Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-06-01
DE RATTAN CASE
 A CLOSED BOOK
Body Exhumed at Phoenix and Identi- fled by Baron Schlippenbach, the Rus sian Consul at Chicago, as Private Secretary-Woman's s Claims Void.

Late Tuesday afternoon the body of Nikolai de Raglan, the mysterious man woman who died here last December, was positively identified, says the Phoe- nix Gazette, by Baron Schlippenbach, the Russian eonsul at Chicago, whose secretary de Raylan had been for twelve years.
 The easket in which the body had been buried was taken up Monday af- ternoon in order that there might be nothing to delay matters when the Baron arrived. That gentleman was not expected to arrive in Phoenix until Thursday morning, but was able to leave Chicago sooner than he expected and he stepped off the train here yes terday afternoon.
 He was taken to Mohn & Driscoll s establishment about 4:30 and the cas- ket opened. De Raglan s body was in perfect state of preservation. The features looked exactly the same as they had when the body was buried.
 Baron Sehlippenbach stood few min utes at the side of the coffin and then positively stated that the woman who lay therein had been his secretary and passed under the name of Nikolai or Nicholas de Raglan.
 Drs. Palmer and Bizzel identified the body as the one upon which they had performed an autopsy, and l.. M. Chris jefferson, the proprietor of the Union hotel, was confident that the dead wo- man was the one who had passed as de Raglan, the man.
 At o'clock all concerned in the case met in the office of E. o. Schlupp and told what they knew of the mat ter. Samuel J. Shaeffer, a Chicago at torney, representing Mrs. Anna de Ray Ian, who claims to be the "widow" of the dead woman, was present to cross examine the witnesses. Michael Fein- berg, the legal representative of Public Administrator Reddick of Cook county, Illinois, was also there to ask ques- tions.
 John J. Sweeney of the National Bank of Arizona told of how de Ray Ian and her physician, Dr. Rowe, came to the bank and opened an account. The morning after the death he saw the body and knew it to be that of his depositor.
 R. B. Burmister, cashier of the Phoenix National bank, recited the facts concerning the various business relations he had had with the dead woman. De Raglan told him of her domestic troubles, and MT. Burmister probably knows more of the past life of De Raglan than anyone in Phoenix His testimony was the most important that was taken.
 George Hagerman, who did some plumbing for de Raglan, l.. M. Christ offerson, and Drs. Palmer and Bizzell were all called, but brought out noth- ing that has not been told and retold.
 Baron Schlippenbach was able to throw some light upon the identity of Tanner, the mysterious young man who made himself known as a friend of de hd dIltl HtI utdlH ItW fDtlltNtu that Tanner was the right name of the man, and Baron Schlippenbach says that his name is Carl Neumann. He is himself Russian, being the son of leading attorney in the land of the czar. The baron has not seen Neumann since he enlisted for the Spanish war, but received several telegrams from him just after de Raglan died here.
 The disinterment of the body is of little real importance, outside of dis posing of the "widow 's" contention that woman s body was substituted for that of her husband" But the investigation into the facts of the mys- terious affair will go forward both in this country and in Russia until it is finally unraveled.
 MT. Shaeffer said that he had seen de Raglan in life and thought that the body he viewed last night was that of the man he had known, but was not certain upon that point. It is under stood that later he waxed very indig-