Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-07-02
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
"Lieut.-Col." F. Seymour Barring
ton, the Bogus English Lord, in
Bad Predicament.
CHARGED WITH KlLLIHs JOHNP. M'cANE.
The Body of the Man Who Had Befriended
Bonfils. st. Louis County. Mo.-The FIN
ger Points to Darlington as the MUIR
derer.

| from his home in st. Louis, mas Deeh
found in quarry on the St. Charles
electric road near a little station
called Bonfils. Lord" +. Seymour
harrington is under arrest as sus-
pect He has made conflicting state
ments, and Sunday, when police start
| ed with him to the scene of the crime,
he said:
you might as well take me out and
| hang me now. You have enough
against me already to justify you IN
doing whatever you like with me.
Barrington's words were equivalent
| to admitting that the circumstant1al
evidence was a strong as it could be.
4 harrington Charged With Murder.
In warrant issued by Justice Isaac
w. Campbell, of De Hodiamont, +.
Seymour Darlington is charged with
the murder of Mccain. The warrant
was issued late Sunday night. 1t was
| read to Darlington by Deputy Sheriff
Bellairs. Darlington made no COM
ment on the issuance of the warrant
He had anticipated it. Justice Camp
bell named July as the date for the
preliminary examination. Darlington
waived the hearing, however, end will
await the action of the st. Louis
county grand jury.
| Identification by Mrs. McCann.
"Thare's the sweetest man that ever
| lived" These were the words uttered
by Mrs. James p. McCann, Sunday
afternoon, as she looked upon the re-
mains of her husband as they lay un-
der the branches of tall elm tree
near the stone quarry into which they
were thrown after murder had been
committed As she spoke, Mrs. Nc
| Cam swooned. When she revived
she again looked at the body, and
said it was that of her husband.
The scene occurred at four o'clock.
Lord" F. Seymour Darlington, ac-
cused of the murder of McCann, was
a witness to it. There were hun
dred or more other persons present.
harrington was the coolest man n
| the crowd. He stood by the side Of
the corpse. Not muscle in his body
seemed to qufver. He neither paled
nor did he appear nervous
just previous to Mrs. McCann's
coming harrington had viewed the
body from every point of view. He
walked about it and leaned far down
over it. as if to detect resemblance to
his benefactor, McCann. At last he
told the officers that he was unable to
identify it as that of McCann. Later,
however, he admitted to Chief Des-
mond that he believed it was Nc
Cann's body.
Bullet wounds in Body.
Sundays developments revealed the
manner of McCann's death. 1t was
due to pistol shot wounds in the head.
| There were two. Both bullets were
recovered and the coroner and other
officials said they had been fired from
a 3S-caliber weapon. The weapon
found in Barrington's trunk at Union
station fired the same size cartridge.
The unused cartridges found by lit
tie Martha Lang near the scene OF
the crime were of the same caliber.
The coroner also found three knife
wounds on the head and neck. There
was a shallow cash four inches long
across the throat.
harrington Taken to Clayton.
Late Sunday night the st. Louis of
ficers gave Darlington into the Gus
tody of the sheriff of ST. Louis coun-
ty, and he was taken to the Jail at
Clayton. on a charge of murder. To
Chief f-of- Detectives Desmond, who had
| "sweated" him at the scene of his al
legged crime for two hours, Barring
ton had admitted almost everything
except that he killed McCann. He in
sisted that the crime was not his, but
he said he was willing to suffer for
it if necessary and did not fear the
future.
Barrfngton's Friend Arrested.
Asa E. Mitchell, representative of
the water of Life" Co., with offices
in the Mermod & Jaccard building,
was arrested at IL o'clock Sunday
night at No. 119 South Broadway
in connection with the McCann MUIR
der.
He admitted to Night Chief Gillas-
py that he was the man who wrote
the letter that was received at the
McCann home on June %, which Bar
rington had addressed to himself. He
also admitted that he was the man
who did the telephoning to Barring
| ton and Mrs. McCann in regard to Nc
Cann's supposed whereabouts.
He admitted that he knew at the
time that his acts were meant for the
deception of Mrs. McCann, but that
he did it purely out of friendship for
Darlington.
The arrest was made by Detectives
Woodling and Crimmins. Mitchell is
being held for further investigation.
Patrolman Bryan, of the Eighth
district, Sunday morning found a
railroad pass in front of No. 1895
Olive street. The pass was issued by
the Wabash to Chicago and made out
in favor of James P. McCann. 1t was
dated from June 6, and was good for
so days.
The Body Exhumed.
When the body of McCann was ex-
huned shortly after noon Sunday, a
half hundred persons were there to
watch the work. The grave had been
dug about two hundred feet from the
point where the body was found in
the quarry The remains were in an
ordinary pine box and were in bad
ly-decomposed condition.
Evidence Against harrington.
A motorman and conductor testify
that Darlington and McCann got off
their car on the st. Louis. st. Charles
& Western railway on the night that
McCann disappeared not 200 yards
away from where McCann's body was
found
The conductor and motorman
/ heard shots and mans agonized crT