THE MEXICAN HERALD

Mexico City, Mexico

7 April 1901

(page 10)

OFFENDED CLIMBERS.

Think Their Achievements Have

Not Been Properly Treated.

The Chevalier O'Rourke [pseudonym of Aleister Crowley] and his friend Mr. Eckenstein [Oscar Eckenstein] are said to be taking legal advice in this city with a view to prosecuting the HERALD because of the alleged liberties which this paper has taken with the names of those persons. Mr. Roosevelt, of New York, who recently visited here, stated that the mountain climbers O'Rourke and Eckenstein were not members of any climbing society that he knew anything about, and the gentlemen are said to have taken exception to the remark. Mr. Eckenstein also asserts that he is no "aide" to O'Rourke, and O'Rourke thinks he never needed an aide. The chevalier has written a number of books, some of which are very good and others have never been reviewed. His name when he is an author is Aleister Crowley. He is a shadow of Swinburne.