Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-22
IL|EN|STs ON
PORTER CHARLTON
psoort Says He Is of Oepraved
Mental Organization and VIC
Tim Of Natal Inferlor'ty.
SHOULD TREAT HIM AS INSANE
=, no Put IN Hospital. Kept There
indefinitely, A. He May Become
Menace to Society.

- vort Sent. 22.--The report OF
~ .penists who examined Porter
'a.,,,on. self-confessed murderer OF
Ou' ,,a st Lake como. Italy, last
l has been made public at Jersey
cI,y where Charlton is confined Judge
~. -, the Hudson county court de-
. va yesterday to receive the report
~ ,hs ground that he had no jurisdlc-
.'or as committing court to consider
such a plea. -.
Tho alienists who examined the prs
,,,r were Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton
~ vaward d. Fisher and DR.. w. j.
,.,n,, They declare that Charlton IS
-, aepraved mental organization and
victim Of what Is known 10 stu
1.,,s Of mental diseases as constitu-
tonal lnferority,'
The allenlsts Investigated the per.
small antecedents 81 the prisoner anu
faund that his grandfather was para 70
rol,c. that a FIRST cousin was an epi-
lsptic and that maternal uncle was
rsn nj stubborn and brutal nature
tendencies. A younger brother acct
s,rtaly shot and Killed playmate,
tpt showed no subsequent remorse. on
s1s OCCASION Charlton raised chair To
rrke his mother and ON another vent
a bls blind rage on horse. HE was
h,ciful wrote verse and was dell
ate and 10 a degree sentimental, the
report finds.
Almost from the time OF his meet
ng with his wife. the report states,
Carlton underwent a change. He
became greatly detached, aloof, indif-
+,ent and az times insolent. on the
hy Of the murder 1t appears that
Carlton kept his temper up to GER
hin point. when suddenly he seized a
ualet After the killing he immedi-
rsy hid down near the body and slep,
Until the next morning, He does not
ssm to have been agltated or worried
Placing the corpse In an empty trunk,
i slept most Of the day I'm their bed
rom near the trunk and afterwards
IN me place lie made no serious at
tempt to destroy the evidence OF his
crime His attempts at concealing his
IDENTIFY were silly.
"NhH first seen at the Jail, he was
rsry emotional His fncial muscles
| VEN me seat OF ierky tremors and his
actions were exceedingly nervous. There
Won also cosrser tremors Of his hands
and tongue. When reference WAS mad,
o. tie dead woman. his face contract
| d 10 spasfn. his eyeballs being drawn
IpEard 20 that only the whites wer'
| tseryed, There Is no doubt that n,
,as had hallucinatory visions OF III.
| .sad woman at various times
He feels no remorse or fear Of tbs
law, nor does he seem To be sensible e
| he danger of his position All his dis
ussions OF II are abstract and he can
t1t be aroused TO the Nervousness OF
hat he has done.
His physical condition reveals littl,
q nothing but hysterical stigmata. Hi,
oor sense Is CONSTRUCTED. His deer
Sfexes are exaggerated.
II is our opinion that he Is OF
lnsound mind and liable Ia attacks OF
npusive violence and that his mora
tnse is pathologically depraved The
nurder OF June and his subsequent
ehavior inclines us to think that he
altered from an exhaustive psychosi'
due TO excuses and in way the
nature Of the explosion which was pre-.
eded By an aura His long sleep b,
tie side OF the body has impressed
least one OF use with the idea that
ne act was performed as the result
an epileptic form seizure durnl
which he was not responsible.
He should be taken to hospita
ior the insane and there kept indie.
imtely, for he IL likely at anytime e
De menace 20 society"