Show RATHER GO TO PRISON THAN FACE TWO WIVES J Rl t o AsKs nl Court to imm tC Semi Sen- Sel- Sel f IU Him as IS Soon ii U IC Possible J Lafayette Ind May a 18 Pacing Pacing 1 two angry ant women at police headquarters toys tl to d y Frederick derick Johnson o of In Indianapolis In- In Jy confessed that ho he was wa a 8 bigamist and within half hal an hour lie I. I was Wal taken before Judge DeHat of or orthe the court an and was wa committed to prison under the Indeterminate sentence act net Johnson deserted his hie first wife Mrs Mr Mary Johnson ohn n and aol sn son Ned axed aged fourteen n years a year yeat ago ao at Indianapolis Hosid lie Ho sid said he lie was 8 going to lo California an and would send enc for tor t them in a short time Instead he ha he went to anti and engaged in the c contracting bUln business under th the lie name nam of ot Frederick Smith There he met Miss MIs Mary Fink an nn elderly maiden and August Augus 1 1905 came to Lafayette A August gu 15 they were married by th the lC Rev William of or the German Evangelical Evangeli U. U cal church He lie told wife No 2 that he haiL had been married but that hl his wife was as dead Wife Ife Xo No 2 wa wo possessed of considerable means Within a we week k after aler they he were married marriel mar mar- ried riel she let a contract for an nit elegant home in this ef city 1 reams that I He lie was v Il B I After wife No No 1 was wa deserted Mrs J Jphnson was wn forced to work as a a domestic at Woodruff Place In In- rn- rn Lt Last Friday night she had hal a dream in which a dead cleall It sister appeared before her hel and told toll h her that hat hather her husband was living with wih another woman She learned from friends that a man answering Johnns Johnn's Johnson's Johnsons Johnsons Johnson's John John- sons son's ns n's description had been seen en at nt and she he wont went to that tUt place yesterday She found some of the relatives of oC the woman whom her husband had married and the they told toll her he was in Lafayette She en came caine me here today loday and Johnson WR was found oun at atthe atthe atthe the new Lafayette stockyards where e he had a position as foreman There was an interesting scone scene when hen wife wiCe No o. o 1 I and wife wire No 2 mot met met The he latter fainted and anti Johnson Johnon ex- ex X presed a desire to plead guilty guity and ande andie ie be e sentenced at once that he he ml might ht not ot have to face the lie two women an any ii longer than possible He lie le will vill wl be taken tak- tak en n to Michigan nn City tonight Johnson married his first lt wife wio sev- sev years yeun ago in le They 1 wont from there thero to Kankakee then thon to Indianapolis wh where o they had hod lived 1 for or several years ers Johnson his first wife once before boore but bul returned return return- ed t to her hei J |