MARRIED SIXTEEN TIMES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 2

MARRIED SIXTEEN TIMES.

After causing innumerable men to fall in love with her—and' actually 'marrying 16 of the richer ones—a wonderful woman named Tatiana Belcheriak has just been exiled for life to Siberia. Though now over forty years of, age, her beauty remains remarkable to a surprising degi<ee. She first married at the age of 16. Becoming a widow after three years, she wedded a rich landowner. She left him, however, taking all his valuables with her. The next "husband" was a stockbroker. Having induced him to transfer all his property to her the adventuruous beauty sold it and escaped abroad, where she took as husband a fascinated Oriental consul. Seizing all his realisable possessions his "wife" left post baste and returned to E.us-sia by means of a stolen passport. Here ■she was again wooed and won by an important official.- Again she left her latest "husband" after abstracting all portable valuables, but this time she was caught and exiled to Siberia. The chief gaoler in the far eastern wastes soon camo under the spell of the beautiful Tatiann, and fled with her to Constantinople. In this varied path of life she continued until her sixteenth victim, a barrister, became wedded to her. The union proved happy—there was a child. But at a dance, she came face to face with a former "husband," who, despite her entreaties, informed tho man she really loved. In the proceedings that ensued the police discovered that she was a former vict. ! I