MARRYING A FAMILY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8753, 1 March 1907, Page 1

MARRYING A FAMILY.

A young woman named Lena Lamprecht has just become the sixth wife of a man who married successively five of her deceased sisters. Three of these were shot by a revengeful half-breed Indian, but the sixth wife is not deterred by the fate of her predecessors. Lena, 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 Lamprecht 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 of mourning, paid his addresses to Mario Lamprecht, the'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 ! 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 was soon afterwards taken ill and died, and Craven persuaded the fifth daughter to accept his hand and heart. Everything went along nicely till i Bertha was thrown from a horse and killed. Then Craven returned to Ohio, and sent for Lena, the last and youngest of the Lamprecht girls, to come and be his bride. She responded, and now fills her sister’s shoes.