Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1902 — DR. WILSON GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

DR. WILSON GUILTY.

Fined $225 and Sentenced to Three Months In Jail for Bigamy. Dr. Fred D. Wilson, of Thayer, had his trial at Kentland Monday and Tuesday, and a jury found him guilty of bigamy and fixed the penalty at three months’ imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of $225. There being no jail in Newton county, Dr. Wilson will serve out his sentence in the Jasper county jail. He was brought here yesterday to begin his sentence. The Journal has been in possession of Dr. Wilson’s past history, but desir ing to give the man an unprejudiced trial, refrained from publishing the facts. He has sinned greatly in the past, but no more than wife No. 1 and his efforts the past few years to redeem himself should be encouraged. He is highly thought of in Thayer and the citizens of that little berg desire that he remain there and continue in the practice of medicine. He has not been living with his last wife since his arrest but it is thought that another marriage ceremony will be performed and their marital relations resumed. His divorce case also came up this week and he was granted a divorce from wife No. 1, so that no legal objections can stand in the way of a remarriage to his last wife.