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BERLIN MYSTERY.

IS SHE RUSSIAN PRINCESS

SATURD

MARCH

HIGH LIFE."

BOOK BY STEEPLEJACK,

Berlin, Fob 8.--Mystery sQr« A new book has been publish- rounds Frau von Tchaikovski, ed, entitled "Steeplejacks and who lies ill here in the Memmeen Steeplejacking," By Willlam Sanitarium and whom rumour, Larkins, and & Home reviewer, Home weeks ago, credited with | writes ~~~ being the former Grand Duchess. Anastasia, daughter of the rising in the world, the stoople- Although an obvious method of murdered Russian Czar Nicholas jack's profession is not an attrac- The story on its face was tive one to the ordinary mind. fantastic and incredible.The According to Mr. Larkins, who girl was supposed to have been is one of Ita leading practitioners, shot with the rest. of the it is healthy and does not, as

her.

outsido

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| Romanoff family in a cellar at some have conjectured, conduce

Ekaterinburg, but not fatally to insanity. And, singularly. wounded and rescued by a guard enough, it does not make youth and transported

of an indispensable condition, for Russia.

the author's most trustworthy However, certain facts romain assistants have been over forty. unexplained, which, although One man with whom ho was they do not justify credulity of working did go mad at the top of the woman's claims, indicato aa 150-feet chimney-stalk and try pretty intrigue playing around to procipitate himself into the

sulphurous interior; and the suc-!! Especially curious is the at-cessful struggle to prevent him titude of the Danish Embassy in must have had few experiences Herlin. Although relative, of to match it in sheer nerveracking horror. Some of the advontures Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, of Mr. Larkins's craft make for came from Copenhagen at the e- quest of the Czar's mother, who dizziness even on the printed page

such as that of the man who,. le still living in Denmark, in order to identify the pretender through some one else's blunder, and repudiate her. It is learned had to spend hours on an isolated on absolutely responsible author porch 200 feet high until his ity that the Danish Embassy has rescue could be organised. Every not abandoned the invesigation jack has his falls, and "the horror and is in a measure supporting of the empty air," as one can well Frau von Tachaikovsky's claims, believo, is a sensation all by itself. Your heart risos to your, The woman is in a critical mouth. Another feeling one has physical condition, it is said, and is that of his legs soparating from her mind is wandering. She ro- the rest of his body. The rush of ceives absolutely no visitors nor air grips your throat like that is any information vouchsafed to of a person about to undergo the questioners at the sanitarium. ponalty of hanging." Although it is reported she is in Sailors, curiously enough, are destitute ciroumstances, she oc-apt to make poor steeplejacks. cupies an expensive private room In Mr. Larkins's case the calling and is attended by a special is hereditary, and this circum nurse and a private secretary.stance can bo conceived as doing The presumption is possible more than any other to impart that certain parties have a speci- the steadiness of nerve demanded." al interest in keeping alive the The author has been to the top of fiction that a person close in kit the Nelson Column oftaner than to the Czar is still living.

unyone else, and one of his more

A large sum of money, amount-out-of-the way commissions was ing perhaps to $1,000,000 deposit-to rescue a clergyman's cat, which ed in English banks and accruing bad found its way to the top of

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the Czar remains unpaid due to imagination yearns for giddy pra- the uncertainty surrounding the dionments and close shaves will fate of his heirs, and it is claimed get their Bl of these from Mr. in part by the pretender, Grand Larkins's book. Duke Cyril, who has established

bis "court" in Coburg,

It is speculated that perhaps other branchos of the Romanoff family are interested in main- taining the fiction that Grand Duchess Anastasia is not dead in

FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

order to prevent the disposal of SPAHLINGER TREATMENT this sum,

Soviet sources ridicule. the.

FOR ENGLAND.

thought Frau von Techaikovsky A fund has been launched at is Anastasia, saying there is no Home to raise £100,000 to secure question of the fate of Anastasia, the Spahlinger treatment for

as the Soviet account of the tuberculosis for Britain.

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executions" of the Romanofts, | The announcement was made just now appearing, proves. in Manchester at a meeting arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brunner, of Northwich.

Mr. Roscoe Brunner said there

It is learned, that those credit ing the story, obiefly in the Danish Embassy, base their be- lief on Frau von Techaikovsky's ability to identify photographs was a wonderful unanimity on taken in the intimate family the value of M. Spahlinger's dis circle of the Romanoffs and her coveries. Sanatoria in this coun, poesession of a curious cigarette try have cost £40,000,000, and re- halder identical with one belong-quire £1,000,000 per annum to ing to Grand Duchess Anastasia, meintain them..

Officially the embassy rofuse Of every thousand patients to discuss the matter, but At-passing through these sanatoria taches do not deny they are con- only 14 were alive at the end of tinuing the investigation."

12 years.

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fand was men's Guild informed a Daily £40,000 of tho Mail reported. He prodooded: quired to secure the land and . In the old days, we used "to laboratories at Geneva: The re- provide for the children only, mainder was needed to extend Now we provide for adults as the scope of the treatment for tuber- well. It is perhaps, not generally other diseases besides realised just how flourishing the culosis. The remedies were not industry is. At least £15,000,000 sporet, for the formulas were now is now invested in it and half a deposited with the Swiss Govern- million people are employed in it. ment, but they could. not be A scenic railway may cost as published because it was not enfe much as £30,000, and well-carved to let them be manufactured by and well-painted roundabouts unauthorised persons, about £15,000. I expect there are

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and their total value would be Spablinger had spent his own Queues waiting on a recent hurried from the theatre. The disappeared. Neither the Vine- many millions of pounds. private fortune in pursuing his

at Comedy

for Vine-street street police nor the officers at

Tottenham Court-roa

A great amount of capital le research. He had refused offers 9.45 at the tommys ry play two made a dash for V invested in traction engines, and, of untold gold from Amerion, and were favoured with a thrill that Police Station, where the actor in the war, a thousand of these he had also staved off offers from

was unexpected and unrehearsed, doubtless using s.variation of the were handed over to the Govern France and Germany

begged the inspector to reles ment. There has been a great He felt conviced that the With a pair of handouffs on his familiar » Unhand me, villain wrists, and accompanied by the him. He had been testing a increase in the use of petrol Spablinger treatment, given a lorries and tractors, in recent fair chance, would stamp out tur manager, Mr. Franklin Bellamy, pair of American handcuffs,

berculosis in five years.

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