A SPANISH WOMAN’S RECORD.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 2

A SPANISH WOMAN’S RECORD.

I L'hk Spanish journals relate the perhaps ! unparalleled matrimonial experiences of a young Spanish woman named Isabella Caporal, who in six years lost by death six husbands, and now awaits in modest patience her wedding day with a seventh. In ISOI Senorina Isabel, then a young girl of twenty-one, emigrated to New Orleans, and soon married a theatrical manager named Freeman, who died in a few months from yellow fever durin< r a starring tour. In order the better to conduct the company, his widow, after a few weeks married a Spaniard named Ilany, who was fatally stabbed or, their wedding j night while trying to mediate in a brawl J in a boarding house. Three weeks iater i another of the actors led her blushing | to the altar, lie was a Mexican named Lopez, with whom the offended laws of his country had a crow to pluck. Arrested, he sought escape by leaping from ■ a train, was killed, and for the third time in a year poor Isabel became a widow. Very soon, however, a fourth husband came along. Pie was an American militia 1 officer name-} Out the Cuban war ! consigned him to an early grave .and Isabel to the arms of a fifth husband in i the person of a South Carolina lumber mer- j chant, who was killed among his own [ timber. About the sixth husband there are j not many details, but he met his end uu- j timely like his predecessors —in a steamboat accident. Standing, ‘’like Xiobe,” [ all tears. Isabel is for the moment a widow ; for the sixth time. But she is young, pos- I sesses a small dowry, and a business man | in Charleston, greatly daring, has itn- : plored her to name the seventh day, which is fixed for next month.