Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — SAYS WILHELM HAD 3 WIVES [ARTICLE]

SAYS WILHELM HAD 3 WIVES

Women Faint at Bier of Murdered Man. SON RECOGNISED PICTURE

Alleged Second Wife Cl. Inis He Married Her After Deserting Her Step- I Sister and That Afxerward He Abandonee Her and Returned to Number One —Number Three Is Under Arrest In Connection With Husband’s Death. Newark, Feb. s.—lt was claimed today that Frank Wilhelm, found murdered iu his home, was a bigamist and had three wives living. Mrs. Fredericks Wilhelm, of No. 227 East Eighty-third street, New York, claims Ehe was married to Wilhelm in Jersey City Id 1894, soon after he had deßerted his first wife, Hannah Wilhelm, who was also liis step-sister. Two years later, she v Baid, she discovered he had deceived her. When she accused him, she charges, he deserted her and her year old daughter and fled with his step-sister wife. Since then she had not heard from him until a second child, born after he disappeared and now a lad of twelve years, read of the murder and recognized his picture in the paper as that of the man whose photo he had been told was that of his father. Mrs. Frederlcka Wilhelm does not know what became of Hannah Wilhelm. The wife with whom he has recently been living, Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm, is in jail, held in connection with the murder. Mrs. Frederlcka Wilhelm and her sister, Mrs. Marla Armater of New York, fainted at Wilhelm’s bier while the funeral was in progress.