EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 281, 1 June 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

MARRYING SIX SISTERS. . A young woman named Lena Lamprecht has just become the sixth wife of a man who married successively fire or her deceased sisters. Three of these were shot by a revengeful halfbred 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 Graven, and the wedding completes a remarkable story of matrimonial romance and tragedy. Thirty years ago Craven, a trader in Montano, met the Lamprecht family and became infatuated with Nora, the eldest of six daughters. The wedding followed shortly, but Charley Wolf, a half-bred 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 Marie Lamprecht, the next eldest daughter. They were 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 widoVeer 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 furth sister to accept him for better or for worse. She consented, and after the wedding Craven shouldered his rifle and went out m 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 tiU Bertha was thrown from a horse and killed. Then Craven returned to Ohio, and sent far Lena, the last and youngest of the Lamprecht girls, to come and be his bride. She responded .and now fills her sister's shoes.