The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-02-23

Early In January he wrote his name
the register Of the Southern hotel.
The next day there appeared in the
local newspapers the following adver-
tisement:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS English gem
gleman (3S), of high social rank. desires to
correspond with refined, educated, nom
mercenary. eligible lady with view to hon
orable marriage; no agents.
harrington lived at the hotel a few
days and then removed to a fashiona-
BILE boarding house conducted by Mrs.
r.. X. Elliott whose beautiful younger
sister, Miss Wilhelmina Grace Coch-
rane, of Kansas City. came to visit
soon after her English guest took lodg- !
ing in her house. In less than two
weeks harrington had completely won
the heart of the Kansas City girl, who,
he thought, was the daughter of a
wealthy pork packer. On January 16,
1903. the wedding ceremony was per-
formed by the pastor of one of the
most fashionable churches in st. Louis.
harrington told Miss Cochrane
amazing stories Of his wealth and
titles. He said he had millions in Eng
land and owned a magnificent castle of
600 rooms in Brighton. He told her
THAI after the wedding in st. Louis
they would go to Washington and be
remarked in the British embassy, and
then sail for England, where they
would be entertained with great pomp
and ceremony by his titled relatives.
One wing of the splendid castle, he told
her, had been reserved for their living
quarters, and only his mother and in
innate relatives would occupy the great
palace with them.
Lord and Lady harrington, as they
were known, went back to the hotel to
live. Their honeymoon was of just a
weeks duration. In that time, how
ever, Miss Cochrane had written home
glowing letters of her happiness, tell
ing her parents how proud they should
be that their daughter had married a
member of the nobility. Alas! for the
poor girl!
Sentenced to Workhouse.
James F. Cochrane, her brother,
came down from Kansas City to inves-
tigate the record of his royal relative,
who pretended to be in this country to
spy on the British consuls. 1t did not
take him long to discover that Lord
Frederick Seymour Darlington was a
rank impostor. Cochrane met his new
brother-in-law in Mrs. Elliott's home
and confronted him with the facts his
investigation had revealed. Darlington
was promptly kicked out of the house
and arrested. A charge of disturbing
the peace was lodged against him. He
was tried before an Irish police judge,
old score with the oppressors of his
country, and he sentenced the pretend
ed English lord to six months in the
city workhouse. harrington went to
the lock pile in shackles, where he was
compelled to associate with hundreds
| of petty criminals.
There was a public feeling that he
had been ~unjustly dealt with. While
he was severely condemned for passing
as an English lord for the purpose of
influencing Miss Cochrane to marry
him. there vas still enough sympathy
for him to obtain his pardon at the
hands of Mayor Rolla Wells. After
Darlington was released from the
workhouse he was employed for a few
weeks as manager of a Broadway sa-
loon. The proprietor of the saloon
soon found that he had made a mis-
take in trusting harrington and dis
charged him.
"Lord" Meets His Victim.
Just before his discharge, however,
Darlington came in contact with Nc
Cam, whom he murdered. Mccain
was q follower of the race track, and
at times had considerable money. He
walked into the saloon one day and
handed Darlington "a $50 note. After
harrington lost his position Mccain
took him into his W home and pro-
vided him with everything he needed.
Here in the home of another Irishman
the sham English lord had found a
refuge so soon after escaping from the
punishment a Celtic jurist had inflicted
upon him.
Not more than a month had elapsed
after Darlington became a member of
the Mccain household until he began
telling a story Of a pension that was
due 20 him from the British govern
ment. He placed the amount at 81, 800,
He told Mccain that he had some
English friends in st. Louis county
who would advonce him s 1000 on the
pension papers. Mccain rebuked him
for wanting to dispose of the pension
certificates at such a disadvantage
when he could get all the money by
waiting a few months. Mccain offered
ITO provide for him until such a time
as he could get his money, but Bar
rington insisted upon being %independ-
ent. He wanted some one to go with
him into the county to witness the
transfer of the papers. Day after day
for two weeks he begged McCann IN or