DE ROUGEMONT.
OLD SENSATION TtTifiAT.T.Tm (By Gable Pren Awociijtion—CopjrirfitJ (Aimtralian and N.Z. CabU A*oct*tioii.) TASNDON. Jon uary 2. A man named Loniß Redmond, claiming to }» "Louis Do Rougemont," is seriously ill in a hospital in London. The 'Daily Express" saya Itcdmond definitely is Rougemont. Ho haa been living in England sinro the outbreak of war. Latterly ho had bocn living in tho basement of an empty house at Kingston-on-Thames, but ho always 6cernod to have sufficient money. Ilia tall, gaunt figure waa a familiar sight in tbo neighbourhood. (United Serried) LONDON. January 2. Do Jtougemont was admitted to hospital on December 19th, a gaunt bowrinkled, white-bearded old man. Ho gave his ago as 86. H© frocly discufsod with the nurses his former adveatores. Tho "Daily Express 1 ' says ho was lass seen in London in 1914, when ha endeavoured to arrange a South Polar expedition. Ho marned Miss Thirst Cooper in 1914, and then disappeared. [Do Rougemont achieved notoriety some 20 years by tho publication in tho ""Wide "World Magawne" of his alleged adventures in an explored Australia. He -was proved to do a fraud, and his name over since fn« been synonymous with impossiblo stories by imaginative travcllcre.]
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16723, 5 January 1920, Page 7
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199DE ROUGEMONT. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16723, 5 January 1920, Page 7
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