Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-10
AMERICAN WHOSE CRIME STAR
TIED TWO CONTINENTS 70 Dc
ExrRAplrEp.
MURDERED BRIDE OF FEW
WEEKS; THREW BODY IN LAKE
Charlton at First Supposed to Have
Been Murdered Also But Shows Up
in America, 10 Arrested, confsssss,
Then Fights Extradition-suprsms
Court Finally Reaches Decision.

Washington. June 10.-Porter Charl-
ton must return to Italy to answer the
charge of having murdered his wife, in
June, 1910. at Lake Como. The su-
preme court 30 decided today.
Justice Lurton began relivering tho
supreme court opinion in the Porter
Charlton extradiction case as soon as
court assembled. He said first that no
error had been committed in excluding
evidence Of insanity at the habeas cor
pus proceedings In the court and that
no error was committed In making the
formal demand for Charlton because 1t
was necessary at the extradiction hear
ing.
Crime Stirred Two Continents.
The killing of Mrs. Porter Charlton
stirred Europe and America as have
few murders Of recent years. With the
discovery Of her crumpled body stuffed
into a trunk and sunk in Lake Como.
Italy. where she had been with her
husband to spend her honeymoon, both
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husband who. as a bank clerk in New
York, had married the woman, eight
years older than himself and the di-
vorced wife of Neville H. Castle, q San
Francisco lawyer. His father, Paul
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midnight 7 mt the bodv IN a tr,,nk
dragged n to q small nier near ths
house and threw It overboard.s
Fouoh+ Extr.di%;on.
With the accentanca ~ the comics.
sion as a solution of the crime there
arose almost at once the dipIomatic
problem of charlton.s extradit,on II
was admired on all hands thar charl-
ton could not be tried in the United
States for a crime committed in Italv
His friends. headed by his father took
the position that he could not he ex-
tradition to italy because Italv had
alwavs refused under tho extraf1ifion
treaty of 1868 to return Italian sub
iects to the United States to answer
for crimes committed here. q
italy. however. made a request for
the prisoner Secretary Knox married
bv asking - 1talv thereby meant to
waive its mast internretatoin ~ me
followed.
Lower Court RuIe..
Judge John A. Blair. OF the court oa
over and terminer in Hudson county.s
New Jersey. sitting as a federal ex-
tradition. The court declined to re-
ce;ye evidence of charlton's insanity
On .hn sround that under the law OF
New Jersey defenses could NOT he
made at q preliminary hearing Of the
nature then before the court.
Secretary Knox approved that hold
in-. taking the position that inasmucY1
as cyharleton could not be brought to
answer for the crime in this country.
tho Tinted States would adhere to it's
interpretation Of the treaty by sur.
rendering him to 1taly.
Father Continues to FIGHT.
cbarlton,s father then began the last
fight to save his SON from extradition.
He ann,;ed to the circuit court OF the
I7n,ted states for New Jersey for his
re,ease on habeas corpus proceedings,
holding that tho treaty did not Justify
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