The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-06-26
TAKEN
AlpENA TO
A(E|' WIEN
u De6ee Prosecution for Non
\ GuppuFt Because Second
Marriage Il Bigamous
MAINTAINED TWO HOMES
IL HERE FOR LONG TIM I
Young Man With a Spouse Too
Many Says He Loves
@vs Them Both

Foster Gilbert. 25-year-old driver
~ . grocery wagon. who Is charged
NTH maintaining two wives and fami-
M, was taken to Mpena, Wednesday
morning. by Sheriff Simmons. to face
" charge of desertion and non-support
proferred BY wife No. 2. who was
1ormDEiy Miss Martha Weinkauf. OF
AlDona. n nice little technically 10
Involved In the case. dealing with the
question % to whether Gilbert can
~ prosecuted for desertion OF biga-
mona, and, therefore, illegal wife.
I'D gilbert does not appear to be over
- years old. and IL an innocent-look.
I tnEt chan. He says he does not know
J. AoV h0Iet himself become bigamist.
n nrst, and legal wife. Hazel, Is
(. nu1y 81 years old. He married her
No. she was 16, In Norwalk, o. They
~ tour children, one Of whom has
uln6S died.
Thsy came to Detroit to live. Gil
- 6mot Martha Weinkauf, of Alpepa,
EWhtIN che was visiting her bpothAr
49,. "a 1911. He courted Martha. a
Fyokg and pretty woman. She used
F0D iodo with him on his grocery wag-
~ - ~. Ou0 Ooy OuO uSeuNS~
TIT he marry her, and he says he
~ her that he was married man.
But think she thought was d.
voGned. and married her, don't
,bnGw Why" said Gilbert. He married
Ihor In Windsor. In September. 1911.
|y6r = long time, he maintained wife
No. : In the home of her brother.
William e. Weinkauff. No. 500 Con-
nVoe-st. east. and at the same time,
4 fiUtaegal wife and children were liv-
~ ct No. 431 Twelfth-st.
70 both. he said that he had to
drive q taxicab to earn extra money.
IH6 would 90 home to wife No. 2, at
! n'clock In the evening, and leave
.nGeat 8 o'clock in the morning, stat
~ that he had to go to work to
net the early trains.
~ 3 o'clock. he would report to
wife No. 1, and tell her that he had
shoon meeting the night trains. She
Ioit1n wondered how he got along
v1gk 20 little sleep, as he arose In
to morning to 60 to work on his
m Dry wagon.
sanwhile, the members of the
yFninkauf family were not satisfied
~ = on q marriage by a minister,
- .Aipena, and late in November, 1911.
~ couple went to Alpena. we're re-
~ He'd by q minister. and made their
hanS with the Weinkauf family, on a
Swhile. wife No. and her three
ell ZEN, deserted. went back to Nor
Szolk. where Mrs. Gilbert went to
5S9k 6 washerwoman. living with
hoe mother. Another baby was born
t Norwalk. One of the other chill
lt8n died
wife No. 3, In Alpena. became
X>thof. during the winter.
n Last August, Gilbert deserted wife
IN Z. telling her he could not make
So1QnGh moneg on the farm. and was
m ~ t. the big city to earn money.
AzgtNod here. he wrote to wife No. 1,
t&I11ne her he had been working on
~ boats. She forgave him. came
,td 1lve with him, and was living with
III when oflcers arrested him.
"a Wondering about the arrest. she
do inquiries, and learned of her
1ooband'b dual existence. She Is
n{oiting the autcome Of the case in
AUona.
llhert says he loves both women.
HI says he 10 sorry for his misdeeds.
don't know what can do; I would
~ to live with my real legal wife,
hi would like to see that Martha
too" he said, as he was
"a away.