Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-24
Slayer Fled from Italy Under an Assumed
 Name and Almost PennileSS.
PORTER CHARLTON CONFESSED THE DEED
Arrested Hoboken He Stepped from the Steamship Princess Irene-He is Only 2I Years Old and Son of Judge Paul Charlton of Washington Says He has No Defense Make.

New York, June 23-Tre Lake Co., sno murder mystery is solved Porter Charlton, an American youth Of good family sought by the police Of two continents, was arrested in Hoboken, N J shortly before noon today as he Etepped from the North German Lloyd liner Princess Irene. In less than an a1oslr he had confessed without tre- .nor that in fit of temper he had beaten his wife into insensibflfty with a rT1aIlet jammed her body in a trunk, and sunk 1t in the silent waters of the Italian lake
 Sne was Mary Scott Castle of San Francisco, a woman eight years his senior divorced wife of Neville H. Cas- tie. g San Francisco lawyer. and a beauty.
 4 Murderer at 21.
 Charlton is only 3I and q son of Eudg6 Paul Charlton, law officer of the bureau of insular affairs at Washing ton and clzssnate of President Taft at Yale. The boy married Mrs. Castle 1n Wilrnin gton, Del. last spring, over both Of cratic temperament, they sail ed for Italy for their honeymoon Mur- Her brought it to an end and her body Was found in the lake by fishermen on Sune 10.
 Fleeing from Justice Under an As-
 sured Name
 Fleeing from Italy under an assumed pame, almost penniIess and shabby or kress Charlton landing ran straight Into the arms of Captain Henry liar fison Scott. U. S. A., the murdered rife's brother. He was taken to police Headquarters at Hoboken, where, after e pitiable collapse, so spasmodic that Ct produced extreme rausea. he regain Gd his ompOsure, and unf11nchlngly R1gned the confession Tonight he is behind the bars in the Hoboken city Bail pending settlement or the cornpl1- eated problem of extra dition brought about by his arrest
 Arrest Due to Brother of Murdered
 Woman.
 Captain Seotts foresight, directed so Accurately that it falls little short of E Ss,rd Prenonltioni s;nnsd FesHined Tn y9nng nrs Wright on Fishers Island, off New f1-ondon, Conn, Captain Scott obtained ,Jf 1rried leave Of absence st l o'clock kf1is morning and went to Hoboken to a<ran the passengers of incoming 1in- Sers- Three Hoboken detectives aided &hirr-
 He accompanied the prisoner to po- lice court, but did not hear the heart- kending confession that poured from Nhe young mans lips Charlton, whose roliapse after arrest seemed due to faar of Captain Scott rather than to kemorse over the crime, refused to make a statement in the army officers sresence, and the latter left the room. Throughout the ordeal Captain Scott bore himself well, but at the request of detectives who had noticed a bulge eeneath his coat, which proved to be pistol he surrendered the weapon without objection
 No Accomplioe in the Crime.
 In his signed confession Charlton de- rlared that no one else had a hand in she death of his wife It was the old story of incompatible teqnperaments and high tempers. After he had told his story in a. rambling way. Chief of Police Hayes condenced it into a type written statement, which he asked the Erisoner to sign It was written on regular court blanks used for deposi- lions In filling out the form Charlton gave his age 21, his birthp place Oma,- fa- his occupation bank clerk. and ffth street, New York. Then followed fhis statement:
 CharIton's Confession in Full
 T am q years old and live at No. sfo4 West Fifty-fifth street New York. ' am q bankcierk by occupation.
 My wife and lived very happily to- kether- She was the best woman in the world but had an ungovernab1e tenn Psr. and so had L We frequently quar- relied over the most trivial matters, Rnd her iangua ge to me was very bad language know she did not know the | kneaniuz Of.
 The night struck her she had been l fu1zrsztng with me. It was the worst | Temper I ever saw her in. I told her if | -Rbe did not cease I would put a stop l Ae t. Sl.e quit for awhile and after a | ttort time renewed her abuse of me. I | Nas dazed. and struck her with a sort | bf naiiet that I had been using to | Ftraighten out the leg of a couch we | had been using.
 struck her two or three times and | fheaght she was dead Then I placed | t,sr body in the trunk and threw the enslfce <n the trunk also.
 At I. o'clock that night I-femoved | fhe trunk from the house to a small | pier near the house and threw it over l board l remained at Mo1trasio the | next day and left the following night.
 T went to Como and then I went to | Genoa where I boarded the Princess | 0rene. four days later. The room in | which I killed my wife was sort of an Dpen-sfr sleeping apartment
 As he appended his signature Chart kon remarked. There's Russian, 4spoiason I see he hes been under eusptcion in connection with this af- 3Rzfr. and want to clear him He was I4he orfsy man of intelligence in the | neighborhood of our villa. The rest of | khcss who came to see were cattle."1
 Don< you knew that the autopsy enowee that your wife was not dead | 7s<hen she was put in the trunkys' one of | the detectives asked the prisoner. Desire to Protect Reputation of Woman
 He Killed.
 For the first time since Captain Scott left the room Charlton lost his eeh control 70, my God. it could not -bes" he cried She must have been Head"
 The youth showed a curious desire % protect the reputation of the women he killed and refused to answer ques- ftons bearing on her life abroad. 'Is hny ~ire.s name going to appear in khis2" was one of hls 4rst questions
 Captain Scott TsIis His Story. Arter Charlton had been led away ao cell Cep ptain Scott sat with his hends cienched ght about his walking kffck and told his story.
 Several days age" he said, T made Up my mind that Porter Charlton roud come back to this country. He fza6 no friends in Europe and it would Be -his natural impulse to come home