Seward County KS Archives News.....Bigamist, J.T. HODGES, arrested May 17, 1888
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The Liberal Leader May 17, 1888
Seward County
Thursday
May 17, 1888

A clever piece of strategy was performed here on last Saturday by S.W. DUNN in
the arrest of one J.T. HODGES for bigamy. This bigamist was seeking security
along with nuptial bliss in the Neutral Strip with a new wife, at the same time
being the possessor of a wife and family in Kansas. The fact that Hodges knew
Dunn and wa son the look-out for him adds a good deal to the cleverness of the
manner in which he was taken. Dunn asked him to get into his buggy and accompany
him on a search for a certain corner of a section of land he was interested in.
Hodges accepted; and was being entertained by counting the spokes in the rapidly
revolving buggy wheels. They drew nearer the line--cut of the whip--a dash and
they were over it and into Kansas when the officer took his surprised victim
into his grasp and presented him with a pair of bracelets. Hodges was taken back
to Pratt Center; along with the woman, wife number two, and he now languishes in
jail at that place awaiting trial. 
 

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