Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-22
AL|EK|STS ON
PORTER CHARLTON
Ueuort Says He Is OF 0epraved
Mental Organization and VIC
Tim Of Natal Inferiority.
SHOULD TREAT HIM AS INSANE
s,,ould he Put IN Hospital. Kept There
Indefinitely, A. He May Become
Menace 60 Society.

v.,, York. Sept. 22.--The report OF
,hs allenists who examined Porter
,ssrlton. self.confessed murderer OF
,,s wife at Lake Como, Italy last
n,,s has been made public at Jersey
c,v where charlton is confined. Judge
MAR Of the Hudson county court de-
.u,sd Yesterday to receive the report
:, the ground chat he had no Jurisdic-
,loo as committing court to consider
| such a plea
The alienists who examined the pris-
amer we're Dr. Allan McLsne Hamilton,
mr. Edward D. Fisher and DR.. w. J..
l,tltz. They declare THAT Charlton is
"of depraved mental organization ana
q victim Of what is known to stu
dents OF mental diseases as constitu-
tlonal nferiorlty."
The alienists investigated the per-
sonal antecedents Of the prisoner and
found that his grandfather was para
noaC that a first cousin was an cpl
lsptlc. and that maternal uncle was
q man Of stubborn and brutal nature
md eccentric, immoral and vagabond
Iendencies younger brother acct
sentally shot and killed playmate,
but showed no subsequent remorse on
one occasion Charlton raised a chair TO
strike his mother and on another vent
| "a his blind rage on a horse. HE was
| hndful wrote verse and was deli
| ate and to a degree sentimental" the
| np0rt finds.
Almost from the time of his meet
Fg with his wife. the report states,
| Carlton underwent a change. He
tlame greatly detached. aloof. indlf-
trent and az times insolent on the
| Day Of the murder ID appears that
| Carlton kept his temper up to a GER
! uln point, when suddenly he seized a
uanet After the killing he immedi-
rsly laid down near the body and slept
BniI tho next morning. He does not
sem to have beon agitated or worried.
Fading the corpse In an empty trunk,
b slept most of the day I'm their bed
nom, near the trunk and afterwards
M the place, He made no serious at
tempt 10 destroy the evidence. OF his
dime His attempts at concealing his
identity were silly.
Nhea first seen at the jail, he was
veg emotional. Hts facial muscles |
we're The seat Of jerky tremors and his 1
actions We're exceedingly nervous. There
ven also coarser tremors OF his hands
md tongue. When reference was made
" NE dead woman. his face contract
ID IN spasm, his eyeballs being drawn
Upward so that only the whites were
Observed. There is no doubt that ne
las had hallucinatory visions OF the
cad woman AT various times.
he feels no remorse or fear Of the
aN' nor does he seem TO be sensible TO
No danger OF his position All his dis
eassions OF II are abstract and he can |
it be aroused to the Nervousness OF |
ahat he has done.
HIS physical condition reveals little |
% nothing but hysterlcal stiginata. His ]
alor sense Is CONSTRUCTED Ills deep 4
fheNes are exaggerated
II Is our opinion that he is of /
.hsound mind and liable 20 attacks of !
NpuisVe violence and that his moral
sense is pathologically depraved The
alfder Of June and his subsequent
FhaYlor inclines us to think that he
theted from an exhaustive usvchosis
lue 20 excuses and In a way the |
N!ufe OF the explosion which was pre-
taed by an aura. His long sleep nv |
ne side Of the body has i'm rgressed
4 east one OF use with the idea that
ne act was performed as the result
= an epilepic form seizure during
men ne was not responsible.
ne should be taken TO a hosDital
or me insane and there kent inde-
'N'ely for he is likely at ANYTIME 10
y menace TO society"