The Alaska citizen., 1910-04-16
Ross Raymond Has Just PaSS2i
 Away in Nevada
.HE POSED AS \ PROFESSOR
And Many Otasr Things When the Noot StrGes Hin---Gct Vas Ciagef Enough to Get aa Honest Living Had He Been So Minded

There has just passed away ill Nevada, ill the person of Ross Ray mond, man of remarkable talenls but criminal !uciinations.
 Raymond. who is remembered for the tea, of pretending ill Paris that he was q courier ol the Khe- dive, and i'll this character making of With a collection q the rar-st gems, aS well d. for his escapadc ,n India, where le trayeIed as raiah with rctiuue oi over d huadred servants ard many elephants. was attended on his death-bcd by his wife. some months ago the wife, in &n interview. said. "Whv have | cluug to Ross all these thirty yearse Bee. dse love him Some day, 1T another world. when all this insanity 9f sin has passed away, ! snail see him as he is, a grand, big-hearted man of genius now temporarily lost in darkness and shame
 Writing ou his career the Paris correspondent of the London Mail says:
 ! nave received from m urim- peachable source the following eX- traordinacy account of th5 exploits of Raymond, who lad I remarkable career as war correspondent for New York and London papers. My informant, who knew bim for over thirty years, says Raymond was employ ed ill Ia77 aa reporter on Chicago paper. He was hand some voung man, very intelligent, and did his work in satis aetory way for a few months Then he resigned and disappeared. At the moment his salary account was somewhat overdraWn
 After he had met with some ups and downs, I received q cable mes sage one day from Cairo advising me that battle had been an eve witness, and asking ii l desired a report I replied at once that did, and he sent me an exCellsnt de- scIiption ot the battle of Tel-el-Kc- ir-very truthful and Ve-y graphic FOr this service he refused any compensation. pleading that he was my debtor and was glad to do me a service. lie returned 10 Am erica and encountered in Chicago Mr. Calhoun, who within the past few days has been appointed Amer ican minister to China. Nr. Cal houn identified Raymond as a for mer acquaintance whose name was not Raymond. It seems that he was the son president of univer- sity in Western Pennsylvania.
 On one occasion he appeared in Birmingham, England, called on MT. Joseph Chamberlain, and an nounced himself as an orchid farm CT of New Jersey, Then he went to Stratford-on-Avon, to which city MT. George W. Childs, the Ameri- can philanthropist, had given q public fountain. There he announc- ed himself as a nephew of MT, Child8, and after inspecting the fountain with great care passed a number of bogus checks and acCu- mulated several hundred pounds. Subsequently he appeared in Paris, called at the Hotel Bristol, and described himself as the cour- fer of the Khedive of Egypt. who was to arrive that evening. He took an expensive suite. told the manager that it was the Khedive' s birthday, and that he desired to ar range a dinner i'll his highness honor Elaborate preparations for a dinner of twenty four covers were made. Finally Raymond announc- ed that on the Khedive's birthday it was customary for each member of his suite to make him small gift of jewelry, and asked the man. ager to send for an assortment oi articles appropriate to the occasion
 Jewels of considerable value were brought to his room. He selected a number and asked that they