The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-04
NEW YORK Girl.
WRITES TO WIFE
Kathlyn RiOrdan, Deceived
by Hansen, Pleads With
His Wife.
MRS. HANSEN JJNMOVED
Meanwhile Chief Logan and
Detective McCluskey Are
En- Route to New York.


Kathlyn Riordan, the little New
York clerk who is the third woman to
be deceived by Charles Hansen, still
loves him, fact which is betrayed in
every line of the piteous letter of ap-
peal which was received here this
morning by Mrs. Martha Hansen, the
legal wife of the alleged bigamist, who
is now in the New York tombs await
ing the arrival of the Kenosha officials
who will bring him back with them to
Wisconsin.
The New York girl who admits that
she was lured into a marriage with
Hansen when he was already the hus-
band of another, pleads with the Ke-
nosha wife and mother of four chill
dren to intercede for him 'for his
babies" sake.
Wife is Obdurate.
Mrs. Hansen received the letter
through the police department today.
She had no criticism to make of the
unfortunate young woman who is the
last one to have been betrayed by Han
sen, but she smiled with some bitter
ness at the suggestion that she should
drop her charges against Hansen and
stake him back.
She stood at her pan of dishes in
the kitchen of the home at 1877 Ere
mont avenue, this morning, surround
ed by the four children which remind
her at every turn of the faithless
father who abandoned them.
81 am through with Charles Han
sen," she said 81 wish 1 had back
the years Of youth and hope and hap
piness that he robbed. If that girl
knew how much / had suffered since
married that man; she would never
dream of asking me to do that thing.
She has not gone through what I
have, and I hope she never will"
Chief Has Left for East.
Chief Logan left this morning for
New York City to join Detective
Frank McCluskey who left Sunday.
The Kenosha detective left on Sunday
for Albany, and secured the signature
of Governor Smith to the extradition
papers. District Attorney Morris
Barnett left with the police chief
this morning, and both will use their
efforts with the New York department
to have them relinquish Hansen, as
was first agreed, for the Wisconsin
prosecution.
The letter which Mrs. Hansen re-
ceived this morning from Kathlyn
Riordan, reads as follows:
November q, 1924
1853 East 1S3rd St.,
Bronx, N. Y. C.
Mrs. Hansen:
I am writing to you not for myself
but for your four little babies that
have my heartfelt sympathy. I mar
ried Charles Hansen, your husband,
believing him a single man. 1t was
MT until eight days after I married
him that knew he was the father of
your children.
l am going to ask you to do some
thing that will be hard / suppose. l
am going to ask you in the name of
God to try to do something that will
keep him out Of prison for your
babies sake.
/ saw him in the Tombs today. I
think that the few days he has already
spent there has been enough punish
ment. 1 spoke with him and he told
me that he would do anything if you
would let him come back to you and
his little babies. Mrs. Hansen, my
own heart is broken, but that does
not matter. ! am pleading with you
to plead for him. Please write to me,
and let me know your address in ease
]. have to have proof that he was mar
ried before I can secure my annull-
ment.
(Signed) Kathlyn Riordan.
P. S. = For Gods sake Mrs. Hansen
if you ever had little spark of love
for him stick to him now for the
babies sake.