The San Francisco call., 1910-06-14
.LEISHMANN IS
. HELPING solve
COMO MYSTERY
Divers Recover CharItOn's Coat,
Adding to Theory of
Double Murder
One Story Says Italian Police
Believe Young Husband
Is in England
Results Expected From Third
Degree Now Being Given
Strange Russian
LSpeoiaI Gable to The Call

Especial Gable to The Call
LONDON. June I3.-The Daily Chron-
icle's Milan correspondent says:
The United States government is
prosecuting very energetic investiga-
-tions in the Lake Como mystery Leish-
mann, the American ambassador at
> Rome, has been ordered to take the
matter in hand personally, and on ar
rival here this morning he proceeded to
= Como in company with Caughy, the
American consul at Milan.
'Momentous results are expected from
?, the initial secret cross examination of
: Ispolatof, the Russian friend of the
{ .Charltons. arrested on suspicion, which
=. began this afternoon and is likely to
= be prolonged without respite until mid
!. asght.
: Is Charlton in England
:. The Rome correspondent of the
Morning Leader reports:
3 The police are convinced that Charl-
Z. ton is now in England and the London
police have been wired from Como
asking that inquiries be made there.
Reports of his having been seen at
.-Lugno and Lucerne are now discov-
:.ered TO be false. The police have also
.ascertained that at Venice the couple
occupied separate rooms and at the
Hotel Europe, and passed as brother
and sister.
The American consul at Milan, who
goes to Como daily believes the couple
were murdered by local burglars. The
police are striving to identify a mys-
terious veiled lady dressed in black,
who disa ppeared the day before the
!. murder. again returned after the mur-
der and then went to Switzerland.
Wore Mems Clothes
Express telegraphs:
Residents Of Moltrasio say Mrs.
Charlton was often seen walking about
: the qei hbOrhood wearing mems clothes
= g.. a mysterious cave has been Found
near the villa where a cart and some
wv orkmen's tools were hidden. It is
believed that this cart may have been
used to take the trunk to the lake.
Heard to Quarrel
- The Daily Mairs correspondent wires:
'.The life OF the Charltons at Mastrasio
was quiet but in many ways peculiar.
They rose very late in the day, went
: out very rarely and received no one,
says Ipsolaton. It is said that the
lady INDUCED very freely in alcohol
land before eating used to drink large
glass Of rum or other spirit.
"On May Il. at the Hotel Suiesse,
after dinner, they quarrel, and the
noise was such that a waiter asked
them TO calm themselves. Charlton
.thereupon ordered a bottle of cham
pagne. They emptied it and peace ap-
peared to be restored Soon afterward.
however, they quarreled again so furi-,
ously that the manager had to inter
fere.
The woman was heard shrieking
with pain or fright It was then
a. m, and as other visitors in the hotel
complained the manager requested the
couple to leave.
CharItOn'S Coat Found
COMO, Italy. June 13.-A part of a
mans coat, declared by some of his
fishermen neighbors to have belonged
to Porter Charlton, was found in Lake
Como from the waters of which the
body Of his murdered bride, Mary Scott
Castle-Charlton, was recovered last Fri
day. Todays discovery strengthens the
theory Of many that a double murder
was committed. This is the view of
Charles IA. Caughy. the American consul
at Milan. Earlier evidence that both
+. Of the Americans were killed. presum-
ably for their valuables, was found in
the blood spattcred bed at the villa
which they. occupied.
It is declared that the seven wounds
found on the woman's head did not
release any such quantity of blood as
left its stains in their lake shore home.
Constantine Ispolatoff, the chance ac-
Suaintance Of the charitons, from whom
they leased the villa, remains in Gus
tody. He maintains his self-possession
ana insists that he knows nothing as
TO how or by whom the crime was COM
mitted
This discovery it was learned that
the police investigators had determined
that the stone with which the trunk
was weighted had been taken from the
wall Of the aqueduct on the shore of the
lake The stone had been removed from
spot in the wall opposite the point
which the trunk was submerged.
- Following up this clew the uolice
discovered that another stone. exactly
similar in size, had been recently dug
out OF the wall This is held to be
significant.
The second stone has not been To-
Gated. and the police will not he snr-
prised II they should find that il was
used to drag below the surface Of the