MAN’S EIGHT WIVES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5345, 4 December 1919, Page 6

MAN’S EIGHT WIVES.

FOLLOWING BIBLICAL EXAMPLE.

Five feet four in his darned old socks (neatly and lovingly darned, i this or that wife, as the case may be), stands Charles B. Wilson, a thin, kind-hearted worried little man, accused of bigamy. He was brought to Now York from Wisconsin to answer the charge. “Guilty,” he said, when arraigned before Judge Wadhams in General Sessions. “How many?” demanded the Court. , And when the little fellow straightened np and answered "eight’ 1 there was a murmer in the court-room. He stood there, sturdy as a willow plume, and: compelled everybody with compassionate eyes. Judge Wadham’s interest in the case appeared to be for a moment more scientific than legal. He wanted to know how such things could be ? “Well. I’m a Y.M.C.A. w-rW ;m d a travelling salesman and B : hh' student, and I used to bo a physical instructor,” said Wilson. “Go on,’’ said: the Court. “In the Bible,” Wilson continued, “we study especially the lives of Solomon and David and Jacob, and they all had many wives.”

“Aboui these women you married —were they—web, what sort of women were they, anyway?’ ’ “They were trustful, Christian, economical women,” said Wilson with dignity. “But what did you marry them for? 5 insisted the Court “They came to me in distress,” said Wilson, “and I was merciful to them. “Could you make that a little clearer?” said Judge Wadhnms. "Well, two> .of them were in trouble,” said Wilson, “so I helped them.” Turning to economies, the high cost of living, etc., Judge Windhams asked: how it was possible t 0 support so many. a travelling aalesman, as I said before,” was the answer. “At tunes I make £lO 0 r £l2 a day. Besides, four of my wives were widows, and had money when I married them. Also, I don’t support all of them all the time. They were distributed over a period of nineteen years. I met them here and there in my travels, most of them in church. And I loved them all.” Judge Wndhams gave it up, and said ho would imposo sentence later.

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