mrs. Josephine
Amelia Tretheway- Anderson; and as he
stepped out of the city prison two
strange women, who had been waiting
outside for many hours, started for
ward, blushed and clasped each others
hands.
That's him." said one.
1T is" murmured the other.
Then, having caught last glance
at him, the two departed They re-
fused to give their names, but 1t was
evident from their manner that they
were another pair who had been duped
by him. Madison did not lose his atti-
tude of smiling abandon. He gave a
short bow TO the women, and then with
a most pronounced grin on his features
stepped alongside of Deputy Sheriff
Roberts of San jose and proceeded to
his fate.
STORY OF THE CAPTURE
With his departure from the city the
framework of mystery erected around
his capture toppled to the ground. Miss
Minnie Gather, the woman responsible
for his arrest. confessed that, despite
her former statements, she was no
private professional detective. but
8 beauty doctor with an impressionable
heart
With fearful voice she detailed her
story. She had loved him. They were
engaged to be married. They were to
wander along lifes roseate pathway.
resting ever and anon at palatiaI
mansion in Los Angeles. fitting from
spot to spot. happy in their love,
wealthy in their possessions. When
she read of his doings she planned to
get even
Il was mad" she said sweetly. 81
was mad at him clean through. and
then / went to work to trap him-and
l did"
Her plan was simple. She answered
all the matrimonial advertisements
she could find. and finally succeeded in
getting on his trail again. She wrote
under a fictitious name, claimed to be
a woman of great wealth in search of
fidelity and marital kickshaws, and in
time succeeded in bringing Madison
back to San Francisco. With Detectives
Bunner and Freel she waited for him
at the Union depot, and as he stepped
off the train, both hands laden with
errin he lie
him.
TOLD WONDERFUL LIES
The irony of the whole business is
that Madison. while laughing at his
other conquests, is sincere and en-
phatic in his belief in the woman who
turned him over to the police. He re-
fuses to believe that Miss Gather
trapped him, and is loud in his praises
of her. When this information was
given Miss Gather. together with the
comment that she had done a good
piece of work in sending to prison one
so INSCRIPTIONS, calculating and
criminal as Madison, she rose to her
feet, white hot with anger and banged
the table three times.
HE is not any such thing she
vociferated, "he is not He is the most
moral man l have met He is the
kindest man / have met" And so say
ing the beauty doctor dissolved into
tears.
''Of course" she said. IT don't love
him. but anyway he was nice. He was
so lofty in his ideals, and as for these
other women, well, they got tit for tat.
They married him for his money and
found themselves bitten"
His worst fault was that he cared
too much for money. He did not mean
to harm the women. He was too kind
,Ixr tor he NM
Young men would succeed wonderfully
well in their love affairs if they fol-
lowed his style.
What style was that?'
Miss Minnie Gather wrinkled her
brow in bordering anguish, and as the
recolections of her wrongs swept over
her sank to cynicism.
HE told such wonderful lies" she
quoted
OTHER DUPES APPEAR
Madison wanted to get an unpleasant
business over with as quickly as pos
sible.
To add to his complications two other
women, besides the couple who waited
for him at the city prison. appeared
with claims. One was Mrs E. ]. Muir
of San Diego. who. according TO dis
patches, said he had engaged himself
to her under the name of John c. An
derSOn Wnlle III San DleBO last month
and that he had posed as an army Of
ficer. The second was widow who
called upon Mrs. Leopold, but refused
to give her name, saying she had been
swindled by him.
The mans willingness to enter the
penitentlary led the police to believe
that he had been guilty of a crime
more heinous than bigamy and wished
to have himself forgotten before it was
made known; but mo proof of this
theory could be found. He is repre-
scented by Attorney Jacob Meyer, who
went to San Jose with him