The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-07-20

ST. Louis, Mo-, July 20.-Unless Gov
ernor Folk should decide to commute
his sentence at the last moment,
Lord Frederick Augustus Seymour
Darlington, convicted of the murder
of Jas. P. Mccain, will be hanged by
the neck until dead in the Jail yard at
Clayton, ST. Louis county, next Thurs
day. Many times before death has
pointed its grisly finger at the Eng
lish adventurer, only to pass him by
when the fatal moment was near at
hand. Now it appears that the laws
delay is at an end Still declaring his
innocence and confidence in ultimate
acquital, harrington has yet begun
preparations to meet the worst.
Lord Darlington came to st. Lou
is while the exhibition was being built
and announced himself as a represen-
tative of King Edward and the Brit
ish government. He was received
with great ceremony and wined and
6ined by the officials of the fair and
the social leaders of the city. One of
the most polished and apparently re-
fined u1hung rogues, harrington WOO
ed and won Miss Grace Wilhelmina
Cochrane, the daughter OF a well-to
do Kansas City packer. The roseate
pictures he drew of life in Brighton
castle enraptured the unsuspecting
young woman AID tIc result was a
hasty marriage. Barrington's actions
soon aroused the suspicion of a broth
er of the bride and Investigations
were instituted that soon resulted in
laying bare the record of the bogus
nobleman.
Kicked into the treet by the irate
brother, harrington was arrested as
a pauper and a distnrber of the public
peace and sentenced to six months in
the worknouse. In a single day he fell
from his proud estate as a lordly rep
rese1tative of the British king to a
common "hobo" and brawler.
In his bitterest hour, however, he
was not without friends who admir-
ed his nerve" and considered the
manner in which he mad imposed upon
social elect of the city as a hilarious
joke. One of these was the proprietor
of ST. Louis saloon, who paid Bar
rington's fine and installed him be-
hind the bar of his refreshment dis
pensary. 1t was at this time, while
adding drink mixing to his list of ac-
complisnments, that Darlington met
Jas. P. Mccain, a millionaire turf
man known among the sporting fra
ternity from one end of the country to
| the other. Mccain introduced him
self to the Lord by handing him $50
bill. With this as a basis, the pair
became fast friends and Mccain in
| stalled harrington as mis- private sec
retary. One night the two went
forth on a hunting trip in st. Louis
county. That was on June 13, 1903.
Darlington came back alone and tried
| to take McCann's place in the dead
mans home. Suspicion pointed to-
| ward the bogus lord as the slayer of
| his benefactor He was tried while
the evidence was wholly circumstan-
| tial, it did not require long for the ju-
| Ty " arrive dL d NGIulCL VI Su1ILy vi
murder in the first degree. Since that
| time Darlington, aided. by influential
friends and P-ominent attorneys, has
| made a fight for life that has extend
ed vaialy to the supreme tribunal of
the United States Now only Cover
nor clemency-and it is not thought
he will exercise it-stand between
harrington and the gallows FIVE days
hence.
yes, the time is near at hand, -
said Darlington in his little cell at
the Clayton, Jail, .but l am confident
that 1 will yet be acquitted of this
crime of which l am absolutely guilt
| less before God and man.. If l should
die on the gallows it viii be because
of powerful enemies who nave sought
my ruin and who have bounded and
prosecuted me for many years If |
must, will meet death bravely. /. have
already suffered too much to fear the
grim destroyer. The things l have
been called upon to bear are too har-
rowing to describe They are known
only to me and my God-the God of
i my faith and the star of my eternal
nope who through all these years OF
Intense grief and suffering has won