New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
: BOGUS LORD TO DIE.
Harrington; WM Soon Be Hanged
for Murder an St. Louis.

ST. Louis, July 20 Especially Unless the Gov
amor OF Missouri shall interfere. one Of the most
remarkable criminals Of the age Will go to his
death at the hands of the law some time be-
tween sunrise and noon Thursday. July %.
Ia the Clayton jail, st. Louis County.
Lord Frederick Seymour harrington. Of Mel
rose Castle Lieutenant Colonel of the Horse
Guarcs london. Southwest" his cards read
n the Iat.uy days OF his as yet undetected i'm
posture, n"s through his attorneys exhausted
the Inachl@.2, OF legal procedure to stay his
execution sand, unless escape. pardon or respite
shall intervene. must pay the penalty for Turing
"Jirn"t Mccain to his death.
! Almost from the cradle 10 the grave. Barring
ton, Seymour. Burgoyne. Barton whichever
one OF his twenty aliases his real name may be.
has led career of crime Thief. biganist,
adence man. murderer-in fact, any crime which
required maximum OF low cunning and a mini
mum Of courage-he has been the most versatile
and Tithal the most unsuccessful criminal OF
the age perhaps.
The crime for which Darlington viii probably
be hanged next Thursday was one of the most
revolving OF murders, moro contemplate than
any OF the numerous receptions he had thereto
fore practised upon silly and tuft-hunting Amer
2can girls.
James Mccain, a loud mouthed good natured
horsenan. with a great deal more of money than
common sense. had taken pity on the disgraced
t1Inglishman after his release from the work
house, whittier lie was sent after the story OF
his deception Of the Kansas City girl he had
married as titled Briton had become public
by the scene in which the girls brother igno-
Isainiously kicked him out OF his sisters house
The lord" at that time was employed as the
manager OF a saloon kept by Jack Gillespie
whose resort was a hangout for sports broken
I down pugihsts and rich young men OF fast ten
oencies. II was here that Mccain first met
him. BarrIngton's greedy eye noted the freedom
" Arrros -
with the cunning which ever characterized him
he made & dead set for the horseman's sym
pathies. The lord" was all humility now There
were no more vauntings OF his family, his an
cestral seat Of Melrose Castle With its vast de-
inlesnes, nor the proud position he once held in
the English army. But, as he has always main
tained. he declared that he was of respecta Bile
English par"ntaEe. that he loved the girl he had
married o. '1rSook him when his dupIicity
was expos. "a dat he wished only an oppor-
tunity 10 Telabilitate himself
: AIcCann was easy game for even so clumsy a
rascal as harrington. His pity was aroused and
even as be would IN his goodness of heart have
taAen IN some poor stray from the torrnents
OF small boys he took Darlington into his home
making Of him valet and a companion Bar
Ef1gton lived there forgotten by the public 10
whom he had played a startling part in the
matrimonial farce OF few months before. Nc
CAMS easy going ways and the uberality with
which he spent his easily got money aroused
his cupidity TO the point where even his coward
ly soul would do murder gain it all He
evolved the plot which the undoing Of his
benefactor.
It was not a clever plot. In fact so inexpertly
conceived and clumsily executed was IL that
Il was comparatively easy matter for the au-
thoT1Ces 10 fasten the crime upon Darlington
and TO bring him 10 justice.
one night Mccain left his home in response
10 a message from friend TO meet him at a drug
store block away. That was the last seen OF
him alive by his wife. Although his body was
identified positively by his Wife and his brothers,
harrington has persistently maintained that he
Is yet living and that some day he Will be able
70 produce him.