A RUSSIAN ADVENTURESS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1730, 8 December 1887, Page 2

A RUSSIAN ADVENTURESS

A Russian adventuress, known by the nlcknaaae of the "Golden Hand," hao boeu condemned by the tribunal of Moscow to transportation for life. Thla extraordinary woman has been married no leas than sixteen times, and is de« soribed as being remarkably handsome, Her husbands belanged to all nationalities and creeda. She ran away from two m France and three In Germany, carrying ofl aa much of their property aa she could She waa m Vienna m 1878 under a false name. She robbed her different husbands altogether of more than 300,000 roubles. When travelling she invariably made dupes and disappeared with thsir money, jewela, and even with their watohea. She Is not unf»ralH»r with her future abode— Slberli— as ehe was condemned to tr»DB« portatlon onoo before by the Moboow tribunal. She had not been there long before the chief overseer of the plaoe where she was confined married her and took her to Oonutantinople. She loft him la oonrne of time and returned to Russia where ehe WSB only Identified by the police after two yearn' residence. She speako fluently Rnaaian, Garoaan, French, English, and Roumanian. The lawyer entrusted with her defenoe had an opportunity of experiencing her skill ajs § pjokpooket. When ho went to eeo her m prfaon alter the trial she assured him of her gratitude, and as^ed him to accept as a souvenir a gold "watoh and chain, whloh she placed on the table befora him. He at OJce reoogniaod it bb his own She bad picked his pookot, and pioientad him with his own watch, -