The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-02-04
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sumably forged to welI-known persons in
| New York and Brooklyn. He was we'll re-
| ceiVed and captivated not only Miss Miller,
| but her mother and sisters
he was married by the Reverend H. G.
| Mason His wife's mother and sisters ac-
companied her to England, where Barton
! robbed them also of all they had. Mrs
| Barton at the Fulton street address, Is
now maintaining herself and her daughter
by managing laundry business.
! In January, 1897, Barton was sentenced
| In the Lewes AssiZes to nine years penal
servitude. for burglary. After despoiling
his wife's family he had lived in a fine VII
| Ia, at Burgess Hill. Kent. but after spend
! ing his wife's fortune. he had resorted to
burglary among his neighbors
When sought and arrested he was in COM
pany of the daughter of a well-known Lon
uon clergyman. whom he had been court
\ ing. with the intention of marrying her.
She came back to her old Brooklyn home
| and tried to devote her life to her baby
| daughter, now girl Of II.
| Two years ago, Barton, released from
! prison. returned to America and hunted I'D
| his Brooklyn wife.
| THEN AS FARM HAND.
| He tried to persuade her to support him,
\ put she repudiated him utterly. and in his
extremity of fortune he engaged himself
es coachnan in the home Of Amos Dudley,
living In Park place, Brooklyn.
Barton left there under some kind Of a
cloud and he next appeared at Short Hills,
| N. j.. where he engaged himself as a farm
/ heTp
| home of wealthy aged woman, against
whom he afterward brought a suit for dam
| ages on the ground that one Of her dogs
had bitten him.
His next engagement was as a coachuan
| in the family Of a Jersey City man, living
near Bergen avenue and Virginia street,
While there he made the acquaintance Of
Thomas Baughan. harness maker. of
jackson avenue. with whom as coachman
he had professional dealings
Mrs. Baughan Is an English woman She
became interested. as did her husband, In
the talented linguist and traveller, whose
Ill luck had brought him to coachnan's
livery. He told them some of his true his
tory and much Of the apocryphal, but he
always omitted the periods which he had
passed as a prisoner.
For a time, after having lost his situation
as coaohman, Barton boarded with the
Baughan family. Then Chief Murphy
learned from the Scotland Yard authorities
that the man was famous English crook
and would bear watching
Chief Murphy put him under surveillance
and warned Mr.. Baughan of the English
mans true character. Barton learned that
he was watched and fed. His next employ
ment was with E. W. McChesney, a real
estate dealer, at his home. in Orange, N. J.
While at Mr.. McChesney's poultry farm
at Amtyville. L. l., Barton again got into
trouble with his employer and sought a
new field. His departure was said to have
been expedited by Chief Murphy having
traced him and notified the Orange police.
MARRIED AGAIN TO
A PHILADELPHIA GIRL.
For short time Barton was employed as
coachman by Louis H. Periman of No. 1883
Madison avenue. this city. the publisher Of
fashion magazine. He left there on No
vember "a. last saying he was going to be
married.
Just when or how he had found time for
courtship does not appear, but on pecen-
Der ]. 1902 he was married to e. Young
woman of Philadelphia in St. Stephens
Roman Catholic Church.
Chief of Police Murphy tonight could NOT
remember the name OF the BRIDE and the
records, including copy of the marriage
certificate, were not then accessible Mrs
Baughan, who does know the name refused
to reveal 1T on the ground that she had
pledged herself to shield the young woman
from publicity SO far as possible.
To his Philadelphia bride Barton had
talked Of an accumulated pension amount
ing to f4.OOo which he would be able to
between nd
believed he was all he said he was. He
showed her correspondence with Vernon NJ
Brown. agent of the Cunard Line. concern
ing their passage to England.
They planned a Western tour, and Bar
ton. who to the trusting. philanthropic girl,
was "Sir Frederick Sydenham Burgoyne,"
believed him when he told her that after
seeing the West they were to go to his old
English home and meet his aristocratic
mother. That he had ever been a coach
man or farmland never entered her fas-
cinated head. Her friends congratulated
her Lady Burgoyne.
STOLE THE TROUSSEAU
OF ABANDONED BRIDE.
They started on their wedding tour The
brides trousseau, which had cost her $500
was carried in several trunks. some of
them the property Of Barton. At Cincin-
natl, leaving her under some pretext, he
abandoned her. taking with him the trunks
containing the most valuable part of her
wardrobe.
Broken-hearted. the young bride returned
East without finding trace Of her re-
creant nobleman. But in one of the old
coats he had left behind she found in a
pocket a letter from the Baughans of Jer-
sey City.
She communicated with them. and they
then learned how she had been duped. Mrs
Baughan went to Philadelphia and called
upon SIR Percy Sanderson. British consul
General there.
From him she learned that "Burgoyne's"
pretensions were baseless, that he had no
standing in the army. had never been in the
Boer war and had nothing due him from
the pension office. Then followed the Scot
land Yard revelations.
Despairing, yet even then hardly con-
vinced. the abandoned bride came to New
York and. with Mrs. Baughan. went to
Brooklyn and called upon the wife, who had
been Celestine Elizabeth Miller.
Mrs. Baughan took her to the Jersey City
Police Headquarters, and the Young woman
told Chief Murphy her story. He tele- |
graphed the Cincinnati Chief of Police to !
look for Barton. but the fugitive was not |
traced, and nothing was heard of him until |
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Seymour |