The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-18
Brother OF Lord Brabourne Had
Picturesque and Lurid
Career OF Crime.
NO EASE FOR EN- PERoR
Ruler OF Germany Scorns Such
Feminine Things as Dress
ing Gowns.

succeeded to the peerage through the
u .,tn OF his father. occupies Il seat In
b his family is a mere baronet, namely.
slr syndham Knatchbull, whose an
cestral home. Mersham Hatch, near
Asiiford. In Kent. has been In the
undisturbed possession of the Knatch-
Dulls ever since the commencement Of
the reign of King Henry VII Pre-
Vious TO that time they had lived for
several hundred years at Leinne. In
the same county. figuring as landhold-
efs of the district III Doomsday Book.
The first Lord Brabourne was q.
younger son of the ninth baronet. and
was raised to the peerage in recogni-
ton of his services as a Lord of the
Treasury and as Under Secretary of
me Home Department and of the Col
onies. While he achieved some fame
as an administrator and as n states-
man. he attained still more celebrity
as the author of children's books. and
English writer who has been more
successful in combining the quaint
mag ination of folklore with the deli
cate. humorous sentiment of which
Hans Andersen was such a master. as
the first Lord Brabourne. His stories
applied to literature of this kind. They
please everybody. Children laugh and
cry and hold their breath by turns.
women sigh with the sentiment, while
.hsll t5Illle at lHe -nullor. Dle Oh VIC
best-known of his books, the joint
work of Lord .Brabourne and of his
talented daughter. the Hon Eva
knatehbull- Hugessen. bears the title
OF Friends and Foes from Fairy
land and has rendered the name of
knatchbull-Husessen a household word
in every English-speaking family.
one of the brothers of the first Lord
Brabourne had a most extraordinary
career as pirate. ending on the scat
"a fha gzt., . No H.
found In extenso in the biography OF
the late Lord Sherbrooke who fig
ured In SO many Gladstone Cabinets
under the name of Robert Lowe. This
prother of Lord Brnbourne was even
IN his boyhood of such an ungovern-
able and unruly disposition that he
was sent to sea, where by means of
FAMILY influence and by reason of the
intimacy between his father and the
family of the great Sir Robert Peel
he was quickly promoted 10 the rank
or commander. His career In the
royal navy was brought 10 n sudden
and startling close by his arrest and
conviction at the Old Bailey in London
Tor robbery which he had commit
ted. and which led to his being SEM
fenced to penal servitude and trans.
portation TO Australia for a term OF
lourteen Years, soon after landing at
sydney, family Influence exerted in HIS
pehaH secured for him a ticket-of
leave, which enabled him to give fun
play to his criminal Instincts, COM
inittins nearly every crime in the |
calendar short of murder
Poisoned the Crew
Al length the ~olonial authorities
resolved TO send him TO the lonely |
speck in the Pacific Norfolk Island. |
which was then reserved for the worst |
and most incorrigible of convicts. Ex-
Captain knatchbull was placed on
board a government vessel in COM
pany with some forty other irreclafm- |
able criminals. for conveyance to the
The vessel was caught in terrible |
storm. and while it was In progress,
notwithstanding that he
was heavily ironed. contrived to get |
mn deck. possess himself of quantity |
of arsenic, and to throw the poison |
INTO the ships cooking utensils. Next |
day. every one save Knatchbull and |
other desperadoes. who had |
been taken into his confidence. were |
seized with violent pains. and be-
came absolutely helpless. Thereupon
and his confederates took |
possession OF the vessel. and thre,y-
overheard the dying and The dead /
alike. not even sparing their fellow |
For several months Knatchbull play
ed the role of pirate skipper. andsI
seized and sank quite a number Of |
craft sufficiently small to be attacked I
with relative Immunity massacring all [
on board He had intended to event
nally make his way to some point
on the South American coast but /
,aught In hurricane. his ship was
iriNeh onto the coast of New Zealand
Wnere. "hlle engaged in completing
necessary, some ot his crew We're rec
ognized. which led to the recapture OF
-he entire band. It's members We're
promptly sent back to sydney. where
NnatcfTbull turned nformer, asserting |
hat his part in the mutinous seizure
# the vessel was played under com
'ulsion. Hc saved his own neck there
~, but his confederates We're hanged.
Strange to say. there were still found
influential people who so far in
'nre him position In connection with
he government dockyard Here he.
'eemed to have made up his mind to
cad better life. and had almost
Who for his family's sake had saved
lin from the penalty Of his misdeeds.
gut one morning u poor widow was
ound barbarously murdered in her
lumblo abode, one finger having been
lacked off for the purpose of obtain
ng q ring, The ring was soon after
wards pawned for a small sum, ana
rom the pawnbroker's description, the
,rother Of the first Lord Brabourne
vas identified, and arrested as the
Lord sherrbrooke was at that time
law in Australia, and was
etained for the defense, which he
by speech OF wonderful
'ower and psychological insight. m
eed. so impassioned was his elouuence
n behalf of the murderer that tho pre-
iding Judge, Sir estbrook Burton
vas at first paralyzed with horror at
his unprecedented attempt to thrust
he argument of instructive criminal |,
ty, in cold blood and with diabolical
ialectic audacity, down the throats Of
British jury, and in his charge to
he Jury, he attacked the counsel for
he defense In terms that would have
zen strong even if applied to the hu-
nan hyena who stood in the dock
waiting his doom. The latter took
he shape Of a sentence of DEATH and
his former captain of the royal navy,
nd brother OF the first Lord Bra
,ourne. duly eXpiated on the gallows
rs long and extraordinary career OF
rime,
The new Lord Brabourne is a soldier
Ike his father, and holds a commission,
u the Grenadier Guards. He is still
and will inherit.uuite a re-
pectable fortune on the death of his
lother. who Is a daughter or the enor-
nously wealthy first Lord Allendale.
Hnn ON Dressing Gowns.
While Emperor Williams wardrobe
omprises hundreds of different cos
umeS and garments of every conceiy-