MARRYING A FAMILY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 7 March 1907, Page 4

MARRYING A FAMILY.

A young woman named Lena Lainpieelit has just become the sixth wife ot a man who married successively live of her deceased sinters. Three of 'these were shot by a revengeful half-breed Indian, but the sixth w fe is not detcired by the fale of her predecessors. Lena, the last of her ifamily, was married at Mount (Ji e.id, Ohio, to James Craven, and the wedding completes a remarkable story of matrimonial romauce and tragedy. Thirty years ago Craven, a trader in Montnuo, met the Lninprccht fain'.ly and became infatuated wdh Nora, the eldest of six daughters. The wedding followed shortly, but Clmr.ey Wolf, a !<-breed Indian, who had set his li-'ai'i. on Nora, shot and killed her in her doonvav a few weeks later.

Wolf made his escape, and Craven, after four years of mourning, paid his addresses to Marie lamprccht. tlw next oldest daughter. They were wed, but one day Craven found his second wife had been laid low by a bullet lired by the same murderer. who hud evidutly taken an oath of extermination.

Wolf again escaped. Then the widower courted and married the third sister, Elbe, and the couple had jn>t seltled dewn to a happy existence, when crack! went, the ritle of Wolf, and Craven was again a widower.

Then ; t!ie trader prevailed upon Helen, the fourth sister to accept him for better or for wose. [she consented, ami after the wedding Craven shouldered his l'ille and went out in search of his foe, whom he killed. Cut Helen was soon afterwards taken ill and died, and Craven persuaded the iifth daughter to accept iiis hand and heart.

Everything went along nicely till Uertha was thrown from a horse an 1 killed. Then Craven returned to Ohio, and sent for Lena, the last and youngest of the Lamprccht girls, to coine and he his bride. She responded, and now tills her sister's shoes.