Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1913 — Siren Sentenced to Siberia [ARTICLE]

Siren Sentenced to Siberia

After Wedding Sixteen. Men and Rob* bing Them Woman Was Convicted and Deported. St Petersburg.—After causing Innumerable men to fall in love with her —actually marrying 16 of the more Impressionable and richer ones —Tatiana Betcberiak has just been exiled for life to Siberia. The woman, who is now more than forty years old, retains her remarkable beauty to a surprising degree. She married at the age of sixteen and lived with her husband about three years. Becoming a widow, she soon wedded a rich land owner and compelled him to spend large sums upon her. When he was nearly ruined she left him, but remembered to take all his valuables with her. The next “husband” was a stock broker, who quickly fell captive to the fair Tatiana. Having induced him to transfer all his property to her the adventurous beauty sold it and escaped abroad with a lieutenant, whom, however, Bhe quickly deserted in order to wed a fascinated Oriental consul. Seizing all the consul’s realizable possessions, his "wife" left him poste haste and returned to Russia by means of a stolen passport. Here she was wooed and won by an important official. Again she left her latest “husband." after abstracting all portable valuables, but this time she was caught and exiled to Siberia. It now seemed as though her career bad received an effective check, but the chief jailer in the far eastern wastes soon came under the spell of the beautiful Tatiana and fled with bar to Constantinople. Hera, however, the woman chanced ,

to encounter her former "husband,” the Oriental consul, and, with a justified dread of complications, she suddenly left the chief jailer and returned to Russia. For two years she lived peacefully in Russia, and enjoyed a considerable private income, having realized excellently upon her various “husbands’ ’’ valuables.- Also she made a great number of other ellgibles temporarily happy by "marrying” them. In this varied path of life she continued until her sixteenth victim, a lawyer, became wedded to her. The union proved peaceful and happy; there was a child. But, at a ball in a small town she came face to face with a former “husband.” who, despite her entreaties, informed the man whom she genuinely loved. The latter instituted proceedings, and the police then discovered that the woman was a former convict