The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-07-04
WAGES OF SIN.
Goes to the GaI.ows for Killing
a Friend,
k
A POLISHED RASCAL.
One OF the Most Picturesque Figures In
Police Crookdom of the Century.
Probably thesMost Remark.
able Crim;nsI Record Of
Mede7a Times.
A POLISHED RASCAL.
One OF the Most Picturesque Figures iu
Medea Times.

able Crinii1ai Record of
Medeaa Times.
After q lifs Of c1iste beginning with
ooyhood, -.aLsfotas. Frederick ssymore
Darlington, soeie5y 11ghwsyman, re
sonrceful crook, biganist, forger and
murderer, paid the penalty OF his last
crime on the caf I'D Friday at Coly.
ton, Mo.
The crime for shfch Darlington was
to die on the scaf I'D was the murder
OF James P. MsCann, a well known
sporting man Of this city, on June 18,
1908. Mccain Was shot, his body
robbed s2d hisn1emains thrown into a
a pond at Bonf1s. By a peculiar CO
incidence the nude body Of the muir
dered man vas discovered floating in
the pond just sss years ago Thurs
day.
During the astiVe years Of his Ca
reer Lord" harrington was cae OF
the most picturesque figures in ''po
lice" erookdom9 for, although he was
Of lowly origins his speciality Of pass
ing as a nemoes Of the British peer
age, went well in several cities and
helped him to.hve Without work for
years.
he was the son Of a,hack driver in
Tunbridge Wells. England, and bis
real mama is E. G. Barton. He was
arrested for tns first time at the age
Of seven years; when he was caught
setting fire to the common. At 12he
was sentenced to FIVE years In the Bed
Mill reformstory for enbezzlenent.
After seryingGhree years he made bis
escape by mssns Of rope, only tu be
arrested tgesyears later and sentenced
Tor robbery. s For this he served In
Yorkshire prison.
About TITS time be decided it
would be to- bis advantage to give
himself a new surrounding by joining
the army, where he could observe the
ways Of the olncers who made up much
of. the English society. This was in
his 22l yeaB, but before his enlist
msnt was a year old be he had forged
a furloughs 5sd from the army and
committed : burglary for which he did
a ten years,ssuretch.
That com;lated bis English record.
WhsEerinsssse succeeded In commit
aingg e tLsss ,ezorts .,ter7als between
mis- prisons terms are not known, but
are believed to bs many. BE got into
some OF the best households as q ser
want; studied the; e;members Of society;
ne served as az artist, studies his
model, and in later years made good
use Of bis stuiies. he robbed a
Clergyman three times and each time
oy sorrcwing profession OF repent
4nc, and glib quotation succeeded In
oeing f>rgiven. When he was finally
landed behind the bars for the ten
years' term in England he settled
down to improving his education 80 be
could step cut Of prison student. He
perfected himself In French, German
and the classics, and was a polished
fraud when he came to America In
1891. he posed here as the son OF an
Englishnch heman Of wealth and rank.
As such he won Miss Celestine Mil
;er, ct Booilyn, an heiress with for
tune in he1 own right. Afser marry
ing Miss Miller he had tha efffentery
to return ts his own land and estab-
:ished himelf with bis wife in a home
1T West Brighton. There he cold
olocdedly iold his wife the truth
about himself. Stripped Of every
penny by her husband, the unhappy
Rife returned to this country with
aer child, and Barton was arrested and
ent back to prison to serve out an old
sentence. as soon as the sentence
9as expired Barton returned to the
U lited Sisted having found here the
bsst field ior his peculiar operations.
In 1902 P Philadelphia society receiV.
ed WITH open arms Lord Burgoyne, :"
OF the English peerage. Ris lordship
;7as none other than the exconVict,
but before that came to be known he
.lad c ,ursed and welded Miss Mai
gareJ Rafferty,, an heiress. he told
her be was heir to $4,000 and bor-
rowed money from her. While they
we're on their honeymoon, Bur.
.scyne" slipped from the train and
disappeared. She would believe moth
ing agains5 him until she went to
New Yerk and learned the truth from
his first wife, with whom "Bargoyne''
vas, at the time, attempting to effect
reconciliation.
Receiving no notice from his first
wife, the ex-convict, who had been
wandering In the West, made his de.
out in ST. Louis society under the
alias Of Lord Darlington. l." he met
snd married Miss Wilhelmina Grace
Cochran, OF Independence, Iowa, who
vas visiting in St Louis at the time
BEFORE be c5uld enjoy the money he
nad obtained through this marriage,
. hard.headed brother OF Miss Coch.
ran had discovered his record and had
Darlington" thrown into prison.
Folio Ting his exposure Barring
ION" succeeded in winning the conf
dence OF McCann, wealthy horse
owner and hotel man. Ga the night
Of McCann's disappearance the tWC