People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — TO PLEASE HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

TO PLEASE HIS WIFE.

Meek lowa Man Pleads Guilty to Bigamy to Preserve Peace. Gustave Erickson of Sioux City, la., went to the penitentiary to please his wife. He was alleged to have married in Omaha several years ago, to have deserted his wife after a time, and, coming to Sioux City, to have remarried without having previously secured a divorce from No. 1. He entered a plea of guilty to the charge of bigamy and was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. “I was really never married to more than one woman, ”* he remarked as he followed the sheriff from the courtroom, “but my wife; was determined to send me to prison, and I’d do anything to please her.”