The Detroit times., 1909-07-20
BY n. .. Wheeler.

SAN JOSE, Cal, July 20.-In cell
in the city prison here, just after be
had pleaded guilty and had been sen.
fenced to seven years in the California
penitentiary, talked for upwards OF
20 minutes with Christian c. Ander'
son, or Jonn Madison, or John c. An
derson, or whatever may be the hap.
tismal name OF the man OF many
wives and aliases whom the police de-
clare has married ten women and
duped for their money at least IA
more. and who Is believed TO have a
record in nearly every large city Of
the country
Johnson, who has admitted two mar
riages, talked mostly OF women. And
this Is about the impression OF the
bieamist's standards that | carried out
OF the cell:
All womsn are FOOLS Women neIrg
fools, deceiving women, wrecklng
their homes and their lives, Is a 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.
II isn't at all pleasant to bear a gray.
haired man expressing his contempt
for the law. speak lightly, jestingly, OF
his betrayals, his home wrecking, OF
the love Of the good women whom he
led to sacrifice all dear-for joke.
Intelligent But uncuitured.
Johnson said he was So years old.
He looks ten years younger. His hair
is gray and his skin sallow, almost
yellow. But his face in unwrinAled
save for a few shallow burrows aboul
the eyes end mouth. His eyes are
soft blue and his features delicately
cut. He IL a little deaf, little stoop.
ed. I found him intelligent, but un-
cultured. He speaks slowly, ploddins.
ly, his voice without cadence LOOK.
Ing AT him. could. not .Stscover the
deadly fascfnatiCfi that enabled hftoft0
become. probably, the most astound-
ing bigamist OF the age. He Is hand
some, In a 1ay. but when he smiled
thought OF a wolf. Perhaps 1t was
because Of what l knew Of him, but In
his face ! thought | discerned re-
flection of the deformity OF his soul.
A cynical smile was his answer to
my first question. | had asked MIN
IL he didn't think IL would have oaid
him better 10 devote his life to one
good woman.
How better?" he parried.
We'll, for one thing, you would not
have been In Jail"
"Oh. the jail" and he shrugged.
Evidently the jail, too, was part
Of the joke.
Then you are thoroughly satisfied?"
Satisfied? No. | haven't been sat
isfed for 80 years. / was born In
Schleswig- Holstein. ] loved a young
girl there. She is dead. For 80 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 / wanted the compan-
ionship of one good woman. I adver-
tised here for q wife. l got 200 an
swers. Fools? l should say So
fools, marriage mad"
And again Johnson's face wrinkled
into that wolfish grin.
They say you are q hypnotist,"
suggested. rs hypnotism part Of your
StCTel VI WiuuihB WoihChs
There is No Secret
There is no secret. The man who
wins a woman Is the man who finds
the quickest way to her heart"
And what" | asked as quietly as
I could, lis the quickest way"
Through being good to whatever
she thinks most of. With mother IL
is most likely to be her baby" There
is 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 q
dozen other things or persons that she
is most fond OF. Whatever IL Is. she
can't resist attention and fiattery.
Married or unmarried, they are all
fools, with fools appetites for praise
and fattery. They're all the same
Whether a man makes them scream
OF 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 preylne
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. IT is fortunat ethat we do have
jails.
EAST BUFFALo--openine.