Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 39, 15 ʻApelila 1936 — EIGHT WIVES EARN RUSSIAN JAIL TERM [ARTICLE]
EIGHT WIVES EARN RUSSIAN JAIL TERM
Eight wives cost Vanya Kapustirinski, 28, of Moscow, Russia, a fivcyear sentence to a concentration eamp when he failed to give tlie loeal court a better explanation thau, "I married theiii ail. Wliat iuorā do they want?" A wandering tuismith, Vanya, like the proverbial sailor, marrie<l a iiew wife in every town. Two of tho cight deserted wivea who as \vitnesses claimed to have hatl cliildrc.t by the Soviet Don Juan.