The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
GHAKLIUN UKALI.
At Least AIienists Say That
He Is.
Their Report Has Been Made
Public.
HE is A DEFECTIVE.
His Grandfather a Paranoiac
Says the Report.
Feels No RemOrse for Murder OF
His Wife.

New York, Sept. 22.-The report OF
the alienists who examined Porter
Charlton. self confessed murderer OF
his wife at Lake Como, Italy, last June.
has been made public at Jersey CITY,
where Charlton is confined. Judge
Blair of the Hudson county court de-
clined yesterday to receive the report
on the ground that he had no jurisdlc-
ton as a committing court, to consider
such a plea
The aiienists who examined the pris-
oner were DIR. Allan McLany Hamilton,
DR. Edward D. Fisher and DR.. w. }.
ArklitZ. .
They declare that Charlton is "of
defective mental organization and is
victim of what is known to students
of menal diseases as constitutional IN
feriously." The alienists investigated
the personal antecedents of the prison
er and found that his grandfather was
a paranoiac, that a first cousin was an
epileptic and that a maternal uncle
was a man of stubborn and brutal ma
ture and eccentric, immoral and Nasa-
bond tendencies younger orother
accidentally shot and killed a playmate
but showed no subsequent remorse. On
one occasion Charlton raised chair
to strike his mother and on announcer
vented his blind rage on a horse.
He was fanciful, wrote verse ana
was delicate and to a degree sentiment
tall" the report finds.
Almost from the time of his meeting
with his wife the report states, Charl-
ton underwent a change. He became
Greatly detached, aloof, Indifferent and
at times insolent. On the day or the
murder it appears that Charlton kept
his temper up to a certain point when
suddenly he seized mallet. AFTER the
killing he Immediately laid down near
the body and slept until the next morn
ing He does not seem to have been
agitated or worried. Placing the corpse
in an empty trunk, he slept most OF
the day in their bedroom, near the
trunk and afterward left the place. he
made no serious attempt to destroy
the evidence of his crime. His attempts
at concealing his identity were silly.
He Feels No Remorse.
when first seen at the Jail. he was
very emotional His facial muscles
were the seat of perkey tremors and
his actions were exceedingly nervous.
There were also coarser tremors OF MS
hands and tongue. When reference
was made to the dead woman, his face
contracted in spasm, his eyeballsA be
ing drawn upward so that only the
whites were observed. There rs no
doubt that he has had halluctnatory
visions of the dead woman at various
times
HE feels no remorse or fear of the
law, nor does he seem to be alive to
the danger of his position. All his dis
cussions of it are abstract and he can
not be aroused to the Nervousness OF
what he has done.
His physical condition reveals little
or nothing but hysterical stigmata
His color sense is CONSTRUCTED. His
deep ref1exes are exaggerated.
1T is our opinion that he is of un-
sound mind and liable to attacks OF
implsive violence and that his mora
sens is pathologically defective. Th'
murder of June and his subsequent
behavior inclines us to think that h
suffered from an exhaustive psychosi!
due to excuses and in a way the ma
ture of the explosion which was pre-
ceded by an aura. His long sleep by
the side of the body has impressed a
least one of us with the idea that thu
act was performed as the result of al
epileptic form seizure, during which
he was not responsible.
He should be taken to a hospita
for the insane and there kept indefn
itely, for he is likely at any time t.
be a menace to society,".