The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-06-10
M TON MUST
CHARGE Of
! : WIFE
I|COURT DECIDED TODAY
4 RETURN TO ITALY
~ ANSWER CHARGE.
I "a America Were Greatly
1Esxi1d 4 When Deed Was Com
nitted in 1910.
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J VSS6iHfton, June 10. The Su-
NS Court today decided that Por-
rgCxatlton must return to Italy to
le1ef u the charge OF numbering
ssWiks i'll Jlne, 1910 at Lake Como.
me Killing Of Mrs. Porter Char
u stirred Europe and America as
I've few mui ders of recent years.
TIL the discoFcry of her crumple1.
,dy stuffed into a trunk and sunk
Lake Conc, Italy, where she had
;en With her husband to spend her
oneymoOn, both continents turned
searchafor the murderer
The nrEt :3..at problem to solve
40 the %Whereabouls vi the twenty
to-yearS-Old ut.oband who, as a
INK clerk in New York, had mar
"a tho Woman, eight years Older
:, A himself and the divorced wife
Nesiife n. Castle, a San Francisco
wyGr. His father, Paul Charlton,
1T adviDer of The bureau of insular
lairs ana Former President Taft's
assmate, was firm in the conviction
- at his son, too. had been murdered
lat question was solved when Por-
- Charlton. with his initials on his
itcase, arrived on a steamer from
:, aly, q few days later at Hoboken,
N j. That night there appeared A
~ nfessi0n bearing his name.
My wife and / lived happily to-
ther, but she had an uncontrola
~ temper, and SO had IT, read the
nfeBoiOn. ION the night of the
P rider she had the worst outbreak
temper ever saw. told her to
ep quiet or l would make her KEEP
let. Then she had another out
eak. 1 took up wooden mallet,
th which | had been repairing
bic, and hit her on the head ami
dy two or three times. At midnight
nut the body in a trunk, dragged it
: small pier near the house and
rev It over board
With the acceptance of the con-
,si0n - a solution of the crime,
= ere arose almost at once the dipio-
tic problem OF Charlton's extra
ion. It was admitted on all hands
lt Charlton could not be tried in
United States for a crime COM
tied Il Italy. His friends, headed
bin father, took the position that
could not be extradited to Italy.
cau0o Italy had always refused,
der the extradition treaty of 1863
return Italian subjects to the
ited States to answer for crimes
nmittsd here.
Italy, however, made request for
! prisoner. Secretary Knox par
d by asking if Italy thereby meant
waive Its past Interpretation OF
, treaty. Months of diplomatic ex-
anges followed
Judge John A. Blair, of the Court
Ter and Terminer in Hudson coun-
New York, sitting as a federal
tradition magistrate, held Charl-
! subject to extradition. The court
= ;lined 70 receive evidence of Charl-
10 innnity on the ground that un-
{ the law of New Jersey defenses
I'D not be made at a preliminary
aring q the nature then before
court.
Ssesetary Knox approved that
ling, taking the position that in.
much q Charlton could not be
sught TO answer for the crime in
. country, the United States would
here . its Interpretation of the
ATTY ~ surrendering him to Italy.
Chaslton's father then began the
,. { nght to save his son from ex-
'difion. He applied to the Circuit
= art Of the United States for New
sey Tor his release on habeas cor
as proceedings holding that the
= atty did not justify the extradition
Y q that evidence of sanity should
: 70 been received. The Circuit
urt refused to grant his release,
: Charlton appealed to the Su-
me Court. 1t was this appeal that
9 acted upon today.