Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-20
BOGUS LORD
NEAR CALLOWS
End of Criminal Career
That Reads Like Story
of Romance

p. Mccain, his friend and patron,
stands face to face with the horrors
OF the black cap. Every twist and
turn known to the law having been
exhausted in his behalf, his only hope
now lies with Gov. Folk. Should the
governor fail to exercise his powers
OF clemency, the convicted murderer
VIII be executed at the county Jail at
Clayton, suburb of st. Louis, next
Friday.
For nearly four years harrington
has successfully fought the death SEN
tence, and 1t is the opinion st many
persons that he may yet escape paying
the full penalty for his crime. Strong
emorts are being made to have Gov.
Folk commute the sentence of death to
one of life Imprisonment. harrington
Is an English subject and the British
consul at st. Louis has strongly in
terested himself In the case. Bishop
futile of the Episcopal church IL
among the many persons Of promi-
memo and influence who have petition
cd the governor for clemency. Even IL
the governor goes not grant these pc
titions, 1t is not improbable that he
may decide upon a short reprieve in
order that he may have more time in
which to consider the matter.
Barrington's execution, II 1t takes
place, will bring to an end an extra
ordinary criminal career, extending
throughout England and halfway
across the American continent. Bar
rington Is about 46 years old. His real
name is George Frederick Barton. The
records show that he began his UNIQUE
saunter through the calendar Of
crime when a 7-year- old boy by set
ting fire to a number of cottages near
Brighton. Eng. where he was born. At
the age of 16 he was given a 10-year
sentence for burglary. Four years
later he escaped, deceiving the police
when apprehended by producing a 4
forged pardon. The next year, in 1881,
he was arrested for the murder Of an
army officer, whose valet he had been,
but. although circumstances establish
cd a moral certainty of his guilt, no
evidence could be secured against him
and he was released. Then he wan
dered In many lands, always leaving
behind him a black trail of misdeeds,
yet battling suspicion by his sembiance
of good breeding. Women proved easy
victims to his charms and his roman
tic tales, and bigamy sat as easily upon
his conscience as lying or stealing.
WEEDS American Girl.
In 1889 he came to America for the
second time, with draft for $50, 900,
and rapidly acquired reputation in
New York city for possessing all the
nasty virtues that Broadway esteefis.
In 1890, when his money began to run
low, he selected the daughter of
wealthy widow in Brooklyn, Miss Csr
lestine E. Briller as his prey, wooed
and won her, persuaded the girl and
her mother to sell their property in
order that he might invest it in Eng
land, and then took them across the
Atlantic and deserted them. He was
recognized by the police on the other
side and brought up on an old charge.
After serving seven years in English
prisons, he returned to the United
States. He married Miss Margaret
Rafferty,, daughter of a wealthy coal
dealer in Philadelphia, and abandon
ed her in Pittsburg one week after
ward, having robbed her of $4,000.
Then he came to st. Louis, in 1902,
pretending to be an emissary of the
! British government to the Louisiana
| Purchase exposition. He was accept
ed in many homes as genuine Eng
lish nobleman, and captivated Miss
Wilhelmina Grace Cochrane of Kansas
City, who was visiting here. They
| were welded on Jan. 81. 1908, but Miss
Cochrane's brother discovered that
Lord" harrington was an imposter,
and administered public horsewhip-
ping. His wife left him three days
afterward, and then he was sent to the
workhouse for vagrancy and disorder
ly conduct
When he was released from the
workhouse James P. McCann, owner
of race horses and man about town,
took him up and harrington began a
flourishing parasites existence. Nc
Gam drank heavily, hobnobbed with
Q fast set, and never worked. He lived
upon the residue of large fortune
which he had largely dissipated, and
by gambling. He trusted Darlington
implicitly and had arranged to bach
him in hotel venture. on the night
of June Is, 1903. the protege entice6
his patron, who was in the habit OF
carrying large sums of money upon
his person, to Bonfils. a suburb, q
miles out of the city. In this lonely
place, in the Missouri river bottom
lands, harrington murdered his pro-
tector. One week later the nude body
of McGann was found floating in {
pool in an abandoned quarry neal
Creve Occur lake. harrington was a.
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