The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-14
DOUBLE MURDER WITH ROBBERY
 FOR A MOTIVE.
Conclusion Reached by Ambas- SadOr LeiShman and Consul >Caughy in Como Trunk
 Mystery
Uncle Sam's Officials Now on Scene Will Have Divers Search the Lake For CharltOn'S
 Body
Especial from United Press.)


 London, June 14.-Upon the re- quest of the Italian authorities the police of England today established a watch at all railway stations and docks in the hope of finding Porter Charlton, the American, whose wife was murdered near Como, Italy. The Italian authorities suspect that if Charlton is still alive he will try to return to America by way of Eng land.
 Como, Italy, June 1.-The police have almost despaired of getting any clue to the murder of Mrs. Mary Scott Charlton, whose mutiliated body, Jammed into a trunk, was f1shed from Lake Como on last Friday, from Con stantino Ispolatof, the Russian sus- pect under arrest.
 Ispolatoff was in the sweat box nearly all night and was subjected to as searching an inquisition as 1t was possible for a half dozen of the best detectives in this part of the country to make, but all to no avail. Once during the trying ordeal Ispolatoff showed slight embarrassment or con fusion. He answered every question with the utmost ease and told the story of his movements and his
 
 it, with the Charltons that did not present single vulnerable spot He showed that he had not written the identical letters, one of which had been addressed to himself and the other of which was found in the Charlton Villa, through which it was said that he had sought to establish an alibi for himself. He refuted the statement of the fisherman that he had made inquiries as to, the deepest part of Lake Como and proved that jewelry and money found upon him were his own property.
 we have not yet been able to get anything tangible from Ispolatoff,' said an official today, "but he is very shrewd man. The way in which vinces us that he has been under fire before. We shall continue to hold him for we are convinced that he knows much more about the crime than is now apparent"
 Ispolatoffs defense was so strong that the detectives suddenly switched their tactics and told him that they were convinced that Charlton killed his wife and asked him whether he could not furnish them with the clue to the murderer. Aside from saying that he knew Charlton was jealous of his wife and frequently worked himself into q frenzy through heavy drinking, the Russian threw no addi- tional light on the case.
 United States Ambassador Leish- man and United States Consul Caughy at Milan are now on the scene. At Leishman's request divers will be brought to Lake Como today and be- gin searching the part of the lake where the body of Mrs. Charlton was found. Leishman and Caughy are con- vinced that Charlton was murdered.
 Its a plain case of double mur- xx-if ha Caughy said to the United Press cor respondent. Had the murder taken place in an American city the chances are that the murderer would have been apprehended long before now. All the money and valuable jewelry peared. Not the slightest trace of Charlton has been found. We have sifted all the stories that he was seen in various places after the crime and have found them absolutely unreli- able. The report that Charlton had sent messages to certain persons, fol- lowing the discovery of his wifes body is absolutely false. Porter Charltons body is somewhere in Lake Como. There is nothing to bear out the the ory that Charlton killed his wife and then committed suicide
 The finding of a fragment of a mans coat in Lake Come which yes terday promised starting developments has so far been of no value as it has not been shown that the coat, to which the fragment belonged, was Charlton's. No one ever saw Charlton wearing a coat of the pattern found. The police are greatly handicapped in their solution of the crime by the flood of theories that has poured in upon them. Under the influence of such a mystery crime, the Italian mind is aroused to weird theories.
 Making allowances however for this state of mind in the natives around Moltraise, where Charlton's villa was located, the police have found enough that is tangible to cause them to adopt a new tack temporarily in their inves- tigation. They are becoming more and more convinced that either Charlton or his wife, probably both of them, was insane.
 Stories of wild orgies in the Charl- ton villa of midnight dances on the lawn with Charlton and his wife in the scantiest attire, and of weird eX- ercises that savored strongly of Orien- talism have been told to the police by country folk and villagers who happened to pass the Charlton late at night The theory of insanity is strengthened by the stories of de bauchery A member of the official staff of Count Guiglie who is super intending the investigation said to the United Press today:
 ''The CharltonS were a strange cou- ple. They didn't do anything in a normal way. I think that Mrs. Charl- ton was insane and that her husband, probably to humor her possibly became unbalanced and adopted her whimsi- cal ways. That she was insane was
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