The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-01
CHARLES HANSEN
GOES TO PRISON
Judge Pronounces Sentence
for Abandonment and
Non-Support.
HE PLEADS GUILTY
Alleged Rigamist Has Moth
ing to Say" When Court
Gives Chance to Speak.

Not one of the three women whose
lives Charles Hansen crossed, made
merry awhile and then embittered,
were in the courtroom this morning
when he received his sentence. He
stood alone, facing the desk, and when
the judgment of the court had been
pronounced, there was not friend
present to press his hand in sympathy.
Dapper as usual, Hansen was
brought into the courtroom by Deputy
Sheriff Stanley Rauen. Hansen was
well-groomed as always, carrying his
smart plaid overeoat jsuntily over
his arm. He waited quietly in the
Jurors seat for his turn to be called
before the bench, and talked with no
one. There was just slight shadow
over his nonchalance. He had been
in Jail for two weeks, and perhaps he
guessed "what was coming" as he
stood up and entered a plea of guilty
to the charge against him.
Charged with Abandonment.
Hansen waived a formal reading of
the charge, and when Judge Slater
asked him If he understood the charge
to be desertion and non-support of
his wife, Martha Bloom Hansen, and
his four children, he answered Eyes"
"What Is your plea, guilty or not
guilty Z" asked Judge Slater.
Guilty" answered Hansen. He was
serious now and there was no flair
about his manner.
son your plea of guilty, the court
finds you guilty. Have you anything
to say why the Judgment and sentence
of the court should not be pronounced
against your"
mo sir" answered Hansen.
Gets Two-Year Sentence.
"The judgment and sentence of pas
court is that you, Charles Hansen, be
committed to the state prison at Wau-
pun for two years at hard labor, the
first day of your confinement to be
solitary. The sentence will begin at
twelve o'clock this noon.
| Hansen went at once to the chair,
picked up his coat, slung it over his
arm, and walked over. to the county
Jail in custody. He will be taken to
state prison under guard as soon as
Sheriff Pabst has made the necessary
arrangements, probably Monday morn
ing.
1t will be remembered that Martha
Bloom Hansen, who caused the arrest
of Hansen in New York City, said, as
soon as she learned that he was in
custody, LET him go to prison. am
in prison now," indicating as she
spoke the four small children who
clutched at her every moment. They
are Rae Charlotte, z; Laverne, d; Ar
dele, 8, and Harry Elmer, Fl months.
Not on Bigamy Charge.
While Hansen goes to prison his
worries are not entirely over yet eth
er. When he energies from that sem
tnce it is possible that he may face
prosecution on bigamy charge. He
cannot be prosecuted for bigsmy in
the state of Wisconsin, as neither of
his two alleged illegal marriages took
place here. He is alleged to have
married Reeva Goldberg in Crown
Point, Ind, in February, 1921, and to
have married Kathlyn Riordan in New
York City in November, 1924. Miss
Goldberg, now resident of Califor-
MIA, has sought an annulment of her
marriage, and Miss Riordan is also
seeking to have her marriage an
nulled in New York City. Register of
Deeds John F. Schmitt has just sent
her at her request certified copy of
the marriage license and marriage GER
tifcate as filed in his Office, showing
the marriage of Charles Hansen to
Martha Bloom by Judge Taylor in
county court here in 1915.
In the charges to which Hansen
pleaded guilty before Judge Slater
there was no mention of his alleged
"other" wives, as for reasons already
stated, there could be no prosecution
for bigamy here.