Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-06-13
ROMANCE OF A LOST EARL,
Lord Drummoud Turns Up as a Porter l
New York Shipping House.

New York Shipping House.
Aspecial dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press from New York, May Goth, says:
AT the instance Of lady belonging
to wealthy and respected New York
family, an old friend of the Lady Capel
whose name is withheld at her request
the Press correspondent has been en-
gagged for some time past in an inves.
tigation as to the whereabouts of Lady
Capels son, Lord Drummond, heir to
the earldom Of Perth and Melfort, and
a kinsman of Queen Victoria, who
eloped to America with his governess
twelve years ago. thuafn curring the re-
sentiment of his noble relations. This
scion of an ancient house was found to-
day working as porter in the Broad
way clothing house of Earhart, Whit
ford & Go.
A young man, c|,atless, heated and
with collar loosened, came forward and
extended big, brown. toil-stained hand.
"You are Lord Drummond, / believe ?"
said the reporter.
II am, said he, little surprised,
but in nowise disconnected. He was
fully six feet tall and splendidly built,
had finely shaped head and full, reg
ular features, with closely cut light hair
and mustache.
His story, as gathered from himself
and other sources is as follows: George
Essex Montifex, Lord Drummond, only
son of Malcomb, Viscount Faith and
the Lady Mary Capel, Mice of the earl
OF Essex, was born September Sd. 1856.
At twelve years of age he was an orphan
in the care of his grandmother, the
countess Of Perth and Melford, who con-
| fined his education to nursery COVER
ness, named Harriet Harrison. Pos
sessing the entire confidence of
her master and mistress, the
governess and her ward were
much together, without exciting s1lspi-
cion. When it las learned one morn
ing that they had mysteriously d;sap-
peared, the effect was startling. Mat
ters were nos improved much when the
young couple returned later in the day,
and Lord Drummond shyly announced
that he was married to Harriet and
! prayed his grandfather S for iveness and
blessing. The ancient earl stormed at
[ what re denounced as q degradation of
the noble name, and angrily forbade
his young heir to ever enter his house
again.
The bride and groom took steerage
passage for America, and arrived at
Castle Garden almost penniless. The
| young lord vowed never to desert his
| BIS b., S'o>iI,~,J 1<>
returned as earl Of Perth, and his wife
| Was received as befttntl her new rank.
He assumed the plebian name OF
George Johnson, and went to work as a
shipping clerk in Il Wholesale -four
house in South streat, where he re-
manned steadily for about two years un-
til his employers collapsed in 1878.
| Except while on q voyage to the West
| Indies in a schooner 81 year ago Lord
Drummond has been in the employ OF
Earhart, Whitford & Co. ever since, ad-
vancing little, but still half shipping
clerk and half por5er, and evincing much
more inclination for physical than MEN
tai exercise.
The peerage Of which the young ship
! Ding clerk is next heir and dates the
discovery of America: The first Lord
Drunl1nond was a distinguished states
man and ambassador extraordinary to
England. His great grandfather. the
second Lord Drummond, who married
Margaret, daughter Of the Duke Of AL:
bany, and grand daughter OF King
| James II. The fourth Lord Drum
nlond. ambassador from King James II,
to the Spanish court, was created Earl
of Perth. Burk ignores the marriage
| of the present Lord Drummond.