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Show WOMAN'S STORY NOT BELIEVED. Effort Made to Prove Victim of "Lord Barrington" Is Still Alive. Des Moines, la. Claiming to represent repre-sent the British consul at St. Louis In behalf of "Lord" Barrington, in the penitentiary for life for the murder ot James P. McCann of St. Louis, Miss Lillian Gates of St. Louis created a sensation by appearing in the United Unit-ed States marshal's office on Saturday Satur-day and identifying James C. May-bray, May-bray, alleged horse race promoter, as being McCann, the victim of Barrington. Bar-rington. It developed later in the day that Miss Gates was a friend of Barrington, that she had made the same claim of other men and that she Is engaged in an endeavor to get Barrington Bar-rington out of prison. Maybray declares de-clares there is nothing in the woman's wom-an's story. |