The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-20
LORD"
AN EX-C0NVICT
Left Behind Him Desert.
ed Wife and Child and
Empty Safe
Special to The world.


TAHLEQUAH. March i0.--The
town OF Tahlequah, In tho year OF
1894, was taken in" by the son of
an English lord" so self-styled.
Very fair with blue eyes and golden
hair was A. y. Laws, the allego
son OF a titled Englishman. lie was
a fine singer and played the guitar
with skill. lie also was a baker by
trade, conCocted cakes and other de.
licious articles OF food while await
Ing the coming of remlttanccs from
England, and all the while he was
looking out for chance to make
some big money" In the mean
time the self-styled scion of royalty
sought 10 make love 10 the young
ladies of the town, and one OF them,
convinced of his high estate In the
old country, became his wife. After
the birth OF a daughter the blue
eyed baker abandoned his family.
but not until the long awaited op-
portunity had come and he had
demonstrated his skill In securing
the money and In getting safely
away.
By showing letters purporting to
have come from England, Laws con
vinced the leading druggist OF the
town OF his genuineness and became
a partner In the firm, he to deposit
n certain sum OF money to the credit
OF the firm when the goodly sums
from old England should have ar
rived. Their arrival was expected
each day, so the son Of the alleged
lord asserted, and so the druggist
believed.
Departure OF the Lord"
The druggist. who had n country
home, was out of town one Sunday
M nrnfpn Nxfha n ~ n n
swift horse, arrived, announced that
there was a man fNtown who urg-
emily desired medicine and that as
the doors were locked, requested the
keys so that he could return in haste
a5a ac.oniinouato the prospective
customer. The keys were handed
over and Laws gaTloped away, and
was never seen again by tho drug
gist. a.
Immediately upon his arrival in
town the "son OF the lord' opened
the door Of the store, but no one
beside himself entered. Making his
way to the safe he soon had the door
open and the money. extracted. Plac-
ing all the greenbacks and silver in
his pockets, Laws emerged from the
store, mounted the good steed and
| galloped away toward the north.
The druggist did not return until the
next morning and by that time the
yellow haired Tnglishman was many
miles away. BY riding all day sun
| day he reached town near tho
borders of Arkansas, left the horse
in a livery barn, hopping onto train
and was gone. Since that day he
has never been seen In Tahlequah,
| or for that matter, anywhere In
what Is now the state of Oklahoma.
| Some time after the departure oi
the son OF the iprd" II was learned
that he had spent term in prison
for stealing horse, also that he had
In other places represented himself
as an actor and as "A physician, but
all the time claimed to be the son
of lord and the prospective heir
to an immense estate and fortune.
and always he was expecting re-
mittances from old England. But
the crowning act Of ,audacity In
Laws career was his claim 10 being
La newspaper man, an editor by the
way. What finally became of him
no one knows, though the prob
ability is that he spent a portion of
his time behind prison bars though
under some other name.