The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-18
BEWARE OF men
Bigamist Says Never Take Them
Home With You
IF You Would Keep Wife Happy
and True.
HE HAS HAD BAD LUCK
Four MatrimOnfaIVe ntures Land
Him i'm Jail.
Former Minister Not Bitter
Against His Wives.
HEHAS HAD BAD LUCK

Columbus, Jan. 1s.-Once the hus-
band of three women who still are
living, Eugene Hansman, formerly a
Baptist minister, celebrated his 25th
anniversary of his wedding to the first
one. alone in a cell of the Cherokee
county Jail, where he was confined in
lieu OF the pawn of $500, his fine
upon conviction for bigany and some
costs. To a caller Tuesday he stated
that he had a son lying at the point
or death in a Missouri Pacific hospital
and that the most painful thing about
his confinement in jail is that he can
not be with him.
Hansman was convicted at this term
OF the district court on charges OF
bigamy by his former, and last wife,
Miss Janet Limb of Scammon,
where he had been a clerk and assist
ant bookkeeper in the Fidelity store
It was while he was working in TINS
= capacity that he fell i'll and was nursed
back to health by Miss Limb.
Pastor Hansman was asked for a
statement. He said that the cir
cumStanceS were such as to cause him
no uneaSiness. for he was not aware
that he had committed a crime. He
said that he thought his second wife
had obtained her divorce and that he
was clear of her. It afterwards deVel-
oped that she had been his legal wife
four days after he was married to Miss
Limb.
Il am anxious to get a parole, said
the former minister. II think I am
fentitled to one and believe that my
Aattorney viii be able to secure it. Con-
sequently, do not care to discuss my
case. However, the giSt of the whole
matter is contained in this: Never
take a man friend into your house If
You wish to retain a happy home. A
man thought was my friend, ruined
my home and drove me into the world.
Today he is the second husband of my
70 1nf mi Al
done that which is wrong I simply
have had bad luck in my matrimonial
affairs.
I have sons who are men. I loved
my home dearly and my wife, and
love her yet in memory, but she did
me wrong and I do not wish to discuss
it. I am writing to my poor son who
lies dying in the Missouri Pacific hos
pital I am recalling, as l write, the
many happy times his mother and 1
and the little fodder had when he was
{. baby.
My other sons are in Illinois. I
have written to one and have told him
that I am in jail here, but that I will
be home as soon as my parole can be
arranged or my time is finished. l
have nothing to hide. Indeed I would
be ashamed to attempt to hide any
thing. / am as innocent in this mat
ter as a man who never saw the girl.
7 cannot understand why the charges
were brought, nine months after the
woman had secured a divorce.
IF Miss Limb has been injured in
her standing in the community. or in
any way, [ am sincerely sorry. I would
not for the world willingly have done
anything to hurt her She nursed me
through a trying sickness as if she
were an angel. and We learned to love
each other.
why did make the second and
third ventures into matrimony? Why,
because a man becomes careless DriV-
en- from my first home I came west.
7 was lonely and felt the need of wo-
man to be by me in health and sick
mes, to be my companion. Perhaps
there are some things to which I did
not pay sufficient attentiOn=what
they were, I will not say. But I was
careless in the matter of getting mar
ried before / knew the divorce was eff
fective. Had I waited four days long
Ter, should not have been in a po-