"DE ROUGEMONT."

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1920, Page 5

"DE ROUGEMONT."

- JALE TELLING-IN HOSPITAL. . London, Jon. 31. "Louis de Rougemont" is making a jmaricafele recovery after sn operation H. entertains his fellow patients with (Modes, of adventures in Asia and Aua'A message received at tbe beginning i' last month stated: A man named ie Rougemont," is seriously ill in hospital "Laois de Rongemont" was adZjonis Redmond, claiming to be "Louis Bitted to hospital on December 19th. £jd man, 'and gar* his age as eightySVe. Be freely discusses his former "adBEe ia a guant, wrinkled, white-bearded matures" .with the nnraes. The Daily says that when last seen in' LoAdon in 1914 he endeavoured to arrange a Sooth Polar expedition. He fftrried Mias Thiroa Cooper in 1914, aad then disappeared. The Dally Express says that Redmond is definitely "Louis de Rougemont." He has been ttviftgin England since the outbreak of the war. Latterly he has been living it tbe basement of an empty house at Kingston, but he always seemed to have ■d (Brient money. His tall, gaunt figure Jtt * familiar sight in the neighbourly "Lottiede Rougemont" created astir by a series of magazine articles telling of extraordinary adventures. The most ' alleged features of "de ■Rongemant's" scare stories , wag the manner in which they completely duped lib many thousands of readers. Probably it waa the author's style alone jtlttt carried conviction.