Ellsworth American., 1877-07-19
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The Wife Of Wild Bin.

TWICE MARRIED AND TWICE MADE
WIDOW by MURDER IN skvEN YEARS
TINE; A LovE.LETrER FROM CUSTER'S
SCOUT IN HIS HONEYMOON JUST BEFORE
Ills DEATH.
From Cheyenne twy) correspondent of
the New York World.
There Is now staying In this city a wom-
an whose matrimonial experience has been
sufficiently singular. She has had two
husbands. both in a measure public char
actcrs. and both doomed to a violent death
In 1917, then girl of -, she married Will
liam Lake, a well-known clown and show
man, whose circus was famous all over
the Union in the earlier days of the busi-
ness before mammoth aggregations like
Barnums took the field. She was tinan-
cial manager OF the concern, and being a
woman OF natural parts and positive char
actcr, proved very successful tinanciel.
August 2l, 1869, while the circus was eX-
hbiting at CRANKY. Newton county, Mo.
a loafer named Jake killian slipped In
without paying. Lake noticed this, and,
summoHiug a couple of men, elected the
dead head, who armed himself, returned
10 the tent. paid his way in, and, seeking
out Lake. shot him dead. The murderer
escaped, but was tracked, captured, tried
convicted and sentenced to three and a
ha'l years H"pil9ohhthI III the Pehlleh-
tiAry Atter her husband death Mrs.
Lahe tock me man"gemeht OF the circus,
Nh'ch snc VohuuCteu ioI three seasons
visiting all parts Of the Union. She then
sold of her mena2erie, apparatus aud stud,
aud settled in some Western city-Chcaso,
| thiuk-whcuce in the winter of ls5-6 she
proceeded TO san Francisco. There she
remained but n few weeks, coming 10 Chcy-
cuhe yeAr a@o ia't April Whefe Ht''e
"hile afterwards me married. again, her
s''onu hu'oAhd ot,nS W. ID. hlchoN' SO
N'utiE hhp"h a ld buI-
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warriors whose lmplacaoic zoe ne was
I htoAi shoulders, wcii-iormed chtSt ana
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sharp, clear biue eye when stared you
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