SIX SISTER WIVES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2022, 6 March 1907, Page 1

SIX SISTER WIVES.

THREE WOMEN SHOT. A young woman named Lena Iyamprecht has just become tlio sixth wife'of a man wh.Q married successively five of her deceased sisters. Three of theso were shot by a revengeful half-breed Indian, but the sixth wife is not deterred by the fate of her predecessors. Leija, the last of her family, was married at Mount Gilead, Ohio, to James Craven, and the wedding completes a remarkable story of matrimonial romance and tragedy. Thirty years ago Craven, a trader in Montana, met • the Lampreclit family and became infatuated with Nora, the eldest of six daughters. The wedding followed shortly, but Charley Wolf, a half-breed Indian, who had set his heart on Nora, shot and killed her in her doorway a few weeks later.

Wolf made his escape, and Craven, after four years pf mourning, paid his addresses to Marie Lampreclit, tho next oldest daughter. They wore wed, but one day Craven found his second wife had been laid low by a bullet fired by the same murderer, who had evidently taken an oath of extermination. Wolf again escaped.

Then the widower courted and married the third sister, Effie, and the couple had just settled down to a happy existence when crack 1 went the rifle of Wolf, and Craven was again a widower.

Then the trader prevailed upon Helen, the fourth sister, to accept him for better or for worse. She consented, and after the wedding Craven shouldered his rifle and went out in search of his foe, whom he killed. But Helen soon afterwards was taken ill and died, and Craven persuaded the fifth daughter to accept his hand and heart.

Everything went along nicely till Bertha was thrown from a horse and killed. Then Craven returned to Ohio, and sent for Lena, the youngest and last of the Lampreclit girls, to come and be his bride. She responded to the proposal, and now fills her sister’s shoes,