A Marriage Maniac.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 302, 26 September 1888, Page 3

A Marriage Maniac.

William T. Johnson, an eighteen-year-old coloured youth, who lives in New York, was a prisoner the other day before Magistrate Pole, in the Fifth district stationhouse, on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner's father was the prosecutor, and he said his son had no control over himself, and was a maniac on the subject of marriage. ' Why, he'll marry any girl in the world that'll have him !' exclaimed the senior Johnson. Last summer the youth married a young coloured 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 young 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 a printing office at 1,111, Bainbridge street. He prosecutes his son as a warning to his other children. He 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 youth nder $1,000 bail to stand trial.