The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-18

WITH the UTMOST prOQl2auty, ana Wner
he became short of ready money Mr.
Poixetfe was only too glad to cash q
check for 5000 francs BY the time the
check was proved bogus Raymond had
vanished.
While the authorities were still look
ing for him there appeared one day al
the Hotel Splendid, in Paris, Sur-
baned individual of Oriental aspect
with a large retinue of servants in
Egyptian dress.
The chief of the party called for tbs
proprietor, and, engaging his absolute
secrecy conhded the statement that ne
was private secretary of the khedive
of Egypt. who would follow him in a
day or two. His royal master was
travelling ineognito, owing TO the finan-
cial complications, but that would de-
tract nothing from his eastern bounty.
The secretary had been instructed to
make a gift to the hotel keeper-any
thing the latter might choose.
They went to Ravaut, the Jeweler in
the Rue de la PaiX, and there the
watch, studded with the richest of
gems, had the hotel mans initials set
in diamonds in the case. and presented
il TO him, with the compliments of the
khedive. The gift in all cost some
81, 200.
Then the secretary carelessly went
over a list of other presents which he
was commissioned to bestow in Paris.
and had $4,000 worth of diamond
brooches, rings and other jewels set
aside, Ito be called for tomorrow"
The hotel keeper had of course,
proudly whispered to the jeweler the
secret Of the others personality. and
he generously permitted his customer
to choose his own time for settlement
of the account.
Returning to the hotel, the ''secre-
tary'' engaged the premier suite for
q Ehadixrea - q DaTfW of Ger
man princes who were obliged to take
an upper floor,
He scattered largesse among the ser
wants and attaches with royal hand,
flowers. canopieS stretched from door
TO curb, and carpets containing the
khedive's coat-of-arms laid in the
apartments. Not a detail was lacking.
The names to which his retainers an
swered We're those of the khedive's own
suite. and to every query he could re-
turn quick and sure answer.
In England he gained the confidence
of the Right Honorable Joseph Cham
berlain, now colonial secretary, and
forged his name to a check for more
than $40. 000 Later he served ten years
in Brentwood prison for a similar crime
with the name of George Augustus
Sala, the eminent writer.
Returning to America, he became at
tached to the New York Herald, and
Wnen GafnelQ was Qylng at ElDerIOn
wrote letters of exceptional ability to
that paper.
Two years ago he came to Philadel-
phia and was made city editor of the
Times. He held the position but q
short time and disappeared to begin his
swindling opera tions once more. Soon
afterwards he turned up in Milwaukee.
He claimed to be a British office and
presented forged letters from Adjutant
General Corbin and a number of 9TH
ers. borrowed n large sum of money
and was arrested and sent to the work
house. He disappeared again until his
latest arrest at New Haven
Raymond should have lived in the
time of the Bcrgias. He is mediaeval
in his crimes. He has the soul of a
poet. He can sit at cafe table and
entertain a company of marked bril-
liancy with tales of personal adven-
ture undreamed of by the most fanci-
full novelist. He, would move you to
tears reciting in his soft, sweet tones
Shelly's lode to a Skylark,.' as heard
him one night in a Chestnut street
restaurant, and next moment, if he
knew you we'll enough, he would laugh
( ingly tell you how his cellmate in some
foreign chain gang had once tried to
kill him because he held aloof from
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But the real story of Raymond can
not be written until Raymond is no
more.