The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-08

liz was Looked TOR IN ILLINOIS,.
| 1t seems, that Goldman, in his in.
lduction record, gave his home address
as an Illinois town, although he grew
up at Alexandria and has lived there
practically all his life. When he desert
ed, the army officers looked up his
home address and later had informa-
ton that he had gone home. They
then telegraphed Sheriff Bennett to
look for him in the Hancock county
town.
| But the sheriff knew all about Gold
man and at once came to Keokuk af-
ter him. Officer Pearson accompanied
Sheriff Bennett to the new home OF
Goldman, at % South Fourth street, as
the Illinois officer was out Of his own
! jurisdiction. They found Goldman
there and placed him under arrest
He was taken to Carthage at once
and his bride got busy seeking infor-
nation.
His Bride Nice Girl.
She was Miss Olivia Porter, nice
girl, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Porter, who also live in the same
apartments at Fourth and Johnson
streets. Their wedding was on Christ
mas morning at the home of Justice
James 8. Burrows.
IF l had known he was a deserter,
] would never have married him." said
Mrs. Goldman this morning. She said
neither she nor his parents ever sus-
ipected that Goldman was here without
the authority of his officers in the
army
When Goldman was arrested, she
there to Alexandria, and saw the par
ents Of her husband. She found them
as thunderstruck as berseIf at the De
Felopments of the hour. They arr Mr..
and Mrs William Goldman
Wanted to do as He Pleased.
She had known Fonda for six years,
and their courtship lasted a month be- |
fore the wedding that Christmas morn |
ing.
Before he was taken away, Goldman |
told her, she says, about his desertion |
as follows:
I'D asked for furlough time and |
time again, and was always turned !
down. l had letters from my brother /
over in France, and he had two leaves |
of absence, and / got to thinking /
be given leave any more than me. So, |
lit out and came home"
Goldman told her that hig leg was /
broken IN fall from an airplane, and |
he was in the aviation in the eastern /
not at par just now.
His Previous Record Here.
" q nh feD me- s,rf RI
the marriage license, that it was his /
first marriage But when the return Of |
the marriage certificate came in. IL |
showed that the wedding was tlis sec
ond adventure IN matrimony.
His own explanation OF his desertjon |
is in line with his previous life here |
aoouts. He always wanted to do as Re
pleased. Before the war, Keokuk Dr- l
lice considered him an undesfra5I bic i
person TO have in town, and he ia said
10 have tramped some. At any rate i
whenever he came to Keokuk he was l
treated as vagrant under the Jaw and 4
run out of town. This occurred several /
times
When he came this last time in uni 4
form, that protected him, and also
there was desire on the part of tho /
authorities to consider his army scr.
vice as wiping off the slate of the past, |
II he showed any tendency toward re. |
form.
His wife visited him in Carthage tn. |
day, and he is expected to be taken |
east tomorrow.
About His Previous MARRIAGE.
investigation in the records by The |
Gate City today disclosed that Gold. +!
man was married before in Keokuk |
to Miss Leona Wilke. What the end
iof that marriage was, If it is legally |
ended, could not be ascertained here |
today.
That first wedding was on October
q, 1911, and was solemnized by the
Rev. MIR. Means. of the Nazarene
church, the return shows.
Goldman told Justice Burrows that
his first marriage was by Justice ]
VA MILESTONE, after first saying it