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Show COUNTESS CANNOT LAND IN AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO. May 1. A landing In the country has been denied "Countess Convalensky," the woman who, dressed In male attire, arrived recently with her husband on the Ventura. The Countess and her husband came here under the names of George and John Pepper. After their arrival she said that she was a daughter of the Duke of Buckingham Buck-ingham and a cousin of the Csar, and that she had been exiled from Russia because be-cause of her marriage to the Pseudo Pepper, Pep-per, who was much beneath her In social station. She also told of being suspected of a murder of which sne was innocent and of being exiled on that account. The stories led to an examination as to her sanity. The physicians who examined her pronounced her sane. The woman, who Is still on board the Ventura with her husband, will appeal her case to the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington. |