Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1902 — This Time Its Bigamy. [ARTICLE]

This Time Its Bigamy.

Newton oounty can always be depended upon for a new sensation, about so often, or a little oftener. The very latest is the arrest of one of their prominent physicians on the charge of having a redunanoy of wives, in the eyes of the law. The party is Dr. Frank D. Wilson, a practicing physician at Thayer. It seems that at Fort Wayne in Nov, 1898 he was married to a grass widow, considerably older than himself, and that they separated not long after, and he came to Thayer and established himself in the practice of medicine. On Jan. 3rd of this year, he was married to Miss Bertha Cyphers, an estimable young lady, of Thayer. ,His arrest now on charge bigamy, is on affidavit sworn out by his first wife, whose home is now at Collins, Ind. He was arrested late Tuesday evening, by Sheriff Wildasin, of Newton county, and brought direct to Rensselaer and lodged in our. jail, for safe keeping, with bond fixed at 11,000. He explains his trouble by the statement that his first wife began a divorce suit against him, and that he sent her money to carry it through and that he supposed, all the time, that it had been granted and that he was a free man. He is about 34 years old, is a son of T. W. Wilson, an attorney j of Fort Wayne, and has stood well and enjoyed a good praotioe, at Thayer. He is greatly cut up over his arrest, and wanted to be permitted to jump into the Kankatee river last night, when they orossed it, and he spent his first night in jail in crying.