Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — MYSTERY OF DE RAYLAN [ARTICLE]

MYSTERY OF DE RAYLAN

Body at Phoenix, A. T., That of a Pea* feet Woman Chicago Wife Bays He Was a Man. Phoenix, A. T.. Dec. 21. —On order of the .district attorney Coroner J. M. Burnett has begun an Inquest on the body of the person supi>osed to be Nicolai de Raylan. An autopsy settled beyond question that death ensued from consumption, and that the corpse Is that of a perfect woman. No other testimony was taken before the Inquest adjourned for the day. Witnesses will appear who knew the dead person during the last two months and can testify that the same body lies at the undertaker’s. The inquest adjourned with the understanding that the wife in Chicago, If doubtful of De Raylan’s identity, will be asked to come to Phoenix. It is believed that whatever deception exists must have been undertaken before De Raylan left Colorado. Despatches from Chicago say that net only the real De Raylan’s wife, but his divorced wife and her present husband Insist that the De Raylan they knew was a man.