MYSTERY MAN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11828, 9 January 1933, Page 3

MYSTERY MAN

IDENTIFIED RY AY IF I:

1 DON"! KNOW YOU

AIR. HOOVER'S FRIEND

A bearded gold miner, in overalls, alio was found at Whittier, a lonely town iu the heai-L of the Groat Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, vehemently denied that he is Colonel Raymond Robins, Prohibition leaoei, man of wealth and close friend of Vic ,-idetit Hoover. The Celouei vanished more than two months ago while on Ids "ay to visit White House.

Although positively identified n> Colonel Robins by his wile, his m’pheiv and other relatives, the man protested that he was Reynolds Rogers, a mining engineer, who has been look ing for gold in the Great -moky

ran ire. When tuiil that i<is friend Mi. I! 1 ' 11 - vor had telegraphed congratillations from White House, lie shook his head and said: “That means nothing H>

mo.’ The mail is being detained us hospitai at Ashvdle. North Carolina, ami a police official there stated. 1 lil--tm extraordinary mystery. It ma> he mistaken identity. genuine loss oi memory, a ease ol dual pcisonukt>. or Colonel Robins, for some mysterious reason, may be' shamming . When Mrs. Robins met her supposed husband for the time since his disappoaranee. she threw herself into his arms, but he repulsed he’ coldly. “1, don’t know this woman.’’ he said.

John Drier, of New York, who identified the man as his uncle, "as similarly rob tilled. "I'm not your unde, and you may bring Mr. Hoover. Mr. Roosevelt and the whole Cabinet lane to prove it." lie was told. Mrs. Robins said afterwards; “Despite his changed appearance and d ude overalls. I had no difficulty in recognising him, because his voice is unmistakable.

“Of course, the heard*ho has grown makes a difference to Ins looks. It is a bewildering puzzle lo us. Me never expected to find him alive, believing ho bad been murdered by liquor gangs, who had threatened him with deatli. I caunot explain why niy husbuncl should pretend not to know me . It is thought that an appeal from the President may induce the mau lo give proof of his identity atul solve the riddle.

It is staled that in bis overalls wore many Press clippings describing Colonel Robins’s disappearance and speculations about bis kidnapping by gangs.