Theos-Talk Archives (December 2004 Message tt00266)

The person, close to Blavatsky with a significant impact 
regarding Blavatsky's invented biography and non existent travels who 
spend time in jail for teft is Albert Rawson.
It was revealed that Rawson had been convicted of theft in New 
Jersey in 1851 and had spent the period from September 1851 through 
June 1852 in jail for the crime. Also the papers of Rawson's 
divorce for bigamy in 1864 wher published, which reveal, among other 
things Rawson's whereabouts in the remainder of the early 1850s, all 
of which call into question the presumptive dating of Rawson's 
travels with H.P.B. in Egypt in the same period.

This information is admitted and publishized by Rawson himself 
in "An Open Letter to Elizur Wright", in:
The Truth Seeker, November 22, 1879, pages 749 & 753

Wenn I asked Paul Johnson (who Daniel likes to quote so much now) 
reg. the above he answerred: 
"The implication might be that Rawson was participating in a fraud to 
support HPB's claims of travel and initiations, as of his letters on 
her behalf in 1877/78." 
Quoted from
http://theos-talk.com/archives/200111/tt00516.html