The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-06-15
VICTIM, ONCE ON STAGE, WAS
THE RELATIVE OF AD.
MIRAL SAMPSON,
BODY IS FOUND IN ITALIAN LAKE
Woman Had Had a Sensational Ca.
reer, Appearing In the Courts
and In Print FIRE.
quentIy.

Como, Italy, June 1.-THE mutilat
ed body of woman, believed to b,
that of Mrs. H. N. Castle, who was
Mary Crittenden Scott of San Jose
CAL, was found in trunk submerged
in lake near the village of Moltrasio
Wrapped about the body was a piece
Of cloth which bore the initials &c
L." and from letters found in the
trunk, written in English, it appears
that the woman in 1906 lived II
Thirty-fourth street, New York City.
The police, basing their opinion or
wounds on the head, evidently made
by blunt instrument, are of the be
lief that the woman was murdered and
have taken into custody a Russian
Constantine Ispolatoff, so years old
whom they suspect of having some
knowledge of how the woman met
death.
Several persons who had known the
woman in life viewed her body said
she had told them she had been mar
ried to Porter Charlton, the son of an
American naval officer. Charlton is
described as being % years old and
is said once to have been student
at the University of PENNSYLVANIA
The woman apparently was about 81
years old.
When the body was found it was
recalled that recently young couple
had occupied villa on the shore OF
the lake. Three days ago they disap
peared and have not since been seen
by the people of the neighborhood
The woman spoke English. Her com
panion attempted French, but obvious.
~ it was not his native tongue
Charlton Second Husband.
San Francisco, June H. - Mrs.
Castle, whose body was found in Lake
Como, was formerly Miss Mary Crit.
tenden Scott, daughter of the late H,
Fl. Scott, at one time the leading coal
merchant of this city. She was the
sister of Lieut.. Harrison Scott, U. S,
A., who married daughter of Ad.
miral Sampson of the United States
navy. About ten years ago she went
On the stage. She never became
u OlllIucuL DIS all actress.
Miss Scott married Neville H.
castle, an attorney, who is now the
United States district attorney at
Nome, Alaska.
On January 10 of this year Castle
secured a divorce from her at Nome
n the grounds of desertion. On April
!, Mrs. Castle married Porter Charl-
on, New York attorney, at Whining
on, Del. 1t was the intention of the
ouple to sail for Europe after the |
CEREMONY.
Had Spectacular Career.
New York, June II. Mary Scott !
'astle was an emotional woman with |
spectacular career. She startled !
Jew York on Aug. 8, last, by shooting
William B. Craig, a New York lawyer,
s he stood on Peacock Alley" at
he Waldorf Astoria. The bullet !
truck a fountain pen and he was un-
injured. Mrs. Castle, trembling and
was taken to a police sta
ion, where between sobs she said she
ad not meant to kill Craig, but that
e had done her great wrong. Craig
aid the woman was in love with him
nd had pursued him. He is married
nd lives in New York.
Husband Also Believed Murdered.
New York, June 11.-Under a Balti.
lore date the World prints an inter-
lew with Judge Charlton, father of
orter Charlton, in which he says that
e believes his son also had been muir.
cred by Italians. The couple, he
aid, were devoted to each other and
le marriage was a hannv one