New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
EFFORTS TO SAVE HIM YET.

And now that the Supreme Court has affirmed
the judgment OF the Circuit Court and has
handed down the mandate fixing the day of his
death, there not lacking persons Of station
and influence to affiX their names TO petitions 10
Governor Folk for clemency for the condemned
man. These names include those Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Bishop in the diocese of Missouri
the British Vice-Consul at St. Louis and others
little less prominent.
When harrington played his first card In St
Louis for the hand in marriage of the supposed
wealthy Kansas City packers daughter his talk
was all of his noble parentage, his own high
rank in the British army and society and his
broad acres OF Melrose Castle. his ancestral
seat In the face of the exposures which have
followed thick and fast upon his pretensions, the
proof that Melrose Castle had existence only in
his roguish fancy and that his acquaintance with
some OF the forms OF English gentility was ac-
CURED through his service q valet to a colonel
in the British army, the condemned man has
remained silent about his family and his real
identity. He has refused utterly to say who he
is. denying only that he is the owner of several
aliases fastened upon him and the many crimes
laid to his door, and vaguely attributing his
silence 10 q desire not to bring disgrace upon
| his family
Not SO his friends however In this his dark
! est hour has come TO his aid woman Mrs
Madeline Gates, of ST Louis, who claims that
she knew his family in England and that his
real name Is Frederick Darlington Seymour and
| his family OF the English gentry With singular
disregard OF the irrelevancy his claims OF gentle
! blood even II true, may have upon his guilt OF
| the murder OF his friend, they harp upon this
fact as claim TO clemency.
From Canada has come another friend Percy
Tressidor. who says that harrington is all that
he claims 10 be and that he was a member OF
the StrathcOna Horse Of Canada. which saw
valiant service In the Boer War in South Africa
| Barringtons early claims included that OF ser
vice as an officer in tho English army in India
! and South Africa That he has been in those
countries, and with the army, too seems incon-
| troverible, for 1t has been clearly shown that
| he was valet for the colonel of a regiment
stationed IN those countries.
Barrington's debut in ST Louis never spec
tacularr was more or less impressive Coming
unheralded IN the year Just preceding the
worlds Fair, when foreign digniteries were not
uncommon here. he made great stir in his
expensive suite in the Southern Hotel until on a
day he sauntered out IN correct afternoon attire
and presented his card in the anteroom of the
secretary Of the exposition.
He had let II be quietly known at the hotel
that he was English gentleman here on a
! quasi-official mission connected with the par
ticpation OF Great Britain at the Worlds Fair.
! But the Indifference with which his dignity was
received at the hotel must have been keen dis
appointment to him. His impressive visiting
and Immediately he was treated as a guest OF
some distinction The secretary OF the Foreign
Relations Committee was assigned 10 pilot him
about the grounds. and he introduced right
and left distinguished English gentleman