The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-23
Taken From Liner Which Had
Just Come in From
Mediterranean
GIVES FULL DETAILS
OF GRUESOME CRIME
"She Swore at Me-" Says Signed
Statement, "And | Struck
Her on Head With
Malles."

HOBOKEN. \. j.. June 23.-Por-
ter harlton. confessed murderer of his
wife. Mrs. Mary Scott astle Charlton
at Lake Como, Itai. was arrested to-
day as the Princess Irene. OF the North
German Lloyd Line. entered her dock
In this city.
Ten minutes later In the police
headquarters OF Hoboken he was fac
ing a loaded revolver In the hands
Iof Captain Scott, United states Coast
Artillery, q brother OF the dead wo-
man. Captain Scott was disarmed
before he had time to shoot.
Charlton made a complete confess
sion. in which he admitted that he
killed his wife In a fit of temper
and threw her body into the lake.
tine y. IspoiatofY, the Russian. who
was arrested on the charge of being
implicated In the murder.
Charlton was arraigned before Re-
corder McGovern in the Hoboken Po-
lice Court, and to the clerk he said
ne had no defense and wished TO
make none. He was remanded until
tomorrow morning, and the State
Department at Washington was i'm
mediately Informed OF his arrest.
Burst In Room.
Il
pier at Hoboken at 1880 to-day.
Waiting on the pier were Captain
Scott. Lieutenant Rogers, OF the New
Yor kpolice force: Detective Sergeant
Garrick and Detective Sergeant Vein
thai, of the Hoboken police force.
The officers hurried to the second
cabin and burst into the room occu-
pied by a man who registered on the
steamer as Jack Coleman. Of Omaha,
Neb. He was neatly clad in blue
serge suit and wore a derby hat.
Coleman" who is a slightly built
youth. said. What do you want ?"
Captain Scott Immediately recog-
nized him as Porter Charlton. In
spite of this. the man denied his
Identity and still declared that he was
Jack Coleman. OF Omaha, Neb.
Dictates Confession.
He was then rushed to police head
quarters and taken to the ONCE oil
the chief There he still persisted that
he was Jack Coleman. He was forced
to write his assumed name and II SO
closely resembled his known sigma
ture that when confronted with this
he finally confessed ne was the man
sought.
He said to the chief of police: II
might as well tell you ALL" and then
dictated the following statement:
My name Is Porter Charlton.
live at 204 West Fifty-fifth street II.
New York city. Am twenty-one years
old My home is in Omaha. Neb. /
am a bank clerk by profession. l
lived very happily with my wife. who
was the best woman in the world to
me, but she had q most ungoverna ole
temper and so had l. We quarrelied
frequently. and she used vile language
to me, the meaning OF which, / am
sure, she did not know. The day /
killed her, she had cursed me. and
I told her that IL she did again I
would fix her. Again she swore at
me, and / was In a daze. struck
her with mallet, with which had
been fixing @ couch on which we had
been lying. thought she was dead.
I stuffed her body in trunk and
threw the mallet In after her. That
night at IL o'clock. / dragged the
trunk to 4 pier near Moltrasio, and
threw It into the lake. The following
day. I left Lake Como for Genoa.
Continued on Ninth Paxe.)