Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-12-29
MAN IN LIFE
WOMAN IN DEATH
After disappearing as a Man
for Years. Sex Is at
Last Revealed.
MYSTERY SOLVES MYSTERY
Even the Family Doctor Did Not
Suspect the Secret.

arrived in Phoenix a man who passed
aH y de- Raglan ilr was well along
with consumption and was accOmpa-
/ MED hy Dr Rove Chicago phyHi.
+ cien. Uf past middle age The doctor
found quarters for himself and bis no..
+ dent 40 tho Union hotel on West
/ Washington street neRnylun was
evidently u man of wealth and Gull
ture lie said be- had heen assistant
Russian vice consul at Chicago and
I had served with the American forces
through the war with Spaia He had
numerous medals which be- said had
I been given him DO connection with
that service aad also q special letter
Z i commentator from President Ne
klnlcy
/ He frequently showed Dr Rowe tho
photograph Of his wife Mrs Anna DE
Raglan. sinEularly handsome and
I yOlup.uous womaa who wrote him
with regularity He often spoke of
bis soa whom the doctor understood 90
be- nearly grown.
DE- Raglan died last night ana the
doctor instructed Muhn a UrIscOll TO
take charrc of the body ne also sent
a telegram 90 Mrs AnIn De Raylun
I ANNINNN NNNNNN| tNHN w NNNN NN'N|N NNN NH
husband and asking her 10 she would
come
MA Mohn went nut to mo Union tn
make arrangements Tor the transfer
Of he body 10 the morguc The doc.
Tor was there and Mr Mohn remark.
cd 90 him thar bo face looked young
for One who had passed through $50
much The body was brought ln and
Ms Drlscoll began preparations fOr
emhalmng Ne too was struck by the
peculiarly young AID feminine ap.
pcaranco of the face and when he
stripped the breast bare be- was urth-
fr struck hy les appearance. a further
examination showed lim thsi his sub.
jet was q woman. The masquerade
nnd beoa carried 90 The last possible
and unnecessary detail
Mr. DrIscoll covered the body aad
sought Or Rowe whom he found in
the Office Of the Union he called him
aside and questioned him about
his laie patient nr Drlscoll
SOON convinced himself thar the doc.
tor had been 40 party either hy con
sent ur Knowledge 90 this strange DC.
ceptlon ~ iho FIRST place tho putung
of the body into ths hands of an uu
dertlkor was certain iO disclose %
whereas if BE- were No beg kept up ino
doctor could himself 1uvo ept thc
body into coffin and sou.r have rom
piled with 400 required regulations f0r
The burial OF che body in local cemo
terry
ln rcply to Mr Driscols questions
the doctor said that De- had fgf,Apnfly
examined De Raglan CESS 90 bis Chest
and had found nothing goo arouse DTS
suspicion as go the sex oft his patient
Re recalled however fhn, no RaylHa
had been rather more sensitive than
male patients usually arc.
Whln Mr. Dtscou finally asked him
f De knew that Ue Raylan was so
man he moved about As " dnxod hy
thp Inquiry ie recovered nnd said
thui ho never bad thc slightest suA
uiclu- thar his pRilnni Naa not what
De- seemed He had been with him
great deal in thrir rooms iu travelling
and ON the street There had never
been move by him which could have
raised doubt as tn his s.N, MOI Uycu
a thought They had visited barber
shops togelhor tor De Raglan shaved
regularly and iruqurefiy
The doctor agreed with Mr. nrls
coll hist no further steps should bc
taken toward the sending ~ the body
away until there could Doe au inypsii-
cation OF he strange affair and that
authorities should be notified Mar
shal kinney was sent for bul there
was nothing to bee dome by him fur
Their than 20 acknowledge that ho bad
cORuizanco of The case The body
WAS then embalmvd and Is beinr held
pendlnE other developments
There sFr several elements ln thls
case which classify DC with an those
strange eases of women who have
passed Cor years as men and who
have had wives who aided them ln
their deception How long De- RAY
Ian may have held himself out 30 BE-
"a woman s ypi g matter 0f cnnlec.
turo Dr. Rowe met him ln Calca
SO Co.'S doctors ordinarily meet na.
TENTS and that far back. therefore. be- [
was known as man Thai Was
about siX months ago
De- Raglan was ns communicative 1
as well bred ana educated as renile- !
men ever become and bestowed upon |
ihg doctor Those cuuudunCea which i
patients believe belong i0 their medl- 1
cal advisers 80 t0id iho doctor /
freely about bis lile in Russia and 90 4
This country He spoke af h|a WHO
often and treasured hor photographs
and hor letters Ho manifested "a
fathers pride Boz boss son and cher
ished his photograph
De had au albums hred with photo
graphs of fr.elhs and relatives DOB this
country and Russia There were in
The collection several pictures uf
himself taken 90 various AGES and
here was one ni little Russian sifl
le iuld the doctor wus une ago shis
little sweetheart
on the face ~ tho evidence which
low appears o. Is Thought that De
Raglan actually served iu Use Spanish
NaF. fnr there are those medals
Nhich are known iu have been issued
n the circumstance ln which De
Raglan said be- had received hia AtI
present there is an inclination to be-
ieyo that President Mckinley actual
wrote a letter of thanks and com.
nenahilon To a gallant soldier of the
iaule Of ~ haYlan aud That ihe dead
Iin in che muqeuO was be-
q would have hfon Thought that h.
Raglan would NOT carry This deception
MO fhe very hour and article ~
lealh ~ Rose believes fhat a dIs
'losure would have been made only
icr death came foa dnFa earlier 9
han if had been expected Tho d0r
ur said she know She could mol live
ma day before yesterday she said she {
'talttd ip make q VIII The win uaa