£25 FOR A BRIDE
SUITOR FIRES AT GUARDIAN' Yet another tragedy among Albanians arising out of a dispute about the price for a bride is reported fiom Southern Serbia. Arif Echmedivitch, a seventeen-year-old Albanian, paid the price of 7000 dinars (about £25) for the hand of Amida Selmauovitch in 1932. Her guardian, Hamdie Sadikovitch, however, subsequently refused to allow the marriage and gave the gul to another suitor at double the price Arif sued me guardian toi the 70t dinars, and when he appeared in the Court shot him in three places, then pointing the revolver at the successfUHeUwas restrainm} just in time but the bands of armed sup_poiters K..S iy both par.le, « joined battle and were onl> arrested when reinforcements had brought up.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12304, 19 April 1937, Page 3
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