HALF-A-DOZEN WIVES A MONTH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1795, 27 September 1888, Page 4

HALF-A-DOZEN WIVES A MONTH.

William T. Johnson, an eighteen-year-old colored youth, who liyts in New York, was a prisoner the other day before Magistrate Pole, in the Fifth district station house, on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner’s father was the prosecutor, and he said his son had no control oyer 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 colored girl, with the full consent and approver of her parents, and lived happily with her for three months. Then they quarrelled and separated. Three weeks after they parted the young man took another girl across the ferry, and they were made man and wife. When his parents found it out they had him arrested, and his second wife, who was a servant at Wayne Junction, went back to her position. Johnston, who is an intelligent, welleducated mauj keeps a printing office at 1111 Cambridge 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 under lOOdols bail to stand trial.