The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-24

NEW YORK, March 23.-Just after
he had been sentenced TO a posslpie
nine years and six months In sing
Sing prison and scorchingly excoruat
ed by County Judge Dixie In BROOK.
lyn courtroom, little. sturdy. grizzieu
Baron" Won Lichtenstein, otherwise
known as Arthur zimmerman a sell
confessed. twenty-four times bigamist
the worlds record bigamist in all
obability-received reporter In
the consultation room OF Raymond-st.
Jail.
With a jaunty twist of his mustache
and an affable smile he delivered him.
self as follows by way OF explaining
his amazing career:
Il lust can't help it-marrying EN-.
loved them all--once. Ach.-I am
so soft-hearted, When | would see
they were I'm love with me-that they
wanted me. Just couldn't resist
the pleading OF their soft eyes and
tender ways. And here am. Some
men commit suicide with poison and
others with a pistol or knife. Mine
has been a case OF slow self-destruc-
ton, with women as the weapons
that have used against myself.
Smiles Even at Sentence.
He didn't look in the least mournful
as he stopped speaking. He laughed
gaily. even boyishly, though he Is
nearly sixty years old and his black
beard is threaded thickly with white.
He laughed in quite the same flip
pant manner as he had little while
before when arraigned for sentence In
rnnrr QtAndtnR
with deputy sheriffs on all sides as
Judge Dixie said:
Marriage with you, was not only
habit but disease. When, as In your
case. II was accompanied by high
finance in always securing from your
victims all the cash they possessed In
the world, your arrest and conviction
become a positive boon to the com
munity at large
Apparently you have operated In
many States and two countries In
marrying various women. and began
as a mere boy. as early as 1872. Your
| life has practically been passed In
marrying. securing the property OF
each victim and leaving her In order
10 seek out another.
Such a man who would prey upon
| the credulity OF trusting women has
no right TO be free and |, therefore,
give YOU the limit-Sing Sing, not
more than nine years and six months
and not less than four years and
eight months"
Asked II he had anything TO say at
that time TO the court. the Baron
only smiled. gave a tug to his white
waistcoat and another to the point or
his beard; slapped his gray kid gloves
AGAINST the crown OF his pearl gray
| Alpine hat, smiled anew at his custo-
dams and without wincing, accom-
panied them back to Jail.
For all that the Baron" has been
engaged from youth to old age in the
practice of bigamy for profit as well
"a romance, il Is not on a charge oil
| bigamy that he goes TO punishment.
! He was convicted last week for per
Jury. This had TO do with his last
marriage. which was in 1909, TO Mrs.
Louisa Hahn, dressmaker, OF Brook
Ign.
Thought He Was Safe There.
He swore falsely and obtained the
| license for that marriage. When he
| left the woman he fed TO Hamilton,
1
work of silversmith. work at which
he is expert. feeling absolutely secure
from pursuit and arrest.
He had legal advice that extradition
from Canada on a bigamy charge was
impossible. He was so certain OF the
safety OF his position there that he
wrote tauntingly 10 the woman In
Brooklyn whom he had first betrayed
into an illegal marriage and then de-
serted when he had feeced her of all
her possessions.
He wrote several times. But one let.
ter IN particular marked the man as
typically an erotic criminal. He was
SO vain OF mis- two dozen conquests OF
women that he listed them In full
giving names. dates and conceited
commentaries on each criminal event
In his career in one letter TO his last
victim.
The screed was written in German