The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-22
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Mr. zimmerman. q Restless Wan AMI the
Husband 81 Twenty -Ssur. Convicted
Net sS Ssizsmy hot Of Pes JssES. insists
That Ne inherited ISIS Nbnarmall'S.
The poly gamist. or. TO be precise. the
sik osik aitetragAmist. Arthur D. Zim-
norman, known also as the Baron Won
Iichtenstein. was sentenced yesterday
in the Kings County Court 10 a term 81 AZ
least four years and eight months az
possibly nine years and sI months IN
Sing sing Judge Dixie in giving SEN
tence said that Zimmerman had married
uwsnty-four women since 1872 and that
he had married eleven 81 them in one
year
Zimmerman isn't the sort of man IN
appearance one would think could find
twenty four women To marry him He
il about Ave feet ten inches tall. IL stocky
and has a grizsled beard He - not
far from fifty years old He LAYS his
uneasiness Co a high strung tempera-
ment which won't allow him "a stick by
one wife for more than year ar two
The charge upon which Zimmerman
was convicted a u e-.< ago WAS not hIgamy.
hut was perjury After has last eNcur-
SION into natrimonv he ran away 90
Canada anu when tho authorities here
began To looS for him on the complaint
oT Mrs Louise Hahl. dressmaker of
Ias last Thirty second street Flstbush,
they found that the eNuadluon treaty
betw cen the United StA;es and Great
Britain didn't provide tor the handing
over - bigamisrs
But District Attorney Clarke IT Kings
county figured that zimmerman had
committed perjury in signing the appti-
cation for his latest marriage license
and that he could ne eNtradited on that
charge The sentence yesterday was
about a. heavy as Judge Dixie could make
IL on = conviction for perjury The
bigamv charge can never be pressed
under the s'ipulati"ns IL the exuaditIon
treaty
Before Judge bike rAss~d sentence
he ash 81 Harry Howard Dale. attorney
for Zimmerman, - b" had anything
Ia say Dale said lr- hAdn l. and the
court said he doubted Il the prisoner
had either But after every sentence
or 49, ~ Judge Dkes preliminary re-
marks the bogus baron raised his head
as though h" had objections To max
when the Judge had flushed. however
zimmerman ultlu pU~t " Spear Gts
10 " hat Judge Dixie said
You have been convicted of the crime
81 perjury but back Of this charge - the
more serious one - far ss " Affects the
lives 81 many people namely bigamy
You thought that IN canada YOU would
he safe from 'hs Law hut YOU forgot
the perjury that You committed IN oh
tanning the license IN Kings county Co
rry your ia-t victim.
Marriage with you was not only a
habit II was disease. and when. a. m
your case ~ was accompanied With el@-
Fnents ~ high finance IN always securing
[ from your victims all the cash they pos
seased IN the World. your arrest and cum
| Vlctlon become positive boon Ia the
community az large
Apparently Won have operated in vsrv
many states IN marrying various women.
and you began early as iSsg Your life
has practically been PASSED "a marrying
securing the property ~ and leaving your
victims in order to seek another
PROM yOur own confession To detectives
Z IN the Jail lIri now twenty -four women
have been viclimINed by YOU. eleven ~
whom have children nv you. one ~ them
/ twins u vii! be- Impossible probably
/ ever 10 knpW hos much money you have
evidence We find that you have obtained
money apparently Ia Ro into business
and then have disappeared
Zimmerman ~ father ~ nineteen chil-
dren some ~ whom We're horn iu Ger
many Thirteen 81 his wives he ma rried
! there prior ~ his coming - this country
! in 1919 The year before he left Germany
he married eleven women Judge Dixie =
| list carried the record down 10 the present
and includes his two latest wives. Emily
Grohman. whom he married an iaOt. and
louisa HAIL whom no married last April
When Zimmerman left Mrs Hahl he
CHANGED Ia leAvs behind an lid letter
from Mir Gruhman. and " was this which
opened Mrs HabIs eyes and induced he's
"a compla IN against her erstw hi lie huslla nd
Zimmerman said that his father spent
his life IN = good deal the Ssme Way He
was married twenty times -But nv
father said he was 70 md dead in he'd
in New Jersey hotel Wit > n dagger STICK
ing In his heart
Ss.1g ma