Tswv Barrington yog raug ntaus

Tub sab.. Zab. Bigamist. Tej txiv neej. Murderer. Tag nrho yog thov rau ib lub charlatans qhib ua hauj lwm rau cov me nyuam loj tshaj. Louis. “F tswv. Seymour Barrington” yog ib lub zos celebrity me ntsis, yog ib tug tsis tshua muaj neeg disreputable, lub sij hawm 1903. Tom qab tsim lub neej bigamist rau ntawm ib sab ntug tebchaw sab hnub tuaj, “Tswv Barrington” nyiag nws tus poj niam lub trousseau thiab taws rau me nyuam. Louis.

When Barrington arrived in St. Louis, he quickly set out to find another wife to set himself up locally. Barrington found a target in the intelligent but inexperienced Wilhelmina Grace Cochrane of Kansas City, MO. Barrington made the acquaintance of Miss Cochrane’s sister and brother-in-law.

During his visits to their home, Barrington impressed Miss Cochrane with tales of his English estate. After a brief courtship, Miss Cochrane became Mrs. Barrington in mid-January 1903.

Mrs. Barrington’s brother was suspicious of Lord Barrington’s story and began looking into his background. Mr. Cochrane discovered that his sister was Barrington’s third wife. “Tswv Barrington” didn’t bother divorcing either of his previous wives.

“Tswv Barrington” under his real name Frederick George Barton, a graduate of Dartmoor prison not Oxford University, married Celestine Elizabeth Miller in Brooklyn. When they returned to England, Barton was arrested and returned to Dartmoor for a previous prison escape. Barton did not contact Mrs. Barton or their child, when he returned to the United States.

When Barton returned to the United States, he moved to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he posed as “Lord Frederick Sydnham Burgoyne”. In Philadelphia, he married a young woman on December 1, 1902, a mere six weeks before he married Miss Cochrane. Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 23, 1902, “Lord Burgoyne” abandoned his new wife and made his way to St. Louis.

Thaum Mrs. Barrington’s brother realized that “Tswv Barrington” had tricked his younger sister into a bigamist marriage, he traveled from Kansas City to St. Louis to confront his new brother-in-law. The confrontation occurred at his sister, Mrs. Elliot’s, lub tsev 4368 West Belle chaw.

Mr. Cochrane, an athletic young man in his mid-twenties, confronted Barton with what he had discovered. “Tswv Barrington” decided the best defense was a good offense and hurled a number of insults at Mr. Cochrane. Mr. Cochrane responded with a strong punch to the nose.

Raws li “Tswv Barrington” tried to regain his composure, Mr. Cochrane grabbed him by the collar, expelled him from the house and continued striking him with his fists. As they got to the sidewalk, Mr. Cochrane placed a solid foot into “his Lordship’s” backside with a strong command to leave and never come back.

Alerted by “Lord Barrington’s” cry for assistance, ob tug me nyuam. Louis Police Officers responded to the scene. To Barrington’s dismay, the officers arrested him for a large, unsettled bill at the Southern Hotel. “Tswv Barrington” aka Frederick Barton would be returning to the familiar haunts of jail for the next several months in the St. Louis Workhouse.

Mr. Cochrane took his sister back to Kansas City. Mrs. Barrington in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said she “hated him(Tswv Barrington).” This marriage of Barton’s would end in divorce.

While Lord Barrington would serve several months for defrauding the hotel, his name would not remain out of the papers long. St. Louis Police had not seen the last of “Tswv Barrington”.

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Qhov chaw: St. Louis Dispatch tom qab, Lub ib hlis ntuj 25, 1903 ib tsab, p. 29 and February 2, 1903. p. 1. St. Louis Star-zaug, Lub ob hlis ntuj 7, 1903, p. 1

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