The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-13
John Peterson Formerly of
Kenosfa Arrested on
Bigamy Charge
met WIFE ON kEAOSHA CAR
Former Shipping Clerk for the Badger
Brass Company Gould Simply Not
Refuse Demands Made on Him by
the Fair Sex and Lands in Jail.

A Irritation with a girl while riding
on a street car in Kenosha, last sum-
mer was the starting of the trouble
which has finally placed him in Jail on
the charge of bigamy preferred by his
wife, says John A. Peterson, former
shipping clerk at the Badger Brass
Company plant, who was arrested at
Detroit on Sunday. The girl on the
car is now Mrs. Peterson No. 2, but
she didn't know there was a No. l
until Peterson was arrested, he says.
Wife No. l says Peterson could new
er resist woman s smile and was
bound to get in trouble sooner or later
through his fondness for the opposite
sex. She has forgiven him time and
again, she declares, but this time is
going to>see him locked up and in Jail
where ne will Lave chance to repent.
Still faithful to the man vino deceiv-
ed her, Wife No. visited him at the
police station yesterday when he was
first locked up and heard from his own
lips the story Of his deceit.
She cried and sobbed at the bars of
his cell, and then turned to him and
said she would stand by him. A few
minutes later she left the station, and
at his advice has moved from the
apartment they occupied at 334 Clay
avenue, in Detroit. Where she went
he will not tell.
It was seven years ago that Peter
son met Wife No. / in Kenosha. Both
lived at Racine, at the time. He was
IL years older, but the II year old girl
thought his age would insure wisdom
and happiness and after a brief ro-
nance they were married. Every
thing went well for the first two years,
and the couple did an act in vaude-
vile. A baby girl was born and they
decided to settle down.
Another year of happiness passed,
and then the sign of her husband S
weakness for women began to show it.
self, according to his wife. He was a
deputy sheriff of Kenosha county and
would stay away night after night I'M
der the pretext Of making arrests.
Somehow his wife's suspicion became
aroused, and she found that he had
been spending much time with another
woman, she says. He confessed and
was forgiven and forr time things
went well again until another ire
sistible charmer crossed Peterson s
path and he disappeared with her,
leaving his wife and baby alone with
no money. A week passed and he re
turned to be forgiven again.
Several times the happiness Of the
home was broken for intervals in the
same way until finally Peterson left
his wife and went to Detroit, taking a
position as foreman at the Anderson
Carriage Co. After few months his
love for his wife returned and he wrote
her to come on to Detroit. She was
through with him.. she replied, and was
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enough money to support herself and
child. She had trouble with her fami-
ly, however, and finally wrote him that
she would come.
They had only lived in Detroit a
short time when trouble came again.
A separation followed and Mrs. Pet
erson returned to her home with her
Is year odd daughter Virginia, and af-
ter leaving her with her parents went
back to Detroit and took position as
waitress in a restaurant
Peterson soon heard she had return
ed and asked her to come back to him
but she refused A few weeks ago he
came to Kenosha and met the fair
charmer that he had firted with on
the street car the year before and had
since correspondent with. A few weeks
ago Mrs. Peterson received a clipping
from her home telling Of the marriage
of Peterson to Emma Madsen. She
did not think much about it at the
time, until finally, she heard he had
returned to Detroit with his new wife
and set up housekeeping at 334 Clay
avenue.
A visit to police headquarters was
the result and Detective Lockhart was
sent to arrest Peterson.
At the prosecutor s Office he admit
ted he had married the second woman.
He was taken to the central station