The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-18

ing to be from her husband, In all OF which
he promised to return as soon as he could
do so with safety. After waiting two
weeks Mrs. Mccain reported the case to the
police. harrington was arrested. but told
such a plausible story that he was released.
IL wasn't long, however, before q motor
d on one OF the suburban trolleys re-
membered that the horseman and a man
hpnhls. ? village hftesn miles out Of st.
Louis. on the night that MoCann disap-
peared. The nnotormnn thought that he
had heard a shot a little later. Others were
found who remembered having seen a
man that looked like Darlington on the way
in TO 1T. Louis on the next morning.
harrington was rearrested. and In his
trunk were found the missing mans watch
and some of his jewelry. The police began
a search for the body, and then It was re-
called that the body Of a a had been
found In a pool in an old quarry near Bon
fills about two weeks earlier. The body had
been buried when nobody appeared to
Identify IL. The body was exhumed n
McCann's wife and his brothers declare
It was that Of the missing horseman. There
were two bullet Wounds In the head. and the
bullets were Of the same calibre as those in
B~arrington's revolver. The dead IN
shoes n some Of his underolothing were
found near the pool. but his clothes
viewed the body and declared that while
Il resembled hat Of McCann in some ways
II was not his.
Scotland Yard, when it heard OF Barring
toms arrest for the murder. sent a mar
oyer who identified him as the George
Frederick Neville Barton or Sir Frederick
Sydenham Burgoyne who had spent fifteen
or twenty years in English prisons. The
Scotland Yard detectives had thought they
recognized a familiar line in the bunooinR
active until after the arrest Of Darlington
on the murder charge.
Barton's criminal career. according to
the Scotland Yard men, began when he
was a mere child. His real name. they
said. VAST. q, Barton. inc he Is the son Of q
hack driver Of Tumbridee. England. Az the
age of no was arrested for ~inoendiar-
ism. Five years later he was hauled up
for stealing and. sentenced to five years in
jail. He broke Jail before the first year OF
his sentence had been served INT a year
later was again arrested while robbing q
house. In these younger years he worked
in the homes of the English nobility n In
that way became acquainted with the life
which he initiated in his later swindles.
AT IS years Of age he made his first big
stealing $4,000. For this he got ten
years. After serving four years he forged
the name OF the Home Secretary and OBJ
tanned his freedom. In the next nine years
he served time in France, Germany and
Spain. Apparently he managed TO squeeze
In n trip "a, India. for he was familiar with
life there and has been known to talk so
inteligently of fights there that English
officers who had been present on the field
have been misled into the belief that he was
speaking from actual experience. He
swindled a Tumbridge clergyman three
times. and that reverend gentleman still
believes that Barton is the repentant sinner
that he professed TO be.
When in Jail Barton studied languages,
learning 70 speak both German and French.
He made his first appearance in this country
In 1850. He a learned by that time that
women were easier victims Of his glib
tongue thnn men and be summed the
latter. He posed as Sir Frederick Syden-
ham ~Burgoyne, the son Of a wealthy Eng
lishman. He met Ce}estine Miller, a Brook
lyn girl who had a little money, and mar
ried her. He actually took her back to
England with him. She had expected to
take her position in English society, but she
hadn't been there long when she discovered
how she had been victimized. Barton was
arrested on an old charge and the girl and
her mother returned to this country prscti-
cally penniless. Mrs. Barton was working
in "A laundry in Brooklyn trying to support
her twelve-year-old daughter when she
beard Of B~arrington's marriage in st.
Louis.
In 1902 Lord Burgoyne" registered at a
good hottl in Philadelphia. After a brief
courtship he married Miss Margaret Raj
ferty. He borrowed some money from
his bride and finally sold her trousseau for
$500 and disappeared. leaving her in Gin
cinnati. He liz redited with one or two
other escapades before he struck st. Louis