The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-22
PHASES OF The CARLTON Case
EFFORT TO GET MISS VANDER-
VENTER TO TESTIFY.
Fake story Of Her Attempt to Jump From
auindow Cross Introduces
Her to the Reporters news
Promised TO Afternoon Papers To-day.

Her to the Reporters Some News
Promised TO Afternoon Papers To-day.
Miss Eleanor vanderventer, who was
living with Frederick +. Carlton AT ilo
schermerhorn street, Brooklyn, at the
time OF his arrest for swindhng Harry
Sohaub out OF 500 In a real estate transact
ton, was arraigned before Magistrate
Tighe In the Butler street police courV
Yesterday morning charged with having
posed In the nude for Carlton so that carl
ton could fix the portrait by putting the
heads OF other women on the body, ana
thus levy blackmail.
Eleanor was arrested on Thursday nlght
and was locked up In the Adams street
station, but under orders from Borough
inspector Cross the police refused to give
out any information regarding her arrest
Inspector Cross and his staff have been AZ
work for a week trying to get evidence
against Miss Vanderventer. but nave
failed. All the information that Inspector
Cross has obtained has been from the re-
porters engaged on the case and from
Coroner Flaherty. to whom Miss Marie
Brosnam made statement regarding
the obscene picture.
After her arraignment in the Butler
street police court yesterday, where she
pleaded not guilty, she was taken to the
State street police headquarters, where
Inspector Cross examined her for some
time Then she walked toward window
in Inspector Cross's office, which is on the
second floor. 1t was only week ago that
Samuel Levine the self-confessed treoug,
attempted suicide by. jumping from the
fifth story win dow of the same buliding.
yNhn nh
Vanderventer 's walk toward the window
manfred some one 10 invent the yarn that
she had attempted to jump from the window,
and was saved only by the prompt action
OF Inspector Cross.
woman has changed her residence from
Schermerhorn street to Dekalb avenue,
but the DeKalb avenue address was kept
a secret, az the police say they did not
want to injure her relatives .,;nc from,
After failing to obtain anything from
In the reporters and said:
This is Miss vapderventer, who has been
arrested on threa charges OF consplring
with Carlton to utter, print ana EXPOSE KIP ;s
nude pictures. You may question her II
YOU wish"
II have nothing to say. she said tossing
Miss Vanderventer,' said the inspector,
..does not want to bring her family matters
into this case in any way.
he woman looked puzzled at this state
ment and then smiled. Every reporter
present had heard her history a week ago
from Schaub, who. having tired OF her, as
Carlton was taken from the jail to the
County Court and WAS arrai gned before
Judge Crane. He had been indicted for
swindling Schaub out Of 500 Ordinarily
indictments are not disclosed until the
person is arraigned, but in Cartons case
az soon as the indictment was found the
fact was made public, Lawyer Bennett
waived the reading OF the indictment and
entered plea of not guilty, for his client
Judge Crane said he would examine the
bail, but from what he had heard Of the case
he thought the bail would be large. When
Carlton heard this he smiled and whispered
TO his lawyer that he did not see what there
was in his case that called for rye PAL;
Carlton is also jointly indicted with Niles
Vanderventer in the nude picture case.
Her examination has been set for July 81
She was also remanded to jail where the
police hope that she will break down and
tell son g things which they believe she
has kept from them.
Inspector Cross said yesterday that his
men had found some chloroform in Carl
toms former home at 200 Sands street. .,
Millie Peterson who, it Is said, lived with
taken to Raymond Street Jail by re-
porter for a morning newspaper and she
said she positively identified Carlton as
the man with whom she had lived. Carlton,
however, said he cid not know her and did
not remember ever having seen her before.
The woman said she first met Carlton
through an advertisement in which he was
seeking an assistant to help him In his work
az a magician She also said that Carlton
had a strange influence over her and she
did whatever he wanted She also said that
he had compelled her to take out life
insurance of $3.50
Before going to his summer quarters in
the Oriental Hote, at Manhattan Beach,
Inspector Cross promised the reporters
for the afternoon papers another startling
uiece Of news to-day in the Carlton case.