The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-20
ROMANCE OF A LOST EARL.

Dr. Tompkins.
ROMANCE OF a LOST EARL.
Lord Drummond Turns Up as q Porter N
Few York Shipping 4onse.
Aspecial dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press from New York, May Goth, says:
AT the instance of a lady belonging
to q 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
Capel's son, Lord Drummond, heir to
the earldom of Perth and Melfort, and
q kinsman of Queen Victoria, who
eloped to America with his governess
twelve years ago, thus incnrring the re-
sentiment Of his noble relations. This
scion of an ancient house was found to.
day working as q porter in the Broad
way clothing house Of Earhart, Whit
ford g. Co.
| with collar loosened, came forward and
extended a big, brown, toll stained hand.
"You are Lord Drummond, I believer"
said the reporter.
II am, said he, a little surprised,
but in nowise disconnected. He was
fully six feet tall and splendidly built,
had q finely shaped head and full, reg
ular features, with closely cut light hair
and mllstache.
His story, rs gathered from himself
and other sources is as follows: George
Essex MontifeS, Lord Drummond, only
son of Malcomb, Viscount Faith and
the Lady Mary Capel, neice 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, whocon-
| fined his education to nursery COVER
ness, named Harriet Harrison. Pos
sessing the entire confidence of
her master and mistress, the
g%overness and her ward were
much together, without exciting suspi-
cion. When it was learned one morn
ing that they had mysteriously disap-
peared, the effect was startling. Mat
ters were not improved much when the
young couple returned later in the day,
and Lord Drummond shylT announced
that he was married to Harriet and
prayed his grandfather forgiveness and
blessing. The ancient earl stormed at
what he denounced as a 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
wife or to return to Scotland until he
returned as earl of Perth, and his wife
was received as betitted her new rank.
He assumed the plebiaa name Of
George Johnson, and went to work as a
shipping clerk in a wholesale flour
house in South street, where he re-
mained steadily for about two years un-
til his employers collapsed in 1878.
Except while Oh a voyage to the West
Indies in a schooner a ye,tr ago Lord
Drummond has been in the employ Of
Earhart, Whitford IS Co. ever since, adj
yancing a little, but still half shipping
clerk and half porter, audevineing much
more inclination for physical than men
tai exercise.
The peerage of which the young ship
ping clerk is next heir and dates the
discovery of America. The first Lord
Drummond 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 granddaughter Of King
James Ii. The fourth Lord Drum
mond, ambassadorfrom King james II,
to the Spanish court, was created Earl
of Perth. Burk ignores the marriage
of the present Lord rummond.
Allowing every benefit of doubt, She