Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-28

has been demonstrated frequently
during his detention in the San Dom
memo Jail, since eXtradition from the
United States, last August. While
Charlton has been studying the
language of the country his lawyers
have been working up public opinion
in his favor. The effect is apparent
Visitors TO the jail are many, and
privileges have been granted to the
prisoner by the director and keepers
of. the Jail. His meals are served
from the outside. Good food and
daily exercise in the courtyard Of
the Palace of Justice have kept him
in fine health
1t may be midsummer before the
case Is tried, delays being due to ex-
tended investigations undertaken by
both sides.
Charlton S lawyers have been get
ting in touch with numerous wit
nesses is America. Twenty of them
have been subpoenaed, and 1t is eI-
pected that several may appear per-
sonally before the Court of Assizes
at Como to contribute their testimony
as to the psychological condition OF
the accused.
While the case is new in the sense
that il is the first time an American
citizen has been extradited and tried
in Italy, it does not differ greatly
from the so-called crimes of passion
so frequent here.
studying the terrible drama we
have become convinced, and will
demonstrate" say Charlton's lawyers
in a sketch of the theories they Will
pursue. s'that an obscure and in
evitable fatality presides over these
awful crimes, which go from love to
death, from the idyll TO tragedy, by
which a human life is suddenly cut
short by the hand of a creature VINO
loved. and who still passionately
loves and who after the CRIME re-
mains terrified. weakened ana
stunned by what he has dons, lns
capable of believing that the . ood
was shed by him.
"Charlton, OF weak character. mex
perienced, overwhelmed by the artful
attractions of Mary Scott, was cap
tured by an almost pathological fas-
cination. had his conscience weak
ened and enslaved and became the
easv tool OF incoherent and illogical
excuses.
ITO prove this we have added to
the documents of the trial the inter-
views with DIR. Procaccini, major In
the royal navy, who Travelled as royal
commissioner aboard the steamer
which brought charlton from new
York to Naples. DIR. Procaccini, after
having studied Charlton for about two
weeks, expressed the opinion that at
the time OF the crime he was In
state of moral infancy and there
fore in a condition of not realizing
the enormity of what he had done.
Tn the majority of cases these
crimes arouse the pity, not the Sc
verify OF the jurors. II the accused is
acquitted the reason will not be found
in sentimentality or distortion Of the
human sense of justice, but rather in
the conviction of the jurors that hui
man agencies should not infiict fur
Their penalties upon the man before
them. who, having made a victim OF
another, is himself the victim Of an
inexorable fate.
I'VE shall prove before the Court
OF Assizes that the Charlton drama
Is due to an alteration which upset
the normal mental faculties of The
accused. This will clearly appear
from the interrogation of witnesses
and our contention will be further
supported by the testimony OF Italian
alienists.''