Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-09
NOT t0RDDOUGLAS
Despite Identification Hotel
Astor Suicide Another Man.
Marquis Of Queensbery Scouts
Idea Of Relatives Death.
Latest Dispatches Report LORD at
San Francisco, Monday.

New York, Nov S.-0ne of the most
perplexing identification mysteries
which ever developed in New York,
shrouds the body OF man which rests
in an uptown undertaker's establish
met1t, tonight. In the opinion of two
persons. i. is the body of Lord Sholto
Douglas, brother of the Marquis of
OIeenshe.y, member of one OF the best
known noble families of England But,
according to The marquis. who is
quoted il dispatches from Chicago,
The body cannot be that of his brother,
for he. says me bad q letter from Lord
Douglas only two days ago indicat-
ing that the writer Was safe and We'll
in the Far West.
To add to the mystery it has been
recalled that some wears ago a man
bearing marked resemblance to Lord
Douglas. passed himself OFF rs such,
and vas arrested in this country on
sevlFal occasions on charges of biga-
my.
TIC holy is that OF a man who reg
jstcred at the Hotel Aston, oct. 10, as
Maurice Stuart, San Francisco He
was found in his room. Monday, with
a self=in1icted bullet wound in his
heart. There was every evidence that
the man eas Of English parentage and
had been a gentleman. A pail, of over
alls found IN The room suggested that
perhaps he was at financial extremi-
tics and had planned an attempt at
manual la ber as q last resort. His
baggage bore hotel labels from all
parts ef the world. but outside the en-
try Maurice Stuart" in book. there
was ne clue to his identity.
The announcement that the body had
been identified as that of Lord Doug
las came, tonight, from Coroner Fem
berg. The coroner as a physician some
Years age. had known Lord Douglas
as a patient and it was the coroner
himself who first suspected that ting
suicide might be Douglas. He was not
sure enough of it TO express more than
the opinion that there was a striking
resemblance, but this comment. when
circulated. came TO the ears of Mary
Noble, an actress, who had known 4
Lord Douglas in the West. And, to-
night, when she viewed the body she
was sure it was that of Lord Douglas.
Miss Noble said she knew Lord
Douglas nhcn he was appearing on the
stage nut West with his wife, who was
an actress. in 1895.
The man Interested me so much
that | have always watched him with
n1orp than ordinary interest" Miss No
be said. IF | were mistaken in the
Identification and met Lord Douglas
in the street. should drop dead from
fright HIS hair is streaked with gray
a little now, but that is not surprising,
for it is Is years since l saw him. 1
do rot know what became of his wife
and the. child l understood was born
10 them"
The coinplexity of the situation was
augmented by the appearance of
Charles. Tlrich. a newspaper man, at
the undertaking establishment, late
tonight. to further identity the body
He said he was positive he had met
the man now dead, in Oakland, Cal,
in 1901. when he was playing in a
stock company and was known as
Maurice Stuart. ulrich said he had
never heard any one speak of him as
Lord Douglas.
Chicago, Nov. s.-The Marquis of
Queensbery, tonight, ernphatically de-
MED that the man who committed sui
eide at the Hotel Aston is his broth
er. Lord Sholto Douglas. He says
Lord Sdolto Is in the Far West and
that he received a letter from him
two days ago in which the writer de-
clared he was well.
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bakersfield. Cal. Nov. S.--Lertl