IDENTITY OF GREY OWL
EVIDENCE OF LOST TOE. LONDON, April 22. Additional evidence, including the remarkable likeness of early photographs of Archie Belaney, and the statement of his former English wife, Florence Holmes Belaney, that he lost a toe of the right foot during the Great War, seem to leave no doubt that Grey Owl, who died in New York last, week, and who in the role of a half-breed Indian naturalist and animal lover, had achieved fame with his writings and lectures, was, in fact, Archibald Belaney, the son of English parents formerly residing at Hastings. Grey Owl also lost a toe of his right foot during the Great War. Nevertheless, his publisher, Mr Lovat Dickson, an Australian, says that his belief that Grey Owl was an Indian is unshaken. “I shall prove that he was all that he claimed,” he declared, “but I do net deny ‘that he may have been in England under the name of Belaney.”
Tommy: Mum, you said the baby had your eyes and daddy’s nose, didn’t you ? Mother: Yes, Tommy. “Well, you’d better keep your eye on him. He’s got grandfather’s teeth now.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1938, Page 2
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