The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-20
CHARLTON May Be TA[YS 1AAW:
ACQUT7AL OR MADA0USE HIS FATE
Wife Murderer and Stanford White SLAYER Much Alike in
Temperament-Dead Woman was Worldly, and Twice
the Age of Prisoner-His Brother Traced Hin.

In the search. Suppose We GO to her
pier and make a search? have a
feeling, that we will find him on
board.".
linen Marks Betrayed Him.
Despite the "sneers " the police.
Capt. Scott proceeded to the pier Of
the Princess Irene. The search had
not been in progress more than half
an hour when Capt. Scott saw a man
standing on the deck whom he said
he felt certain was the fugitive. Cant.
Scott approached the stranger. who
denied Indignantly that he was
Charlton. The police. however. open
ed his suit case. and on some of the
linen contained therein they found
the initials Of Porter Charlton.
h ma was arrested and taken to
police headquarters at Hohoken.
where. he broke down. and not only
confessed that he was Porter Charl-
ton. but confessed that he had muir
dered his wife. placing this latter adj
mission in writing.
First Quarrel at Naples.
Charlton said that he and his wife
had been Supremacy happy until they
first quarrel. Domestic spats then
followed thick and fast. During n
of the arguments in their villa.
Charlton said, he had hecome so in
furiated that he had seized a mallet
he had been using in repairing a
broken sofa and struck his wife on.
the head with 1t. Overcome with ter.
o at what he had done. Charlton
stuffed the body into a trunk. bound
1t In. and at night cast 1t into Lake
Como. To make the horrible details
of the crime even more terrible. ply
sicians who performed the autopsy
upon Mrs. Charlton said that she had
not been killed by the ma!let blow,
but had been cast alive into the. lake
to die of suffocation.
With the arrest Of the young man
from extradition, to Italy began.
Judge Paul Charlton. formerly Judge
of the United States court at Porto
Rico. and a. personal friend Of Presi-
dent Taft, brought all of his influence
and money to bear in an effort. to
save his son. The fight vas carried
to the United States supreme court.
and that august tribunal decided that
the treaty made by the United States
and that Charlton would have to go
back to stand trial.
No Death Penalty in Italy.
Italy has no capital punishment.
Imprisonment for life is its supreme
punishment. This amounts to about
the. same thing, as capital punish
ment in the long srun. Solitary con-
f1nement in a dungeon soon leads to
insanity or. consumption. Prisoners
sentenced to such a terrible penalty.
however. usually drag along for ten
or twelve years in horrible misery
before they die. !
There are two chances for Poretr
Charlton. One is that he will be ac-
Quilted altogether. as his lawyer,
Judge Palmiea. a %naturalized Amer
lean, seems to think will be the case.
and the other. that he will be found
insane and locked up in a madhouse.
There he would nhave some chance
of subsequent escape, and would re-
ceive better treatment:
Altogether itsrnAsfe be more difficult
to convince an Halian = jury that
Charlton had dimentia adolescence
when he slew his wife than it was
to convince an American jury that
Harry Kendall Tkaw suffered from
emotional insanity when he shot
Stanford White.