The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-01
BRILLIANT ROGUE.
,vu,euL AND SUCCESSFUL A
-u,eF AS EVER LIVED.

=, Thrilling Career Of George BARRING
A Pickpocket. High Rolling Adj
"' aud Australian Potentate-Two
well Known Lives
harrington, whose real name
uev - Waldron, was the son of n May
was silyersmith and mantua maker.
nooup low he 0uarreled with a fellow
Nheh - q Dublin grammar school, and
l ~ ~bipped. In revenge he stabbed his
V wa Mont and, If possible, would have
oPiesored him. For this affair he was
lnuiu '1 so furiously that he determined to
nossv go from school. So he stole Sl2
ruu sjivor watch from his pIeceptor and
anu ', ,,'d in the middle of q May night
0ls y Iproobeda he met u company of stroll
LAYERS and lodged at the inn where
w f zorro staying Their manager, John
l~p took fancy to Darlington and en-
frV' him as an actor. Indeed it was
o Who suggested the changing of
~ Woldron to George Darlington, be-
NJ n looked better on the bills
price brought him into tender connection
in n member of the company who called
..ssH Miss Egerton and, when he bad him
p0omored completely Of the young wom-
rronosed to him to share the manage
went of the troop.
'D, porrinqton complied and became joint
-arooer with Price. IL was not long be-
t.ro price found it expedient to insinuate
| - harrington that "a young man of his adj
80 ,nioht introduce himself easily into
knLnc nlaces. and that he might find op-
-gortunities of picking pockets unnoticed
and If escaping undetected, moro espe-
oiaIlv at that particular time when the
sir was being held. Prices scheme
rloosod harrington, and the next day he
carried it into execution with great sue
Cpss The acquisition amounted to about
sIOO in Irish currency. Ballyshannon
wos the next place visited. While in this
Mace harrington quarrelled with Price,
with the result that the two Adventures
parted company.
ACCOMPANIED by Miss Edgerton, the
vounp man left Ballyshannon and jour
npved southwark, until, in crossing the
River Boyne, she was drowned. After the
funeral he went to Limerick and in few
weeks more to Cork. There Darlington
dispersed They formulated scheme by
which Darlington was to pass for gentle
man of fortune, while Price was to play
servant The plot worked to charm.
They had credit enough to secure horses
and an outfit, and Barrington's plausible
address did the rest. Operating among
the best class of the extravagant gentry of
! the time, the two rogues became familiar
and popular figures in the first society of
Ireland and at the end of IRE had q capt.
tai of el,100. On this they settled in
Cork where Price was detected in an at
tempt to rob a young squire, arrested and
sentenced to seven years. transportation.
Darlington escaped to Dublin, where he
lived quietly for time. Then he obtained
passage as a guest in Sir Alexander
schomberg's yacht to England. Schom-
berg was very useful to him, and the ad-
venturer also found of great service the
friendship Of fellow passenger on the
yacht, the Duke of Leinster.
A more profitable acquaintance to Bar
rington, however, was young captain lii
lthe army For many months they lived a
1wild life In London. Then Darlington S
funds ran low, and he went to work
again. He picked pockets right and left,
even dipping unsupported into his friend s,
the Duke of Leinster. firing of London,
Darlington visited Brighton in the sum
mer of 1875, and there met the Duke of
Ancaster, who received him as gentle
Imam of fortune and noble family. This
opened up to him royal array of victims,
land brought him into contact with the
most fashionable circles. He spent the
day at court on the anniversary of the
Queens birth, when he not only contrived
to rob the nobility present, but to cut of
the diamond order of a nobleman. He got
1t away from the palace without suspicion.
las this was an article of too much value
10 be disposed of in England he sold it to
"a Dutch jew.
In l775 the Russian Prince Orloff paid
his first visit to England. The Empress
Catherine had expressed her appreciation
OF his merits by presenting to him a gold
Snuifbox set with brilliants. This trophy,
which was said to be worth $50, 900, was
liancied by harrington, and he determined
no get 1t. One night at Covent Garden
theater he took 1t from the pocket of the
prince, but was caught before he left the
Dox In which the nobleman was seated
aud Tor the first time was arrested. In
court he told such q pitiful and plausible
story that the Judge was deceived, and In
consequence the prince declined to prose
cute him. His release followed, but he
lelt the courtroom ruined man socially.
out by his former intimates, he sank rap
luiy and in year was virtually a common
lhief' Finally he was caught fairly and
was sentenced to seven years transporta
uon TO the Australian penal settlements.
Durlng the voyage to Port Jackson In
i.Sl he rendered great service on the con
Nlct ship by assisting in the quelling of q
nutiny. This reward was ticket of leave
as soon as the colony was reached. AS q
convict prisoner overseer he proved so hon
and jealous that he received govern
'CcOrrant of land on the Parametta riv
> stream where Trickett and Other
nstralian oarsmen made records years
aiter he was dead and forgotten. He re
aineu place as convict overseer until his
death in 1911.
MS ticket of leave expired, and he found
himself rich and free man, but he de
tnseu TO return to England. There ht
.au Deen common malefactor. In Aus
saiia he was a potentate in small way
~ ne remained potentate to the end. HI
=, - remembered today = cause Of two line.
In tne prologue which he wrote for the
|'pening OF the first theater In Australia:
True patriots we for no a. ,,pdorofrod