Arizona republican., 1907-05-25

that others might shortly be let into
that secret.
There is another letter which she
had written to De Raglan in reply to
a request for her to come to Phoenix.
as life was uncertain. She replied
that she was i'll and could not come al
that time. but she suggested to De
Raglan that if death seemed imminent
to write a note and leave it where it
would be found before an examination
of the body could be made requesting
that nothing whatever be done with
the body until the arrival of Mrs. DE
Raglan. Other evidence has been Sc
cured by Mr.. Feinberg showing that
shortly before death DE Raglan made
admissions To his bankers which at
The time were not OF great signifi-
canoe. but which tended to show that
he did not desire "his'' wife to come
into possession of the estate. one ad-
mission involved the concealing from
her the existence of n deposit of $5400
in a Chicago bank. and which was in
the process of being transferred to
Phoenix when death occurred.
Back of the alleged substitution of
a woman's body for the corpse of her
husband. Mrs. DE Raylan claims is n
conspiracy the depth and intricacies
of which she does not know. She says
that Tanner and another Russian
whom she has not named are impli-
Gated in II and The purpose was i'm
some way to secure a fortune which
De Raglan had i'm Russia and from
which he received an annuity. She
does not know the amount or location
OF the fortune. She points to the Gu
rious circumstance that Tanner. with
whom her husband had been associated
twelve Years before and who claimed
not to have seen since. should have
turned up in Phoenix at the particular
time he was here in the course OF his
world wandering3.
Mr.. Fcinberg says that no,with-
standing the most careful official in
vestigation by the ST. Petersburg au-
thorities. the mystery of De Raglan is
almost a impenetrable as it seemed
on that Monday night last December
when her sex was discovered. Two
women have been found at Kiev. n
mother and daughter. who believe that
De Raglan was their daughter and
sister. She mysteriously disappeared
twenty years ago. and was never af-
terward heard OF. She was named
Nikola de. the last name having
been forgotten by Mr.. Feinberg. There
was. it win be recalled. a Greek cross
found on the neck of Nikolai De Ray
Ian. on which was engraved the word
'-Nikola.'
Circumstance pointed To the fact
that this girl had gone from Kiev to
ST Petersburg. Some time after that
De Raglan. an eliminate looking
young man. secured entrance into the
diplomatic service and pushed himself
forward so fast that in 1891 he was
appointed secretary to Mr.. Constan-
tine RakOosa Soostchefsky, the special
Russian commissioner to the Colum-
bian exposition. Soostchefsky had
been high in Russian official life and
has figured extensively in the more re
cent events of the empire. Beside his
impsr rial credentials he bore a special
letter from a. Sovreen the distinguish
ed editor OF Novoye Vremia This let
ter in a richly morocco-bound book.
was found among the effects of De
Raglan when 'he" was dead.
This information differs slightly
from that given out by Tanner. who
however. was not definite. II was his
opinion that he had met De Raglan
some time before the exposition. and
he believed that he had come to this
country some years before. He mem
toned however. his relationship to the
Russian commissioner.
Mr. Feinberg said. regarding the
motive of De Raglan nothing was
known. There Wore two theories. one
was that "he" was a pervert but that
is not well supported by so much as
is known Of his life. The other the
ory is that 'he" had committed some
great crime or some act, punishment
for which he feared at the hands of
somebody and chose to bury himself"
by hiding his sex.