Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-14
Hunt For Woman.

Milan, Italy, June IA woman Of
mystery is today being sought by the
Italian police in connection with the
Charlton trunk mystery. This woman
disappeared Immediately after the ar
rest of Spotaloff, the Russian, on sHs-
pieion Of having slain Mrs. Porter
Charlton and possibly her husband,
who, alive or dead, cannot be found.
The hunt for this woman adds a new
problem to the perplexing mystery.
What part she is supposed to have
played In the crime the police will not
explain, but that she is badly wanted
Is clear from the painstaking measures
which have been adopted to apprehend
her.
On June 8 the woman went to the
Hotel Jolanda in the village of Ger
nobbio, not far from the Charltons'
former residence, the Villa Moltraiso,
and registered as Elfrieda Duchers,
age thirty-one, Hamburg. She spoke
broken variety of French and, as the
proprietor of the hotel noticed, her ac-
cent was not that of a German woman.
This was on the day before the dis
coyery Of Mrs. Charlton,s body In the
trunk.
On that night, so the proprietor of
the JOlanda has sworn, and he Is back
ed up by one of his chambermaids, Ell
frieda Duchers left the hotel early,
and she did not return to her room
that night The bed was not disturbed
the next morning when the maid went
| to tidy up the room.
The next day the news came to the
hotel of the finding of the trunk in the
lake and almost coincidentaily the
woman returned in a carriage. She
appeared to have heard the report al
ready, and she rushed excitedly to the
proprietor, clamoring In her broken
French, which was not at all GermanIt
In it's faults, to be told all about the
finding OF Mrs. Charlton's body.
| elias the murderer been arrested
Have they got him?' were her iu
sistent questions. She remained on
the piazza OF the hotel all morning
bending to catch the last scrap of gos-
sip that passed from mouth along the
roadway. Shortly before sundown one
of the servants who had been over tho
ground from the Villa Moltraiso to the
waters edge came running up to the
hotel with the news that Constantine
Spolatoff, the Russian, had been ar
rested over the border.
The woman hSaring the news be
came greatly agitated, 50 the proprie
tor Of the hotel Jolanda wound up tht
story he had told the procurator.
"She called for her bill Immediately
and In doing SO she spoke two Engllst
words, How much?'. Then she In
quired what was the first train on thu
st. Gothard railroad that would carry
her to Luzerne. She went In hurry
and with excitement.
The proprietor added that he had as
sured the procurator that In his belize
the woman who had made the hurried
visit and the more hurried departure
was an American.
Dragging of Lake Como has failed 81
far to result in the discovery OF \Portel
Chariton's body, but coat belonging
to the missing man was found. Be
life deepens among the searchers tina
the body is somewhere beneath tht
waters of the lake. 60
The American ambassador to Rome
John G. A. Leishman, and the Amer
lean consul there are here today. 1t Il
said that the ambassador came at tn,
suggestion of the state department a
Washington with the purpose of push
ing the investigation into the murde
Of Mrs. Charlton. Mr.. Leishman will
remain temporarily as the guest o
tome friends at Moltrasio. At his re
quest divers will explore the bottom
Of the lake. This Is difficult task, a
the water where the body was foun'
is fifty feet deep and shelves off to
T ward the center so sharply that 1t ha
never been fathomed.
An autopsy performed upon the bed
OF Mrs. Charlton is said to have re
lvealed the presence Of drugs. 1t ha
been learned however, that the We
man was victim OF the cocaine habit