WEBVTT - A Con So Nice, He Named Himself Twice: Lord Gordon Gordon 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:05.440 Zeren Elizabeth Zaren. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:07.720 Yeah, what girl? How are you doing? Pretty good? 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:08.360 Are you feeling? 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:09.160 You know? 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.680 I got like I said always, I'm upright and taking nourishment. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.159 I'm on the right side of the grass. I got 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:15.520 nothing plain about. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.560 Above ground and getting paid. No, girl, that's right, that 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:19.160 is right. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:20.840 Uh, do you know what it's ridiculous? 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.720 I do tell me this one. I think you might 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:25.560 like because that has to do with animals, and I know 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.520 you like the animals. Animals, So you know Coco the Gorilla, right, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.159 not personally, well, you know, Cocoa the Gorilla could speak 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.960 with sign language, yes, right, and they like they would 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.360 ask and then Coco Guerrilla to respond and they go 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.120 back and forth and have conversations in sign language. Well, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.880 Coco the Gorilla wasn't the only ape that we've taught 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.800 sign language in fact, since like nineteen sixties, so you're 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:51.400 talking decades, like six six decades of teaching sign language 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.000 to apes. There's one thing that they have never ever 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.720 done in sign language. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.960 You know what that is? Ask a question. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.640 Apes have never asked us a question. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.639 We ask them questions, they answer them, They express themselves. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.479 They talk about their emotions, they talk about their inner reality, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.160 they talk about their desires, their hopes, like Cocoa wants 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.160 a kitten. I mean they say all this stuff, Coco sad. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.319 But wait, so they don't give a tinker's damn about us. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.679 And it's not even that where you take it, But 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.280 it's the idea that they don't formulate in terms of 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.600 questioning reality. They accept reality as it is and comment 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.240 on it. So this may suggest an animal form of 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.600 consciousness that it just is and you can interact with reality, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.000 but they don't question it. And this may be the 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.920 not that animals don't think, but they don't think the 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.200 way we think. And this is actually what separates us 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.920 from the animals. Is not just our opposable thumbs, but 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.600 the fact that we ask questions. Isn't that wild? That 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.520 is wild? And I just think that's kind of ridiculous 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:50.640 in a light scientific. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.440 Yeah, but that's really interesting here. I'm like, you don't 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.960 care about me, Coco. I feel like this is kind 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.840 of a one sided relationship, except. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.760 Yeah, I got you another Coco, you love me? 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:06.120 Now? 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.080 Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? I 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.640 do a gentleman's tiger. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:14.520 Is that a euphemism? 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:38.240 You mean me? This is Ridiculous Crime, A podcast about 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:43.360 absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always ninety 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.000 nine percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.959 Oh you damn right. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.600 The Scots and the Brits, they sure know how to 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.840 name something that's true. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.200 Oh my goodness, I'll give it to them like that, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:58.280 even if it's silly. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.480 It's so. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.919 Scotland has a tradition of giving amazing names to the 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.680 gritter trucks that they used to clear the roads of ice, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.919 and so it all started. They were letting school kids 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.200 name them, and then during COVID they moved the naming 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.960 pole online. Here are some of the best ones thus far. Sleetwood, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:22.440 Mac Good Spready van Halen, Nice, sweet child, O'Brien, You're 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:30.280 a blizzard Harry Carrie, Bradthaw Okay, Brinstone, plowboy like that, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:35.160 buzz Ice clear and clever, Betty white out Yes, Sir, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:43.760 David Atton Burr, Gritney Spears and picture snowing me, snowing you. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.320 I like the Britney spears I imagined her and Gritty 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.240 the had a child and named. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.800 It and it's a truck exactly. So this is like 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.760 the Scouts are an incredibly language savvy popular. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.960 Oh yes, and their insults are always beautiful. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.360 And then there was that auto sub used by the 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.600 UK National Oceanography Center that in twenty sixteen was allowed 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.480 to be named by the public and the poll's clear 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.520 winner was body mcboat face. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:14.600 That's what I was thinking of. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.680 Yes, yeah, so that's a classic. It's been often mimicked. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.520 The proprietor of some of the best social media accounts, 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.000 the Orkney Library. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:23.640 I don't know if you. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.080 Followed I'm familiar, made me familiar. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:27.159 They named a. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.479 Boat that they used to take books out to remote 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.440 islands bookie mcbook face good and so you know it's 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.920 the repetition that hooks yet. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.240 Yeah, so let's go back. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.000 In history a little bit. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.880 I loved doing it, or a lot bit y oh, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:40.800 I really loved that. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.160 I remember a while back I told you about Gregor 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.760 McGregor cod I got a mcgridg got I forget the 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.680 repetition of it. So he was a Scottish adventurer, con artist. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.039 He tried to get investors in England. Scotland France to 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.080 get on board of the fake country that he said 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:58.920 he was establishing, and that was in the early eighteen 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.400 hundreds mix South of Marya. Yeah, yeah, that guy Mosquito Coast. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.800 And he breaks the Scottish bank. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.560 Oh yeah, pretty much like he just it was. It's horrible. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.680 So about fifty or so years after Gregor MacGregor was 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.960 on the scene, another repetitive name con man emerged in Scotland. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.000 This one called himself Lord Gordon Gordon. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.839 Not Goon, Lord Gordon Gordon Botros Gordon from him is 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.800 Bold Bold flavors with that name. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.440 So that's the guy I want to tell you about 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.279 today and is with many of our con artists. His 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.320 origin story is murky, so like some say that he 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.919 was the illegitimate child of the son of a preacher 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.240 man and his family's made. There's also the narrative that 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.159 he grew up in an upper middle class family, but 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.599 from childhood always talked about how he wished he was 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.440 super wealthy and a member of nobility. We hear that 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.640 in background information on some of these con artists that 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.400 they like always wanted to be royalty or famous or 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.120 something like I can't and you did that but did 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.320 you know anyone who did that? My sister, Oh, really, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:05.640 she wanted to be royalty. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.719 She wanted she still has. He's still like a royal watcher. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.600 And she's like into like the British royalty and all that. Yeah, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.720 also not just the Brits, like if you are a 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.800 royal of any world or any land or well, I 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.320 guess she's like a fan. She just loves the idea 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.960 of royalty shoes. She would be like princess whatever in 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:22.680 her made up name. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.360 She should have been born to it. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.839 She really should be like I was over there, just 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.560 a man of the people. From the get really frustrated 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:32.760 her that. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.520 You know, I just I never knew anyone who did 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.440 come across these things. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.520 That's actually far more common. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:37.800 Yeah. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.240 I met people in college. I tell them my sister, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:41.200 they're like my brother. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.520 I would have had to have friends find out about 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.600 those things. So the sort of consensus is that he 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.039 came from a very cultured family, and his speech, his accent, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.640 knowledge of social customs that suggested that he'd gone to 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.000 like boarding school. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.400 Or had to pull off that world. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:00.359 Yeah, and he it must have. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.680 Been somewhat familiar with British upper class life. He was 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.159 fluent in French, like maybe a couple other languages. He 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:13.800 had this cultivated understanding of aristocratic genealogy, which is very convoluted, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:19.320 the clan histories and estate management. So these really niche 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:24.120 things about Scottish nobility and it doesn't reveal his origins, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.160 but it reflects the type of environment in which he 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.480 was educated or trained. The people who interacted with him 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.040 described his speech as quote, refined English with a slight 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.400 Scottish intonation, gentlemanly but indistinctly local. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.120 Now did the I don't know this did Did the 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:48.239 upper class Scots, after their interaction and melding with the English, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.880 tried to have English accents with a slight Scottish lilt? 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.960 Or is it rare for someone like him to have 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.080 a English accent? 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.160 I need to know when you get into because so 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.240 many English who come in and taken the higher that 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:05.680 like the hierarchy of being landed in. The Edinburgh accent 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.440 is much softer and more English than like the you know, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.280 the Luigi to speak, or further up into the Highlands 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.920 and then closer you get to like the Orkney's like 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.800 forget it anyway, So yeah, there is that influence though, 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.240 and I think it has a lot to do with 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.800 who's owning that land and from whence they came. So 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.520 there he is. There's those that believe he was born 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.240 Hubert Campbell Smith. Sometime between eighteen thirty five and eighteen 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.520 forty he floated the idea to some that he had 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.720 served as a lieutenant or lieutenant in a Scottish regiment 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.520 in India ins and he may have also gotten a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.760 job at a commercial house as a young man, but 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.440 he was unhappy with the salary so he quit. Like 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.480 who's to say, only Lord Gordon Gordon. These are the 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:58.000 other aliases that are associated with him, Herbert or Hubert Hamilton, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.240 Lord Glen Cairn, George Gordon, George Herbert Gordon, John Herbert, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:08.160 Charles Gordon. It's like he's got four options, yet he 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.959 just slips them all back and forth. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.280 Just think it's like a Rubik's cube of names. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.880 Well, I'm just thinking, like the refrigerator poetry, but he's 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.599 only got four pieces. She's just gonna slide around. So 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.240 summer of eighteen sixty eight, dude rolls up to Edinburgh. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.880 He's like, hey, guys, the name's Hamilton, and I'm a normal, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.160 boring guy. According to the Manitoba Historical Society quote, no 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.319 one knew anything of him, and there was much surmising 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.439 as to who he was. But as he paid his bills, punctually, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.719 lived quietly, and had the manners of a gentleman, no 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.920 one could find anything against his character or conduct. Normal guy, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.640 boring dude. So off he went when the summer ended by, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.920 and then he showed up again the next summer, summer 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:59.400 of sixty nine in Edinburgh, and only this time he 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.480 was calling himself Lord glen Cairn, a pile of rocks, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.920 pyle of rocks. So he had a story that would 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.920 like kind of make sense though. So he was the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.079 same guy, but a lot had happened to him. It's 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.880 a crazy year, you guys, so he told He told 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:21.920 people that his grandpa had left money to him, tons 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.160 of money, but he could only access said money if 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.640 he accepted the title of glen Cairn when he reached 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.480 the age of twenty seven and the old curse of 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.599 twenty seven. Do you know how many musicians are in 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:35.600 the twenty seven club? 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.800 It's not a few, it's all yeah. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.160 Robert Johnson, the og Yeah, one of the first Ryan Jones, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.439 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, pig Pen from The 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:50.760 Grateful Dead, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Christin Faff the bass 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.480 player for M some other kind of lesser known musicians anyway, how. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.839 Else other stars as well, not just musicians, just not 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.760 just limited. But it's most of the musicians you made 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.199 it famous, Yeah, Keith Ledger missed it by like a 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:01.680 few months. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:02.839 And then at twenty eight. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.319 Yeah, yeah, so twenty seven is big for old glen 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.040 Cairn here, but not hopefully he makes it he spoiler alert, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:16.000 he does so. Our boy Gordon Squared aka the Glencarn 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.280 he was just about to turn twenty seven. He's like, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.440 I hope I make it, you guys. According to him, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.360 his agents in London were just finishing up the paperwork 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.160 on the whole inheritance thing. In just a few months 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.000 time he would officially be named heir to his grandfather 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.319 and the Earldom of glen Cairn. And he didn't elaborate 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.880 about this or tell people what land holdings this might involve. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.559 He got really vague about that. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.520 If it's an earldom former Viking lands, Elizabeth. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.040 I think so, as Skull because of the Yeah, so 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.240 he didn't talk hard numbers about his inheritance, just that 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.599 the amount was like positively eyewatering. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.600 There's a castle or two. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.280 Yeah, it's just I couldn't even begin so constructed credibility 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:06.079 by dressing impeccably in the style of a young landed gentleman. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.679 They say, dressed like that all you want to be. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.280 That's so true. Every single time he had this exaggerated 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.000 but really informed knowledge of clan histories. Like I said, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.400 he spoke with authority when it came to a state's 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.760 rents tenants. He was a huge tipper and he'd make 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.560 all these like small charitable gestures far yeah, and always 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.439 with cash. So it makes it seem like there's a 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.400 lot more where that came from. And I just spend 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.040 this jump change. And he had someone with him at 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.280 the time. He employed a young valet or valet as 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.920 they would have said. There are a handful of articles 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.560 about Gordo that say this type of valet was referred 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.920 to as a quote gentleman's tiger at the time. Oh 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.400 and when I researched the term, the only place I 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.480 found it come up in reference to a valet is 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:59.400 in those same articles, I think, so it's nowhere else. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.600 So like, who's started this notion? I feel like one 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.880 of these sources. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.680 Made it up and the rest ran with it because 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.040 by the tail. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.400 Yeah, there's nowhere else do I see anything about a 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.040 valet being called a gentleman's Like you go to search 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.839 it in Gentleman's Tiger and it comes up with like 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.640 signet rings with a tiger eye, and so you'd start 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.679 eliminating you know, ring and jewelry and stone and then 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.319 add in valet and it's like, no, only these articles 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.720 makes no sense. I mean, it's badass, don't get me wrong, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.959 I'm with it, but it just makes it makes no 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.000 sense a gentleman's tiger. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.520 Like, how could a gentleman so? 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:40.360 According to historian W. A. Crawfet Gordon, Gordon kept this 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:46.000 boy quote dressed in buckskin breeches, long boots, blue coat 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.840 with gilt buttons, and an immense cockade upon his hat, 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.839 which in Great Britain denotes that his master holds a 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.280 commission under the sovereign. That's an outfit. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.240 He's close to the king with his hat, and he's 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.800 close to the colonies with his pants. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.839 That's that's when people knew how to dress Sarah, I'm 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.880 telling you, or how to dress their tigers. A cockade, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.120 by the way, is a knot of ribbons. I imagined 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.680 it to be like a huge plume of feathers. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.679 That's what kind of going with a pile. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.240 It's like a round, pleated circle of ribbon. Still an 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.440 amazing outfit. It's very Andre three thousand. I could see 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.720 the outfit anyway. So there's Lord glen Cairn just lording 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:29.160 it up in Edinburgh. He's swanning around with his gentleman's tiger, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.920 is cozied up to a well to do Scottish clergyman 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.600 named mister Simpsons. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:35.640 Clergyman. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.680 Yes, mister Simpson, mister Bartholomew Simpson. No, it's not his 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.520 first name. We don't know what it is, just Simpson. No, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.600 no for his name. So this was the move though, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.760 Like you get a member of the clergy with some 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.600 means and you get close to him and he's your 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.360 opening into society. Like you can get you in anywhere 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.760 and people trust you because they trust him. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:14:59.880 Smart move somebody to go. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.720 Yeah, it's like you paler around with Father Brown. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:03.240 You're good. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.480 The Lord and the King that's right, gotcha, And so The. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.680 New York Times described this as such quote In England, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.400 persons who are termed confident swingers, which like again a 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.440 gentleman's tiger and a confidence swinger, like what I feel 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.080 like this is something a little. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.840 Off English private school, right boys school. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.120 Jeez, so very quote very often worm their way into 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.320 the books of the tradesmen through the agency of clergymen. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.240 Gordon made very liberal use of this plan. There's this website, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.360 hoaxes dot org, which I'm like, did you start the 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.280 whole gentleman's tiger thing? They said, quote I tried to 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 find like who who at hoaxes dot org wrote this 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:52.760 show yourself powards no no bylines quote. His basic method 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.880 of operation was the foot in the door technique. He 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.440 would make small requests of people to gain their trust, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.440 and then he gradually increased the size of his requests, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.040 and having gained the trust of a person, he would 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.000 use them as a reference to gain the trust of 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.200 other possible victims. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.960 Con Men have taught us that if you want to 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.200 earn someone's trust, ask them to do you a favor, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.160 and then they feel like somehow tied to. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:18.160 Exactly so now Glenn Kern, and he's pals with He's 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.520 got this network of fat cats that he's hanging out 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.440 and through them and Simpson, he's able to establish credit 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.640 with jewelers both in Edinburgh and London. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.680 Okay, score. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.600 So he was introduced as Lord Glen Cairn to the 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.840 Edinburgh jewelers Marshall and Company. And this was the place 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.000 at the time for metals and gems. It was like 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:42.040 the height of fashion. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.000 I was wondering if that' say this sound familiar. I 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.360 was wondering, what do they make like the Queen's necklaces. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.840 That now they have stores all over now called Marshals. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.360 It's a discount clothing store in the next of course, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.160 I'm not when am I serious? So he told these 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.840 jewelers all about his estates in England and Scotland and Ireland, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.720 about his solicitors, lawyer mister Patterson, he handled all his 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.520 business for him. Oh and and he had so much 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.159 money he just didn't know what to do with it. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.520 Maybe buy some jewelry. Oh maybe he should just go 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.840 ahead and start a tab at the jewelers, like it 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.240 only made sense, right guys, And they're like, yeah, sure, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.840 right on. So he starts to peruse the goods and 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.000 he has this like super keen eye for the best stuff, like, oh, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:26.960 excellent taste. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:27.240 Soon. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.400 One item he really loved was a small silver casket 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.760 made in Venice, Italy. 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:34.320 Casket for a body. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:35.239 Well, that's the thing. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.280 Okay. So I saw a casket. I'm like, I need 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.760 to do a little investigation here. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:39.000 Yeah. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.680 So it's Venice, Italy, not Venice, California. And it's not 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.320 a casket like rip, let's get you six feet under. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.359 It's a casket in the sense of a small decorative box, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.679 so not as big as a chest, but maybe slightly 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.040 bigger than a jewelry box. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:54.480 Okay. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.159 And so glen Cairn sees this silver one loves it, 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.560 has to have it as the jeweler. To have it 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.040 delivered to his hotel is like a very posh place 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.840 in town. And then he came by with Simpson a 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.640 few days later to rave about what an incredible shop 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.720 this was and the stuff. They're convinced he's the real deal. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:19.720 As far as they're moving to a clergy, he's like, you, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.440 I'll tell you, you tell the Lord. So from there 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.399 he's like, okay, bye, I got to go to London. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.760 Off he goes, and there he starts talking to a 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.040 diamond dealer and he tells that guy, you know, Marshall 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.399 and Company up in Scotland, they can vouch for me. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.560 He's like, hey, Jared, I got a friend in the diamond. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.680 Business for you, yes exactly, and then he says, well, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.960 you know what, In fact, they'll vouch for me. I've 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.280 worked with them for several years. So the diamond dealer 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.760 writes a note to Marshall and Company and says, you 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.760 know this man that you've known for several years, is 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.880 he on the up and up the whole several years? 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.040 Thing through Marshall and Company for a loop? And like 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.760 they just the guy, like why is he saying this? 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.919 So they sent one of their employees, this guy, mister Smith, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.760 to London to look into the matter. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.800 Mister Smith goes to London precisely. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.200 So Smith goes to London heads to the lawyer Patterson. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.720 Patterson was appalled that anyone would be asking anything about 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.760 the credibility of Lord glen Cairn, and he told Smith 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.359 to like shut his pretty mouth about it. That's a 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.200 direct quote. I was there, Like, don't you dare say 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.760 anything against that man, he's one of my best clients. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.600 So Smith, he's not buying it. Patterson said that he'd 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.639 have Lord glen Cairn return the jewelry that had been 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.240 fronted to him, and then he'd cut a check for 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.840 the amount of anything that he had already been given away. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.560 All right, Like what good is a check? 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.040 Smith says, well, if he doesn't pay it by March 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.080 twenty fifth, eighteen seventy, I'll cover the debt. I believe 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.680 in him that much. So what Smith wasn't aware of 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.840 is that glen Cairn had gifted a lot of that 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.959 jewelry to Patterson and his family, and Patterson had advanced 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.960 Glen Caaren like forty five thousand dollars basically the equivalent 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:05.240 of a million dollars today. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:05.680 Hot. 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.120 Yeah, So Patterson had given Glen Karen the last four 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.879 thousand of that chunk of cash, and then suddenly started 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.359 to wonder, like, wait, was that about idea? Is this 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.000 a little hanky? So Glen Karen Gordon whatever his name is, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.080 tells Patterson, thank you so much. I'm heading back up 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.600 to Scotland. I'm going to close out this account at 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.960 Marshall and Company. Off I go Patterson thought about it 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.280 for a bit and was like, I'm going to send 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.439 someone up to Edinburgh and I have them ask around 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.960