The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03
CARLETON WILL HANG.
Story Of a Mixed Relationship That
Reads Stranger Than Fiction.

Handsoms Charlie Carleton-She
Elopes With and is Married to the
Latter-When Gothman Lays Claims
to Her and Tells His Story Carleton
Kills Him, and Will Hang for His
Act.
From the Chicago Times
Omaha, Neb.. Aug % - The final
chapter in a tragedy involving some re
markable features will be concluded in
Dodge county, Nebraska, next month.
! when Charles Carleton, the wealthy son
Of one of the wealthiest farmers of the
locality, will die on the scafTold for the
murder of August Gothman, committed
last year. The affair reads like a romance
in some respects and like horrid night
mare in others.
Charles Carleton is a young man, never
regarded in mis- neighbofhood as particu-
larly bad, but terribly spoiled What he
wanted he wanted, and that was all there
was about it, and in his neighborhood he
/ had been pretty well humored. Last
/ spring a man giving his name as August
| Goldman, en- route to Omaha in a NOV
ers outfit, asked permission to remain
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/ Carleton homestead. Goldman explained
that he had been unfortunate as a
/ farmer in Western Nebraska and was
| changing location with his little family.
/ He mad two boys about 10 years old and a
| girl not more than II or 10, but well
I matured and particularly favored as to
| good looks. She was DC vltChing in every
/ sense of the word, and appeared to be
/ aware of the fact to a marked degree.
/ The two boys addressed her as sister and
the old man she referred to as father.
| lie appeared old enough to be her grand
/ father. The family arrived on Saturday
and concluded to remain over Sunday
with the Cartoons. Young Charley
! Carleton at once became infatuated with
/ GOthmans alleged daughter, and she
appeared equally satisfied with Garlic
ton 1t was remarked at the time
that the old man did not appear at
all pleased with the combination and
manifested his displeasure by declaring
that he proposed to take the entire family
10 Omaha early Monday morning. Mon
| day morning his supposed daughter and
| young Carleton were missing. Old man
! Goldman swOre he would recover his
| child if it required all summer When
| told that he might rest assured that the
young couple had run away to get married
| he was furious. Neighbors were quick to
remark that Il beggar ought TO be pleased
with the idea of his child marrying into
| so good family as the Carletons. Old
| Goldman started to Omaha, but said he
| would return.
GOTHMAN TELLS HIS STORY AND IS KILLED.
That night Carleton and the girl re-
turned to the Carleton farm-man and
| wife. The next day old Goldman SUD
| denly appeared at the Carleton home and
| demanded the girl. He was told that she
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was married. He replied: well. she is
my wife as well as my child, and | want
her" The old man was regarded as a
lunatic, but developments indicated that
he was telling the truth to a large de-
gree. The girl began to cry, and when
the young husband demanded an explana-
| ton, she admitted that she was married
to Goldman. When asked to explain how
she could be his daughter and also
his wife. she merely increased her
sObs. Gothman thought to clinch the
matter by producing his certificate
of marriage to his daughter. This was
more than young Carleton could bear.
He rushed on the old man and with
hammer beat out his brains No one but
the young girl witnessed the bloody deed
The murderer first concealed the body
with the intention of buryiug it secretly.
Then he lost his nerve and told a neigh
Dor that he had been attacked by a tramp
and killed him in self-defense The
neighbor advised him to surrender to the
authorities. This he did, and the tramp
story was in fair way to blind justice
when the two boys who had been left
In Omaha when their father
went back to look for their sister
became tired of waiting and in
looking for their father returned to
the Carleton home and found their sister
Then the secret came out through the
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their sister. They also knew their father
was married to her; at least they under
stood that to be so, as their father had
frequently declared and his certificate of
marriage indicated. In the trial of Car
Teton It developed as fact that Goldman
and the girl were married according TO
all forms of law As to their relation of
father and child the testimony was rather
vague and was never determined.
cARLEToN's CONVICTION AND PECULIAR
ESCAPE.
At the trial the jury convicted Garlic
ton on circumstautial evidence and he
was sentenced to be hanged All the
wealth and influence of mis- father was
unable to save his neck. Then the
young wife is said to have interested her
self in assisting him to escape. She ap-
.peared to be quite successful it was
said by those with whom she came in
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pleased with all her acquaintance. Be
that as it may, Carleton suddenly dis
appeared from steel cell shortly before
the death sentence was to have been
executed. The mystery of his disap-
pearance was rendered doubly mysteri-
Gus from the fact that the death watch
was in the next cell to the condemned
murderer and could not explain
the affair. No force was used, yet the
steel door had yielded. Carleton had
disappeared as completely as if the
earth had swallowed him up, but if his
wife was the good angel that assisted
him from the felon's cell she was also
the siren that lured him back to an
ignominious death. He had got safely out
Of the country, but could not resist the
temptation to return and visit his Young
wife. AS she was being watched By the
officers in anticipation OF her attempting
to reach him he was easily captured, the
officers appearing Just as the couple first
met after the enforced separation.
His case has again been appealed, but
unless the law does interfere or Garlic
toms pretty young wife effects his escape
in the mysterious manner with which
she is accused Of executing the commits
sion before August Goldman slayer will
hung the second Friday in September.
BIRD SUPERSTITIoNS.