Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-28

cOa:, carrying his cane, with McCann'S
watch money and papers in his pock-
cts, he turned at that midnight hour to
retrace his steps to st. Louis. The last
street car had gone, and. he started TO.
walk. Daylight overlook him before
the Journey was finished. Upon reach
ing the suburbs of the city he proceed
ed on car to the Mccain home. He
removed the clothing and gave it to a
porter to hang on fence in plain view
of the first detective who came along.
He invented remarkable story to
explain McCann's disappearance. He
told Mrs. Mccain that her husband
got into fight with two men at the
summer garden and drove away with
some women in carriage: He himself
had been knocked down defending Nc
Cam and lay in a gutter all night. So
plausibly did he tell the story that
Mrs. Mccain was deceived for several
days, and even so shrewd detective
as Chief William Desmond believed it
when harrington was arrested on sus-
picion of being responsible for the dis
appearance Of Mccain. On the strength
of his tale Darlington was released,
but was rearrested June q, when the
body of Mccain was discovered float
ing OF the surface Of the quarry pond.
he was tried in the Clayton circuit
court and sentenced to death. A stran-
ger from Arkansas sent him the money
to appeal his case to the supreme
court:
A mysterious murder of an army Off
Ger in India somewhat similar to that
of the Mccain murder has been at
tributed to harrington who is said to
have served short time in the Eng
lish army as a bodyguard to the cap
tain who was murdered. That murder
is said to have occurred in 1901, short
time before harrington made his reap
pearance in America.
A Remarkable Man.
It has now been nearly three years
sine, Darlington first appeared in St.
Louis. With the exception OF less than
three months of that time he has been
| in prison. In spite of the long years
that he has spent in the jails and peni-
! tentiaries of two continents he is in
! many respects a remarkable man. He
speaks his native language with fine
British accent. He has mastered Ger
man, French and one or two other
foreign languages. At his trial he sur
prised everybody in the courtroom by
taking a verbatim report OF the evil
| dence in shorthand. He mas spent the
spare time of his long years of confine-
men- in study. He has written thou
sands of pages of manuscript in the
Clayton jail, but he steadfastly refuses
to give hint of what he is doing. He
say; simply that he is writing a book
to be published after he is released
from prison. 1t may be a history OF
the sc years that he has spent behind
the bars as an atonement for his many
| crimes.
Lord" harrington under many con-
ditions--in the police courts answering
a misdemeanor charge; in four courts
hoidover dungeon; in irons on the
workhouse rock pile; as the manager
of & bafroom traf1icking upon the no.
toriety that his marriage and impris-
onment gained; under the CALLING
sweating" of Chief Desmond; in the
Clayton jail within the shadow of the
gallows, has always been the same &C
complished liar-admitting one liz
while: ;inventing another, and always
! denying that he was George Frederick
Barton, though the Bertilion picture:
~ -
care more for the appearance Of hi
] dress than for his liberty. Fol. an houl
I. he would refuse to be photographed
/. and then willingly consent to pose f9l
! picture for the price OF "a Shave. zzsS...