The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-08-02
MAKES AN AWFUL CHARGE
Did Carlton Try to Make His Mother
in-Law Kill His Wife,
MRS. GORMAN ALLEGES THAT he DID.
10 the Raymond Street Jail Carlton Expressed
Himself Perfectly Confident That He Would
"Get Out Of the Serape" and That as Soon
as He Was Released lie Would Marry
Elinore vandeyenter.

New York (Special) Two days be-
fore the death of Mary German Carlton
the last wife of Frederick L. Carlton
notorious as the Brooklyn "Bluebeard,
the man plotted to have her murdered
by her own mother, according to a state
ment made TO an Evening World re-
porter by Mrs. Michael German, of z3c
Bridge street. The parent of this hap.
less wife of Carlton also declared that
her son-in-law concealed from her that
he had insured her daughters life foi
5000 until she discovered it through
the undertaken who cashed the check
The story told by Mrs. German is, in ef-
feet, that Carlton tried to accomplish
the murder Of his wife exactly as Pat
rick did that of Millionaire Rice, using
Valet Jones TO actually administer the
fatal anesthetic.
Speaking OF Cartons alleged attempt
to have her murder her daughter Mrs
German said:
"On March 6 last, two days before Ma
mic died, Carlton sent for me, telling me
that he was worn out from nursing her
was very i'll at the time and had tc
fairly drag myself to their home.
Mr.. Carlton had told me and my
grandson that Mamie was only suffer
ing from neuralgia He had concealed
the fact that she had tetanus. He insist
ed that she was not seriously i'll, but
needed my attention, as he had worn
himself out.
when | reached the house he said
that my daughter was occasionally very
nervous, but il | wanted to soothe her
TO take some absorbent cotton and satu-
rate it with liquid in a bottle he had
put on dresser a few feet from my
daughters bed He said the stuff was
harmless and that | could hold it over
Mamie's mouth and nostrils and in this
way quiet her.
He then went into an adjoining room
saying that he was going to get some
sleep | know that he did not go tC
sleep, but watched me constantly.
My daughter was unconscious on the
bed, in a deep sleep. She did not be-
come nervous at all. After waiting al
her side for several hours ] went over
and examined the bottle he had told me
the soothing liquid was in.
81 found that it contained a powerful
solution of chloroform and that if ]
had done as Carlton requested me
would have caused the death of my child
and have been the murderer He tolc
me that Mamie had slight convulsions
and that this chloroform would subduC
them. later learned, although he kept
it from me, that these convulsions were
the most aggravated symptoms OF te-
tanus.
Before Mamie died she and Carlton
told me that her life was insured foi
1000 After her death | asked him
for the jewelry that | and my husband
had given to her. He said he had pawn.
ed it all. When / spoke about the 81 ,ooc
insurance he said that the greater par
of 1t had been taken up in paying fol
the funeral expenses.
'Not long after that | met the under.
taker who had buried my daughter at
| funeral in New York and / remarked tC
him that it had taken practically all o.
Mamie's insurance to pay his bills. HI
replied that | was very much mistaken
if thought my daughter was only in.
sured for that amount and said:
"Why,-,Mrs. Carlton was insured fol
$1,000 | know that, for l cashed the
insurance check myself
Though / am convinced that thi.
man caused the death OF my daughter
for his own ends, am afraid that he i.
too slick to ever be brought TO JUS
tice."
Evidence against Carlton was strength
ened, the police declare, when Borough
Inspector Cross received a letter from
the Chief of Police of Rochester, stat.
ing that Mrs. Lulu Keppering, of that
city, had identified the pictures of Carl
ton sent by Inspector Cross as that ot
the man who married her under the
name Of d. Rodriguez and brought hei
to New York to the Astor House. He
managed with his persuasive ways, she
alleges, TO get her jewelry and left hei
after nine days with the intention o.
going to Brazil on a business mission
promising either to return or send fol
her within short time
She says that she never saw hin
again. She says that Rodriguez while
she was in the Astor House gave hei
some dates to eat just before leaving
for Brazil and that she was i'll for abou
six months.
LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.