"GRAND DUKE" AGAIN ABROAD

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 8

"GRAND DUKE" AGAIN ABROAD

< i N < Ihc stowaway who hoaxed first class passengers on boaid tho 110 do Fiance by posing as tho Grand Duke Michael while hiding in the dog kennel, caus ed another stir a tew weeks ago lay escaping fiom Ellis Island on. the eve of his deportation to Fianes.

Tho man, -who calls himself Michael Romanoff, but whoso leal name is believed to be Hairy Gcrguson, earned out his latest exploit with the same cool audacity that marked his shipboaid hoa\. He obtained pcimission to ontei New York undei guaid to collect some of his effects, including a new dicss suit and a silk hat.

James Diury, a tilisted guaid, was ap pointed to accompany tho piisonei on this visit, and was -named to keep the man handcuffed. Aimed in New York the penniless stowaway immediately set out 011 a toui ot the eilj's most fashionable lestaui.mts and "speakeasies," wheie managers and waiters, evidently familiar with him, greeted him with. low bows "as Monsieur lc Prince."

Drury found himself in an Arabian Nights setting of luxury and courted as a friend of a groat nobleman. Ho stared open-mouthed as the "Prince" introduced him to members of wellknown New York families, who "invited him to take wine with them. These persons evidently took Gcrguson .lo be a

Russian* Prince, and Drury was so lmpic«sed that he hurricdlj hia the hand cuffs rlhc 'Tiince" called foi ch-impagne to dunk the hcaltli of Ellis Island, and he thou made a' tniimphal progioss through .Bioadwav's ;mght uorld Tiled with nch wines, Diuij at last lost con sciousnc«s of his dizzling suriou'idings, and the list ho lemornbcrs is smiting undci tlie table of a luxurious mid tow n lestauiant

The "Pinice' then ginned a gudcnii m his unconscious fucnd's cait as i soinonn of then happy evening Mi \ bido him goodbje xVftcr that a do/en lminigiation ofliceis were \ainlj scorning fashionable Now Yoik m the hope of tiacking this elusive Pimpernel

As a Jesuit of this seind-il it was uinounced tint fom Elh& Ishud offi ciils lnio been suspended, including Di Joseph Schlin, hoid of the De portation Bureau, Philip Fonnan, his deputy, Drury, and another guard.

It has been- discovered that while Geiguson -was liiio-wn on Broadvay as 1 Russian Prince he had vmtnnised Holly both as a French Duka and a •v\caltln English peer lie sailed from New York for England in the Olympic only in Apiil -without pajing his passage. of his London activities attracted Scotland Yard's notice, and he was asked to leave the country.