A GREAT ADVENTURER
ROUGEMENT SERIOUSLY ILL. RE-APPEARANCE IN LONDON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 3rd, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, January 2. A man named Louis Redmond, claiming to be de Rougemont, is seriously ill in a hospital in London. Received January 3, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, January 1. De Rougemont was admitted to hospital on December 19, a gaunt, bevvrinkled, white-hcarded old man. He gave his age as 85, and freely discussed his former adventures with the nurses. The .Daily Express says he was last seen in London in 1914, when he endeavoured to arrange a South Polar expedition. He married Miss Thirsa Cooper in 1914, and then disappeared. De*Rougemont caused considerable excitement some years ago by the,publication of sensational stories of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes experienced in Australia. The narratives bore the impress of truth, and for a brief space were but a closer examination showed discrepancies, and ultimately the narrator was dubbed a prevaricator and fabricator, and he retired into private life as a discredited adventurer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14254, 3 January 1920, Page 5
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