The evening world., 1905-07-15
WILL ARREST
"A WOMAN in
CARLTON CASE
Search of Trunkful Of Core
spondence Gives Police
Many New Clues.
AUNT ELLEN IDENTIFIED
Burlington Neighbors Believed
Mrs. vanderventer Was Mar
ried to Him While There.
NO POISON IN THE WHISKEY.
Powder Plain Chalk. Says Chemist
Who Analysed It on schaub's
Charges.
AUNT ELLEN IDENTIFIED
NO POISON IN THE WHISKEY.

Police Inspector Cross announced to-
day that he had a an important
discovery IL the case Of Frederick II.
Carlton. the interesting young adven-
turer, the deaths of who's two wives
or tetanus are now being investigated
by the Brooklyn police. The exact
nature of the discovery the Inspector
will not reveal, but the clue Is be-
lieved to have been found in the papers
seized in Cartoons room, at No. 1873
Sands street.
The Inspector also said that as a
result Of this latest discovery a
woman who has ALREADY figured in the
case will be arrested within q short
time. 1t is simply a case of finding
the woman, he said. She was around
yesterday and the day before, but since
then has disappeared. The charge
against this woman is not known.
No Poison in Whisky.
The chemical analysis of the whiskey
and powders which Master Machinist
II. B. ]. Schaub. of the submarine boat
Porpoise, claims Carlton tried to get
him to take al the st. George HOTEL
Brooklyn, July 6, was completed to-
day by DR.. Justin De Isle. Il shows
that the whisiey was just plain wh!s-
key, containing no foreign matter, and
that the powders are chalk.
Schaub said to-day that he is Still
satisfied an attempt was made by Carl
ton to poison him. He said that there
were two bottles of whiskey in Carl
tons possession and that the one out
of which he drank just before h was
Ill was taken ava by Carlton.
The one analysed. he said, Carlton left
in the room.
Inspector Cross has had Detective
Sergt. Walden working on the Carlton
case for several days and he said to-
day tht he had discovered a number
of interesting things. One is that Carl
ton has two insurance policies on his
own life for si1, 1000 each. In one of
these his first wife is named as bene-
ficiary and in the other his second wife
Is named.
Seek Clues In Letters.
There is one queer thing about the
death of the second Mrs. Carltox,' said
the Inspector to-day. and that Is that
she should be i'll so long of tetanus.
She was under treatment for weeks, yet
I am told by an eminent bacteriolog!st
that the disease develops in fourteen
days and that four or five days later
death follows. We are not through
with this case yet. by any means"
That Carlton was a Don Juan of ex-
ceptional persistency was proved to-
day by the search of his trunk, full of
letters, which the police rave seized.
There are thousands of these letters,
and 1t will take days to go through
them all. Most of them are from
women to him, but there are also hum
dreds written by Carlton TO women and
recovered afterward in some manner
Carlton had a fad for preserving every
bit of writing in which he was con
cerned, and when the mass of cores
pondence now in the possession of the
police is sorted and arranged in order
IL Is believed that n pretty good line
Will be obtained on his entire life.
Not only was Carlton in correspon-
dence with many women at the same
time, but he was evidently constantly
seeking new women for his attentions.
lie was a subscriber 10 sixteen differ
ent matrimonial agencies, and from
the photographs found IN the trunk.
the police believe that when he got in
correspondence with a woman seeking
n husband, he was in the habit of
sanding the photograph of some good
looking actor 20 her as mis- own.
many Fervid Letters.
There era a great many photographs
of women in abe trunk. and many let
ters are 30 'fervld hat there can be
no doubt or Cartons success with
the women he encountered.
Particularly close scrutiny was given
TO the medicine chest which was found
in Cartons room at No. 1875 SANDS
street to-day. but as far as can be de-
termine1 from the labels on them the
bottles and Walls contain nothing hut
harmless remedies and chemicals like
~paresoric, Jamaica ginger, ammonia,
&c.
The names OF twenty women living in