Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-16
0FAD CHARLATAN
WHO OUPEO CAR.
p,n,rkablc Career of Occult Hum
bug Who Completely Deceived
Russian Ruler
HELPED MAKE WORLD HISTORY
p,,,il.ss Adyenturer Who Had Served
Time ia French Prison Lodged Like
A Lord Ia Imperial Palace.
s,s,lal correspondence.

sreclal correspondence.
ARTS Sept. Almost unnotice1
J there has just died at st. Julien
.Arbresle in the department Of
the Rnonc, @ remarkable man
,,,o through his professions 10 the
rossssg.on OF marvellous occult pow
.,. for considerable period exercised
a., influence over the czar Of Russia
Greater probably, than that welded by
sny other human being. lie was dur
,og that time the power behind the
chrome " tho autocrat philippe Lam
dard was the name Of this modern
caglostro. but for reasons intimately
connected with various shady transact
,ors and a term OF imprisonment In
French lail, the memory of which he
desired to efface, he dropped his sur
name and for several years has been
known 10 bis dupes as NJ. Philippe.
ORIGIN A MYSTERY.
His origin Is yelled IN mystery He
claimed 10 be a Frenchman, but accord
,pg TO the report OF the secret police
who hunted up his record at the time
several influential folk In Russia We're
trying TO destroy his ascendancy over
The ear. he was the son Of Turkish
rasha and WAS born in Constantine
pie harem. His father. feeling his own
position none too secure, sent the boy
20 Paris, when mere shaver to b.
educated and trained in the ways or
western civilization Before he was
wei ont OF his teens his father van
ished-a victim TO one Of those mysteri-
Gus disappearances which are Of COM
mon occurrence IN the domains of "Ab-
tul the damned" The lad was turned
finft to shift for himself and devol.
opcd remarkable resourcefulness in OBJ
tanning a living, though for a time his
wits brought him IN little else.
BUTCHERS ASSISTANT.
For a short time he was a butchers
assistant Then he set up as teach
H OF languages and dabbled In Journal
Ism, Aftor that he was successfully an
Insurance agent, a railway clerk. an
assistant manager Of a hotel and then
SPECTATOR on the bourse. At that
latter game he lost what little money
he had accumulated. As a race track
gambler he met with little better suc-
cess. At ono time when his fortunes
were M low ebb, he picked UP few
francs as an artists model. Later on
he obtained a job as doorkeeper and at
fndant 10 a professional hypnotist and
medium The man took fancy TO the
versatile Philippe aud finding that he
was wen equipped 10 play the rogue.
instructed him I'm the mysteries of his
'll shd taught him how 10 lmpersonate
spooKs and fool the creduous. Philippe
proved such an apt pupil that II was
.o' ionE before he had ousted his mas
''i ana was running the show himself,
HIS UPS AND DOWNS.
sun he did not prosper. Fortune had
.tu'I ihlng' IN store for him than
.NplIllug messages from the dead TO
p1o' IoIh no franc a head, but he
aS 10 undergo many ups and downs
oflore he found his opportunity 10 ny
Wu.h higher game. When he was
utmost peunlless he obtained situation
w laIet TO Russian nobleman and I'M
,,nal capacity spent several years in
tlssla ana became proficient I'm the
tsa"sadge. Later he opened n school at
A. petersburg for teaching boxing.
.s''l"s and fencing Though he was an
.,1.pi on each Of these arts he could
NOT make his school pay.
BACK TO PARIS.
Ho returned to Paris and opened a
taIp'9 Here he practised mediumshlp
t.o hVnnotlsm and added miraculous
"'',lOs and astrology to his occult
..Ugs 10 trade. For a brief time he
l.'uf money but aryerslty again
,EeI'ooN him, Reduced to penurv he
,.'me a waiter I'm Boulevard cafe.
Nit'. a few months he found "A better
.ls' as billiard marker IN a fashion,
,Ug fans club, But he could never
Ivy any job long, lie was soon adrlft
s'W ana picked up precarious living
Tl motel tout no railway stations.
N'N ne tell INTO the hands Of the no.
w. ne was arrested on the charge
'''''Ng several hundred francs from
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