The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-21
BOGUS LORD NOW
!. NEAR GALLONS
FOR coWARDLY MuRpER or iils
FRIEND AND PATRON FoyR
YEARS AGO.
LIFE OF HARRINGTON
One OF .ldleneas and Crime Fr-m
Childhood--OnIy Hope Pardon BY
Csvernor FoIls--Execu.ion
Mex. Friday.

st. Louis, Nc, July "a. Oncc sg IL
the bogus Lord Darlington. o. nyicte
of the cowardly murder of James p
McCann, Ms friend an Eatroa stsnd
face 0 face with the horrors OF tbs
Hack cap. Every twst and turg
known to the law having been eS
hang 81 in his behalf. his cnly pe
nov lies with Governor Folk Sh nd
the governor fail Ii. exercise his pow
fers Of clenency the convicted muir
derer will DC exeelliei In the county
iail at Clayton a suburb al ST. Lo II
next Friday.
| For nearly f0Wf years Barring on
has successfully fhngilt HE death sen
tence and II II Ehe cpini Of many
PEI sons that he may yet escapc pay
ing the fill peaalty FOR His crime
Strong efforts IRE being mnde to hays
Governor Folk commute the sentence
of death D ono Of life Imprisonment
Darlington Is sn English subject ana
The British consul In st Louis has
strongly interested himself in the
case, Bishop futile BIT the Episcopal
church II among Che many persons af
prominence and influence who have
the governor for clemency
Even II the governor does not grant
thesr petitions 1t Ii not impre liable
that he may decide upon d short re
nfiepe In order that he may have
more lnie In which to consider ths
Mite
Extraordinary Criminal Carer.
Rarrlngton's execution, II 1t takes
place, will bring to an ena an extra
ordinary criminal career, extending
fhr9agho England and half way
aer SIS he American continents. Bar
riaglon Ii about 4G years old. Hts
real name Ii Geotge Frederick BaTton
The records rh0n Ina he Eegan hfa
nnlase sanntnr through the eaiend II
1f crime when Tyearold boy BY st
ling fire to A number OF cottages near
Brighton, England, where he was |
aorn. At the age OF 1G he was given |
/ ten years sentence for burglary.
fonr years later he escaped. deceiv- /
ng the police when apprehended BY
forged pardon The newt
fear, in 1881, he was arrested for the
murder Of an army officer, whose
'alet he had been, but, although cir
n In s1f fufs, III tuh 4 a
ainty Of bis guilt no evidence could
20 secured against him and he wasl
elieased. Then he wandered In many
ands, always leaving behind him
lack trail of misdeeds. yet battling
uspicion by his semblanca OF goudl
'feeding. Women proved easy vic |
inns ct his charm and his romantic
ales and blgamy sal as easily upon
rs conscience as lying or stealing.
WEEDS American Girl,
IN 1889 he came td America for the
econd time, with a draft for $40. 900
nd rapidly acquired a reputation IN
lew York el~y for possessing all thu |
ashy virtues that Broadway esteems.
n 1890, when his money began 10
IN low, he selected the daugh er of !
wealthy widow in Brooklyn, Miss !
elestine e. Miller, AZ his prey; .
'ooed and won her, persuaded the girl !
nd her mother to seel their property
order that he might invest it In !
and then toak them across
10 Atlantic and deserted them. He g
AS recognized by the police on the Il
Their side and brought up on an ell q
large. After serving seven years In a
nglish prisons he returned to the .
nited States. He married Miss Mar.
iret Rafferty, daughter of a wealthy 9
lal dealer in Philadelphia. and aban.
sned her in Pittsburg one week at er
ard, having robbed her of $4,000.
hen he came to St. Louis. in 1902.
TO be an omissary Of the
ritfsh government to tho Louisiana
irchase Exposition He was accept
In many homes as a genuine Eng
81 nobleman, and captivatsd Miss
ilhelmina Grace Cochrane of Kan o
s cry. who was visiting here They
ere welded on Jan airy 81. 1893. but
ISIS Cochrane's bro her discovered
az Lord harrington was an i'm
'ster and administered public
'rse whipping His wife left him
rec days afterwsrd. and then be vas Il
mt to the workhouse f.r vaersncy D.
Id disorderly conduct. d'
kiiis His Friend and Patron. "a
When he was released from the y
'rkbousc James p. sMcCsnn. owner ID
race horses and man about town %
ok him no and Harrington began u
hourishing parasites existence. Ne. b'
mn drank heavily. hcbnobhe8 VITA y
fast set. and never worked. lie 9.
ed upon the residue Of a large for u
no which he had largely dissipaiei
d by gambling He trusted Bar
iEton implicitly and had arranged
hack him in . hotel ,nn.ura On -