16 TIMES MARRIED.

Mataura Ensign, 26 September 1913, Page 5

16 TIMES MARRIED.

After causing innumerable men to fall in love with her—and actually marrying 16 of the richer ones—a wonderful woman named Tatiana Belchoriak has just been exiled for life to Siberia. Although now over -10 years of age, her beauty remains remarkable to a surprising degree. She first married at the age of 16. Becoming a widow after three years, she wedded a rich landowner. She left iiim, however, taking all his valuables with her. The next "lmsband" was a stock-broker. Having induced him to transfer all his property to her, the adventurous beauty sold it and escaped abroad; where six; took as husband a fascinated Oriental consul. Seizing all his realisable possessions, his "wife" left post haste, and returned to Russia by means of a stolen' passport. Here she was again wooed and won hv an important official. Again she left her latest "husband" after abstracting all portable valuables, but this time sho was caught and exiled to Siberia. 'Hie chief gaoler in the far eastern wastes soon came under the spell of beautiful Tatiana and fled with her to Constantinople. In this varied path of life she continued until her 16th victim, a barrister, became wedded to her. The union proved happy—there was a child. But at a dance she caim face to face with a former "husband," who, despite her entreaties, informed the man she really loved. In the proceedings that ensued the police discovered sho was a former convict.