Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-21
BOGUS LORD WEARS
 END IF SALONS Unless Governor Folk In terferes "Lord" Barring ton Will Hang Next Thursday at Clayton, Mo. KILLED J. P. M'CANN Story of the Famous Case-Maintains His InnOeence-Married American WOmen-Clever in His Work anu Won Friends With Ease.
KILLED J. P. M'CANN

St. Louis, Mo, July 20.-Uniess Governor Folk should decide to commute his sentence at the last moment, Lord" Frederick Angus tus Seymour Harrington, convicted of the murder of James P. McCann, will be hanged by the neck until he is dead in the jail yard at Clayton, St. Louis county, next Thursday. Many times before death has point ed it's grisly finger at the English adventurer, only to pass by him 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 ul- tymate acquittal, BhrSnaton hayd yet began preparation to meet the worst.
 Lord Harrington came to St. Louis while the exposition was be- ing built and announced himself as a representative of King Edward and the British government. He was received with great ceremony and wined and dined by the of ficials of the fair and the social leaders of the city. One of the most polished and apparently re- fined of unhung r0gues, Harrington wooed and won Miss Grace Wiihel- nina Cochrane, the daughter of wel-to-do Kansas City packer The roseate pictures he drew of life in Brighton castle enraptured the nn- suspeeting young woman and the result was a hasty marriage. Bar rington's actions soon aroused the suspicious of a brother of the bride and investigations were instituted that resulted in laying bare the re- cord of the bogus nobleman.
 Kicked into the street by the irate brother Burlington was arrest ed as a pauper and disturber ol public peace and sentenced to six months in the worilhouse. In sin gle day he fell from his proud es- tate as a lordly representative ot the British government to common hobo" and braWler.
 In his bitterest hour, however he was not without friends who adj hired his nerve and considered the manner in which he had imposed ,lpOn the social elect of the city as hilarious joke. One of these was inc nronrietor of a St. Louis saloon, who paid Harrington s fine and in- stalled him behind the bar of his re- frehsment dispensary. It was at this time, while adding drink mix ing to his list of accomplishments, that Darlington met James ?. Me Cam, a millionaire turfman known among the sporting fraternity from one end of the country 10 the other McCann introduced himself to the lord by handing nm $50 bill. With this as basis, the pair became fast friends and Me cam installed Harrington as ms nriyate secretary. One night the two went forth on a hunting trip in St. Louis county. That was on June l3, 1903 Harrington came back alone and tried to take McCanns place place ID the dead man home. Suspicion pointed toward the bogus lord" as the slayer of his benefac- tor. He was tried, and while the evidence was wholly circumstantial it did not require long for the jury 10 arrive at the verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Since that time Harrington aided by ln- tiuential friends and prominent at +ornevs has made a fight for life that has extended vainly to the SUI preme tribunal of the United States Now only Governor Folks clemen' cy-and it is not thought that he will exercise it stand between Bar riington and the gallows five days hence.
 "Yes, the time is near at hand, said Harrington in his little eel at the Clayton jail but I am conf dent that I will yet be acquitted of this crime of which I am ahso lutely guiltless before God and man 7sr cbo,,75 dio on the gaIlows, il