The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-07-21
NO PUNISHMENT IS
BELIEVED LIKELY
FOR WIFE SLAYER
Self Confessed Brutal Murder
er May Go Free on the
Technicalities of
Law.

New York, July 19.-As a result OF
the failure of the state department to
take any step looking toward the re-
turn of Porter Charlton to Italy to an
swer in the courts there for the muir
der at Lake Como of his wife. Mary
Scott Castle Charlton, the question Of
whether or not IN American citizen
ran murder another American citizen
in Italy and find a safe refuge in this
country, is to be put squarely up to
the United States government.
Not only is the family OF the MUIR
dered woman angered, but a number Of
prominent lawyers, who nave studied
the case carefully, are also aroused over
what they call the most remarkable at
titude ever taken by one government
toward another.
They point out hat If the United
States persists in it's refusal to extra
dite Charlton it will establish an
amazing precedent.
Through his attorney, Emil Fuchs,
Captain Henry H. Scott, U. S. A, a
brother of Mrs. Charlton, will make a
formal demand on Washington within
q few days for a definite statement of
the state departments intentions.
"If Charlton ts liberated because Of
the refusal of the United States to ex-.
AouitS llliIJ cdlu captain SSolI
day, there will be no safety for any
one. A man wishing to get rid of an
enemy can arrange it by Turing him to
ITALY,
$50 far as the claim of the govern
ment that Italy has refused to sur
render Italians who have committed
crimes here is concerned" said Mr..
Fuchs yesterday, 81 want to SAL that
italy has a most effective way of
dealing with that kim of thing. In
stead of sending criminals back here
hey try them in Italy and punish them.
The Italian government thought the
same system was practiced here"
1t is intimated by friends of the
Scott family that influences have been
brought to bear on the state depart
ment to prevent the extradition Of
Charlton. 1t was said yesterday that
his father, Judge Charlton, is a very
close friend of President Taft.
The leave Of absence which Captain
Scott got from Fort Wright has ended.
Before leaving the city Captain Scott
issued a statement in which he aid he
believed the American government, in
the end, would see that justice was
done.
New York, July 19.-The possibility
that DR.. Hawley Harvey Crippen,
whose arrest the London police have
requested, might have slipped over to
france n sailed last Saturday on the
steamer La Lorraine, from Havre to
this country, caused a search of the
French liner to be undertaken when
h reached port today. The search
revealed no trace, however, of the
American physician, in whose house in
London the body of a woman believed
to be that Of his wife. Belle Gilmore,
the music hall singer, was recently
discovered and who was believed to
have fled to America in with
Ethel Clare Leneve, his st~enographer.
The police continued their watch on
other incoming liners in the hope OF
obtaining a trace of the fugitive.
st. Louis, July 19.-The marriage H.
cense records of 1891 and 1892 do not
contain the name Of DR.. Hawley H
Crippen. A woman who lived as g
neighbor of DR.. Crippen and his wife
remembered them chiefly for their great
display Of mutual affection. Mrs. Grip
pen did not show a desire to make the
acquaintance of her neighbors.