Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-21
NEW CHARGE AGAINST CARLTON
Police Will Lay Case Before the Dis
trict Attorney.

Frederick E. Carlton, whose adventures
are said to extend across the country and
into Europe, twice indicted for grand lar
ceny within a fortnight, and suspected of
having murdered two wives, was confront
ed in the Raymond street JAIL Brooklyn,
yesterday by woman who declares she Is
his wife. The police say she is the only
living wife of the alleged "Bluebeard' they
have been able to interview thus far
When Carlton denied her an acauaint-
ance she tainted.
When revived she went before Inspector
Cross and under oath made a statement
that is said to confirm the most extrava-
CANT of the surmises entertained about the
prisoner. AS result of the interview
charge of swindling insurance companies
by the burial of dummy" bodies, 1t Is SAID,
will at once be formulated for presentation
to the grand jury.
The woman who made the sensational
disclosures about Carlton was Mile Peter
son of No. 34S Palisade avenue, Jersey CITY,
who says that for a number of years she
lived with the prisoner as his common law
wife, and that such she was known as
Mrs. ]. Edward Cartier. Her story as out
lined by herself TO the police Is one of the
most remarkable in the whole Carlton mys-
terry She told of how the man wooed and
won her, and then having induced her to
insure her llge, with him as the beneficiary,
he deserted her, taking with him the life in
surance policy. Until yesterday she had
not seen him in four years.
Inspector Cross yesterday directed Detec-
tive Sergeant Walden to arrest woman
as an accomplice in an alleged plot to black
mail women of Frederick c. Carlton under
indictment for grand larceny and under
suspicion of having poisoned two wives.
The Matchmaking plot, 1t Is said was
frustrated by Cartoons arrest.
Miss Marie Bresln of Wyckoff street,
Brooklyn, whose likeness Carlton threat
ened to work into photograph In such
-t1nxx bar in, l1C
If she refused to marry him, conferred with
Inspector Cross and Anthoay Comstock
yesterday. Carlton is to be prosecuted on
this charge.
Carlton was indicted yesterday on a sec
ond grand larceny charge based on the &C
sation of DR.. Charles Goldsmith of SIAM
ford, Conn, that Carlton drugged and rob-
bed him of $3.50 in cash and jewelry in
the st. Claire Hotel, Park Row, in June,
1900
The inspector communicated yesterday
with the police of all the cities where 1t is
known Carlton has been under various
aliases, asking them to send all information
possible of him. He said last night that
a result of his Investigations a charge of
bigamy will probably be made against the
prisoner.
Evidence of this mans wickedness is
pouring in from all over the country" said
the inspector. II am amazed at the nerve
with which he has perpetrated his various
plots. Robbery, check raising. blackmail-
ing and several other crimes and offenses
are alleged against him. All l can say is
that we seem to have made a wonderful
catch from a police viewpoint.
THE manner in which this man got wo-
men under his control is nothing short of
astounding. In almost every one of the
score or more cities where we have traced
him he seems to have attracted women.
Some We're eminently good and respectable
and some were not. He seems TO have left
trail of broken hearts.
1t seems that many of the women he
married or became very friendly with had
money when he met them and not so much
after he deserted them. He has had three
or four wives that we know of, and proba-
bly, several more"
Inspector Cross found some more drugs
winch he thinkS~-ares. poisons in enc Of
cartons trunks yesterday and sent them
to chemist for analysis.
inspector Cross has asked the police of
Cornwall-on-the-H Hudson to send him par
uculars of the alleged forgery of a $40
check on the Highland National Bank of
that place, which Carlton is said to have
committed in 1894. shortly after he married
Miss Wilette Sherwood Bird of Westwood
n. I.
Cartons wife at Gordon, Ala, whom he
married under the name of Edward Martj-
nee, has not been located by the BROOKLYN
police. This wife has asserted that Carl
ton married again after deserving her and
without the formality of a divorce