SIX HUSBANDS IN SIX YEARS.
Becent Spanish journals relate unparalleled matrimonial experiences of a young Spanish woman named Isabella Caporal. who in six years has loot by death six husbands, and now awaits in modest patience her wedding day with a seventh. In 1894 Senorina J label, then a yotmg girl of twenty-one, emigrated to New Orleans, and soon martied a theatrical manager named Freeman, who died in a few months from yellow lever during a starring tour. In order the batter to conduct the company, his widow after a few Weeks married one of the a 3 tors, a Spaniard named Hany, who was fatally stabbed on their wedding night, while trying to mediate in a^brawl in the boarding house Three weeks later another of the actors led her bluuhing to the altar. He was a Mo dean named Lopez, with whom the offended laws of his country had a crow -to pluck. Arrested, he sought escape by leaping from a train, was killed, and for the third time in twelve months poor Isabel became a widow. Very soon, however, a fourth husband came along. He was an American militia officer named Enigbt, but the Cuban War consigned him to an early grave and Isabel to the arms of a fifth husband in the person of a South Carolina lumber merchant, who was killed among his own timber. About the sixth husband there are not many dotaiU, but he met his end untimely, like his predecessor* — in a steamboat accident. Standing " like fliobe, all tears," Isabel is for the moment a widow for the sixth time. Bat she id young, possesses a small dowry, and v business man in Charleston, greatly daring, has implored her to name the seventh day, which was fixed for this month.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 7330, 15 October 1901, Page 4
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SIX HUSBANDS IN SIX YEARS.
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVII, Issue 7330, 15 October 1901, Page 4
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