The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-18
WI[LEXHUME CARTONS WIFE
.JrSTTCE SEWELL ORDERS EXAM
NATION or THE BODY.
Coroner Declares Prisoner Is Degenerate.
hut lie Has No Evidence to Convict
him Of Crime witness says He sought
Her Hand Soon After WIFE Died.

Tier Hand Soon After WIFE Died
suprcme Court Justice Sewell in Brook
,yn Yesterday granted the order applied
Tor hy District Attorney Clarke for the dis
;,,ermont Of the body OF Mrs. Frederick
Carlton. who died March 10 last and
whose death was ascribed to tetanus.
Cartons first wife, Jennie. died in Wash
inrton d. c., in June, 1904 from the same
disease
In the case of the first wife, IL was al
LACED that she pierced her foot with rusty
neede, while putting on her shoe. The
second wife, it is said, was made Ill by
dressing a sore on her pet cat 3 face.
After receiving the order from Justice
sewell Yesterday, Mr.. Clarke said
4 am acting entirely independently Of
ANYTHING that may be done by Coroner
Flahery. | shall have my own physician,
DR. O'Connor of Manhattan, perform the
autopsy Coroner Flaherty's physician,
Dr. Emil Hartung will no doubt be present
TO represent his office"
Coroner Flaherty continued his examina-
ton Of witnesses in the case yesterday.
He took the statements OF DR.. De Lorme
Of jay street. who attended the second
Mrs. Carlton, also Of DR.. Delatour Of the
long Island College Hospital, where Mrs.
Carlton was taken before her death.
Nothing new was obtained.
Miss Marie Brosnam of las WyckofY
street testified that she had known Carlton
for some time. Carlton on Sunday said he
held her in very high regard, as she had been
a bridesmaid at his wedding. He said
there was no truth in the statement that
he had ever been engaged to Miss Brosnam.
Miss Brosnam told Coroner Flaherty that
wshin two weeks after Mrs. Carlton g
death Carlton had made love to her and
had proposed to marry her.
He told me in June" said Miss Brosnam,
that he had made up his mind to have me.
II he couldn't get me by fair means he
would have me by foul means"
Miss Brosnam also said he told her that
Mrs Carlton had written a letter in which
she told him that in case anything happened
to ner she wanted him to marry Miss Bros
nam, as he had made her life happy and she
wal,ed Miss Brosnam's life also made
harry
Il have decided that this man Carlton, >
said Coroner Flaherty, ~is degenerate and
that his word cannot be believed. He lies
at every point. think it is good thing he
j. n Jail, but so far as the testimony
tina | have obtained is concerned | do not
see how he can be convicted of any crime. -"
Inspector Cross and his detectives are
seeking evidence against Carlton. His
history seems to he in the dark and no one
has come forward TO tell anything about
him. Among his effects were found letters
by the hundred. He also had a list of
names of women, and attached TO these
ssnfed to him just what the women were.
This is sample of what the police call
Cartoons love code:
p. P, admires: W. NJ, loves, jealous;
W. B., marries; j. B., hates; w. W., dislikes;
W. E., courtship; R, B., beautiful; W. c.,
engaged; A. s.. strange. friendship; c. B.,
pansy love; Q. T.. on the alert; n. L., gray
eyes, don't trust; 3. T., feline Nature"
In going over the letters Capt. Condor
OF the Fulton street station found several
which he turned over to Inspector Cross
Among them is one dated Burlington,
June S. 1905, full of endearing terms and
fear that Fred" is going to desert the
writer, who calls herself his wife. In it
she speaks Of him collecting insurance on
her, as she lis all in"
This letter is supposed to have been
written by Eleanor Vanderventer, with
whom he was living at 1l6 Schermerhorn
street, Brooklyn, at the time OF his arrest.
II the surgeons who make the examina-
ton Of the body Of the second Mrs. Carlton
find anything suspicious an order Of the
court will be obtained to have the body
Of the first Mrs. Carlton exhumed