Chicago.-The plea of Mrs. Alice
Hobbs-Goodwin-Eckle - Boze-Graham -
Young-Hoskins as she broke into tears
and sobbed a confession in which
she admitted having wedded six men,
five of them being collected from mat
rimonial agencies within a year, was
that matrimonial agencies had driven
her crazy.
"I was pursued by affinities, saw
them in the daytime and in my
dreams," she said.
"It seemed as if there was a con
tinual mist before my eyes and that
the only way I could break it was
to marry my way through. Yes, I
am a bigamist, but I was crazed and
did not know what I was doing."
The much-married woman sat in
the Harrison Street Police Station and
prepared her novel defense, based on
a new plea of "matrimonial mad
ness." She was brought from Med
ford, Okla., where she was held on the
complaint of James E. Young, almost
the last of her many husbands. She
was apprehended three days after she
had deserted Hugh Hoskins of WelL
ington, Kan.
"These matrimonial agencies have
driven me to desperation. They used
to tell me that if I lived with one
man too long he would find me out
and that the only safe way was to
keep changing.
"At night I used to lie awake and
stare into the darkness to see the
husbands I had deserted march past
glaring at me and threatening re
venge. The next moment I would be
haunted by the faces of horrible men
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who were going to marry me. I am
glad it is all over." She cried hug
ging closer to her pretty 10-year-old
daughter, Olive Goodwin, daughter of
her only legal marriage.
