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Show IIGIIST IIS ! TO HIS MISDEEDS j Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Worker Confesses Wedding Wed-ding Seven Times. NEW YOKE, Aus. 15. Convicted of bigamy on his confession that he lias seven living wives, one of whom he married twice, Charles Hugh Wilson, 4S years old, former Y. M. C. A. secretary, secre-tary, evangelist and traveling salesman, sales-man, was sentenced to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison where, he announced, he will take up prison reform work. Judge Wadhams told the prisoner he would have given him five-years, five-years, the maximum sentence, but deducted de-ducted eighteen months, the period spent by Wilson in a Wisconsin penitentiary peni-tentiary for a larceny which another man afterwards confessed to having committed. Wilson commenced his matrimonial career on January 22, 1900, when he marriod Klizabcth May Stanton of Davenport, Dav-enport, Iowa. After three children were born lie left her and in July, UK S, married May Bailey at Wytherville, W. Yn. In less than a year he embarked on his third venture at Decatur, Ala., where he married Ethel C. Moore, in March, 1900. 1'our years later he was united to Louise Davis at Detroit, and a year afterwards he went through a second ceremony with Miss Davis at Pittsburg. The following year he sought a Xew York bride and was married mar-ried to Caroline K. Morris. He tried Philadelphia next and took Wilhelmina C. Jaegard of that city for his sixth bride in August, 1015. His final venture ven-ture was in Apw York, where he married mar-ried Fav Jeanette Zifi", in November, 1015. According to a report by the Park-hurst Park-hurst soeiety, to which his last wife appealed niter he deserted her, Wilson Wil-son was born at Dnrnesvilte, Mo., and is the sou of a Scotch Methodist minister. min-ister. He Ferved as a Y. M. C. A. physical physi-cal instructor or sccretarv at Sedalia, Mo.; Davenport, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; Knoxvilie, Tenn., and Burlington, Vermont. |