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and who later gained temporary free
dom through the kind Offices of
bondsman, calls on him every day and
they exchange most endearing conf
dences.
"I'll marry her when l get out"
says Carlton. she's the best friend I
have in the world
81 love Fred deyotedly and l wouldn't
marry anyone else if l had to wait
years and years for him." AYERS Mrs.
Handkerchief.
And as to this, Inspector Cross says
he has occasion TO believe that the low
ing couple are already married.
ga Funny Mix-Up."
"He tried to insure her life for $4,000
and they both swore they were mar
ried," says the inspector. And her
own brother-in-law told the insurance
company, for which he was the agent,
that they were married. Now, that's a
funny mix-up."
In his checkered career Carlton has
| posed as a physician, chemist, expert
photographer, priest, Presbyterian min
lister, expert chef and owner of Bra
lillian coffee plantation. He has boast
ed of his keen knowledge of medicine,
and has said he know how to cultivate
enough germs to supply the borough Of
Brooklyn for the rest of its natural
life
Carlton has maintained a marvellous
brayado since his arrest. 1t is char
acteristic that is one of his strongest
1 points Nothing seems to nettle him,
and he affects a good humor at all
times that, with man under such in,
tense croSs-fre, is hard to understand.
Lack of nerve has never for moment
; led him to a false step since his ar
rest. Confronted at Raymond street
Jail by Mile Peterson, Jersey City
woman whom he caught in his spidery
web under promise of marriage, only
to forsake her for another, he gaZed
coldly at her
For Gods sake, don't say you don't
know me-" implored the heartbroken
woman, whose life had been the tor
her.
81 never saw you," declared Carlton
: his eyes dropping to escape her tears
She tainted, and on being revived he1
? agonizing screams sent chills to thu
hearts of the callous prison guards.
. Carlton gazed upon the creature be
2 | fore him unmoved.
: Erred, love you. don't want t.
q prosecute YOU"
take her away. She's crazy" com
manded Carlton.
vi And the woman in q CONFUSION o
eI Mysteries, was taken to q hospital
Il This is the real nature OF the ma
lfl whom the Brooklyn police term
!, ''Bluebeard."
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Many Women Claim Him as
Their Welded Husband.
HELD ON MANY SERIOUS CHARGES
Suspected of Poisoning Two Wives by Unique
Methods to Collect Their Life Insurance
He Puzzles the Brooklyn
Police Force.

! frankness itself on some points, he had
drawn a mental circle about others
and his answers never overstepped the
lien-but through it all there was the
laughing triumphant declaration:
you will see. I will go free. There
will never be a charge made to stand
up against me. l am willing to go to
Jail and have everything sifted thor
oughly. At the proper time l will tell
everything"
Carlton has at the present time three
definite charges against him. The first
is the accusation of H. B. J. Schaub,
machinist on the submarine Porpoise,
that Carlton took from him the sum
of 500 on a pretext that the money
would be used in specializing in tax
sales. On that he stands indicted.
The second charge for which he is
under Indictment in Manhattan is the
accusation of DR.. G. A. Goldsmith, of
Stamford, Conn.,, who has sworn that
Carlton drugged him with cup of ted
and robbed him of $500 at the st. Clair
hotel, Park Row, in January. 1900.
The third, for which he is accused
jointly with Mrs. Eleanor Van Deven-
ter, with whom he lived, is having in
his possession improper photographs of
women.
At present DR.. Charles P. OConnor,
pathologist of the health department,
is conducting chemical analysis of
the stomach and organs of Mary Cor
man Carlton, his wife, who died in
March of this year, supposedly from
tetanus, for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether the woman died from poi
son.
The authorities at Washington stand
ready, it is reported, to exhume the
body of Jennie Smyth Carlton, wife,
who died in June, 1904, from tetanus,
it was supposed, for the purpose of dis
covering if she died from the effects
of poison.
Suspect Tetanus incubation.
| In both of these cases the authori-
! ties are proceeding on lne assumption
J that in applying modern scientific
methods to murder, the man may have
actually inoculated the women with
the germs of tetanus. They have the
testimony of two persons already In
their possession that Carlton not only
often spoke of germs, but apparently
had cultures OF them in his apartments
A motive for the murder easily proven,
the police declare, would be found in
the insurance he collected on the death
Of both wives.
Photographs of Carlton have been
identified by Mrs. John E. McCandless
living in small town in Nebraska
who declares that they were married in
, 1890, after which she was despoiled Of
her savings and. deserted.
Mrs. Fred Carlton, of Yankton, S. D.
. has written to the police that she rec
J ognizes Cartons portrait as that O.
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the antitrust law, the prosecution Of the
beef trust and several other important
matters have kept this brilliant young
lawyer very busy. In the midst OF all
this legal work he has also undertaken
a war against an enormous system Of
human slavery in the south known as
the peonage system.
Mr.. Moody has won the first battle in
his campaign, but there are many moro
to be fought. The peonage system. it is
believed. keeps hundreds of men in actu-
al serfdom, and the attorney general is
trying to uproot the evil, and has his Of
ficials at work securing evidence against
those who play the part of slave owners
in a number of states. The victims OF
this peonage system are not all colored
men. although a majority are In a re-
cent statement made to the department.
of justice by one of its agents, white
men are shown to be the slaves.
This case came to light in South Caro-
lima, and the men were Italians. They
had beer engaged in New York. but
when they arrived in South Carolina
they discovered they were to work in g.
phosphate mine. They refused to do 50,
but the master said they could not aban-
don the work, as they owed for their
transportation, and must work out that
debt. Guards were stationed over them,
and in the face of weapons they were
compelled to work out this alleged debt
One of the men escaped and made known
the terrible condition of his comrades,
which led to the interference of the
government
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took all her money and jewelry,
amounting to about $4,000, and desert
ed her.
Bigamy Charge Likely.
Rose Cerier, of st. Louis, has sent
word that she recognizes in Carlton
the Carl Marin who married her.
robbed her and deserted her in the
same year.
Mrs. Eta Kingrey, of Gordon, Ala,
is coming north to be satisfied that in
Carlton she will be able to identify
the Eduardo ]. Martinez who married
her in 1898 in Alabama, took all her
savings and then deserted her. On
this Identification the police believe
they will be able to base a charge of
bigamy, for they claim to have outside
evidence to show that in one particular
case Carlton posed as De Martinez,
claiming to have been a Spaniard spy
and to have inside knowledge of the
blowing up of the Maine.
Mile Peterson, of Jersey City, has
positively identified Carlton in Jail as
the man who made her his common
law wife and deserted her She does
not say Carlton ever robbed her, but
she has sworn that he endeavored to
have her life insured.
The charges of swindling the insur-
ance companies, the police admit, are
wholly without anything substantial
on which to base suspicion at this time.
There have been inquiries for further
descriptions and identifications from at
least five insurance companies and
guarded statements that there was
some suspicion that there might have
been fraud in that way.
The charge of blackmail rests on the
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pictures. These pictures are now in
the possession of the police, and the
statement of one Marie Brossman is to
the effect that Carlton at one time
threatened to transpose a negative of
her head to the body of another wom
an She has told the police that he
limited thai by that means he had been
able to accomplish much.
Inquiry from Chicago.
In addition to this there is the in
quiry of the Chicago police, asking for
more particulars about Carlton, de-
claring that a Carl Horton, who ran a
ington street, that city, several years
ago, resembled Cartons published pic
lures. That man was arrested, but was
acquitted and left town.
1t will pc seen easily that except for
the three crimes on which he now
stands charged and the one which
Awaits the outcome of the chemit s
analysis the testimony is not yet con-
c,usive The police have not yet gath
cred together all the strands of evil
dence, but in every allegation so far
the cup of tea is found. st. Louis has
sent word that Carlton is the young
McCandless, of Polk county, who en-
| listed in the United States army at an
early age, deserted and served two
years Imprisonment in Fort Leayen-
worth, the military prison. 1t is there
it is asserted, that he learned to cook
1t is there, it is thought, he learned
to brew a cup of tea by pouring hot
water upon the tea leaves, upon which
lay a slice of lemon. That is com
mon enough way nowadays in cities
and abroad, but it is not the way they
make tea in the country districts
where the old-fashioned boiling OF
sleeping is still used. 1t was strange
enough to have Helen Murray remem
Der it of John E. Candless; for jennie
Andrews, of South Dakota, to use tina
as one of her means of Identification
and for Lucia Mitchell, Mrs. Ketterine
Rose Cerier, Mrs. Kingrey, the Peter
son girl, the parents of Jennie Smytl
Carlton, and the mother and brothe
of Mary German, as well as the Mrs
Hattie Schultz and her bandmaste
husband in Sands street, Brooklyn
where Carlton boarded, all of them re
fer to it.
Schaub, who has accused him O
!, grand larceny, alleges that he was OF
9 fered tea to drink. DIR. Goldsmith ha
= sworn that the drug which De MARITIME
administered to him to produce uncor
I. seriousness was in a cup of tea. TIL
: McCandless of the army and the Car
e ton of the navy brewed the tea
: The foregoing is the arraignment b
i the police. There is something to /
). said for the man around whom so pow
n erful net is closing. Carlton himse
II can talk for himself and talk Quieti
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might be adopted in the army. These
stoves are in use in German households,
and are guaranteed to save worry. work
and fuel, and never to scorch the food.
They never blacken the pots and do
away with all Objectionable odors
According to Mr.. Murphy's de-
scription these stoves or hay boxes"
are merely alright chests lined with
felt or paper and packed with hay
or straw. The close flung lid is COW
cred with cushion of some sort to
exclude the air. An old trunk or
even a large valise may be pressed
into service for a HAY box The
process of using is even simpler than
that of construction The vegetables
or meats are started cooking in the
ordinary way over a fire, and then
transferred in the pot to the box, care
being taken that the lid of the cook
ing utensil' is not removed while the
change is made:
"In general" says Mr.. Murphy, cit
will be found that two or three min
utes of actual boiling on the fire is
amply sufficient for vegetables, while
IodSIeu meal requires ~ 10 oO Hill
utes. Most articles should remain
| tightly closed i'm the box for two or
three hours, although they can be left
there to; keep hot for ten or II hours,
| if necessary. Rice, dried beans, lem
ills, dried fruit etc, should first be
we'll soaked in cold water. After be-
ing allowed to- boil for some two to
five minutes, one or two hours in the
box will prepare them thoroughly for
the table. Cauliflower and other soft
vegetables should merely be brought
to a boil and then placed for an hour
or two in the box. Compared to the
old way of cooking the saving of fuel
by the use of the HAY box" is very
apparent. 1t cooks while you sleep.
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New York.-Gaboriau Poe or Conan
their heroes, but never in the world
of real life before, it is safe to say
has detective force found its strong
est clew in the effort to prove man
one of the most remarkable criminals
of the age in the simple art of brew
ing cup of tea
Yet to-day that may be called the
principal connecting link by which
they are hoping to obtain stronger
evidence to show that Frederick E.
Carlton, now prisoner in Raymond
street jail, Brooklyn, has been guilty
several times over of murder, repeated
grand larcenies, many bigamies, whole
sale blackmail and swindling of insur-
ance companies.
Their first cup of tea has been found
almost at the time one James E. Nc
Candlass, farm boy, left his home
at Louisiana, Polk county, Mo-, in
the latter part of the eighties, and the
last sees Mary German Carlton dying
is years later in a furnished room
house in Sands street, Brooklyn, from
tetanus. During those Is years they
have found tea brewed in half the
states of the union, in 20 of its great
cities. in the army and in the navy,
and always in the same way. The tea
OF course, is only the first step. The
second is the conformation and that
the police promise, will be for the liv-
ing.
Inspector Cross Puzzled.
Police Inspector Adam A. Cross
known as one of the most intelligent
and best educated of the uniformed
force, borough inspector of Brooklyn
after an hour and a halls searching
cross-examination of Carlton the other
day turned to the men waiting, and
with smile that was not wholly tnat
of triumph, pointed at the retrealins
figure of Carlton departing ebetweer
two policemen, saying:
There goes. in my opinion, one O.
the remarkable criminals of the age
confess l cannot wholly make hin
out. "A very high degree Of cunning
a smattering of education along pecul
lar lines and criminal inStinc
driven by an inordinate desire TO
notoriety have combined to produce
man who would stop at nothing, VIII,
could cover his tracks we'll for year
and then when discovery did come sup
ply him with the effrontery to stan
undismayed before overwhelming evi
dence.
Il have just talked to him for a.
hour and a half. He declared to m
he would answer frankly, and We
when questions were put to him tina
he did not care to have asked h
would vail his frankness under re
fusal or the plea that his counsel ha
instructed him to keep silent. H
laughs at all charges except perhar
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distribution throughout the country.
Mr.. Chester K Greene, superintendent
of the ponds, is doing his best to check
this race suicide among the bass. In
talking about the cannibalistic tenden-
cies of the young fish the other day, he
said:
1--WE have to be careful in asserting the
bass In this tank or pool for instance.
we have about 5000 OF the smaller size,
which average an inch and three-quar-
tiers in length. The reason we have to
be particular is because the little fellows
have a practice of devouring each other.
The young bass are great cannibals.
Look at that now" exclaimed Mr..
Greene pointing at mass of fish in tho
tank. There is little fellow that has
seized another almost as large as him.
self" The little cannibal was not moro
than two inches in length, and had
seized another about an inch and half
long. and was trying to make away with
him.
Superintendent Greene relates re-
cent occurrence which came under his
observation. A bass which was by actu-
measurement 1k inches long had tried
to swallow one Az inches in length. The
larger fish had partly swallowed the
other. and the tail of the unfortunate
was protruding from the mouth Of the
bigger one. Mr.. Greene captured the
cannibal in a net. and upon examina-
| ton found that the head OF the smaller
fish had been partly digested. 1t was .
case: he said, of layeg in about weeks
supply Of food and digesting it by de-
grees.
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intelligently and logically; that IS,
where there does not intervene a date
or place or a name he desires at this
time to withhold
A Dangerous Man.
."He is dangerous man to have
loose is the way Inspector Cross puts
it. How many woman have fallen q
prey to his greed and yiciousness it
would be hard to say. How he won the
love and confidence of these women is
beyond comprehension. He is a man
of low, petty practices. a man of the
meanest type. He fascinated innocent
women and they were as toys in his
hands,
Miss Marie Breslin, upon whom Carl
ton tried a unique scheme of blackmail
by means of an obnoxious photograph,
fell under Cartons hypnotic eye
"He asked me to marry him before
his second wife was dead" says this
pretty Brooklyn miss. Il was her
i bridesmaid, and l was shocked when
he spoke to me. l felt myself under
his terrible influence. l had hardly
| the strength to refuse him, but, thank
| get me by foul means, and don't know
what might have happened if he had
| not been arrested. l always hated him,
but his influence over woman was so
strong that no one without desperate
effort could get away from him."
Cartons feverish anxiety for fem
mime love has not deserted him since
his incarceration at the Brooklyn Jail.
Mrs. Vandeventer, who was herself
thrust into a cell when Anthony Com
stock heard of her having posed for
| photographs found in Cartons trunk,
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one, that of having improper photo
graphs in his possession. He declares
he has an ample defense to every other
accusation, and yet he will not even
afford the police the slightest assist
ance in arriving at the truth of any
of the charges against him. He says
he does not care how many come for
ward to accuse him, he knows that
at the proper time he will be able to
go free"
Laughingly Defiant.
It was just as the inspector had
said. When Carlton met men-report-
ers from the newspapers and others
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The building will

occupy the entire square lying southeast
of and diagonally from the capitol.
When completed, it will be three stories
in height and will contain 436 offices,
which are to be forever dedicated to the
use of members of the house of repre-
sentatives.
The building is to be classic in style
and ornamented with "a columns. in
pairs. The main rotunda will be elab
orately decorated in bronze, marble and
decorative plaster, and it's splendid eff
fects will be heightened by monumen
tai staircase. The interior arrange
ments will make it an ideal workshop
for the members of the house. There is
to be caucus, or assembly, hall 81 by
81 feet, to be used by the party organi
cations of the house. Then there will be
a dining hall on the second floor, which
| will be one of the finest rooms of its
kind in the country. and will be great
Improvement over the stuffy. ill-Smell
| ing rooms that are now used in the base
| ment at the capitol. The kitchen for
| this restaurant will be located in the at
| tic over the dining-room; SO that the at
mosphere of the building will not be bur-
! dened with the odorS of cooking.
| The building is to be equipped with
barber shop, bathrooms and everything
necessary to the comfort and convent
ence of the members 1t is in this build
| ing that the members expect to receive
their many callers and conduct their cor
respondence. They expect to be relieved
| from the opportunities of callers who
have heretofore besieged the doors in the
/ corridors about the hall of representa-
tives. Hereafter, the visitors will be
| referred to the congressman's quarters
| in the Office building.
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panying the squadron's evolutions.
Since he became head of the
department of justice however. he
has been kept closely at his desk
and every hour of his time nearly has
been occupied with big legal problems.
The investigation Of railroads for vio-
iation of the anti-rebate law. SUITS
against corporations for violations OF
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the man she married soon after the
McCandless episode. She declares that
she was robbed and deserted.
Mrs. James Martinez, of Covington,
KY, is positive that Carlton and the
Martinez she married in the early nine
ties are one ana the same person.
Mrs. Lulu Kettering, of Rochester, N
y, now using her old name, was court
ed and wed in 1897 by one Eduardo de
Rodriguez, self-styled Brazilian plant
er. They came to New York city i'm
mediately after the wedding and Mrs
kettering swears she recognizes il
Carlton the man who few days latel
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Cannibalistic Fish.

HERE have been
startling instances
of cannibalism re-
-vealed in Washing
ton. The govern
ment is very much
agitated over the
d GOV very. The
crime has devel-
Oped in the propa-
eating fish ponds
near the Washing
ton monument, and
the criminals are
the young b a s 8
raised there for
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The Attorney General.

ERAL MOODY is
about the busiest
man in the cabinet.
When he was sec
rotary Of the navy.
Moody had a pretty
good time of it.
travelling about on
fast cruisers and
dispatch boats, Wis
iting naval sta
tons and accom-
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House Office Building.

HERE is gradually
rising out of the
ground southeast
of the capitol build
ing a magnificent
marble p a | a C e j.,
which is to be
known as the house
Office building. but
which in beauty
and inpressiveness
will compare with
the national Ii
brary and with, the
capitol itself.
The building will
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who had Indian blood, as Mr..
Curtiss, of Kansas, is also of
that strain, and is member of the Kaw
tribe 1t. is said that Senator CIapp,
of Minnesota, also has slight admix-
ture of the red mans blood, and his ap
pearance indicates it. He has the
straight black hair and black eyes of the
aborigines. The senator does not men
ton this strain, if he has any but neither
does Mr.. Curtiss, but neither of them is
ashamed of the pure American blood.
Senator Clapp, who has just been re-
elected, is developing into one of the
strong men in the United States senate.
He is an interchangeable worker. and dur
ing the recent hearings before the inter
state commerce committee, he proved
one of the best crOss-eXaminers of wit
neSSeS in favor of further regulation of
railway rates. The senator used to live
in Hudson. Wis, and was next-door
neighbor to Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Taylor. The latter tells some
interesting stories about Clapp's early
experience as a political campaigner.
On one occasion the gathering he was
to address was packed with the hardest
lot Of unconvertible democrats there
ever was. Clapp got up and began to
talk. but was howled down in just half
minute. Again and again he was conf
PEELED to stop, and the crowd would only
subside when he told a funny story
Finally an old Irishman, who knew him
and knew Clapps name was Moses
shouted to him: Don't mind them. Mo;
they are lot of rowdies no decent peo-
pie would GOMEZ
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Fireless Cook Stoves.

KIM Y authorities are
very much inter-
ested in a report re-
Gently made by
George H. Murphy,
a United States
consular clerk at
Frankfort, G e r.
many. The report
is regarding what
is called "fireless
cook stoves and
the army officers
are investigating
the subject, with
the idea that thew