The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-23
COUSIN OF CAR
IN GARB OF MAN
WOMAN RELATIVE OF EMPEROR
HELD UP BY FRISCO lMMI-
GRAFTON OFFICERS.
FLED HERE IN TERROR
To Escape Would-be Assassins Who
Are After Her Forture-Strange
Story of Russian In
trigue is Told.

San Francisco, Ga, April 22,-- Held
aboard the Oceanic compaay's steam
lshlp Ventura, afflicted with tracho-
mea is woman passenger who
claims to be a member of the royal
family Of Russia She is CARRIED in
male attire and wears her hair clip
ped short, a disguise she assumed to
avoid the Russian spies.
II Il said that she Is abundantly
supplied with money, but for the pur-
pose Of keeping her identity secret
she craNeled in the Teerage with
her husband, and on the passenger
list she was registered as George
Paper.
Dukes Daughter, She Says.
The woman states that she Is the
daughter Of the late Duke of Bncking-
ham. who died in India in 1893, and
that her mother was the Princess of
Convalinsky, who died when the
daughter was an infant.
The tale she relates is a strange
one. but the officers of the steamer
credit it, as She has shown documents
that seem to bear out her declara-
lions. She is a doctor Of medicine
and claims to have been the first
woman physician in Russia,
The alleged Princess of Conyalins-
tly was seen on board the vessel to
day She IS thiryfye years Of age,
/ feet three inches in height and Of
rather stout build
In telling her story she stated that
she first wore male clothing when
studying medicine in Paris. II was
not until swo years ago, when she
found that the Russian emissaries
sought her life, that she took to
travelling, going to Australia.
She stated that she was banished
from Russia fourteen years ago be-
cause she refused TO tell Alexander
III, the father-of the present Gar
that Romanoff. nephew Of the ruler
of Russia, killed Professor Ashelin-
skoff She was standing talking to
the professor when Romanoff came
along and stabbed the pedagogue.
Ordered Her Exile.
The car. who she claims, was her
grand uncle. ordered her exiled She
pleaded that she would be unable 70
stand The hardships Of Siberia and
car chen agreed to let her go to
Australia, where she had an uncle,
whom she says was DAILY, the famous
Australian who was sent to that eoun-
try by England as convict DAILY
was the first to discover gold in West
Australia.
After being eight years in that
country she ated that the present
car asked her to return to her coun
try. She sent a reply that she would
remain away for ten years. The Rus
so-Japanese war interfered with her
further plans,
She declared that the late Grand
Duke Se2gius was her grand uncle
aud mentions other members of the
royal family in a familiar way. Her
rela ives were anxious to get hold of
her vast wealth, she claims. and could
only do 50 by her death, and to this
day she says she is pursued by hired
she has powerful friends in France
she says. and her presence in this
city Is in pursuance to instructions
from them. Sac win remain here un-
IN her people have communicated
with her In the meantime she will
be kent aboard the Ventura until the
United States immigration officials
have decided whether her case Of
is 50 bad that il viii pre-
went her from landing in this country.