A NOTED ADVENTURER.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 8 February 1910, Page 1

A NOTED ADVENTURER.

Mr. Ross Raymond, the convict, soldier of fortune, naval officer, and newspaper correspondent, who served ten years ill Portland prison for impersonating a nobleman, has died in Nevada. Raymond, who is remembered for tlie feat of pretending in Paris that ho was a courier of the Khedive, and iv this character making off with a collection of the rarest gems, as ire'tt as a rajah with a retinue of over a hundred servants and many elephants was attended on his deathbed by his wile. Some months ago the wifo, iv an interview, said: "Why hay« I clung to Ross all these thirty years? Because I love him. Some, day, _„ another world, when all tfiis insanity of sui has passed away, I shall sco hini as he is, a grand, big-hearted man cf genius, now temporarily losfc in darkness and shame." Raymond always claimed that ho was an Englishman and the son of an army officer living in Sussex, but his real birthplace appears to have been Beaver, Pennsylvania. Raymond was employed in 1876 as a reporter on a Chicago paper. Ho was a handsome young man, very intelligent, and did liis work in a satisfactory way for a few months. Thon he resigned and disappeared. At ihe moment his salary account was somewhat overdrawn. "After meeting with some ups and downs," said the newspaper manager who employed him, "I received a cable message one day from Cairo advising me a battle had been fought, that ho (Raymond) had been an eye-witness, and asking if I desired a report. I replied at once that I did, and ho seat me an excellent description of the battle of Tel-el-Kebir — very graphic md very truthful. For this service ho. ltefused .any compensation , pleading that lie was my debtor and was glad to do me a service."