The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-24

and pace up and down the cell. He | was very nervous and tried to talk i with the guard but the latter was | under orders to say nothing. Finally 1 about one o'clock he fell asleep and slept until 4:45. Then he got up and ] paced the cell until six o'clock when he said he felt hungry. A liberal DOT ! ton of ham and eggs, rolls and cof
 fee was sent in to him and he ate it i all and asked for more.
 1 Charlton welcomed the announce ! ment that he could have bath and i stood under a cold shower for several 1 minutes. He then dressed and asked ! If he could see the morning papers.
 They were supplied to him and he read
 carefully everything printed about his | arrest. He read and re-read his print
 ed confession but followed the in l structions of his lawyer not to talk | further about the case.
 1 He was told to prepare to go to court where he was to be arraigned before | Recorder McGovern on a charge of
 murder and said he was ready at any time. The interview with his father i and brother late last night apparently had a good effect on him.
 Judge Charlton brought with him two letters which he carefully guard ed. They were from Porter and it is believed are incoherent. The elder | Charlton says the letters will go a long ways to prove that his son was insane and had been ever since he was
 married. It developed today that Judge Charlton met his sons wife in New York hotel immediately after they were married. He called on them at Porter's invitation and questioned
 Mrs. Charlton regarding stories he had heard about her past. The result was
 quarrel between father and son and it was partly because of this that the
 couple decided to go abroad for a
 time.
 .'To my mind. said Judge %CfarltorS fioday. ''the most convincing proof that
 my son is insane is the fact that he returned to this country in the man. Ter that he did. His every action since he was placed under arrest shows
 that he is not responsible. He has
 talked with everyone he has met, there
 has been little sense in any of his statements. and when he was told that
 I was coming here to aid him he said: How fiattering.' And his letters to me since his marriage were filled with extravagant statements that would never have come from a man of sound l mind. After Porter informed me of l his marriage last March I furnished
 the money for him to go abroad" | While the relatives of Charlton were | rallying to his defense Captain Henry Harrison Scott. U. s. A., who was re- sponsible for the capture of the mur- derer, was preparing to aid the Italian authorities in punishing the slayer of l his sister. He came over from New York early and conferred with the Italian representatives and turned
 over to them the letter he had received
 from young Charlton asking him to | send notifications of his wedding to certain friends. Scott declared that | this letter contained considerable de-
 tail and that it was coherent in every sentence and would go a long way in offsetting the letters Judge Charlton | planned to produce to show that his ! son was insane.
 Captain Scott declared he was not
 actuated by any desire for revenge in
 running down Charlton but that he wanted to see that justice was done his sisters murderer. He has already | taken steps to have Mrs. Scott Charl- | tons body brought to this country for
 burial in the family plot in San Fran
 CISCO. According to Captain Scott, | the money with. which the CharItons | set up their establishment on the shores of Lake Como had been received by Mrs. Charlton from her former hus-
 band. Neville Castle, who on securing
 a divorce from her settled a large
 amount on her in lieu of a1imony.
 This statement offsets the declaration | of Judge Paul Charlton that he fur
 nished the money
 Como, Italy, June 24.-The Italian | judicial authorities today took the pre-
 liminary steps for the extradition of | Porter Charlton, murderer of his wife ! Mary Scott Castle Charlton who was
 arrested in New York, yesterday. M.
 Guglia, the Kings Procurator. who
 conducted the investigation of the | murder, has sworn to an affidavit
 formally charging Charlton with the | murder. This will. be signed by the | judge and sent at once to the Italian
 foreign office through which the de-
 mand for extradition will be made up-
 on the United States State Depart | ment. The feeling is strong here that
 the demand for extradition will be | compiled with. The news of Charl | tons arrest caused a tremendous sen-
 sation here, notwithstanding the fact | that the Como police were confident | that Charlton sailed for America. It
 was from here he took passage for
 Genoa. If Charlton changes his
 mind about entering no defense it is l believed here that he can escape with | a light sentence on the ground of
 provocation, lack of reconciliation or
 possibly insanity. The local inves- l tigators, including Guglia. are already
 on record as believing that Charlton
 was led to murder through insane jeal- | ouSy of his wife and that the murder was not premeditated
 l Constantine Ispolatoff former Rus
 sian suspect, took the news of Charl- | toms arrest and confession cIarnly l just as he has taken every develop
 ment in the Lake Como tragedy. He
 was questioned by the officers again today in an informal way to see
 whether he would not disclose some | thing new in the light of his complete
 exoneration by Charlton. Ispolatoff stuck by his original story that he was nothing more than a casual ac- | quaintance of the Charltons and had no other theory of the murder than that it was committed by Charlton during one of his quarrels with his wife.
 | Ambassador Leishman and Consul Caughy.- who have been active in | their efforts to show that Charlton was also slain. have left Como. Caughy remained here until the news of Charlton's arrest was received. He