The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-27
CALL CHARLTON
A PARANO|AC
AT TIMES he ACTS LIKE A MAD
MAN THEN AGAIN HE is
RATIONAL.
ATHEISTS EXAMINE HIM
Experts Hint That He May Be Dis.
sembiing--Will BE Arraigned
3a New York as Fugitive
From Justice.

FTuU SuSt'SSs
! New York, June 27.---Porter Charl
ton acted like mad man this after
noon during two hour visit of DR.
! William j. .Arlitz alienlst, in the wife
slayer's cell at the Hudson county
ljail in Jersey iCty
The alienist, one of the four hired
| by Judge Paul Charlton, the pris
oner's father, to aid in the fight to
prevent Charlton's extradition to
italy, had gone to the jail to put
Charlton under observation.
When DIR. Arltz emerged from the
| jail he told reporter that Charlton
| had shown all the symptoms of n
paranoiac Charlton's mental condis
| ton, the physician declared, was con
siderably worse than it appeared to
be ON Thursday when he was arrest
ed upon leaving the steamer Princess
Irene.
Charlton laughed and wept, alter
nately while the physician was with
him He would talk coherently for a
time then break out, the physician
said, into strange, unintelligible NUT
Itering. He. dwelt upon his love for
Mrs. Mary CastleiCharlton whom he
killed in their villa at Lake Como,
Italy, then spoke OF affairs of the
heart which he had earlier with other
women.
Is He Dissembler?
Either Charlton is actually insane.
tas he appears to the alienists en-
gagged by his father, or he is a won
derful dssember
"The prisoner appears to be utter.
ly devoid of balance. His brain
seems to be constantly reeling," is the
way DR.. Arlitz puts it.
Charlton has in some respects the
characteristics of Harry X. Thaw. He
ID given W ouuucH OutDuIStS VI ttiu-
per and in these passions he does not
care what he says 1t was undoubted-
| ly in one of these that he killed his
wife.
when | went to Charlton's cell to-
day he did not pay the slightest at
tention to me. | started to ask him
about his early life and suddenly he
broke into a wild laugh. Then he
looked at me strangely moment and
began crying When spoke of his
wife he glared at me and replied:
Il don't want any one to speak CT
her. She was my whole life. Her
name is sacred to me-"
81 tried to get from Charlton a CO.
herent story Of his fight after the
night of the killing. He studied for a
minute and then told me his brain
was all mixed up He recalled leav.
ling for Genoa and recalled taking the
steamer there but why he did it, he
could not tell me.
insisted. 81 just got on the steamer
and came here. didn't intend to
call on my father. | had not any
place to go and just took the steamer,
that's ALL Charlton seemed to talk
lucidly enough for few moments,
but in a iiffy he was iabbering to me
about books and his loves and other
things"
The alenist said Charlton in his
early youth had been given to explo-
sions OF rage that had led him into
trouble on more than one occasion.
What viii Be Done?
What Is to be done with Charlton
| was as much problem today as on
Thursday when he was caught on the
Hoboken pier. County Prosecutor
Garven of Jersey City received tele,
gram from Acting Acknowledgement
Bowers at Washington, saying no pro
ceedings had been taken by the fed,
eral government looking to Charl-
toms eStradition. The matter, he
said, was in the hands Of the secre-
tary of state.
The county prosecutor will arraign
Charlton in the Hudson county court
on Tuesday on the warrant sworn out
| by Consul Di Rosa on Friday, charg-
| ing him with being fugitive from
justice. 1t is the prosecutors idea to
submit evidence before the court that
/ Charlton killed his wife In Italy, and
| he should be turned over to the fed
eral authorities for extradition. Di
Rosa will ask the court at the same
| time to have the prisoner delivered
over to his country. a#
! iCharlton's lawyers, It is expected,
Twill then raise the point Of Charl-
TONS supposed insanity, presenting
the four alienists to bear 1t out. ghey
will ask that he be examined before a
United States commissioning, and be
fore him the question will be thrashed