A "CLAIMANT" TO THE EARLDOM OP ABERDEEN.

Southland Times, Issue 1607, 19 July 1872, Page 3

A "CLAIMANT" TO THE EARLDOM OP ABERDEEN.

« Intelligence received in Liverpool from New York states tbat Deputy-Sheriff Judson Jarvis arrested " Lord " George Gordou, alias George Henry Gordon, alias Gordon Gordon, at the suit of Jay Gould, on an order of arrest granted by Judge Brady. It appears that Mr Gould swears thafc on the Ist March last he delivered to Gordon 600 shares of Erie TRiilway stock, of the market value of 30 OOOdol. ; that he instructed Gordon to seil the stock, and with the proceeds to purchase eighty acres of land in Westchester county j and that Gordon did not observe his instructions, but refused to return the stock, and converted it to his own use. Gordon, however, was released from custody on finding bail in the sum of 37,000 101. But the most curious part i ofthe story remains to be toll. Gordon I is an Englishman, who arrived in New . York some time a<*o, representing himself as a large Erie stock holder, and claiming that he owned half of all the stock held in England. He appeared at the Erie offices at the time of Gould's overthrow, and loudly demanded admission, which was refused. He claims to be the Earl of Aberdeen, whose fate was long in doubt, but whose loss at sea appears now fco be settled beyond all dispute. Notwithstanding tbis, Gordon is said positively to assert his identity with the lost earl, and to declare his intention of claiming the Aberdeen estates.