Cañon City record., 1907-01-03

commercial endeavor had she chose to
enter it. She had wide acquaintance
and claimed many distinguished peo-
pie among her acquaintance, both in
lack of money and received regular
Iremittances from the Russian consul
lin Chicago, with whom she was on
terms of the greatest friendship.
-Four of FIVE days before she died."
said DIR. Rowe. "she sent to Chicago
| for $3.50, which was forwarded to
Phoenix by the Illinois Trust G. Saw
| ings Company, the largest banking in
stltution in Chicago. She intended to
use this money to pay the expenses
of trip through Mexico and Central
America, but death interferred with
her plans and the money was re-
turned to Chicago. She had invited
me to go with her as her physician,
for" she asserted. Il have not got
very long to live and might as well
enjoy myself as much as possible dur
lihb TIC hVsbhiho uoyc VI Ahy SsAaSSas
81 naturally had many confidential
talks with her." said DR.. Rowe. "and
learned something OF her past life,
but nothing that would throw any
light on the mystery which 1t contain
ed. Unquestionably she was Rus
sian and was probably driven from
that country on account of her po-
litical opinions, although she may
have been a paid agent in the secret
service of the Gear. She told me that
she was born In the Crimea. but had
lived for number of years before
coming to America In the vicinity OF
st. Petersburg. She was a human
problem, and, doubt, II anybody in
this country knew OF her sex until
death revealed the mystery she had
so jealousy guarded. The body was
bureid at Phoenix, but there is some
talk of exhuming 1t and taking It to
Chicago for interment"
A Chicago paper in recent Issue
says:
The three days ownder growing out
OF the discovery that Nicolai de Reylan
for years a clerk to Baron Schlippen-
bach, Russian consul In Chicago, was
a woman, a discovery only made after
her death in Phoenix, Ark, has been
solved by the admission OF the two
women with whom she lived as "hus-
band"
The motive for De Reylan's mas
querade, which had been kept up for
fifteen years, is mixed. Part OF 1t
dates back to her early affair with a
girl in Southern Russia, at the first
period of her assuming manhood"
and part of the explanation Is found in
her connection with revolutionary
"bunds" in this country and Russia.
Mrs. Eugenie Bruchulis, De Rey-
lan's first wife," and Mrs. Annie De
Rcylan both unbosomed themselves in
Explaining the mystery"
There was no great secret dating
back to an affair" with nobleman
in Russia. The woman, De Reylan.
was of the common classes of the
southern part. The boy, who has been
represented as being the real child
of the De Reylan woman, is, In reality,
as Mrs. Annie De Reylan has stated,
her own child. The boy Is the son OF
Joseph Armstrong, her first husband,
and the register of the birth is in the
lefty hall. Armstrong appeared and
claimed fatherhood. The kidnapping"
lof the boy is fiction, according to
Mrs. De Reylan.
The idea OF posing as a man grew
gradually with the De Reylan girl.
Trouble with her parents over revo-
|lutionary secret drove her from her
home in ElItzyetgrad when 1s years
Iold. She went to the town of Kam-
metz, and there, as a man, won the
love of young girl. Jenya vassll-
lovitch.
Throughout al her life in America
the romance clung to her. There was
la diary, which Mrs. Bruchulis revealed
telling all the details Of this sad ro-
nance. It told Of how the De Reylan
girl lost the love OF "Jenya," referred
Ito a. my angel GIRL" through an af-