Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-24
IIRICK' NOB[EMAN
J 5NABBEDF0RFRAUD
aLord" James Carlton Says It's
"seastIy Bad Form" to Hold
.g Him at Gloucester
pEpoRTED THREE TIMES

mord" James Carlton. self.made
s,,,,sb nobleman. isn't at all pleased
In tbe table d'hote meals and small
.hite enameled bed provided for his
..nfor. IN the Gloucester immigration
Station.
4. ,mnrison a man for behaving him
,ef," says he.
His Royal Highness was arrested
s.,urday while with Lady" Carlton,
. companion, as they were preparing to
..te massage on the new White Star
liner Pittsburgh, which sailed Thurs
4, for Liverpool. Carlton is held
..rdins the report today of immigra-
Kan inspectors checking up his record.
ia IL alleged to have promoted worth
iess stock scheme. 49,.
While ellis Lordship" was languish.:
n, in the none too palatin suite of
ssc,rs - in the detention station. Immi-
s.stion Commissioner Hughes made
know that he was being held incom-
nm"nn;cado MS an undesirable alien. The
~on,an who is said to be his wife. was
rot arrested, although she may be de-
ported with him If Investigation war
rants.
Mystery In Woman's Identity
She Is believed to be the daughter OF
. veil known Philadelphia family who
ros duped into marriage by the lure Of
cartoons title. Much mystery attaches
n the identity of the woman. who Is
saving in Camden and who visits him
A. the station every day, her face hid
den behind heavy veil. She Is usually
accompanied by another woman, be-
Neved to be her sister.
"Lord" Carlton was taken into GUS
tody secretly in n West Philadelphia
house and whisked away to the deten-
tion station before he had chance
20 say d-by to the woman. She
doesn't seem shaken in her steadfast-
ness BY assertions that police Of other
cities knew her "Lord Carlton" as
James Walton. James Grimshaw and
Claude Linden, and perhaps, other
aliases.
Commissioner Hughes refused to per-
NIT any one to see "Sir James," but
be said this morning:
1--WE have Carlton and have checked
up on him sufficiently to know that he
Is illegally in this country and hns
been deported from Chicago, Boston
and New York" said Mr.. Hughes.
'Further than that l cannot tell you.
As to his wife being n society woman of
Philadelphia. think that Is wrong. l
take her to be an Englishwoman. She
has been here several times to see Carl
ton. and will say she would pass for
high born, highly educated, we'll placed
woman
Carlton is said to be an Oxford
graduate and to have held high rank
In the British Army when the war
started. He became involved in some
affair and was Cnshiercd out of the
army. Taking advantage of the war
situation and its effect in this country
he came here with woman in Sep
teuber. 1914. and landed in Boston.
He registered at the Copley. Plaza
Hotel ms Sir James Carlton. repre-.
sentative of a 1.O0O.OO0 combina.
tion of English capitalists. His job. I,
plants in Boston, New
York and Chicago.
Duped Boston Mayor
He was welcomed to cultured Boston
BY Mayor Curley and was in a fair
way to get the capitalists deeply in.
teested in his alleged plans when two
Secret Service men told him he was
under arrest !Ic was charged with
violating the Mann act. "Tady" Carl.
ton also was arrested.
With his best British Indignation he
So did Lady" Carlton.
"Sir James declared 1t an outrage to
lay LAY, ne was not married TO the lady.
and declared she was the daughter OF
Sir Andrew Baird, surgeon general Of
british troops in Scotland. She said
mat was true. His arrest came about
through information sent from England.
ne ana the woman were dCpOrted
carton. on his arrival. gave a din
ner In honor of the captain of the
steamship Cleveland. on which he and
me woman made the trip across the
Atlantic. Wv
=, About n year later he turned up in
chicago as "Sir" Jerome Wcldpn Her.
,ert 'rawShaw. 1t was found after.
ward that in some Chicago circlcs he
lsed the old name "Sir" James Carlton.
md that mistake caused his undoinp'
IN nDlolS he turned up in Boston
|gain' as "Sir" jerome Wclden, and
he immigration authorities picked him
Up Detorc he got very far with sun
'osed scheme to make nitrates. but not
eloTe ne had passed out several spuri-
.s hnhK OF England drafts which some
u MS sack l'ay friends are said to
uve preserved in frames. The same
iol'ah ,p,u was with him on this Boston
!sit' ana both went back with dignity
nu anIomb' ns bciitted the nobility,
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