THE HULL DAILY MAIL

Hull, Yorkshire, England

24 November 1909

(page 5)

'INVENTED A RELIGION.'

In the court of Session this afternoon Lord Salvesen granted a divorce, with the custody of the child [Lola Zaza] and £52 a year aliment for the latter, to Rose Edith Kelly, or Crowley, from Alister MacGregor Crowley, of Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness-shire, and residing in London. The suit was undefended. Plaintiff said in 1892, when she was a widow, she met defendant who called himself Count Skellet. Later he called himself Macgregor to identify himself with Scotland, where he had bought an estate.

After marriage he called himself Lord Boleskine, saying people in Scotland called themselves after their estates. In July last she left him and by accidentally opening a letter, she ascertained he was the father of a child borne by another woman. Plaintiff’s brother [Gerald Kelly] said the defendant was very proud of having, as he thought, Scottish blood in his veins. He invented a new kind of religion. He was a cabalist and studied ancient manuscripts. Defendant got some mark [article ends at this point]