Randolph and Albert Alexis

Randolph Alexis was an occultist of some notoriety who apparently died in a train derailment while travelling on the London - Liverpool express in 1897.

The train derailed northwest of London under strange circumstances, and the engine, tender, and the first two carriages were never recovered from the river in which they were presumed lost. The remaining carriages were totally wrecked. Over one hundred passengers were killed or lost. No cause for the disaster was ever shown. Strangely enough, the diving team found nothing to recover in the river.

Randolph's son, Albert Alexis, disappeared from his home in 1917, in a fashion similar to Henry Stanley: only a few drops of dried blood were found, and the smoke-filled room suggested to the police that the assassins had tried to burn the house in order to conceal their crime. However no body was ever found.

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