The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-24
A LORD OF MISRULE.
An English NObleman's Career of
Swindling.
THE PATTERSON CONSPIRACY CASE.
The Mother-in-La Yersion-The Husbands
Exploit is Not Credit-DevelOp-
ment of the Plot.

LOUISVILLE, Oct 23.-Search is being
made here for Lord Hinton, an English
nobleman who is accused of numerous acts
of swindling. The fugitive is a genuine
Lord and his title can be found in Burke's
A,peerage. AT the beginning of the recent
race meeting at Cincinnati he registered
at the Gibson house in that city as Sidney
r. Lesterange, of Chicago. He played the
races, backing horses heavily and betting
ON credit An acquaintance recognized
him as Lord Hinton, the notorious peer of
Great Britain who had recently served a
nine months term of Imprisonment in
England for swindling tradesmen, but was
persuaded to keep his secret.
The last day of the Latonia meeting there
was weeping and waiIing among horsemen
aud bOokers oyer the departure of the dis
tinguished Englishman who had swindled
them right and left, having backed horses
without paying his bets and having Dor
rowed money and got drafts cashed, his
Indebtedness amounting to about three
. thousand dollars. Not until then was his
: identity discovered 1t was found that he
arrived in this city on Sunday but as no
further trace of his presence could be dis
covered ii is supposed he went south Mon
day or yesterday.
An account of this nObleman's life is an
interesting story. The Earl of Poulett in
the year lS49, was a lieutenant in the
Twetvy second regiment, stationed at
Portsmouth, and one night, taking little
more drink than was good for him in the
mess, he made d bet of Fl, 900 that he
would marry the first woman he met. Upon
leaving the barracks the first woman he en-
COuntered was well known character
about the streets, known as Betty New
lInan, though Debrett's peerage gives
Tthe name as Miss Elizabeth Lavina New
man, daughter of James Newman, a pilot
D OF Ports "a. George POulett had not
{ then come into his title, and could not af-
ford to lose el,00O, so he married the lady
on June23 lS49, and the gentleman who
hOnOred Louisville with his presence Sun
day was born December Is of the same
year.
George POulett by nomeans experienced
those feelings that are supposed to animate
the paternal neart on the birth of d son and
heir, but on the contrary he separated
from his wife and refused to have any
thing whatever TO DO with either the
mother or boy. At the death of his uncle,
George Poulett became Earl Poulett and
this son of his wife porn in lawful wed
lock was legally Viscount Hinton, and
upon arriving at the age of understanding,
was not slow to take that title upon him
self. He was educated at Church House
college, Merton, Surrey, England. He was
by no means model boy, and for some
time lived the life of a tramp, afterwards
obtaining position as clerk at the Surrey
theatre under the name of Gosman.
In 1869 he married ballet dancer by the
name of Lydia Shippley, and they have one
son living, Hon. William George. For
some time afterward Hinton kept up the
business of clown, but in 1879 he enlisted
us private soldier in the Seventeen regi-
ment. and was in the course of few
mouths drafted out to India. Here he let
1t be known who he was, and had he be-
haved himself ne might easily have OBJ
tanned a commission, but after number of
very sharp deals with Calcutta merchants
he deserted, and upon being captured
served six months Imprisonment and was
dismissed from the service.
In 1888 he turned up in Port Said, Egypt,
and was locked up for attempting the life
90 a croupier in gambling house. He
managed to escape and obtain passage to
England, where he was soon engaged in
wholesale swindling, visiting jewelers., gun
smiths and others, and getting them to
send goods to various places and then dis
posing of them for what they would fetch
He was eventually brought to book for Sc
curing some guns from Birmingham gun
smith, and received a sentence of nine
months Imprisonment He was in Chicago
for two days in January, 1883, but being
recognized he departed and was afterwards
heard of as turning barrel organ in Lon
don. Later he returned to America.