The Washington times., 1906-02-04
BOOS LORD MUST
DIE ON GALLONS
Biamist, Betrayer of WOm-
q, Murderer, Convicted.
ElFE FOUND IN HIS CELL
Greer of Crime Unequaled Even by
Fiction Will at Last Be
Ended by Law.
ElFE FOUND IN HIS CELL

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.-'Lord' Barring
ION. whose career is one of the most
romantic in the annals OF crime. has
come TO the end of his tether This
pseudo nobleman. assuming the char
tacter and aristocratie uiannerisms OF an
English duke, has been finally and in
exorably condemned to death on the
gallows by the supreme court of the
State He will eXpiate the cowardlv
murder OF James 2. Mccain, his friend
and patron, March Is, For months
here i'm the Clayton jail he has protest
ed his innocence and affirming that the
revision OF his case by the supreme
court would establish his innocence and
prove his identity as Lieutenant Col
opei the Hon. Seymour harrington. OF
ma1esiy's Light Horse. heir 10 the
dukedom Of harrington, but when the
news OF the courts decree came 10 him
he bowed his face I'm his hands and
weptE-the murderer, betTuyer OF wO-
men. five times bigamist. forgeT. burg
lar. pickpoCket. and card sharp cried
like child. \ search Of his cell re-
vealed a rope four feet long. a two
bladed knife, and milestone.
A Criminal at Seven.
Lord" Darlington or George Barton.
10 can him by his real name. began his
career Of crime when seven year-old
boy by setting fire to a number Of cot
tagessRear Brighton, England where he
was born. At the age of sixteen he
was gFeeu a sentence of ten years i'm
Prisoumcnt for burglary. the proceeds
or which had Melted him G2.00O: and
four years later he escaped, deceiving
the police when apprehended by pro-
ducinS pardoai which wars not discov-
cred to bofa forgery until long after
ward.
The next year. in 1881. he was arrest
ed for the murder of an army officer.
whose valet he mad been. but although
circumstances established a moral cor-
tainty Of his guilt. no evidence could
be secured against him, and he was re-
leased. Then he roamed for a time
through other lands.
Occasionally his sins found him out
and prison gates closed upon him, but
he never failed to improve these per
iods or Incarceration with study which
rendered him more III for his cavalier
role after his term had expired Sir
Frederick Sydenham Burgoyne and
Earl Darlington OF Barton were two OF
the favorite MONS de guerre used by
this Zoe Of society Ia the earlier stages
Of his, career -.
Tbs crime for which Barton il con-
drmbed 10 suffer- capital punishment is
me most helnous OF all his oTenses. /
bul before his butchery Of Mccain in
Il suburb Of this city, June Is, 1903. he /
oroH$ht tragedy into TWO women's
lIFe5 by committing bigamies SO dash
ins that Johann HOch seems a duu
Ploddcr when compared with him.
Gets Wealthy Wife.
In 1879 he came to America for the
second time. with a draft for $4,000 4
and fashionable drawing rooms opaned 1
10 his knock In lSJl. when his rnone,- |
began TO run low, he married the daugh- /
Ter Of wealthy widow in BROOKLYN. !
Miss Celestine Z. Miller. persuaded the /
girl and her mother to sell their prop I
erty IN order that he might invest II in /
England, and then took his victims /
across the Atlantic TO Introduce them /
10 his ducal parents. Bur when they
reached London Barton discovered that /
his Titled relatives were travelling in 4
The Holy Land for their health, and set 1
up quarters In London TO await their
return. While here the police recognized !
Barton ana arrested him for enbezzle- /
ment.
Seven Years in Prisons. /
After serving seven years in English /
prisons, Barton returned to the United I
States lie married Miss Margaret /
Rafferty,, daughter of a wealthy coal /
dealer in Philadelphia. and abandoned /
her In PittsbuTg one week afterward
having robbed her of $4,000 Then he /
came 10 St. Louis, ia October. 1892, pre-
tending 70 be an emissary sent by the
British government 10 the louisiana
Purchase Exposition. lie was accepted
in many homes as a genuine English
nobleman. and captIyated Miss Willie
nina Grace Cochrane. of Kansas CITY.
who was visiting here. They were we'd
ded on January 81. 1903. but Miss Coch-
rane's brother discovered that Barton
was an impOster the next day. and /
administered a public hOTsewhipping /
Ills wife left him three days afterward.
and then he was sent To the workhouse /
for vagrancy and disorderiS conduct
Murdered His .Renefactor.
When he was released James P Nc |
Cam. owner Of race horses and man
about town. took him up. and Barton
began a fiourishing parasites existence.
Or June is the proteee enticed his pa
iron. who was in the habit OF carrying
large sums OF money on his person.
to Bonfils a suburb twenty miles out
OF the city. IN This lonely place. in the
Missouri river bottom lands, thick with
nnderbrush and overshadowed with
huge trees. Barton murdered his pro-
tector Barton protested innocence but
the circumstantisl evidence against him
was absolutely convincing
During his long Imprisonment ne has
written many thousand pages Of manu-
script for a book. the nature of which
he refuses 20 dtVulge.
CHARGES AGAINST RICHEY