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y aI Bogus” Louis; Has Long ord of Misdeeds. @ summer Giy in 1865, when a fair- Jad of seven was arraigned jn Englishg court charged with wet- Ge to gorap on bhe common, there B chréer of crime ns fascinating ~ ag fistion, which was foclowed on two edpiinents, and which may end shdrt- Tyion the kallows at St. Louis, Mo. George Barton the young cu‘orit anid e was, whimpering @ bit as the 8 magisirate peered sharply over hig gieewes at him. The doy’s parents Honést. hard-working peopie of ridge—stood sponsor for the youto- ful prisoner, 'and. begged the mercy of 4 ¢ourt. They would see that thelr #0 never comniltted anothér wrongful they pledged.) and the judge, their deep concern and the ontrition of the culprit, waved Your Wor- ing his off- by the collar of his jacket, “and lad will er break the laws aga ttle did the father or the allently ing mother know how often and grievousiy thelr son would break laws not only of England but of ited “Sth tes. CHAPTER | II. boy. whose first criminal act was @ the gorse. progressed rapidly x the orsoked path of life. Five again at the bar of justice, this brought there to face the more Harge of embezzlement. This did not offer to take yy whe rawhide cure, yy. The father set his lips firm- but the mother broke Into sobs, 28 heard the judge pronounce a sen- of five years in the Red Hill Re- tory. boy alone was un-| He tooked his fudge straight in| . and the seatence brought to face only the shadow of a sneer. | eriminai's nerve—not unlike that he true gamUler—was with him» had jost, ani he was willing to No sooner had he been placed | pag. in {the reformatory than he began) aciieming to find a way out. His cun-! ning served tim well. Long before his} te expited he succeeded in effect- IEVEN BARTON BEGAN | GLMCK CAREER OF CRIME ———_+. Lord Barrington, Who May Soon Be Punished for Murder in St. ing his escape, and he was not traced International Rec- until hia period of detention had run out. But !t was not long before he was rent to prison In Yorkshire for rob- bing his master, a peri eer, of watchos and jew master, upon the scam 18%, was won by Barton's manner, took tim back DPeusibie Into service and was rewarded by the ingrate steal- Ing a portmanteau of valuable Jewelry, which he pawnea in various parts of the country. Eluding @rrest, te sought and robbed a boys’ refuge in London, unen went to Tunbridge Wells and stole $80,000 worth of securities from the home of a clergyman who had be- frienéed him. For this he was arrested in 1876 and sentenced td ton years’ penal servitude. Broken in heart and health, his aged parents felt they had nothing to live ‘or. Measured by the Bertillon system CHAPTER Ill. It was four years later taat the cun- ning which has since made Barton ré- markable Was firat revealed. One day in December, 189), with sx years of his sentence unexpired, he again appeared in Tunbridge Wells, and to the astonigh- ment of the police produced a free par- don from the Home Secretary which he arma, He was noticed to be somewhat @efietent in that polish which marks the true gentleman, but this was excused Deeause of the years of rough life he claimed to have paseed campaigning in had obtained by an Ingenious and daring’ India and Africa. He dressed well, and fraud. he had a title-what more could be In July, 1881, after committing another | asked? burglary, Barton ran away and enlisted] Sometimes he had plenty of money; in the army, but it was not long before| sometimes he bad none. It was whis- he again turned up in Tunbridge Wells|oered that Intermittent aMuence and hd was arrested on suspicion of other| shortness of funds meant success or burglaries. He wore a uniform with|non-suecess with inexperienced young sorgeant's stripes, to which he was not}men whom he enticed into poker, entitled, and tn his pocket was @ forged |ecarte and Napoleon, and it was not long furlough. before the mothers of these young men ‘The following November saw the| counselled their sons not to play with young adventurer sentenced to another|"Lord Barrington.” Yet from these term of ten years. He remained in| same mothers the bogus nobleman hor- prison until 1859, then came to this epun-| rowed money when Dame Fortune de- try and began a new career, more Ddrill-| nied him her smiles, and his path was iant and audacious taan the one he left | smoothed by fair hands. benind him tn his mother country. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER Iv. But New York soclety finally closed In America the adventurer gave him-| {ts doors upon thé catd player. Then it self the title of Sir Frederick Sydenham | was that he betook himself to Brooklyn, Rurgoyne, Lord Barrington, Lieutenant-| Intent upon marrying a woman with Colonel in the Horse Guards of the} money. To keep himself supplied with Household Guards, and with true mill-| money he borrowed impartially from tary dash he ewan cutting a wide} indies who belleved his stories of de- swat, layed Qyafta, but it was not long before | His firet is practice bécame generally known, and he realized he would have to leave however, he operations New York, where, distinguished, suave and were in entertaining he wss received) with open| Brooklyn. Before going, IP PPHLG TSPy at St. Louis Feb. 1, 1908. Age, 38 years; weight, 152 pounds; build, stout; hair thin on top; lump in centré of the top of head; occupation, eoldier. (Extracts from the police record of the adventurer.) proposed to and was accepted by Miss E. Miller, daughter of Mrs. H. C. Mil- ler, of Brooklyn. He took his bride England, going to Burgess Hills, where she found that Instead of having bil blood In his veins her husband came the commonest clay. The father was a broken-down hack- driver. When he had spent nearly all his wife's fortune of $6,000, Harton was ar- rested at Brighton for having sold London furniture which he purchas on the instalment plan. covercd his identity, and sent prison for twelve years charge of burglary, A daughter wi born soon afterward. ‘Two years ago Barton again turn up in Brooklyn, and asked Nis wife install him as manager of a little lau him dry she was running. She drove him away and he has not bothered her since. Taat December, it {s sald, Barton mar- ried a Philadelphia girl, and decamp with her valuable trousseau at delphia. ried in St. Louls 3 Cochrane, of Kansas City. gave him a thrashing. At the prese: time, In addition to ‘Kes of bigamy Against him, and pending divorce sulis in which he js defendant, Barton ts in Jail at St. Louls, suspected of knowing Something of the murder of James Me- Cann, whose body was found in a sto near 8t, Louls on June quasty arton has admitted having been with McCann on the night of the murder. FLT Ee The police dis- on an old Philady A month or so later he mar- Miss Wilhelmina Her brother THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 13. 4 ; \ POLICE RECORDS OF THE BOGUS “LORD BARRINGTON.” TO CONSUMPTIVES: GET JOB ON THE “L” Physicians Have Discovered that Chopping Tickets Will Knock Out Tuberculosis. The Adirondacks, Colorado, Arisona and New Mexico ean now retire as re- sorts for consumptives, The easy and fascinating work of a ticket-chopper on losis germs to Might and will add flesh to the weak consumptive, For nome time several New York doc- tore have been treating consumptives whose financial condition did not permit them to go to the regular resorts, The secret that the roof of a tenement Is » good place to eleep and that the ticket- chopper on an Elevated station Is a good place to work, was revealed last night by Dr. Lee K. Frankel, of the United Hebrew Charities, in an address to the members of the Summer School of Philanthropy. He ¢ited several eases brought to his attention by Dr. 8. Adolphus Knopf, a specialist in tu- berculosis of the lungs, to prove that consumption can be cured here in the city. ———=>_— American Squadron st Denmark. KALLLUNDBORG, Denmark, July 1.— The United States European Squadron arrived here to-day from Kiel and an- chored In the roads. 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