A Paterson, New Jersey newspaper reports that Samuel Valskabomann, described as a 38-year-old 'negro Jew' and 'Educated Ethiopian' born near Cairo at a place called Mockombar, is held in cell 26 of the county jail on a 30-day sentence for soliciting alms and loans from Hebrew merchants in Passaic. He is reported to be a genuine Freemason and Odd Fellow, and Arthur W. Bishop and W. E. Moorcroft (agent of the S.P.C.C.) are working for his release; Judge Dalrymple declined to release him. He says he came to compile Hebrew writings for the feast of Purim. Collected by CWB among reports of black Egyptian/Ethiopian/Falasha Jewish travellers connected to Neville's account of Abdullah as an Ethiopian Jew. A second report (Paterson Dispatch, 'A Remarkable Negro') gives a different frame for the same jailing: assaulted and robbed in the Dundee section of Passaic on March 2 and sentenced by Justice Bateman for 'aiding and abetting a street row'; says he was born at Mockombar, 144 miles north of Cairo, and had arrived in the US three weeks earlier to write for the feast of Purim. A second contemporary account (node 4091, Paterson N.J. Dispatch, 'A Remarkable Negro') gives a specific incident date — 'assaulted and robbed in the Dundee section of Pasaic on March 2' — and says Justice Bateman jailed him for a month for 'aiding and abetting a street row', slightly differing from node 4082's account of the charge as soliciting alms and imposing on Hebrew merchants for loans; both agree on the man's name, age (38), Egyptian/Ethiopian origin at 'Mockombar' 144 miles north of Cairo, and his arrival three weeks earlier to write for the feast of Purim. This article adds that he speaks seven languages and that the Egyptian consul would be contacted on his behalf. A near-identical syndicated reprint (node 4096, Shepherdstown Register, headline 'An Ethiopian Hebrew') repeats the Paterson Dispatch story almost word for word, but gives the incident date as 'March 3' rather than 'March 2' — a small discrepancy between wire copies, not resolved here. Second, independently scraped copy of the Shepherdstown Register clipping (node 4098, image 'releasenegro1905-scaled.jpeg') reproduces node 4096's text verbatim, including 'March 3'. A further syndicated reprint (node 4122, Alexandria Gazette) confirms the 'March 3' variant of the story and carries its own masthead date of 14 March 1906 - one year after the incident, recorded at doubtful confidence pending a re-read of the scan. A further independently scraped copy (node 4127) confirms the wording; no additional dating information. A third framing, from the Shepherdstown Register (node:4298, media:1770), headed 'An Ethiopian Hebrew'. It explains what drew attention to the case: an investigation into why 'many patriarchal Hebrews' had called at the Passaic county jail in the preceding week brought to light that the jail held 'a strange prisoner'. It gives the assault as 3 March, in the Dundee section of Passaic, with Justice Bateman sentencing him to a month for aiding and abetting a street row. Its description of the man is the fullest in the collection: thirty-eight years old, of magnificent physique, born at Mockomber, 144 miles north of Cairo, Egypt, of Ethiopian parents — 'a full-blooded Ethiopian by birth, a Hebrew in religion, a high degree Mason, a German student, and a poet and scholar' — speaking seven languages, and in the country three weeks to write sketches for the coming feast of Purim. The Egyptian consul was to be communicated with and his plight made known. It also records a test of him. 'As an indication of the man's sincerity, he took a reporter's pad and, writing rapidly from right to left, soon filled a page with neat Hebrew characters. When this writing was shown to a well-known Jew later, it was pronounced the work of a scholar. When told that the man was a colored man, the speaker refused to credit it.' Note on the name: this single article spells it both 'Valskabomann' and 'Valekabomann', twice each, so spelling differences between papers carry no weight as evidence about whether these reports concern one man or several.