The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-25
AL|ENISTS TO
 DECIDE. FATE
 OF CHARLTON Father Agrees to Abide by Their Report Regarding His Sons Mental Con
 dition Italian Authorities Still Fig uring on Extradition for Youthful Wife Slayer's
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 Jersey City. June 25-Just what means shall be employed to prevent Porter Charlton being extradited to Italy, there to stand trial for the. mur- der of his wife. Mrs. Mary Scott Charl- ton, will be finally determined within the next few days. Everything hinges on the report to Lawyer William D.. Edwards, retained by the boys father to defend him. He has commissioned the four alienists. Dr. A. M. Hamilton, Dr. Charles A. Dana, Dr. Arlitz and Dr. Fisher, to make a thorough exam ination of Porter Charlton. If they unite in declaring that he is insane then every effort will be made to have him sent to an asylum in New Jer- sey for treatment te ;a If on .d. the Se other CT not insane but that he understands what he is doing there will be no op- position to his being taken back to Italy.
 "These physicians have been in- clared Attorney Edwards today. "They have had it made plain to them by Judge Charlton and myself that if the boy is sane within the limitations Of the law we must know it, and we will not fight to keep him from being tried Charlton asks is fair play. He has been told by doctors that his son is ALIENISTS-1-Page - insane. We have secured four of the most eminent alienists in the country to say just what his mental condition is'
 So soon, as the report of the alien ists is made should they agree that Charlton is not of sound mind, appli- cation will be made for a writ of habeas corpus to get him out of the jail here. In this way it Is expected he can be committed to an asylum where he can be properly cared for.
 This will precipitate another fight. Attorneys representing Captain Scott, brother of the murdered woman, are endeavoring to show that Charlton is sane.
 Young Charlton spent a quiet night in his cell in the jail here. He read 'The Last Days of Pompeii"T until the lights were turned out. According to the watchman in the corridor on which out the night and ate his breakfast as If he was hungry Then he spent a couple of hours exercising in the cor rtdor with tho balance of the prison CTS from the same tier. Charlton held himself aloof from the others but
 
 Looking out of the barred window of his cell Charlton can look directly in- to the offices of Public Prosecutor Pierre M. Garvan, who will represent the State in all proceedings against him. Today the jail physician, Dr. Converse. examined Charlton to get a line on his physical condition should It be necessary to treat him while he is held here.
 Rome, June 25-Despite the complica- tions that have arisen in America over the return to Italy of Porter Charlton to answer to the charge of murdering his wife and throwing her body into Lake Como, the Italian Foreign Off, fee is still confident that the youthful slayer will be surrendered
 While the Foreign Office officials refuse to give the reason for this be- lief it is thought that their opinion is based upon information that has, come through official channels from Limited States Ambassador Leishman who is expected to return to Rome today from Lake Como, where he spent many days Investigating the murder. As soon as he resumes his official duties here Ambassador LeiShman will take up the matter of Charlton's extradition with the Marquis Di Sanguiliano, represent ing the Italian government.
 Italian lawyers who have given the matter any thought declare that even If the young murderer is sent back he stands an excellent chance for acquit- tai on the plea now being favored by Lis father that he is insane. Even if he should be brought back and found to be sane, the punishment would not be severe as there were no eye-wit- nesSes to the tragedy and Charltons S story that the murder was the result of sudden passion and therefore with out reconciliation, would permit a nominal nr fhrPo re There is no death punishment in Italy, and the penalty for murders commit ted in a frenzy is very light compared with the same punishment in America. The Italian police are bitter today against United States Consul Gaughy who was sent here by Ambassador Leishman to look after the interests of Americans. They claim that had it not been for Caughy's insistence that a double murder had been com mitted with Charlton himself as one of the victims. they would have been able to arrest the young slayer before he escaped on shtpboard for America. This statement on the part of the po- lice is laughed at by Americans here who point out that young Charlton sailed from Genoa on June g. the day before the body of his wife was drag ged from Lake Como. Had the Ital- Ian police been active, however, they might have had the steamer searched at Palermo or Gibraltar. at both of which points 1t stopped on it's way to New York
 The police insist that the reason they took no such action was that Consul Caughy kept demanding that divers search Lake Como for Charl- tons body. The Consul believed that the Russian. Ispolatoff. had killed both Charlton and his wife and had thrown both bodies into the deepest part of the lake
 No announcement could be secured today as to the time when Italy would make formal demand for Charlton