New-York tribune., 1905-07-16
CARLTON HAD COCAINE.
No Other Drugs Found Among SHs-
pected Mans Belongings.

After another search OF the trunks of Fred
erfck E. Carlton whose career Is being carefully
investigated by the police on account of the al
legged suspicious circumstances surrounding the
death of his two wives, Captain Condon of the
Fulton-st station. Brooklyn. found two bottles
Of cocaine last night. 1t is a deadly poison, but
is not infrequently used a nerve tonic. 1t is
the only poison that has been found in the effects
of the young man.
Under orders from Inspector Cross, young
woman who was a friend Of Carlton is being
watched by detectives. 1t is thought that per-
haps she can tell more about him than she has
been willing to dIvuge so far. man from
philadelphia who had seen her in court the
other day told the police yesterday that ne
thought she looked like a woman who was sus-
pected Of robbing his friend of watch in Phlla-
delphia-
No trouble is being spared to run down the
history Of Carlton and to reach his various
friends and acquaintances So far, however
this dragnet has brought up little information
that is Of any value so far as bostering up any
suspicious OF foul play would go. Most OF the
Brooklyn women whose names and addresses
were found IN one OF the trunks are found to
have been friends OF Cartons first wife. who
was Miss Smythe, OF East New-York. Tele-
grams have been sent to a dozen or moro
cities and villages where Carlton is known to
have lived at various times, asking for informa-
ton Of him.
with the cocaine which Captain Condor
found last night was a hypodermio syringe.
The poison WAS in two one-ounce bottles which
put up by a well known wholesale drug
gist. The drug was in the form Of white crys-
tails One Of the bottles was still in the original
wrapping, the other was only about half full.
A druggist said last night that cocaine is
deadly poison. A grain will kill a person in
about twenty minutes If administered in small
doses through an extended period Of time It
breaks down the general system. There are
more than four hundred grains of the drug in
an ounce bottle.
There was nothing further found in the letters
and papers In Cartoons trunks which would
serve the purposes of the police. Mrs. SchultZe,
at whose boarding house the trunks were kept,
seems to think that OF the bags is missing.
She says she thinks he. took it away when he
was at the house last Wednesday. The chest,
which. one of Cartons landladies spoke Of as q
medicine chest. and which was supposed to have
been missing. is probably what the captain
found In one Of the trunks. From the outside it
looks like a medicine chest, but is In reality
set of manicure articles.
Carlton still keeps his nerve in the Raymond
St Jail and defes the authorities to find anything
against him Captain Condor seems inclined to
think that there is enough evidence to hold him
on the grand larceny charge preferred by Henry
J. B. 6chaub. The latter says that Carlton got
a check for STOO from him under false pretences.
The police have the check showing that the
money was paid to Carlton. He admits having
got it, but says that he paid It back. According
to his story he paid back 5000 in lump and the
remaining 500 In small bills on several days.
The police seems to think that the time
pretty short in which to pay 1t back. He has no
receipt to show that Schaub got 1t again.