The Portland daily press., 1889-10-24
THE IGNoBLE LIFE OF A NOBltMAN.
A British Peer VINO HAS Also Been
Clown and Organ Grinder,
And Always Maintained His Fame as
Titled Rascal.
Lord Hinton and His Performances
In American Betting Circles.

LOUISVILLE, October 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
Peerage." At the beginning Of the recent
race meeting at Cincinnati he registered at
the Gibson House in that city as Sidney t.
sEss.sss-sange of Chicago. He played the races,
backing horses heavily, and betting on cred
Il. An aeauaigta,. q eognized him as Lord
Hinton. notorious peer of@sssseat britain,
who had recently served a. pine noh.hs
term Of Imprisonment In England for sNsaSs.ua
ling tradesmen, but was persuaded to keep
the secret. The last day Of the Latonia
meeting there was weeping and waillng
among the horsemen and bookmakers over
the departure Of the distinguished English
man. who had swindled them right and left,
having backed horses without paying his
bets and having borrowed money and got
drafts cashed. bis Indebtedness amounting to
about $1,000.
Not until then was his identity discovered.
II was found that he arrived In this city on
Sunday. but as no further trace OF his pres
ence could be discovered 10 Is supposed he
went South yesterday or last night.
The account OF this n0bleman's life Is an
year 1849 was lieutenant In the Twenty
second Regiment, stationed at Portsmouth.
and one night, taking a little more drink
tnan was good for him at mess, he made
bet OF RiQ00 that he would marry the first
woman he met. Upon leaving the barracks
the first woman he encountered was q well
known character about the streets known as
Betty Newman, though Debrett's Peerage
gives the name Miss Elizabeth Layinia
Newman, danghter Of Mr.. James Newman. 9
not then come into the title) could not afford
to lose $1,000, so he married the lady on June
p, 1849, and the gentleman who hOnored
Louisville with his presence Sunday was
born December 10 Of the same year. George
Poulett by no means experienced those feel
ings that are supposed to animate the pa
ternal heart ON the birth of a son and heir.
but, on the contrary, he separated from his
wife and refused 10 have anything whatever
to do with either the mother or boy. At the
Earl Poulett, and this son Of his wife. born,
In lawful wedlock, was legally Viscount
Hinton, and upon arriving at the age Of un-
derstanding was not slow to take that title
upon himself.
He was educated at Church House Col
lege, Merton, Surrey. At Is he was by no
means model boy, and for a time lived the
life Of a tramp, afterwards obtaining posi-
tion as clown at the Surrey Theatre, under
the name Of Cosman. In 1869 he married a
ballet dancer by the name Of Lydia Thippy,
and they have one son living. the Hon.
William George. For some time Ford
Hinton kept up the business OF clown, but
In 1879 he enlisted as private soldier In the
Seventieth Regiment, and was In the course
Of few months drafted out to India. He
was finally dismissed after having deserted
and been, captured and imprisoned. He
was In Chicago for two days In January,
1888. but, being recognized, he departed. and
was afterward heard Of as turning barrel
organ In London. Later he returned TO
AmarIoQ