Accused of having the evil eye, the only option was to burn her. Thankfully, there were people wise enough not to burn the young woman whose three previous sweethearts all died before marrying her. However, they probably should have looked into poisoning, either by her or someone in the family. The year is 1896.
To Love Her Seems Fatal
Three of this Girl’s Sweethearts Have Died in Succession
A drummer who arrived the other day from Phoenix, A.T., tells of a girl who has lost by death three men to whom she was successively engaged. In the first instance the youth, to whom she had been betrothed for a year and a half, expired on the very eve of the wedding. In the second, another young man, to whom she had been engaged soon after the melancholy event, died a few days before the marriage, and his successor in her affections has now shared a similar fate.
It seems that sundry ancient females of the neighborhood, attributing this series of calamities to the fact that the young woman had the “evil eye,” have calmly suggested that the only remedy to be found is burning her alive. On that score there need be no fear, of course, but the general opinion is that her chances of meeting with a fourth suitor are now infinitesimal.
The unlucky girl is described by the Tombstone Epitaph as being of an amiable and sympathetic disposition, and as being, moreover, of very attractive appearance.
[Source: White Oaks Eagle newspaper. January 09, 1896.]
