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The Scheme to Hook Up a King With the Wasp Woman and Other Wild Plans

Khalid Elhassan August 31, 2020 34 min

Susan Cabot - Hussein of Jordan — Susan Cabot and King Hussein. Veja

17. Hiding From an Angry Tycoon

After jumping bail, the fake Lord Gordon-Gordon seemingly fell off the map, his whereabouts unknown. Jay Gould offered a $25,000 reward for the arrest of His Lordship, and eventually, learned that the conman was living in Manitoba, Canada. Gould tried to get him extradited to the US, but Gordon-Gordon convinced the Canadian authorities that the charges against him were false.

The Canadian authorities’ reluctance to extradite His Lordship was helped by his offer to buy large tracts of Manitoba – an investment that promised to bring great prosperity to Canada. Unfortunately for the Canadians, the offer was just one more scheme from the fake aristocrat’s ever-fertile mind.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.