Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-22
OUR LATEST FAKER
The Count de Das and His
Methods of Swindling
MRS. ROCKWELIS VISITS
And How She Completely Unmasked
His Fraudulent Character - Racy
Seances with the General Inspector
OF the EstOeric Council of Thibet
and General Dead Beat.

Mrs. Rockwell, a clerk in the Census
Bureau, reading our expose in last Sunday S
GLOBE Of the fraudulent Count de Das head
center Of the High Mucky Muck in Thibet,
who has been cutting quite a swath in
Washington high society as miracle per-
former etc, called at the GLOBE Office and
related her experience with the fraud.
Said Mrs. Rockwell, Several of my lady
friends induced me on account of my cyn-
cal disposition / suppose, to consult Dr. de
Sarak and report what / thought Of this
wonderful and mysterious prodigy who
| performs miracles easier than an ordinary
human being can walk. l visited the r
street resideace Of the doctor and was met
by a repulslve looking lady attendant to
whom ! made known my desire to have an
interview with her illustrious master. She
was very anxious to find out what wanted
to see the doctor for, my business with him,
what I expected him to do for me, and a
| great many other questions all with ten e.
dencV TO prevent the interview / desired.
Finally she named day when the doctor
would receive me. Anxious to see the
thing through, although my suspicious
were aroused as to his fraudulent character,
! kept the appointment, notwithstanding
that had to get half days leave from my
chief
When arrived at the street mansion
was met at the door by the same forbid
ding looking lady who almost pre-
vented my entrance. Having reached the
parlOr made known my business, that
came according to appointment to see DR..
de Sarak, vhereupon she informed me that
the doctor could not be seen thar day; that
he was suffering from sensitiveuess and
overwork that his divine ethereal nature
was being unduly excited by his intellectual
and spiritual labors and that to-day he must
rest. reminded her of the date we had
agreed upon and Of the sacrifice had made
in order to keep the appointment, and we
agreed that the doctor should see me on the
following Sunday at his residence. On
Friday, However, / received a note from
the lady making an appointment for me
for Morday, instead of Sunday, which
would necessitate my losing another day
as she very we'll knew. l answered her
note telling her emphatically that would
call on Sunday and that I would see the
doctor To this she replied agreeing to the
intervi.w on Sunday as originally agreed
upon"
NOV, Mrs. Rockwell tell us what hap
pened on Sunday.
"Well il is almost too funny / do not
know whether / shall ever be able to tell it
or not How any intelligent educated ladies
could be taken in by such palpable fraud is
a miracle to me l called on Sunday and
was met by the same lady who glibly enum-
Grated a lot of conditions upon which I
would be granted the interview, upon which
/ exhibited some contempt and impatience,
and when we entered the parlor she became
fierce and said in the most excitable tones
of voice:
You have persistently come here and
sought to force yourself into his presence.
The doctor is too great and mighty a man
to have ordinary mortals treat him in such
a manner and do not think he will see you
to. day
IT explained that had all due respect
and reverence for the doctor and that my
condition was such that was very anxious
to see him and consult him and named the
ladies who had recommended him and who
were well known to the doctor. He evil
IDENTIFY overheard what was said and calling
the lady into his sanctum sanctorum he adj
vised her to send me in. I entered the sacred
precincts and there sat the doctor on a lurid
dais or throne posed before an altar OBJ
scured by incense, by which the air was
heavily laden
He was a miserable little creature, dark
and swarthy, with eyes of unnatural big-
ness, which he kept rolling around in a
kind Of crazy ecstasy.
''I stood in the middle Of the floor until he
supposed I was duly impressed with his
greatness and my own inferiority, when he
raised and approached me something after
the manner of a gliding serpent. The lady
took a seat as his translator, for you must
understand the doctor pretends he can
speak no English, he being a Spaniard.
After gazing into my eyes for several
seconds he addressed the lady and said ac-
cording to her translation: This ladys
father has met violent death. promptly
replied no sir and madam my father is alive
and we'll
"At this the doctor jabbered excitedly at
the lady for some time, whereupon she ex-
planned to me that it was an error and that
it was my mother who met violent death.
/ again replied and said my mother, as well
as my father, was still living
AT this the doctor tore his hair, stared
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than her illustrious master, made another
effort to explain, saying that it was an error
of her own in translation and that it was
one Of my relatives that met the violent
death. To this ] said nothing and the
doctor, feeling somewhat recovered, made
me stand up and tapped my chest, ex-
amined my eyes, and felt my pulse, and
after bowling his head at an altar and going
through sundry genuhecdons, he returned
and told the lady to inform me that he
could cure me in another interview, which
/ agreed to keep in order to see the end of
this weird performance.
81 left the house uow feeling satisfied Of
the fraudulent character of the distinguish
ed count and doctors pretentions and re-
turned on the day agreed upon.
Did you give up any money, Mrs. Rock
we'll?
mo, explained to the lady why desired /
to defer payment until a little later and she /
then seemed satisfied, but when 1 next |
called it was with difficulty I could gain
entrance TO the residence.
This time she exhibited an even more !
homely appearance than usual as one Of her
eyes was badly discolored and surrounded
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