People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1896 — TO PLEASE HIS WIFE. [ARTICLE]

TO PLEASE HIS WIFE.

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