New-York tribune., 1905-07-26
CLOSING In ON CARLTON.
POLICE TRACING "WIVES. "
Army Records Shoe "MoCandless'
Imprisoned for Desertion.

Detective Sergeant Walden was sent by IN
spector Cross to Rockaway Beach Monday
night 10 find Mrs. James Carter Richards, for
merry of Camden. N J., and later of Brooklyn
who is supposed to have been one of Frederick
E. Cartons wives. Walden reported to his chief
yesterday morning that Mrs. Carter, who had
been living at No. 2So Boulevard. Rockaway
had left there Monday, and it was not known
when she would return. 1t is said that the
woman recently wrote to the Chief of Police OF
Denver. asking him to look for her husband.
Carter Carlton once used the name Whlie III the
West
Inspector Cross yesterday expressed the belleI
that Mrs Vandeventer is married TO Carlton
She has denied It, and admitted it twice, but he
cows that the stories about the woman being
C,arlton,s accomplice for years in his various
sohan,ss such as matrimonial agencies, are uI-
true for 1t has been pretty clearly estaohsheo
that the first time he met her was last March'
when she was introduced to him oy . D.
| schaub. the navy machinist, who is now suiis
him, The inspector knows that she mas TWO IN
| suranee policies on her life. which amount u
| ahout $500 She told him she had been c'rrSlns
| them since she child. He mas peeh eoiu,
/ however that Carlton has had her NE i'su ca
| for 81 900 since he Iaet her
rrne statement given out by Inspector Cross
| Rochester. shows that Carlton bafore ana aIter
their marriage represented hinlself as d wealthy
| rrag;,,sn nlanter He treated her Loyalty unth
hA o,ot ber diamonds away from her. Then MS
| ,nannar changed Letters of his, Which came
| into her nossession without his knowledge con-
| vinced her that he paying attention 10 other
| women. and she left him. She does not Kho"
| whether he tried to poison her. but some oates
ba gave her to eat made her slcK' ana siie WAS
vrder tha doctors care at home for three
months after she left him.
Anotber woman in this is Mrs. James
I,vnch. of Glens Falls N. Y. She is the sup
posed mysterious woman who occupied room
- .ha bouse at No. lie Schermerhorn-st..
Brooklyn, when Carlton and Mrs. Fanoe'enter
wara stopping there She left here for Glens
Falls Yesterday morning. but il is understood
the police have secured proiiiisS hoiii hei W
return if she is wanted
General Fred C. Ainsworth, OF the War De-
uartment. has found at Washington the follow
ing record of James E. McCandless:
James E. McCandless, private OF Company
d 9th Infantry enlisted November /. 1883. at
ST Louis Mo- and deserted at Fort Riley, Kan
sas. April s. 1850. He was apprehended March
% 1891 was tried and convicted by general
court martial and was sentenced to be dishon-
orably discharged from the service of the United
States and TO be confined at hard labor for two
years
He was dishonorably discharged on April %,
1891 I'm accordance with this sentence, and was
sent to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, where he was confined until January Is,
1893, when he was set at liberty. The personal
description OF this man, at the date of the
listment November /, 1883. was follows
Born in Louisville, Miss: twenty-one and one
half years old; occupation, cook; eyes, hazel;
hair light: complexion. fair; height, D feet
inches.
DIR. Edward O'Connor. the chemical expert Of
the Health Department, who has been making
en- examination of the body of Mary German
Carlton 70 discover IL there were any traces of
poison, had a conference yesterday with Dis
trict Attorney Clarke of Brooklyn at which he
declared that no adequate examination could be
n ade unlees meteorological examination was
made OF a culture of the spinal marrow to de-
ternine Ii there any tetanus germs present.
Although Dr. O,Connor would not make any
statement for publication. Ii was learned that
the search for poison was unsuccessful. When
DR. OConnor informed the District Attorney
of this he was ordered to make meteorological
test.
INSPECTOR Cross believes that with the new
evidence he is collecting 1t viii be possible TO
uroye that the dead woman was inoculated with
the tetanus germ. DR., Carroll OF williamsburg
the eoroner's physician, who assisted in the
autopsy on the body OF Mary German, insists
that there was nothing TO indicate that the
woman was poisoned He says that in order to
prove that death actually resulted from tetanus
the specific germ of tetanus must be found, and
that IL is easy to ind and isolate 1t. Then, il
other evidence be found that the germ was
inoculated into the womans body. the theory of
murder can be carried TO proof.