The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

| charged with killing his wife, Mary Scott Charlton, when they were spend 1 ing their honeymoon here in June
 1910, has acquired a sufficient knowl- edge Of Italian to avail himself of the privilege under the Italian law to be l the first and the last to address the
 jurors before whom he is to be tried
 on the charge of murder.
 Sympathy for the accused youth l has been demonstrated frequently dur ing his detention in the San Donneno ijail, since extradition from the Unit
 ed States last August. While Char1- 1 ton has been studying the language of l the country his lawyers have been
 working up public opinion in his fa- vor. The effect is apparent Visit
 ors to the Jail are many and privileges l have been granted to the prisoner by l the director and keepers of the jail.
 His meals are served from the outside. Good food and daily exercise in the
 court yard of the Palace of Justice l have kept him in fine health It may be midsummer befere the 1 case is tried; delays being due to ex-4 tended sinvestigations undertaken by both sides
 CharItpns 6 lawyers have been get
 ting in touch with numerous witnesses l in America Twenty Of them have been subpoenaed. and it is expected l that several may appear personally 1 before the Court Of Assizes at Como | nsych o1ogica1 con dition of the accused I " hiIe the case is new in the sense that it is the first time an American l citizen has been extradited and tried | in Ita1y it does mot differ greatly
 from the so-called crimes of passion l so frequent here
 studying the terrible drama, we i have become convinced and will dem
 onstrate.'' say Charlton's s lawyers in a. sketch of the theories they will pursue, 1 that an obscure and inevitable fatal ity preSideS over these awful crimes which go from love to death, from | the idy11 to tragedy, by which a hu-. man life is suddenly cut short by the hand of a creature who loved, and still passionate1y loves. and who after the crime remains terrified, weakened, and stunned by what he has done. in capable of believing that the blood was shed by him.
 Charlton. of weak character, mex perienceds overwhelmed by the artflI attractions of Mary Scott was cap tured by an almost pathologi fas- cination,. had his conscience weaken ed and ensIaVed and became the easy tool of ineoherent and illogical exces- ses.
 To prove this we have added to the documents of the tfiaI the interviews with pr. Procaccini Major in the Roy al Navy, who travelled as Royal Com- missioner aboard the steamer which | brought Charlton from New Y York to 1 Naples. pr. Procaecini, after having ltstudied Charlton for about two weeks, expressed the opinion that at the time of the crime he was in a state of moral infancy. anc therefore l in a condition of not realizing the en- ormity of what he had done.
 In the majority of cases these Ity of the jurors. If rz1e accused is acquitted, the reason will not be found in sentimentaiity or distortion of the human sense of justice but rather4 in the conviction Of the jurors that human agencies should not inf1ict further penalties upon the man before them who, having made a victim Of another, is himself the victim of an in exorable fate.
 We sha1F prove before the Court of
 Assizes that the Charlton drama is i due to an alteration which upset the
 cused. This will clearly appear from the interrogation of witnesses, and our i contention will be further supported
 by the testimony of Italian aIienists.,' E Rome, March 28-The only com
 pIete skeleton, in Italy, of a dog of the Stone Age is now on view in the
 Aneona Museum. The animal fol-, flowing it's master is believed to have roarned the valley of the Pc several
 
 were buried together, and their bones
 are to-day displayed in the ancient
 tomb from which they were unearth- | ed.
 This s.canis paIustris Rutimeyer''= to give this ancient dog it's official ] naIne-evidentIy is a cross between 1.-the dog of to-day and the JackaI. The skeleton of the man also is highly interesting because of the spe-
 cuIiar manner in which it is hunched ,i<.rI,s 1--
 over the abdomen and the arms raised with the hands over the face. It us I shows striking resemblance to the
 skeletons of the same period found in l Egypt
 Ta7i-cabs have made their appear
 ance in Rome, with a scale of prices 1 remarkable for their reasonabIeness 1 In the day time the tariff is fourte cents for the first half mile, and then i two cents for eaEh ads tito lal six hun dred feet. Atfnight these rates are 1 increased to sixteen and three cents I trespectively. Three persons may l ride atsthese prices Extra persons ] above three pay eight cents a trip Two hundred of thesesvehic1es8 already are in operation. and it is probably only a question of time when the well
 known Roman one horse cab will be
 2 thing of the past
 I pr. Luigi Lambon, of London, is l again in Italy to prove his theory that
 peilagra, disease akin to eIephantia-
 sis and sometimes called Italian Iep- rosy. is due to a parasite in potabIe I water
 I Dr. Lambon sswidely known for his
 studies of malaria. He has devoted five years to the study of pellagra and I he has in his employ a man servant | suffering with pellagra on whom he is I ]experimenting to prove his theory l that the disease is neither contagious 1 nor incurab1e- He will devote his | time here this spring almost entirely to the study of infected water in the effort to discover the supposed para
 site and find a means of exterminating I it.
 It has been asserted for years that