Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-10

and set up quarters In London 10
await their return.
After -four months he was recognix-
ed by the police and arrested upon an
old charge VI embezzlement. The two
women defended him clamorously, but
II last the police authorities took
them into Kent to view the ducal1
manor. Upon the site which Barton
had described with such a wealth Of
details they discovered an old man
and woman. who did not even OWL
the little cottage In which they dwell.
Heartbroken. the w0men returned to
Brooklyn. where they are now oper'
ating a steam laundry.
After serving eve years In Eng
lish prisons. lsarton returned 10 the
United States. He married Miss
Margaret Rafferty,. daughter Of y
wealthy coal dealer In Philadelphia,
and abandoned her In Pittsburg one
week afterward, having robbed he;
u 5000. Then he came to st. Louis,
in October, 1902. pretending TO be an
emissary sent by the British govern.
ment 10 the Louisiana Purchase e x
position. He was accepted In many
homes a. a genuine English noble
man, and captivated Miss Wilhelmina
Grace Cochrane Of Kansas City, wha
was visiting here. They were wed
ded on January 81. 1903. but Miss
Cochrnne's brother discovered that
Barton was an impostor next day
and administered him q public horse
whipping. His wife left him three
days afterward. and then he was sent
10 the workhouse for vagrancy an
djsorderiy conduct.
The crime which brought him tC
the end Of his rope was the murder
OF James p. McGann. owner Of race
horses and man about town, who
took him UP and befriended him aftel
his release from the workhouse. Oh
June IS, 1903, McGann was lmred x
a lonely spot near the Bonfils post
office. shot and killed, and his bod.
thrown into an abandoned quarry. A
the time the Missouri river had over
flowed It's banks and had ,almos
'Lreached the quarry. It Is supposed
,lthat the murderer thou~ht It woul,
be washed away by the flood.
The body was discovered, however
sta week later by some people working
In the vicinity. and harrington wa
arrested. It was shown that he ha'
gone 10 B0nfils with McGann tina
: night; that he had left the car wit
him al the station. walked In the d
rection Of the quarry, and that fv
minutes later two revolver shot
We're heard by the street car crew.
!. Darlington admitted having gon
! to the place with Mccain. but d.
clared that while walking along tn
/, road they were attacked by tw
strange men who evidently had
grudge against McGann. He said b
was struck from behind and left ur
conscious In the road. When b
awoke he was alone.
B~arrington's trial lasted two week
In Clayton. He was convicted Marc
s, 1904, and sentenced to he hanged
He appealed and the appeal wa
pending in the supreme court unit
January 81 last. when that tribnna
affirmed the Judgment Of the tria
court.
Miss Jennie Mathers or Lansing
Mich, interested herself nearly tw'
years ago In Barrington's behalf, an,
since has been furnishing him Wit
money to pay his laundry. barber
newspaper and sundry other m1ls
She also furnished his cell, whic'
resembles a small parior. Barring
ton always has dressed IN broadclot!
since entering the jail. He has been ;
troublesome prisoner to jaM auth
critics and tasted for more than atirt,
days before Christmas as y protes'
against the jail fare.