The evening world., 1905-07-21
Arrested on Warrant Charging
Conspiracy to BIackmail by
Use of Photographs.
REPUDIATEs GIRLS STORY.
Prisoner Denies Knowing Mile
Petersen, Who Identifies Him as
Man Who Robbed Her.

Frederick E. Carlton. the prisoner in
the theft of 500 from Charles Schaub.
whom he afterward is said to have
, tried to murder with poison. and who
/, is suspected OF having put two of his
!; wives to death with poison so tina.
!, he could collect insurance on their
lives. spent lastsnight in a cell in the
Adams street station, and to-day after
being taken TO Police Headquarters in
Brooklyn she was subjected TO the
third degree"
Both ,PIoad Not Guilty.
Carlton was arraigned before Judge
Crane in the County Court to-day to
answer to the indictment charging
grand larceny found by the Kings
: County Grand Jury. This indictment is
in the case of Cartoons chum, Schaub,
!. who swears that Carlton drugged and
robbed him..
John Bennett appeared as counsel for
Carlton and entered a plea OF not
guilty. He asked for permission to in
spect he minutes of the Grand jury
and was referred by the court to the
: District-Attorney. Then Mr.. Bennett
asked that bail be fixed.
Before entertaining that notion
said Judge Crane, Il want to look over
h evfdence upon which the indict-
ment was found. If 1 do fix bail it
will probably be very high"
Carlton was k back to jail. While
he was in the County Court the vande-
ventdrt woman vas arraigned in Butler
Street, Court before Magistrate Tighe on
. charge of allowing herself to be pho-
t~ographed unlawfully. in violation OF
0ection- 3r7 of the Penal Code. Bail was
nxed ut 500. and she was committed to
Jail.
Magistrate Tighe. however, gave De-
tective Sergeant Walden permission to
take her to the Adams Street Station to
be questioned by Inspector Cross.
Expect Woman to Confess.
The Vandeventor woman is Of an i'm
questionable and hysterical nature. 1t
is not believed tina she can remain in
jail long without offering to tell all she
knows about Carlton. She will be aues-
TONED closely while under arrest about
q letter she wrote to Carlton from Bur
linston, N. j., III which she stated that
IL he did not send for her he might be
able to collect her life insurance.
h report that Mrs. V~andentor
tried TIC commit suicide ny iump'rg
from a third story window ~ Police
Headquarters, Brooklyn. to-day, Is not
true. The report stated tha she broke
away from her ~custodit.Es In e. room
full Of officials and was only prevent
cd from leaping /out OF the windoy by
o detective-sergeant who seized her.
The y~andeventer woman, who has
shown a great interest in. If not a great
love for. Carlton, in spite of the many
charges against him. was arrested by De-
tect!ve Geotge Walden and two other
men on Inspector Of Police Cross's
stan. She was arrested on a warrant
sworn out BY Anthony Comstock. of
the Society for the Suppression OF
Vice. because of the accusation that
she aided and probably posed for the
obscene photographs used by Carlton
in his attempts to blackmail respec-
table women, To blackmail these wo-
men he would afix their own faces
TO these photographs and then threaten
10 show them to their friends unless
they did his bidding.
Miss Marie Breslin, who spurned
Cartons advances and dehed him to
do his worst. was ole OF the women
who is said to have told the police of
Miss Vandevento-'s connection with
the alleged blackmail.
Carlton Denies Knowing Woman.
Mrs. Peterson told her story to the
police only after Carton had denied
that he ever saw her; after he had
spoken TO her roughly. ever b~rutally
and fhraalAnlnRlV "a using her 10 .urnan
in fright.
The woman told this story TO a re-
porter:
answered. %e' an a0G adve ssh gesrs n hsG a t News,
paper which read:
wS6NTEpIAasis,snt 70 Magician per.
necessary; object matrimony.
"a day or two later this man, who
said he was j. Edward Cartier. called
upon me ana 1 agreed to become his
assistant.
From the start he seemed to exert
a peculiar Influence over me. Whatever
he told me To do / would do.
"a few months before he left me for
good he induced me TO take out a life
Insurance policy In the Prudential. I
never know Just what this policy was,
but he said that II was a 10 cents a
Week policy. which upon death would
pay $50. THIS, he said. would guaran-
zee me- a decent burial.
Fled with Her Jewels.
All this time Cartier had never given
ms ono cent Or bought ma A singlc
dress o. = hat, although ne slways hsad
2 He Was kind TO me III other
xays, before, Soing Ne had Induced ne
20 draw All the money I had from tie
psnk, and that with my icwc!ry, wcs
'Jn all my long search for the
pnA II Vas not the money ! cared for.
remembered the address Il Mrs. Iiila
Merttnez, in Gordon, Ala. who hal
opce writer, 70 ask Il l knew tho where,
4 abouts OF her husband, who was a
4 friend OF Cartier, and wrote to her.
tRkins her II she had seen or heard OF
him, She said she had not nor
III c~orresponded with The 81. Glare Hotel
sAA was Underlined uhat both Marines