Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-11-25
SOME WIVES OF ILL OMEN.
Unfortunate Matrimonial Ventures
Of a Number of European
Women.

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Women.
Though but Just turned 80 we'll
Connected lady of Logrono, in Spain, has
lately married her eighth husband.
None of her previous partners has sur
vived the wedding ceremony for more
than two years, and how general is the
opinion that her present mates luck
will not be better than that of his prede-
cessor's, says London Tit-Bits, may be
gagged from the fact that no life insur-
ance Office will insure his life.
! A few months since the 27-year-old
daughter of a well-to-do Milan trades
man married her sixth husband. On the
death of her first mate she welded an
Englishman, who, being killed in car
rage accident, gave place to an Ameri-
can, whose experience of married life
lasted but three years. Of many suitors,
! Russian commercial traveller was her
next choice, but scarcely had the proud
husband reached his home u Odessa
with his newly-wedded wife ere he sue
cumbed to typhoid fever.
His widow then returned to Milan,
where she gave favorable response to
the address of an old school friend,
who six months after marriage was
killed while on a mountain excursion.
This bereavement gave her a pause,
and for two years she turned deaf ear
to all matrimonial offers: but the per-
sistent wooing of Herr Schmutz. Ger
man engineer, at length persuaded her
, to change her name once more.
, Surely few women have had such an
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lures as lady of Lucy, near Lucenay,
whose fifth husband, three years since,
committed suicide by hanging himself
a grim fate that also brought the lives
of the woman's first and fourth hus-
bands to a premature end. Her second
was accidentally burnt to death, while
her third likewise voluntarily terminal
ed his existence, preferring, however,
water to rope.
Five too, in number were the hus-
bands Nine. Fenard, fascinating ma
tive of Brussels, welded. Her first hus-
band was killed in an American gam
bling saloon; her second was bludge-
oned to death in low Viennese suburb;
her third was drowned while yachting;
her fourth, a Frenchman, met his death
, at the hands of a burglar; and her fifth,
Belgian, was mysteriously drowned.
Not long since there died in the North
Of England, at the ripe age of over 80.
a lady who in her time had married six
husbands, all of whose deaths had been
tragic. A native of Washington, U. S. A.,
she there married her first two hus-
bands, both of whom were murdered,
the first meeting his death at the hands
of drunken desperate, while the Sec
ond was fatally stabbed by his business
partner during quarrel.
A second time widow she came to
Europe, where, in Dresden, she was
wooed and won by a German, who
barely a year later met mysterious
death by poison. Her fourth husband,
a Pole was shot in duel, giving place
to a Frenchman whose luck was no bet
ter than that of his predecessors, as he
was murdered by thief while defend
ing his property. Her sixth, and last,
husband thought perhaps to avert his
fate by desertion, but Nemesis overtool.
him and he was killed in a railway &C
cident
Between 1880 and 1895. no fewer than
seven men. who had in turn espoused a
Mexican lady, Sonora Rey Castillo. met
with violent deaths. Her first husband
was killed by being thrown from car
riage; her second was accidentally poi
soned;h her third was fatally injured in
1 mine explosion; her fourth commit
ted suicide; her fifth received fatal
:all while hunting; her sixth was killed
through fall from a scaffold; and her
seventh met his death by drowning.
I For more extraordinary. however.
than any of the foregoing is the: case
uoted by Evelyn in his DIARY" '"They
showed" he writes, eat Harlem, cot
tage where they told us dwelt a woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband, and. being widow, was
prohibited to marry in the future; yet
It could not be proved that she had ever
made away with any of her husbands,
though the suspicion had brought her
divers times into trouble"