HALF A DOZEN WIVES A MONTH.

Bush Advocate, 15 September 1888, Page 2

HALF A DOZEN WIVES A MONTH.

William T. Johnson, an eighteen -year-old coloured youth, who. lives in New York, was a prisoner theother day before- Magistrate Pole, in the Fifth distriot station-house, on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner's father was the proseoutor, and he said his son. had no control over himself, and was a' maniac on the subjeot of marriage. " Why, he'll marry any girl in the world' that'll have him I" exolaimed. the senior Johnson. Last summer the youth married a young colored girl, with the full consent and approval of her parents, and lived happily with her for three months. Then they quarrelled and separated. Three weeks after they parted young Johnson took another girl across the ferry, and they were made man and wife; When his parents found it out they had yoilng Johnson arrested, and his second wife, who is a. servant at Wayne Junction, went back to her position. Johnson, who is an intelligent, well-educated man, keeps aprinfcing office at 1, 1 1 1 Bainbridge street. He "prosecutes his son as a warning to his other children* Ho is very indignant at Rev. J. J. Sleeper, of Camden, who performed the first marriage ceremony, for the boy bigamist. "What; do you want done with your son?" asked Magistrate Pole of Johnson. " I want to see if you can! t keep him from marrying. If he is allowed to go on he will have half-a--dozen wives in a month." Magistrate Pole held the }x>utlumdQr l,ooodol bail to stand trial. ■