Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-26
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS


its labors here last night The pro
sressives won a substantial victory al
though not without hard fight. The
regulars we IN control OF the resolu.
ton CT Bi...' ee and flatly condemned
the initiative and referendum. but the
minority report signed by seventeen
members commended The RI publlcans
for their share in enabling the peo-
pie to vote for IT, The minority report
was accepted
The platform endorses the national
administration favors direct primary
accepts the Payne tariff laws as the
fulfllment of party pledges, commend
Senator Guggenheim for his good work
in congress looking toward the up
building of the state. favors an amend
ment 10 the railway commission law
to include all public utility corpora
tions, adheres to the principles of con
servatism as ennnciated by President
Taft in his st Paul speech, but de
clares that the irrigation resources OF
the state should be left to the people
and denounces the calling of the extra
session of the Legislature
The nominees on the state ticket
are as follows:
Governor-John b. Stephen of FL
Paso county.
Lieutenant Governor-Jas. H. Paint
er of Phillips county.
Justice of the Supreme Court
a James f. Garrigues of Weld county.
Secretary of State-John A. Ramer
OF Larimer county.
Attorney General-Beniamin Griffith
of Mesa county.
Audltor-Thomas l.. Jamison of Las
Animas county.
Treasurer-James f. Collier of Pue.
blo
Superintendent of Public instruction
Mrs. Helen NJ. Wixon of Denver.
Congressman at Large-I N. Stev-
ems of Pueblo.
Railroad Commissioner-Sh Sheridan s.
Kendall of Denver
Regents of the State University
Anna Wolcott of Denver and w. j.
King of Wills Grove
Former Governor Jesse F. McDon
aid was unanimously chosen state
chairman.
DENVER, Sept. PR. G. Brecken-
ridge of Rio Grande county, who was
stricken with appendicitis, while per-
n nf AL loom
state convention yesterday was oper,
ated on last night at St Luke's hos
pital in this city. This morning he
had rallied and his condition is ia
Yorable to speedy recovery. Unless
complications result he will be well,
in comparatively short time.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22-The report
Of the alienists who examined Porter
Charlton. the self confessed wife mur
derer, who threw the body of his wife
in Lake Como in Italy last June, has
been made public at Jersey City where
Charlton is confined. Judge Blair of
the Hudson county court declined yes
terday to receive the report on the
as committing the court to consider
such plea The alienists were DR..
Allan McLane Hamilton, DIR. Edward
D. Fisher and Dr. w. j. Arklitz. They
declare that Charlton is ''of depraved
mental organization and is a victim
OF what is known to students of men
tai diseases as constitutional inferior
ity." The alienists investigated the
personal antecedents of the prisoner
and found his grandfather was para.
noiac, first cousin an epileptic, and
maternal uncle was man of stub.
born and brutal nature and eccentric,
OF immoral and vagabond tendencies" "
A Younger brother accidentally shot
and killed a playmate, but showed no
subsequent remorse. On one occasion
Charlton raised chair to strike his
mother and on another vented his
blind on horse. "He was fanciful,
wrote Jerse and was delicate. and, to
II degree, sentimental" the report
finds.
Almost from the time of his meeting
with the woman who became his wife,
the report states, Charlton underwent
a change "He became greatly detach-
ed, aloof, Indifferent and at times in
solent. One the day of the murder
H. appears that Charlton kept his tenn
per up to a certain point when sud
denly he seized mallet and killed the
woman. After the killing he imme-
diately lay down near the body and
slept until next morning He does not
seem to have been agitated or wor-
ried. Placing the corpse in an empty
trunk, he slept most of the day in
the bedroom, near the trunk. After
ward he left the place. He made no
serious attempt to destroy the evi
dence OF his crime; his attempt at
ccncealing his identity were silly.
when first first seen at the Jail he
was very emotional. His facial mus
cles were set of jerky tremors and
his action nervous. There were also
ceased tremors of his hands anC
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