The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-28
he HAS d WIVES
and 19 CHILDREN
Six of the Latter Are Twins,
the Oldest Being 35
Years.

New York-Stroking his gray
strcaked a Dyke, of which he is
vain, Arthur F. Zimmerman. husband
OF "a wives, most of whom are living
and from none OF whom he has been
legally separated, and father of 10
children, including three sets OF twins.
has gore to Sing Sing to serve a SEN
tence OF from four years and eight
months to nine years and six months.
Singularly enough Zimmerman was
convicted Of perjury. Nor is he ever
likely to be tried in New York at least,
for bigamy.
zimmerman Is about 60 years old.
he is elegant of figure, dresses fault
lessly. speaks English and German
perfectly, and prides himself on his
knowledge Of women and their ways,
justifying this pride by the fact Of his
numerous conQuests. He generally got
all their possessions.
Zimmermann's carelessness led to
his arrest and conviction. In marry
ing a second Brooklyn woman. he
swore, when getting the marriage
license, that he was single. The other
Brooklyn woman who had married him
was about to bring action against him
when he fed 70 Canada, settling in
HAMILTON. Ont. AS there is no extra
dition treaty between this country and
Canada covering bisamy, Zimmerman
thought himself safe. but a treaty does
provide for the e%xtradition of perjur-
ers, and District Attorney Clarke had
his quarry brought to Brooklyn. Zim-
norman was tried last week. The
jury was Out only 5 mute
Says He Loved Them All.
Z~immermann's peculiar psychological
processes puzzled even the few friends
who sat beside him in court. The
elasticity Of the organ he calls his
heart, as illustrated by his remarks,
was he wonder Of all. Speaking Of
his many wives he said:
Il loved them all-once-but my
love grew cold. l am OF such a sensi-
tive temperament that it is impossible
for me to live with a woman l do not
love. When my affection waned l left
each in turn and married another. l
am a child of affection"
After saying, in sentencing thinner
man, that behind the charge of perjury
was the more serious one of bigamy,
Judge Dixie continued:
Marriage with you was not only a
habit, it was q disease, and when, as
elements OF high finance in always Sc
curing from your victims all the cash
they possessed in the world your ar
rest and conviction became a positive
boon to the community at large. Your
life has practically been passed in mar
rying, securing the property of and
leaving your victims in order to seek
another"
Career Begun in Germany.
From the lis of "a wives Judge Dixie
ae!d, it appeared, that zimmerman be-
gan his matrimonial career in Germany
in 1872. BY 1875 he had married II
women in that country. He lived with
each just long enough to get her prop
erty, generally leaving an heir or two.
In quest of pastures new he came to
this country, marrying here IL times.
In 1904 he was married to Mrs. Emily
furnished room house in Green avenue.
Brooklyn. After borrowing all OF her
seady cash, he disappeared. Mrs. Louisa
Hail, a widow, who had a dressmakiEg
place in Flatbush, ext fell a victim to
his wiles. Zimmerman relieved her OF
any future worry over the management
Of the dressmaking establishment. In
leaving her he carelessly left a letter
behind which gave to Mrs. zimmerman
No. "a the address of No. %. They hit
the trail of Zimmerman and it led the
sleuths of District Attorney Clarke's Of
flee to Canada.
List Of Wives and Children.
Following is a list Of the women Zim-
norman married in Germany and the
number of children they bore him:
1872. Marie Grimminger.
1874, Pauline Behring.
1000, HE lSSoIu ySdI-H lISl, NdIIlS
Hauser; second, Dorothy Won Schiller;
third, Sophie Maier; fourth, Rosa Da-
has; fifth, Gertrude Rauscher 1.-TWO
children, a boy and a girl); sixth. An
ME Jaeger Cone child, a boy); seventh.
(twins); tenth, Louisa Abernueller
(two children, boy and GRID; eleventh.
Augusta Won Boehmer.
Following are the wives married in
America:
1876, Louisa Hassman Gone child, a
girD.
1879, Adelaide Volken (twins).
1880, Lena HeitZe Zone child, a boy).
1881, Nina Kessler twin boys).
1882. Antonio Krenst Ca boy).
1885, Anna KlatZehter Ca GRID.
1886. Marie von Becker (three boy
and one girl).
1897, Fredericka Hagelauch.
1904, Amelia Jases.
1904, Emily Grohman.
1909, April. Louisa Hah
Can't Be Tried for Bisamy.
Upon his release from Sing Sing Zim-
norman cannot be tried for bisamy
under the indictment for that crime,
which hangs over him in Brooklyn, if
he demands to be permitted to return
to Canada, as the Canadian extradition
law provides that in such cases as thai
OF Zimmerman q man can be tried only
1oI lne CRIME ldlIieu III tIe indictment
and for which he has been ~extradited.
A New Way to Swear OF Taxes.
From the Success Magazine.
The best way Of not paying taxes
on your personal property is to swear
them off. BY swearing OFF, Is meant
going to the tax assessor and making
a deposition that you really don't live
where o seem to live, that you
really don't own what you seem to
own, and that, while you appear to be
a very rich man, you are really over
hitherto successfully concealed. Since
personal taxes began, so many ways
Of swearing off have beer invented
that the tax authorities had come to