Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Bigamist With Seven Wives Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years in Sing Sing, Aug. 21, 1919

From The Gleaner, Graham, N.C., Aug. 21, 1919

Seven Living Wives

New York, Aug. 15—Convicted of bigamy on his confession that he has seven living wives, one of whom he married twice, Charles Hugh Wilson, 48 years old, former Y.M.C.A. secretary, was sentenced today to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison where, he announced, he will take up prison reform work.

Judge Madhams told the prisoner he would have given him five years, the maximum sentence, but deducted 18 months, the period spent by Wilson in a Wisconsin penitentiary for a larceny which another man afterward confessed to having committed.

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