The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-07-05
!. WAGES OF SIN.
Goes to the Gallows for Killing
a Friend.
A POLISHED RASCAL
One of the Most Picturesque Figures IN
Police Crookdom of the Century.
Probably the Most Remark.
able Criminal Record of
Modern Times.
A POLISHED RASCAL
Modern Times.


Modern Times.
After 8 life of crime beginning with
boyhood, lord Frederick Seymore
Darlington, society highwayman, re.
sourceful crook, bigamist, forger and
murderer, paid the psnslty of his last
crime on the scafold Friday at Coly.
ton, Mo.
The crime for which Darlington was
to die on the scafold was the murder
Of James P. McOann, a well known
sporting man of this CITY, on June 1S,
1908. McCann was shot, his body
robbed and his remains thrown into a
pond at Bonfils. By q peculiar GO.
Incidence the nude body Of tha muir
dersd man was discovered floating In
the pond just three years ago Thurs
day.
During the active years Of his Co..
reer Lord" Darlington was one OF
the most picturesque figures in "po.
lice" crookdom, for, although be was
of lowly origin, bis speciality Of pass
ing as a member Of the British peer
age, went we'll in several cities and
helped him to live Without work for
years.
He was the son of a hack driver in
Tunbridge Wells, Eagland, and his
real name is E. G.. Barton. He was
arrested for the first time at the age
of seven years, when be was caught
setting fire to the common. At IL he
was sentenced to five years in thetRed
Mill reformatory for embezzlement.
After serving three years he made bis
escape by means OF q rope, only tu be
arrested two years later and sentenced
for robbery. For this be served IN
Yorkshire prison.
About this time he decided 1t
would be to his advantage to give
himself q new surrounding by joining
the army, where he could observe the
ways of the officers who made up much
of the English society. This was IN
bis 22i years, but before his enlist
ment was year old he had forged
q furlough, fed from the army and
committed burglary for which he did
a ten years's stretch.
That completed his English record.
What crimes be succeeded IN commit
ting In the short intervals between
his prisons terms are not known, but
are believed to be many. he got into
some of the best households as q ser.
want; studied the members Of society;
he served as an artist, studies bis
I model, and In later years made good
use of his studies. He robbed q
clergyman three times and each time
by a sorrowing profession OF repent
ance and glib quotation succeeded IN
being forgiven. When he was finally
landed behind the bars for the ten
years term in England he settled
down to improving his education 30 he
could step out of prison a 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 ar
Engiishnobleman of wealth and rank
As such he won Miss Celestine Mil
ler, eff Booklyn, IN heiress with a for
tune in her own right. After marry
ing Miss Miller he had the effrentery
to return to his own land and estab'
Iished himself with bis wife In a home
at West Brighton. There he cold.
bloodedly told his wife the truth
about himself. Stripped OF every
penny by her husband, the unhappy
wife returned to this country With
her child, and Barton was arrested and
sent back to prison to serve out an old
sentence. AS soon az the sentence
was expired Barton returned to the
y liteu Stated having found here the
bsst field for his peculiar operations.
In 1902 Philadelphia society recelV'
ed with open arms Lord Burgoyne, u
OF the English peerage. y Hls lordshir
was none other than the exconVict,
but bstore that came to be known be
nad c)urtsd and welded Miss Mar.
gareJ Rafferty,, an heiress. He told
her be was heir to 500. 900 and bor-
70 we'd money from her. While they
sere on their honeymoon, Bur.
scyne" slipped from the train and
disappeared. She would believe moth
Ing against him until she went to
New Yerk and learned the truth from
bis first wife, with whom "Burgoyne'
was, 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 bis de
but In St. Louis society under the
alias of Lord Darlington. He met
and married Miss Wilheimina Grace
Cochran, of Independence, Iowa, who