The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-02

! coat, 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 reachf
Ing the suburbs of the city he %proceeds
ed on a car to the Mccain home. He
removed the clothing and gave it to a
porter to hang on a fence in plain view
| of the first detective who came along.
Ha invented a remarkable story to
| explain McCann's disappearance. He
told Mrs. Mccain that her husband
got into a fight with two men at the
summer garden and drove away with
some women in a 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 a detective
as Chief William Desmond believed it
when harrington was arrested on sus-
picion of being responsible for the dis
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of his tale Darlington was releaseds
but was rearrested June q, when the.
body of Mccain was discovered float
ing on 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 Darlington who is said to
have served a short time in the Eng
fish army as a bodyguard to the cap
tain who was murdered. That murder
is said to have occurred in 1901, a short
time before harrington made his reap
pearance in America.
A Remarkable Man.
It has now been nearly three years
since 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-
ten.iaries of two continents he is in
many respects a remarkable man. He
speaks his native language with a fine
British accent. He has mastered Ger
man, French and n 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 has spent the
spare time of his long years OF conf1ne-
men- in study. He has written thou
sands of pages of manuscript in the
Clayton Jail, but he ,steadfastly refuses
to give a hint of what he is doing. He
says 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 m~isdemeanor charge: in a four courts
hoIdover dungeon; in IRONS on the
workhouse rock pile; as the manager
Of a barroom traficking upon the no
toriety that his marriage and impris-
on1nent 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 lie
willis inventing another, and always
denying that he was George Frederick
Barton, though the Bertilion pictures
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