Show Wor WOMEN EN JUMPED AT THE CHANCE All Christian C Johnson Had to toDo toDo toDo Do Was to Propose Matrimony RETIRED TO SAN QUENTIN ALLEGED CONFESSION BEFORE INCARCERATION I E RAT I 0 N Na a v San Jose Jos e CaL Cat July 13 Chris Uan tJan C Johnson alias Anderson 1 alias alla Madson Madsen Mad on who yesterday esterday In the superior court pleaded guilty to bigamy and was waa sentenced to serve serven seven n yean in lit 1 San Quentin left today in custody of a deputy sheriff for the prison at that ut place vv San Francisco July 18 Christian C Johnson sentenced yesterday at San Jose Jo e to serve seven years in the peni pent penitentiary penitentiary for bigamy is reported to have confessed that he is the mysterious John wanted in many parts ports of the country for irregular matrimonial ventures venture and anel systematic swindling of Df f women under promise of marriage Johnsons alleged ed confession however which IB Is 1 printed today In a local news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper is so 80 full tull of inconsistencies incon and ao so at variance dance with statements he has made since his arrest arre t in the city prison last week that the police authorities are not inclined to give it full credence Quit Horses for tor Women In this thia confession Johnson declares that he has been married to so iO many m ny women that he cannot count them off offhand offhand offhand hand handIn uIn In 1986 he be said I quit my business of buying hones and aDd from that time to this I have been making my living by marrying and making love to women getting their money and then deserting them One of his most amazing feats ac according according according cording to his hia own confession was makIng mak making ing lug love to ten women at one time in Portland Ore While he admits that he got zot money from most mo t of them and that his h marriages ma were part port of a getrich quick ey system t m Job Johnson neon declares that to fb every eVer instance he spent the money he received upon the tile victim herself They Y kept me broke all the time IB Is the way yay he lie expresses it German by Birth Johnson was wu born In Germany Gen any and i coming to this thIe country In the seventies secured a with the United States State government buying horses horS horst far r rU tte U t on Iop hI took hint an aU over the country At he Ii says sn he to was a because he pad had been separated panted from a sweetheart jn n Germany GennaDy who died later Ia r He Be married the of his many wives In 10 Springfield Mass Mas l in tt She was Mr Mary Browne I 1 married only one woman under the name annie of John Madson Johnson dl d dared Her names name was Jo I 1 re remember remember remember member rightly I got from her because she said she Iw loved loyed me I could have gotten 50 List of Eighteen Wives Eighteen of the women whom John Johnson son met married and deserted within the tile last three years according to the confession confes lon were Mrs Catherine atherine Hoene Home San Diego Cal CaLi L Mrs Josephine Jo Stock Stockton Stockton Stockton ton CaL CaLi Mrs Sylvia Pollard de Bon lion Bonnett Bonnett nett neU San Sab Francisco Mrs Henrietta Leopold Son SlID Francisco Eliza Jones Portland Ore Mrs rs Mary Brown Springfield ld Mass Mrs Frances Hep Hepburn Hepburn burn barn Oakland Cal C i Miss Minnie Ca Ga Gather Cather cathor ther thor San Francisco Franci oo Mrs Josephine Oakland d Mrs Birdie King Hot Springs Ark Mrs Mm Elizabeth M Jackson lola Iola Kan Mrs hrs Mary Iary Frick East Last St Louis III Catherine hospital ho nurse nune St Louis Mo o Mrs Mr Richard Al AI Alteon Allison teon uon St Louis LoWs Mrs irs Baugh Baughman Baughman Baughman man St Louis Loula Mrs Minnie Allen St Louts Louis Mrs Mra Bertha King Memphis Tenn Term Mrs Ira de Loom wife of a sea soo captain Portland Ore From Fion most moot of these thelle women Johnson both says ens ya he be obtained money or 01 jewelry or l I |