The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-12
MUCH MARRIED
MADISON FACES
HEARING TODAY
Biganlist Plans to Plead Guilty
and Will Ask for Lmme-
date Sentence
Beauty Doctor Who Trapped
Bluebeard Employed by
Deceived Wife

When John Madison. the bigamist,
appears for trial in San Jose his en-
barrassment and discontinue will be
witnessed by al least two of his wives.
Mrs. Tretheway. who swore out the
warrant and Mrs Leopold of San
Francisco. The latter declared yester-
Gay that if anything could recompense
her for the shame and heart burniags
she has had TO suffer on account OF
the viIlainies Of Matrimonial Madison. il
would be the sight Of him being SEN
fenced 10 a term in the penitentiary.
Il should like. she said, to stick a
hatpin into him. am going 10 san
Jose 10 see him tried i it takes my
last dollar"
As Mrs Tretheway seems to be actu-
ated by a similar trend of thought. the
presence Of the two women in the
courtroom viii in all probability neces-
state an eNtrs guaro.
BEAUTY DOCTORS AID BOUGHT
Miss Minnie Gather. the beauty doc
tor VINO brought about MadSOn's arrest.
will not go TO see him stand trial
After he was captured by the police she
was in mortal fear that he would
secure bail and attempt TO injure her.
tiA AiA- ~AlF er7t4 lLE- tfo4NACAANN
from McAliister street TO the Hotel
Blair in O'Fsrrell street. and took the
name of Prather That the beauty
doctor was impelled by reasons more
practical than mere revenge in running
the bieamist into the hands of the po-
lice was shown by letters and state
ments made by Mrs. Leopold.
When Miss Gather took up my case, -
she said. lit was agreed that she should
run this man down. make him refund
my 5000 and that she should be paid
half Of that sum for her trouble.
shortly after this agreement was made
she tried 10 get me 20 agree TO drop
all proceedings provided Madison gave
me back my money. / greed to this,
but he seems TO have spent it. A little
while later she told me that if ] paid
her 500 she could have the man ar
rested in Seattle and that this sum
would be spent bringing him back to
justice. AS he had already taken the
last dollar possessed I could not meet
her demand.
r finally became somewhat suspi-
cious and consulted an attorney At
the same time 7 sent letter 10 the
police giving them all the informa ton
I had on the matter"
This letter reads as follows:
Chief Of Police-Deer Sir: Par
don me for troublig you again.
A woman giving the name of Miss
Minnie Gather came 10 see me and
claims she can produce Christ
Johnson, alias John c. Anderson.
whose right name. so this woman
says. is c. o. Moeller This woman
claims she was married to him
February g and has been living
with him ever since at Byron
Springs and Oakland. She has also
n
with him. She says he left last
Thursday TO go to Los Angeles
and also that she will get a special
letter 10 him tonight. She goes on
and says she will have this man
Johnson at her house Monday and
viii notify me I can not trust her
and leave il to your judgment and
viii be glad to assist you in locat-
ing him.s Miss Gather lives in Oak
land. Palmer house, 1241 Broadway
If I am to swear out a warrant
for him ] would like to have secur-
ity. HENRIETTA LEOPOLD.
2144 Suffer street
According to the police Miss Gather
admitted TO them that she had met
Madison at Byron Springs and that he
entertained her right royalty. If this
was so the entertaining must have
Mrs. Leopold.
WOMAN DENIES STORY
Miss Gather, however, later denied
that she was at Byron Springs witt
Madison.
4 know nothing of the man." she
said. except that we met in Oakland
and that we were engaged to be mar
ried- When I found out that he hac
deceived me I became angry and hac
him arrested by the police"
There is a common belief that Mad
son has much Of the money which h,
obtained by swindling women bidder
away somewhere and there is an ear
nest desire on the part Of his man,
wives to locate the fund and recoul
themselves. That such a fund exists il
extremely doubtful
Detectives spent all yesterday witt
him attempting TO get him to admit
that he was John Madison the mucf
married man, but he refused to do so
He viii be taken into the superior
court for trial today, and, when ques
toned IS TO what his plea would be
declared that he would admit his gull
al once.
Among other women whom he prom
ised 10 marry, il was brought out yes
terday, was Miss Josephine Bromley
niece OF the late Uncle George
Bromley OF the Bohemian club, LIVING
at STA Twenty second street
While he gives his age as SIS, it Il
said that Madison is but 81 years old.
Madson's art in getting money ava,
from women was such that he evel
made Mrs. Leopold pay for the weddinJ
ring and the fees for the justice VIII,
married them.
CHIEF YOEMAN OF SOIITH