A MUCH-MARRIED WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9082, 16 June 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

A MUCH-MARRIED WOMAN.

An Albany paper has the following:—A very muchly-married lady was in the city last, week from St. Louis. Her name is now Mrs. Amelia Lewis, and she was on her bridal trip with her seventh husband. She- married first in Connecticut, whon but fifteen years old. Since then she has married six more husbands, coming from the States named in regular order : New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Illinois, and, last but not least, Missouri. The \ast husband looks as if ho might live six months or a Mrs. Lewis is not an old lady by any means. She boro a letter of introduction to me from friends in St. Louis, and she said sadly, " that destiny had been very unkind to her in regard to her husbands." I suggested a boycott on destiny. Her Connecticut husband lived just two years by the clock, when consumption carried him off. Her New York husband proved a bad egg, for Mrs, Lewis being quite wealthy, lie seized all the money lie could after a year of married life and fled to London, where, after a long debauch, he committed suicide at the Charing Cross Hotel. The New Jersey husband came next, but after two years as the husband of Mrs. Lewis, he fell from the steamer Chicora, on Lake Erie, and was drowned. The Massachusetts husband, six months after his marriage, accidentally shot himself, the wound resulting in death. The New Hampshire husband lasted tho longest. He was married five years to Mrs. Lewis, but one summer's day he eloped with a married woman and has never been heard from since. The Illinois husband proved a terror. He had a most vicious temper, was lazy, and he made Mrs. Lewis miserable. For a monetary consideration he consented to a divorce, which was obtained, and now Mrs. Lewis has got her seventh husband from St. Louis, Mo. She is going to try and save him if she can, and yesterday sailed for Europe for a pleasure trip. Mrs. Lewis is far from forty, is plump and pretty, highly intelligent and worth probably £20,000. Her last husband is about thirty, and with good care lie may keep. Mr?. Lewie paid a visit to the Capitol and told me hor visit to this city reminded her of her first visit here with her Connecticut husband, upon their bridal trip, when she was but fifteen years old. Mrs. Lewis is still hale and hearty enough to raise the record to ten husbands, if they will only be accommodating enough to pass out of the way with rapidity.