Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-27
ALORD lNTHE STEERAGE
Young Man With a Story De-
 tained at Ellis Island.
SAYS HIS PA IS A LANDED EARL

However, and as He Had No Money He Was Held as a Pauper and May Have to Go Back to His Father.
 NEW YORK, May 27-The immigration bureau on Ellis island, which is looked upon as a sort of clearing house for Old World romanccs and New World fables. was yesterday the shelter and the prison of q young man whose card bears this leg end inscribed beneath an earl's Coronet, "IIon. F. PVrcival, lIadley Hall, Penarth, Cardiff"
 The young man is about feet s inches fin height, smooth faced, with just the sus- picion of a mustache. According to his ao- count, he will attain his majority next January. and on the death of the Earl of Carmarthcn ho will read his title clear to many mansions in Wales.
 The young man, with his card case and two pieces of baggage, was a passenger on the steamship Paris He took a stoerage passnCo. and that is how he Camo to be landed on Ellis island. He is fairly we'll dressed. Ind during tho trip across he was not so rN,lusivc ns young British lords arc went to bo It therefore became known
 
 son of an ancient and honorable house was tween deck passenger, and much attention was his.
 Held the Young Lord.
 The Paris landed her passengers, and the young scion of the house of Carmar- then furnA,d in the tawdry procession which filed before the registry clerks. He gavo his namo as Frank Porcival of Wales. He was allowed to pass.
 Thon it came to the ears of tho inspect ors that Frank PerCivnl was in reality Lord Frank Guest Clark Porcival, and, moro to follow, tho eldest son of the Earl of Carmarthcn and rightful heir to many millions. IIe was looked up and escorted before the board of inspectors. There he was questioned. He said that his father full name is Bernard Staples Percival, and that his proGCnitOr Is Earl of all Car marthon. His mothers namc, hc said. was Elizabeth ClarkGuCst Sho had died several years ago He had four sisters. Recently his father had laid aside his pride of rank and birth and had married a servant girl. a plo! 'oian, who went by the namo of Ellen Wht eler
 The Hon F PcrclvaI' says he was al Clifton college then, and that when he re turned hunz and found out who his stop mother Was ho determined to run away from the parental roof and go to America,
 His father had made him an allowance of El3O year. lIo dr,w his quarterly sti pond, wrote |: mighty lettor of rcpruach tC his degenerate sire. packed mp somo of hi! belongings and made his way to South ampt0n.
 1 He had intended taking first clas: passage to this country hut upon arriva at Southampton he became fearful lost hi ] fnsl tr1, hi pY to Wales su he decided 10 cludr pursuit b! sailing in the steorage ut the Paris.
 He Changed His story. such is thr suhstanco of tho anidavi which hr made and signed. Sulsoluentl! he said he had had with him cunsidora blo sum of money when he embarked; but fearing that it would Le stolen during hi soJourn in tl.o storage of the Paris. h, gave his purse for safe keeping to one D | Verne n cabin P, ssengor. No such nam appeared on the saloon list ut the vessel When cluscly questioned about tho iden 1 tity of tho passenger. the Hon. Peroiva admitted that he had no existence, anC 1 then dCnied having ever said that he hat i given his pursc to any one.
 Continuing his autobiography, tn i young man said he had been a member O tho Clifton college cricket team and ha ! hJlalueu some ulSllntllun uS Il lOOtDhl player. His father had GreAt wealth, h added, consisting chiefly in vast coal an iron mines near the towns of Meath | Dowliss, Britton Ferry and swansea.
 The young man did not explain why, ho was the eldest son of an elrl he shoul adopt the title of honorable and inscrib it on his card instead of tho rightful RT pellation of lord This, with tho few oth CT irregularities in his statement and generally contradictory appearance, lod tn commissioner of immi grafton to restrai him from tho freedom of tho city unti the United states consul at Cardiff. t whom cable dispatch has beon sent, ca be heard from.
 An examination of the list of Britis mobility shows that tho only CarmHrthc is Gcurgc Godolphin, tho present Marqui of Carmarthen. He is tho son of tho Duk Of Leeds and was born in lS62 and wa not married until l>Si. As the youn ntan claims to he nearly 2l years old, it quite Cluar that he cannot bo the son ( the marquis. Tho marquis residence De We're kensinEtOn, and not in Cardiff
 Tho general impression is that the iur r. porC.val belongs tu a much luwUr sOCiI stratum than that which ho laws claim t