The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-10
HYPNOT|SM CAUSE
OF HIS TROUBLES
Alleged Bigamist White Says
Third Wife Placed Him
Under Spell.
INDUCED HIM TO MARRY
WIFE NO. SAYS SHE is salts
FLED SINCE SHE GOT HER MON
EY BACK AND WILL NOT PROSE
CUTE CHARGE.
INDUCED HIM TO MARRY
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Marion, Ind, Nov 1O.-"That wom-
an had peculiar influence over me.
In an unguarded moment l married
her. knowing that l already was a
married man. She also knew that /
had another wife, but she insisted
that I marry her and influenced me
to do so. l have been told that she
practiced hypnotism. She must have
exerted her power over me. After in
ducing me to marry her. she still had
an influence over me and caused me
to do just as she pleased
Thus spoke Harlan White, the con-
fessed bigamist held in the county
Jail, to a reporter in explaining why
he deliberately laid himself liable to
Imprisonment by marrying a woman
at Valparaiso when he knew that he
had not obtained a divorce from his
wife.
Woman Gets Blame.
He lays the blame for his act on the
woman. He says that she begged him
to marry her, and that she influenced
him to take her for his wife even
though both knew that he was al
ready married man. He says that
he has been told that No. wife was
hypnotist, and he believes that she
made him one of her subjects.
Wife No. was more interested in
securing a return of her money than
in prosecuting White for bigamy, for
she is now willing that he be released
from Jail without prosecution even
though he is a confessed bigamist.
White is now sorry that he returned
the money to No. 3 wife. When ar
rested he had $500 in twenty dollar
bills in his pocket, and he handed the
bunch of greenbacks over to No. 3
wife believing that he could thus
avoid prosecution for theft of the
money. This was before the officers
let White know that they had know
ledge of him being a bigamist Now
White is wondering how he can get
the money back. He says the money
was in the bank in his name and that
he is entitled to it. The wife, howev-
er, says that the money, even though
it was deposited in the bank in his
name. is her own, having received it
from her first husbands estate.
Gets a Release Order.
Mrs. White No. who traced White
to Marion and caused his arrest, re-
turned to Michigan Saturday night to
file charges of bigamy, but she now
refuses to prosecute him. Having Sc
cured a return Of her money she is
willing that he have his liberty. Su-
perintendent of Police White on Tues
day morning received a message from
the sheriff OF whitec1oud. Mich. read
ing as follows:
Release White. Wife willing. At
torneys say We have no jurisdiction. -
Superintendent White, however,
does not propose to turn White loose
even though his wife is willing. With
attorneys deciding that the Michigan
courts have no jurisdiction, the case
already filed in the local court will be
permitted to stand. White pleaded
guilty when arraigned in the city
court on the day of his arrest, but the
judge has withheld sentence.
White admits that he is not an or
dained minister. although he saws he
became changed man" and that he
has often assisted in religious servic-
es. He has frequently participated in
Salvation Army meetings although not
a regular member Of that organization.