Arizona republican., 1913-03-16
AGAIN TRY ID
 SAVE CHARLTON
Final and Determined Eff fort Will Be Made to Prevent EXtraditiOn of American to Italy on Charge of Murder

WASHINGTON. March 15-A final and determined effort to save POr- ter Charlton from being extradted to the Italian authorities demanding that the prisoner be turned over to them to be tried for the murder of his wife, Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at Lake Como, Italy, on June g, 1910. will be made when his case comes up for argument before the United States supreme court next week. The case was taken to the supreme court on an appeal from the action of the United States circuit court at Tren- ton. N. J., in denying a writ of habeas corpus sued out by Charlton's father to review the proceedings before County Judge John A. Blair, sitting d committing magistrate. who held Charlton for eXtradition.
 The argument in the supreme court will hinge largely on the con- tentiOn of CharltOn's counsel that +he
 treaty between the United States and
 Italy made in 1868 has been nuliified
 by the refusal of Italy to permit the
 extradition to this country of Italians accused of crime and that consequent
 ly the United States is not compelled to deliver Charlton over to Italy An
 other crucial question to be argued
 will be whether an error was commit
 ted by the committing magistrate in
 refusing to allow CharltOn'S counsel
 to prove that the prisoner was of
 unsound mind at the time of the com
 mission of his self-confessed crime.
 Mr. GarVen who will argue the case
 for Ihp Italian prosecutor in the proceedings before
 Judge Blair and succeeded in keep
 ing out all evidence tending to show
 that Charlton was insane His term
 as prosecutor recently expired and
 Governor Wilson appointed Robert s
 Hudspeth to succeed him.
 Porter Charlton is the son of Paul
 Charlton, who resigned his position as
 United States judge for the district
 of Porto Rico d short time after the
 arrest of his son. Young Charlton re-
 ceived fairly good education and,
 before he had reached his twentieth year, found employment clerk in
 the National City Bank on Wall
 street. During the winter of l909-l0
 he became acquainted with Mary Crittenden Scott Castle, a former
 actress who had just been divorced
 from her husband. and after a court
 ship they were married in Philadel
 phia on March 12, 1910. For several
 months they lived at the Hotel Wood
 ward in New York, before they start ed on a trip to Europe.
 They made their first stop after reaching the Italian lake region. at Cernobbio, where they took lodgings at the Hotel Suisse They quarreled so much however, and there were so many violent domestic scenes between them that the manager of the hotel was forced to ask them to leave. The young couple rented the Villa Leg nazzi. above NoltrasiO on Lake Como, where their quarrels continued to the last On June 8, 1910 villagers pass ing the villa found it apparently
 closed Neither Charlton nor his wife were seen in or near their villa. On l. the morning of June 10. fishermen found in Lake Como. not far from the Villa Legnazzi, a trunk which contained the body of woman who had apparently been murdered. The 1 body was identified as that of Mrs. 1 Charlton and. suspectng that the woman had been murdered by her | husband, the authorities notified the I police throughout Italy to be on the lookout for Charlton and to arrest l him when found
 | Having murdered his wife with q
 mallet and having disposed of her | body by throwing it in the lake. 1 Charlton, carrying only a suitcase with ! a few clothes, left Moltraso and i went first to Como and then to Genoa. | uh ha nat inc l ship Princess Irene, bound for New | York The steamer touched at Naples,
 Palermo and Gibraltar and at each | port detectives made search for 1 Charlton, who traveled under the name 1 of Jack Colman, without detecting l his identity.
 l It was due to the efforts of Capt. l Henry Harrison Scott, the brother of l the murdered woman, that Charlton | was apprehended upon the arrival of 1 the Princess Irene in HOboken. Charl- 1 ton at first denied his identity. but l in the face of positive evidence dis
 covered in his baggage. not only ad l mitted his identity but made full | confession of his crime. He claimed l that both he and his wife had un- 1 governabe tempers and constantly | clashed Becoming exasperated on one | occasion, he killed her.
 Charltons father gave up his posi- l ton in the nsuar department and 1 came to his sons assistance, by en- gazing several prominent lawyers to defend the young murderer. It is claimed by Charlton's lawyers that the young man is cOnsumptive and | is suffering from periodic attacks of l insanity and it is believed that they | will mainly rely upon ire plea of in- | sanity to prevent the extradition of Charlton to the Italian ;olice author tiles.