A NOTED CRIMINAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2581, 2 September 1903, Page 9 (Supplement)

A NOTED CRIMINAL.

George Frederick Seymour Barton, known as " Lord Barrington," and many othe." names, was recently arrested at St. Louis on a charge of murdering James P. M'Cann, a former racehorse-owner, whose nude body was found in an open stone quarry. Barton has had a most remarkable career in. nearly every civilised country of the world. He was born near Tunbridge Wells, England, in 1858, and was arrested when seven years old, on * charge of incendiarism. When 18 years old he stole £16,000, and was sentenced to ten years. He served four years, and theii obtained a pardon by forging the name of the then Home Secretary. After that he spent nine years in the prisons of France, Germany, Spain, and India. In 1889 he went to New York. There he met Miss Celestine Elizabeth Miller at a ball in the Lyric Hall, and married her a few days later. He tfeok her to England, and deserted her in 1892. He committed many daring burglaries at West Brighton, England, and was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment. In 1902 he returned io New \ork, and on December Ist, 1902, he married a young Canadian woman, but deserted her two days later. On January 22nd, 1903, he married Wilhelmina Grace Cochran, of St. Louis, representing himself to be Lord Barrington. When his true history was discovered by his wife's relatives efforts were made to annul the marriage.