The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-10
Supreme Court Holds Him
Subject to Extradition on
Wife Murder Complaint
FIRST CHAPTER IN
r FAMOUS CASE ENDS
Discovery Of His wifc's Body in Lake
Como, Italy, Stirred Both Continents
Young Man Located in This Coun.
try, and Confession Followed.

Charlton, must return to italy to an
swer the charge of having murdered
his wife In June, 1910. at Lake Como.
The. supreme court so decided today.
Justice Lurton began delivering the
courts opinion as soon as court as
sembled. He said first no error had
been committed In excluding the evi-
proceedings4in the lower court, and no
error was committed in making the
formal demand for Charlton, because
It was not necessary to the demand at
the ,extradition hearing.
r Stirred Both Continents.
Tho killing Of Mrs. Porter Charl-
have few murders Of recent years.
With the discovery Of her crumpled
body stuffed into trunk and sunk
in Lake Como, italy. where she had
been with her husband to spend her
honeymoon, both continents turned
to search for the murderer.
The first great problem to solve was
the whereabouts Of the twenty one
years old husband who, as a bank
clerk In New York, had married. the
woman. eight years older than him
H. Castle, a San Francisco lawyer.
His father, Paul Charlton. late adviser
Of the bureau Of insular affairs and
former President Taft's classmate, was
firm in the conviction that his son, too,
had been murdered. That question
was solved when Porter Charlton, with
his Initials marked on his suit case,
arrived on a steamer from Italy, a few
days later at Hoboken, N. ]. That
night there appeared a confession
bearing his name.
L Confession Appears
/: my wife and lived happily to-
gether. but she had an uncomfortable
temper. and So had l." read the con-
she had the worst outbreak of temper
/ ever saw, ] told her to keep quiet
Or I would make her keep quiet. Then
she had. another outbreak. took UP
aewooden -mallet. with which had
beam EepaEihy q table, and hit her
|Nns the lneads ana body tWoy or fhrsa
mtIitfht 1 put the body
f !, trunk, dr&sgSd it TO q small pier
ineef the house, Ghd threw 1t over
board
with tina acceptance ,of; the confes-
sion asa solution Of the crime. there
arose almost at once the diplomatic
problem Of Charlton's extradition. 1t
was admitted on all hands that ChArl-
ton could not be tried in the United
States for a crime committed In italy.
His friends, headed by his father, took
the position that he could not be ex-
-tradited to Italy, because Italy had
always refused. under the extradttion
treaty Of 1868 to return italian sub
jects to the United States to answer
for crimes committed here.
Italy, however, made q request for
the prisoner. Secretary Knox parried
by asking II italy thereby meant to
waive its past Interpretation Of the
treaty. Months Of diplomatic ex-
changes followed.
Held Subject to Extradition.
Judge John A. Blair Of the court OF
Oyer and terminer in Hudson county.
N. Y. sitting as federal extradition
magistrate, held Charlton subject to
extradition. The court declined to re-
ceive evidence Of Charlton's insanity
on the ground that under the law Of
New jersey defences could not be
made at a preliminary hearing Of the
nature then before the court. Sec
retary Knox approved that holding.
taking the position that inasmuch as
Charlton could not be brought to an
swer for the crime in this country. the
United States would adhere to its in
depreciation of the treaty by surren-
dering him to italy.
\ ~. last Fight Begun.
Charlton's father then began the
last fight to save his son from extra
dition. He applied to the. circuit
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