The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-12-04
an EvENTFUL LIFE.
The Adventures of Harry Larkyns.

| Our readers will recolleet the account
published a few weeks ago of a San Fran
cisco photographer named Muybridge,
calling Harry Larkyns to the door from a
social party and shooting him dead, the
alleged offense being criminal intercourse
between Larkyns and Muybridge's wife.
The Chicago Tribune give the following as
an authentic account of soma of the inter-
esting events of Larkyn's past career. 1t
is a story of an adventurous life.-ED. N.
N.-W.)
Larkyns was man of infinite adventure
He was one of Charles Levers heroes in
real life. AS the younger son OF wealthy
Scotchman, he got deal of learning and a
little lucre. A few years of life on the
Continent added to the former and swept
away the latter. While he was living roy
ally on his principal, he seemed to have
amused himself with plotting dire destruc-
tion for the crowned heads of Europe. He
carried muslet under Garabaldi, and is
said to have belonged to Mazzini's secret
league. The spies of Europe knew him.
He grew accustomed to being escorted
across the frontiers by two policemen. He
was withal only an amateur conspirator.
PLOTS FASCINATED HIM.
He declared that he never meant to do any
King harm, and indeed his schemes always
failed. Perhaps he felt that he was to
reign himself. But we anticipate. When
Larkyns came home accomplished and pen
niless, from his wanderings, his relatives
bought him an army commission. He sail
ed for India to join his regiment. Arrived
there, he soon wcaried of the routine, sold
ont his service and started fer Central Asia.
There his fortune eliminated. He fell into
the good graces of a heathen potentate, adj
ministered his Government for him, and f.
nally freed him from all further care in the
matter by making himself Rajah. He sue
ceeded to the palace, the harem and the
treasury of the man he had expelled, and
led life of barbaric magnifeence.
AFTER SIX YEARS OF SOLITARY sPLENDoR
he wearied Of the cares Of State. He de-
camped at night. and betook himself and
q trunk of diamonds to London. His fami-
ly naturally killed the fstted calf in his.
honor, but he quarreled with them soon
and bade them goodbye forever This
made dependence on them impossible, when
soon after an unlucky speculation robbed
him Of the spoils of his Rajahship. His
beggary and the outbreak of the Franco
German war were coincident. He was soon
fighting, as Major Larkyns, on General
Bougbaki's staff. Bravery gave him the
cross of the Legion of Honor, and then, at
Metz, wound. He limped through the
campaign, which ended at Sedan, and was
captured with his pro tenn. monarch. He
fades out of view as q prisoner of war at
Sedan, and reappears at Salt Lake City in
the Winter of 1872. Thence he wandered
back to San Francisco, and into a Frisco
Jail. The failure of the man who had cash
ed his fictitious drafts to prosecute him set
him free.
THE Ex-KING BECAME a coAL-HEAvER.
As day-laborer, as stevedore, as clerk,
as a translator, as a critic and correspond
ent, he worked to gain money and regain
reputation. He was well employed at
Calistoga when the end came. A jealous
San Francisco husband hurried thither with
Larkyns' letters to his wife in his pocket
and his pistol in his hand. He called Lar
kyns to. the door, and the doomed man
came. There was a cry of "Throw up
your hands," an oath, flash and the dull
thud of a bullet, and the man of the world
went out of the world. The wages of his
sin was death. He might have done much,
but he prefer to ENJOY much; and this
was the ghastly end of an odd life. Among
the queerest of the queer crowd that will
rise from California soil when the last
trump sounds will be the late Larkyns.