The Washington times., 1905-07-14

EGt know there was anything serious
until she became desperately ILL.,
Carlton is sad to be an extremely
homely man of an age difficult 20 judge.
MIS- Carlton said at one time that he
was about thirty-three years old. 1t
is said he might have been older.
Little is known of either at the house
where they lived other than as much
or as little as such contract entails The
wife was popular. pretty. and her simple
taste and manner won her the friendship
OF everyone about her.
/ Dr- Spear, who performed the opera
| tIon on Mrs Carlton s foot. is now with
the Russian army.
Health Office Records.
! The records of the local Health Office
regarding the first Mrs. Cartons death
are interesting just now
| At the time of the death of Mrs Carl
| ton there was no suspicion that the
fatality was due to causes other than
'-tetanus" contracted in the usual, or
rather accidental, manner. The eertifi-
| cate of DR.. Hodges. given under date
OF May 16 was approved the follow
| ing day by Coroner Nevitt On May 20
the body of the young woman, having
been prepared for burial by Under
tsher w. S. Riley, of 209 Second street
| southeast and shipped from Washin-
| ten on May II, was buried in the fam
| I4y lot in cemetery in Brooklyn, y. Z.
L IN TIE uSdln CGTtlIlG1iS y
age was given as twenty-four- She was
| said to have lived in the District for
nine months.
! When the attention of the local
| Health Office officials was drawn to the
| suspicious against Carlton, they were
! deeply interested to discover BY what
| means Carlton could have obtained the
culture Of tetanuS. which he must have
had TO deliberately bring about his
wife's death from that disease They
also were led TO speculate whether or
not this man, who has been styled
modern male Borg1a, in any way used
cillus into his victims system
A Roundabout Course.
''If he did use srch means it was cer-
tainly roundabout course" said DR..
John E Walsh the Health Offlce bac-
teriologist- IF he did first inoculate cat
| with farcy and then introduce this dis
ease. which IS entirely foreign TO te-
tanus, into his wifes body. it must have
been with the purpose of so weakening
her that she might have little strength
to combat the more deadly germ.
'.Tetanus can be produced only by
| tetanic bacilH' continued DR. Walsh
1T would go long way toward discover
ing the crime, if crime there was, II Il
could be found where Carbon secured
the bacilli and If he maintained any
culture tubes in the D street house, dur
ing his residence there, in which the
4 IL
DR. Walsh suggested. too, that inquiry
might develop the fact as to whether
Carlton ever purchased the bouilion.
| which is the basis of all germ culture.
or whether he was ever in the habit of
making boullon from an extract OF
beef
Navy Department Records.
The Navy Department records show
that Carlton served on the Dolphin
| commissary steward from July 50, 19o3
To April 80, 1904 In that capacity he
was brought into close contact with
q number OF public officials who made
cruises on the dispatch boat Secretary
Morton went on several trips on the
Dolphin during that period.
On leaving the Dolphin Carlton went
on board the Puritan, now the naval
militia'S monitor He came TO WASH
, ington with the boat when she was
turned over to the local militia here
: He then went TO hospital in Pnij&-
deIphia He was latter attached TO the
Lancaster and Hancock and WAS hon.
: orabfy discharged from the navy JAM
uary 9. 1865
Carlton entered the navy January 1.
, 1901. as q hospital apprentice. Els rata
} was afterward changed 10 that of COM
Buffalo and Columbia first and then ON
the Dolphin.
Carlton is registered as twenty-nins
, years old, a native of New York, aa&
g,
A Man of Mystery.
The men on The Dolphin. which Is now
; anchored off the navy yard, and who
served with hir while he was on thss
ship. do not seem to know much about
Carlton They said when asked as 70
the man. that he was a peculiar felloy,
never had much TO say and only assa-
ciated with one or two of the men ca
the ship.
, ! He never was intimate with anyons
, connected with the ship. He was ro-
: garded as IA man of mystery.
One of the men who talked with Carr
ton more than the rest, said he thought
he was a pretty good sort of a fellow,
Carlton never confded anything to hiTa
, and he never saw or heard anything
. that could be connected with the az
, legged crime.
This man said that al the time OF the
death of Cartoons first wife. he was la
the room i short while after the womsx
had been carried away, and that tina
room was in great confusion. He ssiA
/ Carlton seemed greatly distressed over
the death of his wife and did not cara
. | to live in the rooms any longer "a
he stayed a while before he left ths
city.
Carlton left Washington shortly Il e1es
! the death of his wife.
, | Carlton was transferred to the hos,A-
tai from the ship because he was sick
He was then transferred TO the Brook
Iyn Navy Yard from Washington
best Taree~ asked. sled i he had sever howa