Complex sentence: Reilly himself told several versions of his origins to confuse and mislead investigators: he claimed to be the son of an Irish merchant seaman, an Irish clergyman, and an aristocratic landowner and habitué of the Imperial court of Tsar Alexander III of Russia.
Split into simpler sentences: Reilly himself told several versions of his origins to confuse and mislead investigators. He claimed to be the son of an Irish merchant seaman, an Irish clergyman, and an aristocratic landowner and habitué of the Imperial court of Tsar Alexander III of Russia.