RASPUTIN
HIS BROTHER A MENDICANT. WARSAW, May 26. A ragged nomad • seeking a night’s shelter in the Tramps’ Home here last night, produced a passport showing him to be the 65-year-old half-brother of the monk, Gregory Rasputin, the sinister figure behind the Czarist regime during the last years of its existence. The passport had 'been issued in Siberia. > . ' ■ .
“For 19 years I have been begging and singing in the streets of Poland, tho tramp said. “To-day all that I possess in the world is fourpence.” , When the other tramps learned the identity of the newcomer, they attack-, ed him with such violence that he had to receive hospital treatment. ' (Rasputin was murdered in 1917 by Prince Yousopoff and other nobles because of the evil influence he was supposed to be exerting upon the Czarina. He was poisoned, shot, and stabbed, and his body pushed under the ice of the Neva, A daughter of Rasputin, lives in England).
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1936, Page 6
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