MARRIED SIXTEEN TIMES

Temuka Leader, Issue 2416, 25 October 1892, Page 3

MARRIED SIXTEEN TIMES

A Russian adventuress, known by the nickname of ' Golden Hand ' has been condemned by the Tribunal of Moscow to transportation for life. This extraordinary, woman has been married no less than sixteen times, and is described as being remarkably handsome. Her husbands belonged to all nationalities and creeds. She ran away from two in France and three in Germany, carrying off as much of their property as she could lay hands on. She was iii Vienna in 187 S under an assumed name. She robbed her husbands altogether of more than 300,000 roubles. When travelling she invariably made dupes, and disappeared with their money, jewels, and even with their watches. She is not unfamiliar with her future abode—Siberia. She was condemned to transportation once before by the Moscow tribunal. She had not been there long before the chief overseer of the place where she was confined married her and took her to Constantinople. She left him in course of time and returned to Russia, where she was only identified by the police after two years' residence. She speaks fluently Russian, German, French, English, and Roumanian. The lawyer entrusted with her defence had an opportunity of experiencing her skill as a pickpocket. When he went to see her in prison after the trial she assured him of her gratitude, and asked him to accept as a souvenir a gold watch and chain, which she placed on the table before him. He at once recognised it as his own. She had picked his pocket and presented him with his own watch.