The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-24

New York, June 23.-The Lake Como
Charlton, an American youth of good
family, sought by the police of two
continents, was arrested in Hoboken,
n. j., shortly before noon to-day. as
he stepped from the North German
LLOYD liner Princess Irene. III less
than m hour he hnd confessed without
trei..Df TINT In a lit of temper he is-tt
his wife Into inscnsibility with n
inmmeL her body in a trunk,
and sunk II in the waters of the Italian
lake.
Mrs Charlton was Mary Scott Castle.
OF San Francisco, a woman sixteen
years her husbands senior, divorced
wife of Neville III. Castle, San Fran
cisco lawyer. and beauty Charlton
is only twenty-one years old. and
son OF Judge Paul Charlton, law officer
of the Bureau of Insular Affairs at
Washington, and classmate of Pres
ident Taft at Yale. The boy married
Mrs. Castle in Wilmington. Del. last
spring over his parents. protests. Hi
mated, and both of erratic tempera-
ment. they sailed FOR italy for their
honeymoon Murder brought 1t to an
end. and her body was found in the
lake by fishermen on June To-
Fleeing from Italy under an as
sumed name. almost penniless and
shabby of dress, Charlton, on landing,
ran straight into the arms of Captain
Henry Harrison Scott. u S, A.. tha
murdered wife's brother lie was taken
to police headquarters at Hoboken.
where. after pitiable collapse 50
spasmodic that it produced extreme
nausea. he regained his composure and
unflinchingly signed the confession.
Behind the Bars.
Tonight he is behind the bars in
the Hoboken City Jail, pending set
element of the complicated problem
of eXtraditing brought about by his
arrest
Captain scott's foresight. directed so 3
accurately that 1T falls little short OF
weird premonition. resulted in
young Charltons arrest. Stationed at
Fort Wright on Fishers Island, off
New London. Conn. Captain Scott OBJ
tanned hurried leave of absence at 4
o'clock this morning, and went to Hos
boken to scan the faces of incoming
passengers.
He accompanied the prisoner to Po-
lice Court. but did not hear the heart
rending confession that poured from,
the young mans lips. Charlton, whose
collapse after arrest seemed due TO
fear of Captain Scott, refused to make
statement in the army officers pres
ence. and the latter left the Toon,
Throughout the ordeal Captain Scott
bore himself WELL but at the request
of detectives who had noticed a bulge
beneath his coat which proved to be a
pistol, he surrendered the weapon
without objection,
In his signed confession Charlton
declared that no one else than he had
a hand in the death of his wife. u
was the old story of incompatibility
and high tempers After he had told
his story in rambling way, Chief OF
Police Hayes condensed 1t into a type
written statement, which he asked
the prisoner TO sign, In filing out tho
form. Charlton gave his age as twetl-
ty-one, his birthplace Omaha. his oc-
cupation bank clerk, and his place OF ~
residence 204 West Fifty-fifth Street,
New York
ChnrIton's Staten,ent.ts WI
Then followed this statement.
SMy wife and ! lived happily to-
sether. She Syas the hest woman In y
the world to me, hut she had an un- H
EOvernnble temper. SO had l.. We
frequently quarreled over the most
trivial matters, and her language to
me was frequently SO foul that know
she did not know ti,s meaning of IL.
..The night I struck her she had heep
quarreling with me. She was In the
worst temper had ever seen her In.
7 told her II she did not cease I would
leave her ana pnt stop to H., Z She
stopped Cor a little while ana started
agnin.
~ took maliet which had used
to do some household repairs, and 81
struck her three times. thought slle
was dead, I put the body In = trunk,
In which also threw the mnlles,
"-Ahnpt II o'clock that night maysA