Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1899 — HAS MANY WIVES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAS MANY WIVES.

That's the Charge Against a Chicago Candy Salesman. ; _ . . ..A ~ The Chicago police claim they have discovered a bigamist beside whom the notorious Bates must figure as a matrimo-

nial pigmy. Walter L. Farnsworth, a Chicago candy commission man, was arrested charged with bigamy on a warrant sworn out by one of his many wives and was locked up under $4,000 bonds. Forty-two wives scattered through-

out the world, four of whom are in Chicago, was the confession alleged to have been made by Farnsworth. He also admitted that he was a man of many aliases. Some of them are Charles Bradford, A. J. Hittig, S. L. Thomas, AJ Kiefer and Bradshaw. “I cannot tell exactly how many women I have married,” said he. “I know of eleven in Europe, four in China, three in Peru, one in England and over twenty in different parts of the world, but to save my soul I could not tell how many.”

W. L. FARNSWORTH