The Cairo bulletin., 1910-06-27
At TIMES HE ACTS LIKE A MAD
MAN THEN AGAIN HE is n
RATIONAL.
Al|EN|STS EXAMINE HIN.
Experts Hint That He May Be Dis.
sembling--Wiil ne Arraigned
.as New York as Fugitive
From Justice.

New York, June 27.--Porter Chari
ton acted like mad man this after
noon during a two hour visit of Dr.
William ]. Arlitz alienist, in the wife
slayer's cell at the Hudson county
| Jail in jersey iCty.
The alenist. one of the four hired
by Judge Paul Charlton, the pris
oners father, to aid In the fight to
prevent Charlton's extradition to
Italy, had gone to the Jail to put
Charlton under observation.
When Dr. Arltz emerged from the
Jail he told reporter that Charlton
had shown all the symptoms Of 4
paranoiac. Charlton's mental eondi'
ton, the physician declared, was con.
siderably worse than 1t appeared to
be on Thursday, when he was arrest
ed upon leaving the steamer Princess
Irene.
Charlton laughed and wept, alter
nately while the physician was with
him He would talk coherently for a
time, then break out, the physician
said into strange, unintelligible NUT
tering. He dwelt upon his love for
Mrs. Mary CastIelChariton, whom he
killed in their villa at Lake Como.
italy. then spoke Of affairs OF the
heart which he had earlier with other
women.
Is He a Dissembler?
Either Charlton is actually insane.
as he appears to the alienists en-
gagged by his father, or he is won
derful dissembler
THE prisoner appears to be utter.
ly devoid of balance. His brain
seems to be constantly reeling," is the
way DR.. Arlitz puts it.
Charlton has in some respects the
characteristics of Harry X. Thaw. He
is given to sudden outbursts of tenn
per and in these passions he does not
care what he says 1t was undoubted-
ly in one of these that he killed his
wife.
when | went to Charlton's cell to-
day he did not pay the slightest at
tention to me- started to ask him
about his early life and suddenly he
broke into wild laugh. Then he
looked at me strangely moment and
began crying When spoke of his
wife he glared at me and replied:
81 don't want any one to speak CT
her. She was my whole life. Her
name is sacred to me-
81 tried to get from Charlton CO.
herent story of his flight after the
night of the killing. He studied for a
minute and then told me his brain
was all mixed up He recalled leav-
ing for Genoa and recalled taking the
steamer there but why he did it, he
could not tell me.
"I wasn't afraid of anything he
insisted. II just got on the steamer
and came here. didn't intend to
call on my father. had not any
place to go and just took the steamer,
that's ALL. Charlton seemed to talk
lucidly enough for a few moments,
but in iiffy he was iabbering to me
about books and his loves and other
things" s @
The alienist said Charlton in his
early youth had been given to explo-
sions of rage that had led him into
trouble on more than one occasion.
What VIII BE Done?
What is to be done with Charlton
was as much problem today as on
Thursday when he was caught on the
Hoboken pier. County Prosecutor
Garven of Jersey City received tele-
gram from Acting Acknowledgement
Bowers at Washington, saying no pro
ceedings had been taken by the fed
eral government looking to Charl-
toms extradition. The matter, he
said, was in the hands of the secre'
tary Of state.
The county prosecutor will arraign
Charlton in the Hudson county court
on Tuesday on the warrant sworn out
by Consul Di Rosa on Friday, charg'
| ing him with being fugitive from
Justice. 1t is the prosecutors idea to
submit evidence before the court that
Charlton killed his wife In Italy. and
he should be turned over to the fed
eral authorities for extradition. ID
Rosa will ask the court at the same
time to have the prisoner delivered
over to his country. It
Charlton's lawyers, It is expected
lwill then raise the point Of Charl
!. toms supposed insanity. presenting
the four alienists to. bear it out 1hey
will ask that he be examined before .
United States commissioning, and be
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