Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1902 — ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY. [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY.

Dr. F. D. Wilson, of Thayer, Has Too Many Wives. Dr. Prank D. Wilson, of Thayer, was arrested last week by the sheriff of Newton county on the charge of bigamy preferred by wife no one, who lives at Oollins. The doctor was placed in jail here but -was released Saturday upon furnishing a bond of |SOO. Dr. Wilson was married at Port Wayne in 1898 to wife number one. They separated shortly thereafter and he claimes she brought a suit for divorce, which he claims to have thought had been granted. Last January he was married to Miss Bertha Cyphers, of Thayer. Dr. Wilson was arrested again Tuesday on a charge the nature of which we did not learn and was lodged in the jail over night and then taken on to Kentland, where he was •to have his hearing yesterday.