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Strange Fate Leads This Man T o
Marry Sisters
BVKR in any novel will you
read the parallel of this
tragedy-romance in real
life. Xo experienced no\ -
elist would write it and no
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Tor !>oth would foresee the
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"an insult to human intel
ligence.'’
For the same reason you
will never see the wonder
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man creatures represented on the stage.
Its ' Vrtistie improbability" would stay
the hand of the most reckless writer of
lurid melodrama.
It is only in a newspaper that those ac
tual happenings which are so much
"stranger than fiction" can be set forth
in print. Fortunately it is no concern
of 4i newspaper that ascertained facts ap
peals *‘in if >robable. ”
When tlio last Christmas holiday was
less than three weeks distant a man con
siderably past middle age, with iron-gray
hair, yet wit], a stalwart and active
frame, waited on the station platform at
Mount Gilead, O. The arrival of the east-
bound train seemed to cause him great
agitation, hiagerly noting each alighting
passenger, he suddenly rushed forward
to greet a comely, well-dressed woman
of a little less than half Ills own age. As
their hands met he said:
“Yes, this must be little Lenta.”
"And you are .Tames. Ten years—and
sorrow—'have hardly changed y'on at
all.”
Then both sighed anil she said: "Poor
Bertha!”
“Poor Bertha!” he echoed.
As lie drove her away to the house of
their mutual friend she shuddered and
said:
"Sometimes it !s hard for me to realize
that Wolf, that fiend, is dead."
The man stiffened In his seat. "He is
dead. I caught him at last. There was
no escape for him—my bullet pierced his
heart."
SIXTH SISTER A BRIDE.
"A dozen deaths would not have been
too many.” said the woman. "How many
years did he pursue you, James, with his
malice and hatred? At least twenty-five.
And because he dared not meet you
face to face three times lie killed your
wife—three of my helpless sisters, one
after the other, lie killed. Oh. lie should
have been burned at the stake?”
Now the man’s face softened. "At last,
for you and me, Lena, there is to be
peace and safety. My bullet has avenged
Norn,* Marie and L-oe. Knowing that
Wolf was dead, your sister Helen had
no apprehensions. She died peacefully in
her bed. The accident that, deprived me
of Bertha might have happened to any
one; there was nothing significant about
it. You have, no misgivings, have you.
Lena ’■
Lena Lamprecht put her arm trustfully
through that of her sisters’ avenger and
was silent. Soon they reached their
friend's house, and one week later they
were married—Miss Lena Lamprecht be
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Craven, tlie three elder ones having lieen
murdered by bis renegade enemy, one
dying a natural death and the fifth killed
by accident.
ROMANCE IN A FEUD.
This romance, so punctuated by trag
edy, had its beginning in Montana thirty
years ago. James Craven was then a
prosperous young trader. He was an ag
gressive and courageous young man and
had made himself respected by most of
tiie turbulent spirits of ranches and min.
Ing camps.
There was one man, however, a rene
gade half-breed Indian, whom he knew
to he bis bitter and vengeful enemy.
Wolf this skulking outlaw was called.
Their first meeting started their feud of
a quarter of a century at the same mo
ment that it started James Craven’s ro
mance
The trader had just arrived at a new
mining camp on the mountain side, but
•vas not yet aware that It boasted on*
distinct advantage over most camps in
that region so far from civilization- a
whole family, father, mother and six
daughters, the youngest only two veers
old. This was the family of a prosperous
miner named Lampreehit. The girls were
all pretty. Nora, the eldest, a beauty,
barely eighteen years old. On the eve
ning of his arrival in tlie camp Craven
walked out at, dusk. As he neared a
cabin that was considerably more pre
tentious than any of the others he heard
a. muffled scream. Bounding past a cor
ner of the cabin ho saw a skulking figure
with long black hair streaming front be
low a fur cap carrying off in his arm*
the figure of a. young woman.
“Stop!” thundered Craven.
HERO OF THE CAMP.
Still holding fast the girl, the skulking
figure drew a long knife from bis belt
and turned to strike has challenger. Both
the knife and the girl foil to the ground,
for a bullet front Craven’s pistol had
broken the abductor's wrist.
"Is that cabin your home?” said Cra
ven to tlie girl while he held her captor
last by the collar.
"Yes. Oh', thank you, sir!” said she,
lifting hot scared, pretty face—the pret
tiest the trader thought lie had ever
seen.
“Then go In at once; 1 11 take care of
this fellow.”
The trader marched his captive to the
barroom, where most of .tile miners of
tlie camp were congregated.
"It’s Wolf!” shouted a dozen rough
voices. “What has the scoundrel done
this time ”
Craven told them. In a moment a
dozen hands grasped pistol butts.
“A rope!” said one. 'Pretty Nora Li til
lin' lit, the flower of the whole camp!
Bring a rope!”
But Craven's counsel prevailed. He was
a pioneer‘for law and order. So there
was no lynching. Instead nearly tlie en
tire male population of the camp escort
ed the tenegade down the canyon for two
or three miles, gave him a sound beating
with their belts and turned him adrift
with tlie warning that tlie next time
he showed himself it! that camp there
would be a lynching -ure.
Never had a romance a more auspicious
beginning. Young Craven was not only
the hero of the camp and at the Lam
precht cabin, but in pretty Nora’s heart.
The wooing was brief and the marriage
was not. delayed.
Craven had built a cabin at a little di~-
anee from the Lambrechts and there the
young people spent their honeymoon. lie
r^vanged his business so that lie would
not need to be away more than a week
at a time. During liis first absence while
in a lonesome part of the trail in a
rocky ravine he got a bullet through hi'
hat and knew that Wolf was living for
revenge. He called out to the unseen fig
ure:
“You'll never get me. Wolf, but one of
these days I'll get you.”
When In- returned to his cabin it was to
find his pretty young wife dead. While
standing n the door of their cabin at
dusk she had been shot dead.
Every one in e imp knew that tlie raur.
derer must lie the renegade half-breed.
The country was scoured for miles around
but Wolf knew how to hide from bis ene
mies.
Craven spent two years with his hand
>m his revolver and his eyes strained for
a sight of itis wife’s murderer. When in
camp lie made his home with the Lam-
prechls. He was more than ever a hero
to ail the girls and when the second sis
ter. Marie, became eighteen years old.
James Craven’s romance began a new
chapter.
They wore married and for a year lived
most happily in the cabin where poor
Nora had been murdered. There were
no signs of Wolf, though tlie young wife
never saw tlie dusk of evening gather
without trembling.
One evening when Craven was at home
with his wife she stepped outside. He
heard a rifle shot and dashed out in time
to catch her as she fell. But seeing she
was really dead, he drew his revolver
and spend down the canyon in the direc
tion of footsteps that could be heard
crunching the gravel. Twice he tired at
something moving, but missed. Wolf had
escaped again.
This time the camp kept up its searclt
for months. It was all in vain. The out
law half-breed had some mysterious
means of eluding pursuit that none could
fathom.
In the meantime the third Lamprecht
sister, Effie, had grown to womanhood.
She loved the man whose face, lined witli
marks of grief, mirrored the love lie had
borne her two sisters, and when he real
ized that she could love hint, too, lie
loved again, and they were married.
The third marriage made the story a
sort of epic, which went the rounds of all
the camps. Wherever Wolf was in all
that wild country he could not hut know
that his enemy was happy again. And
almost before the end of the honeymoon
a bullet from his rifle sent El’fie to join
her sisters.
During these years Craven had pros
pered. But tlie murder of Effie, witli ab
solute failure to capture lier murderer, so
disheartened him that he closed out his
business and went east, establishing iiis
home at Mount Gilead, O.
After a year or two he became restless
and wandered back to Montana. 'file
Lamprech'ts now lived in a comfortable
dwelling and Helen, the eldest of the re
maining sisters, was a young woman, and
a beauty. It seemed like fate that she
and James Craven/ should fall in love
with eac-h other.
”1 love you,'’ she confessed with en
gaging frankness, “and I will marry you,
but first there is a task you must ac
complish.”
WIFE IS MURDERED.
"I know what thiat is,” he said. “You
are right. You must not be menaced
as m,v wife like your poor sisters were.”
“will you find him—and kill him—for
me?’’ she whispered.
It was thought strange that Helen, al
ways a strong and healthy girl, should
become 111 and die within a year, but it
was so. Craven needed all the care of
the Lamprecht household to survive this
blow. In fact, he was not himself again
until tlie fifth daughter. Bertha, accepted
him for her husband.
Feeling th.it Montana was unlucky for
Craven, they went to Ohio to make their
home in Mount Gilead. Here they lived
most happily lor ten years until two years
ago, when Bertha was thrown from the
horse she was riding and died from the
effects of the Injuries she received.
James Craven knew that the last sur
viving Lamprecht sister was still a spins
ter out in Montana. Their correspondence
over his last bereavement developed into
a series of love letters. She had no ties
in Montana now. her father and mother
having died. She would go to him in
Ohio and if on meeting they were of the
same mind they would marry.
What occurred at that meeting has al
ready been told. The sixth and last of
the Lamprecht sisters became Mrs. James
Craven on December I I.
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sketches of the palace. They were on
ihe counter of a shop in Princes street,
and. :rived at a modest sum. they sold
steadily. And so she used the daylight
hours in working- away with her li'tle tin
box of colors in tlie empty old palm e.
The oblique winter sunlight fell across
the room where tlie lovely and luckless
Queen of Boots had spent so many of her
: ragie days; the light was unusually
brilliant, and brought to notice a dozen
beauties Marcia had never before ob
served. She was working earnestly,
eagerly: her lips parted with excite
ment, tlie color heightened on the sweet
face.
Very fair Indeed she appeared to a
pair of eyes that had been watching her
tor some moments.
• Miss Rutherford!"
The tones were low' and pleading.
Christopher Haig stood before her. hat
in hand, most carefully self-controlled,
elaborately quiet and commonplace.
She looked up. She neither starte,] nor
exclaimed. Tt was almost as though
she were expecting him. For some sec
onds their regards met tints— bis eyes
f;-! 1 of the passionate joy lie had suc
ceeded in keeping out of his voice: hers
accepting, replying, rejoicing.
Just for a moment. And then tlie
girl's lids drooped, her head fell forward,
she swayed on her seat, an,| would have
fallen had ho not sprung to her help.
She bad fainted. Such an idiotic thing
to do. as she said afterward. Her head
vested against Ills shoulder, and her liat
tilted stiffly over her nose. Haig held
her while her paint-box clattered to the
wooden floor and her little "dipper" of
muddy water spilled itself over her
gown. And then, wdrn a little sobbing
sigh, her senses returned, and she sat
*up very straight indeed.
flow it happened they never exactly
knew. While Haig's words came brok
enly. passionately, the old caretaker of
the palace came stumping through the
rooms. Marcia straightened her hat, and
llalg gathered • p tlie little paint pans
and brushes. Somehow his lingers, big
as they were, were also shaking am!
indefinite.
"1 thought you were in India!” was the
first coherent remark Marcia made.
“So T was. But I heard front o :
colonel's wife—an Edinburgh woman she
is—I heard front her about this earl
from Australia; and—and—and about
your father being here at Holyrood.”
And you came?”
“Could I do less? Marcia, it is not
much that T have. Do you think Sir
John will listen to me? Do you think hi
will let me stand with Edward in seeing
him through with his debtors’ difficulty?
Marcia, darling, will you help me to put
it before hint in a reasonable light? 1
ant a little afraid of Sir John!"
"A reasonable light?”
"sweetheart, it is very reasonable; but
he may not see it' T want you for my
own, my very own! And if lie will give
you to me it is only fair to give me also
a won's :ight. Don't you see?”
He bad gathered together all her be
longings. and they prepared to go.
"Blessed old place!" said Christopher
Haig, glancing round on the old walls
that had heard so many lovers’ words in
the days of long ago.
“We thought we should hate Holy-
rood." sin* responded tremulously. "Bui
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dinary sportsmen brave! v
for men to make hunting
trips into the unexplored
wilds of western Texas
in the early days. In the
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tile Comanche Indians
were roaming over the
unsettled region west uf
Austin, and they pounced
down upon unprotected
travelers whenever they
got an opportunity. This
made hunting extremely dangerous. In
those days tFie ronght country along the
upper waters of the Xeuces. the Sabinal,
the Colorado and other rivers abounded
in bears, wild turkeys, deer, and other
wild game.
V. O. Weed, a business man of Aus
tin. was a participant in one of tlie
last hunts in that section during the
time tluit the Indians were on the ram
page. Tt took place in November, 1872.
There were a number of men in the
party, and the only survivors, so far
as known, n"e Mr. Weed and Golonel
Georg- W. Breckenridge, a banker, of
San Antonio.
“The hunting grounds which we de
sired to visit were located about 2C0
miles southwest of Austin,” Mr. "Weed
said, in telling the story of his experi
ences on the trip. “There was no rail
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had to be made in wagon anil on horse
back. In the party was General B. C.
Ludliw. formerly of Cincinnati, who was a
brigadier general during the war between
(lie north and south. Every member of
tlie party was loaded down with rifles,
six-shooters and other weapons. We
il id not know at what moment we might
be attacked bv Indians after leaving
Austin.
NEGRO DRIVER DESERTS EARLY.
"Tlie fear of Indians caused our negro
driver to desert before we had reached
the limits of Austin. General Ludlow
had asked the negro if he had his scalp
screwed on.
” 'What for?* asked the negro.
" ‘Because the Indians are apt to take
i* off on this trip.’ General Ludlow re
plied.
"Tlie negro stood up, and. handing me
the lines, said;
" 'Boss eive me four-hits to git some
smokin' tobacco.'
“I handed him the money and he went
into a nearby grocery. That was the
last we ever saw of that negro. n«
went through the back door running.
“We were Tour days making the 100
miles to San Antonio. We were joined
at that place by Colonel Braekenridge,
and we continued our journey west
ward. We bad been given an escort of
twenty United States soldiers by the
army officer in command of the post
at San Antonio. These troops were to
protect tts against, attack from the Co
manche Indians. Tf they had not be<m
along. I have no doubt that we would
al; have been killed. They did escort
duty during the day. and at night acted
as guards about the camp to ward off
surprise by the Indians.
"There were thirty men in the crowd.
Including soldiers, hunters and teamsters.
"We also had seventy-two docs along.
ALL KINDS OF DOGS ALONG.
"There were all kinds of dogs in that
big pa k. from the trained bear and deer
animals down to the mangy cur which
bad probably been picked up by some
soldier. These dogs furnished us plenty
of dlvertisement. There was a continu
ous fight among them.
“In those days deer were to he found
close up to the city limits of San Antonio,
and we had an abundance of venison
every day. The trained deer hounds
would get after a deer, and it was an
easy matter to kill the animal.
We established our first hunting camp
in the Sabinal canyon, just above where
the thriving town of Sabinal is now lo
cated. We pitched our tents in a forest
of pecan trees. The ground was covered
with thousands of bushels of masts of
various kinds, and upon these, bears,
fleer and turkeys fed in hordes.
"The morning after we had located our
camp several of us started out after
deer. T separated from the other mem
bers of t'ne hunting party and started
to climb a hill of considerable size, with
Ihe view of obtaining a look at the sur
rounding country. On my way I passed
camp fires which were still burning,
showing that a band of Indians had
campel there the night before, i climbed
to the summit of the hill, and soon
heard the dogs open in full force far be
low me. Then followed one of the pret
tiest chases I ever witnessed. I watched
ihe sport for two hours. Tlie dogs were
after a big buck and doe. From my ele
vation I could plainly see the deer, the
dogs, and the hunters. The deer finally
made for the hill where I was located,
and as T was preparing for a shot, bang!
went the rifle close to me. and I heard
the ping of a bullet as It sped by my
bead.
FIRED ON BY PARTY MEMBER.
“The thought occurred to me instantly
that T had been fired on by an Indian.
1 dodged behind a rock and peered cau
tiously around, seeking to get a view of
the supposed Indian in order that 1
might take a shot at him. Finally, the
man who had shot at me showed him
self. and I was about to fire at him.
when I saw that lie was not an Indian,
but belonged to our hunting party. T
made myself known, and we congratu
lated each other that no serious results
bad followed our little game of hide
and seek. He had mistaken me for an
Indian.
”We obtained plenty of deer and wild
turkeys on the first day in camp. We
had a delightful time in camp in even
ings, telling yarns and listening to the
experiences of the veteran members of
the party. i still remember a remark
able incident that occurred. Hie first night
we were in camp.
“One of the members of our party was
James Johnson, of Austin, who had only
recently arrived from Tennessee. He
was on his first hunting trip after big
game. He went to the war with the
Fourteenth Tennessee regiment of con
federates. lie told a story of how bad
he felt when he had been on picket duty
for long hours and had not had any
coffee. When daylight came the picket
line of union troops could be plainly
seen within easy speaking distance on
the other side of the Potomac river.
” ‘Hello, .T^ilinnie! Got any tobacco?’
yelled tt yankee picket.
“ ‘Yes, bring us some coffee and we
will trade,' Mr. Johnson said lie told the
union picket.
“ 'No; we are afraid of you; yo;#
come over.' was yelled back at me.
“ ‘After many pledges.' continued Mr.
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‘how much money have you
•Just $250.' says the banker.
'And you?' says the judge
l hr
HOW THEY TAKE IT.
"Well, maybe he has S500 with him.
an' maybe he says lie wil! have to go to
town for it—don't make any difference—
but $500 is what we make him speak
for. say.
" 'Well." says the judge. ’I can put in
$250. but I want some protection on tfie
deal for myself ns well as for my friend
here. If wliat he says is true, of course
there's no risk. But if it isn’t—now.
looky here—you're a banket?,’ lie says to
me, yon just give me and my friend
here a note to protect us in case of loss
and we’ll let you have the money.'
“Well, that’s the way we settled it.
it certainly looks fair all around. We g >
in and tell the promoter, if the sucker
doesn't hapen to have his roll witn
him, that we’re going up town and win
be back. ’All right, gentiemen.' says
Eddie, careless like, ’but remember the
oath.'
"We go to the hotel, or the bank, or
wherever the sucker's got his plant, he
draws his pile and the banker executes
bis note with a big flourish to bis signa
ture, payable 'on demand.'
"It’s all over then. No use tollin' t’ne
rest. The little speck or mark was on
the wrong card when we got back to the
tent and, of course, we lose. I've seen
the victim keel over in a dead funk when
the turn came, and I've had to bring
him to with tlie boozp. Sometimes they d
holler, but the system worked so perfect
'that we always had a way out. Some
times the banker would take the victim
away and give him a phony check on
nowhere to make up his note. Some-
lines it was up to the judge to smooths
him flown and remind him of his oath.
And sometimes lie was game and never
squealed—that depended on how wise he
nae considered in the village.
"A\ It was a fascinating game and a
deep one, my lad. even if it does sound
like comic op’ry foolishness. It took
courage, diplomacy and more science
than billiards. T haven't given you half
of the lines, my boy. but I've always
believed that our plays, in a small way,
wasn't very different from Pierpont Mor
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who draw the suckers in. Same system,
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Johnson. ‘I gathered all the tobacco we
bad. and. taking an old boat, puddled
over to the other side. Just as I climbed
the bank, the yankee relief guard came
uji and the man who had decoyed me
over drew his gun and placed me under
arrest. 1 was taken a prisoner into
camp. I knew that J would Tie punished
as a deserter unless I could get out of
my predicament. I was kept in the
guardhouse for several hours, and final
ly a thought occurred to me to write a
note to the “general in command,” not
knowing his name. I explained to him
the circumstances of my detention and
asked for my release. Tn less than an
hour the message came back that I
should be taken to the lines, given my
arms, and permitted to cross the river
iti safety. Tlie order was also issued
by tin "general in command” that tlie
man who had captured me should lie
arrested.’
"At this point In Mr. Johnson’s story
General "Ludlow raised tip from his
blanket and said:
‘ ‘Mr. Johnson. T was the general in
command and recollect the circumstances
very well. I have your letter among my
war papers.'
"The two men then shook hands. It
was an impressive incident—this meeting
of two men under such remarkable cir
cumstances.
"Next morning twelve members of our
party, including several soldiers, pene
trated the rough region 10 miles farther
and established a bear camp. On our way
to this new camp site we saw many
d. er. wild turkeys, and prairie chickens,
hut as we were 'out for bear.' we did
not take a shot at any of them. Our
real sport began soon after we estab
lished our new camp. The bear dogs
soon took the trail of a bear, and they
chased the animal five or six miles
through the brush, 1 witli all of us close
behind, every man for himself.
NEARLY LOST HIS SCALP.
"The bear climbed a pecan tree, but
was brought down by a well-aimed shot
by one of the members of our party. In
falling tlie animal alighted on top of
one of the bear dogs and crushed it to
death.
■•\Ye were told when we got back to
camp that a band of Comanche Indians
were in the neighborhood and had
been prowling around camp. Tin-
soldiers were on the alert to guard
against attack. 1 slept on a pile of corn
shucks outside of the picket line that
night. Toward morning it began ifc
rain, and I started to tlie camp tents.
One of our pickets told me that he bad
great difficulty in keeping some Indians
away from that very pile of shucks. He
had fired several shots at them. «)ne
of the Indians had crawled within 20
feet of where T was lying. when dis
covered by the picket and driven away.
It was the closest I ever came to having
my scalp taken.
“Hardly a day passed that some mem
ber of the party did not have a narrow
escape from being killed either at the
hands of Indians of by some wild ani
mal. We made the return trip to Austin
in a leisurely way. We got back with
only seven dogs out of the seventy-two.”
A “VOLUNTARY” CONFESSION
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although unmythical—female parent, of
whom a judge in a juvenile court toils.
‘‘Did I understand you to say that this
boy voluntarily confessed his share in
the mischief done to the sehoolliouse?”
asked the magistrate, addressing tli“
mother, who held a small, dirty, strug
gling boy by the hand.
“Yes, sir he did,” replied the mother,
jerking her offspring into momentary in-
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