Amazing Hoax by Man of Many Aliases How an ex-convict, wearing the uniform of an American officer, posed as a Secret Service Agent Jand lectured to a reading club on the Ku Klux Klan, of which he claimed to be a member, has just come to light.
He is Norman M'Leod Sinclair, awaiting deportation in Oxford Gaol for being in possession of drugs, and for other often Among his other aliases was that of the "Earl of Caithness," under which name he proposed marriage a kit! while crossing from Amer-
Sinclair, a keen smart-looking, well-built man, impressed everyone at Reading, where he arrived in March last," He wore several rows of ribbons, including the Legion of Honour and the Khedive's Star, He joined several clubs, and was extremely popular in, Caversham, where he took a house, During a lecture at one club he described how he used to lead the midnight raiders of the Klan, Then one day neighbours heard the sound of shooting in his garden. They told the'police and, following inquiries, Sinclair's bubble reputation burst. He was found to be an ex-convict, whose "first - conviction was in 1899.
He received a three-years sentence at Usk, Aberavon, and disappeared in 1905. Tt is now known that he went to Cuba and remained there until the beginning of this year. Two women claim that he "married" them.
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