The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-28
GHARL TON, HERE
] DESCRIBES LONG
TRIAL IN ITAL Y
Says He VIII Spend Life In
Trying to Live Down
Memory Of Past.

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New York. Jan zs-It was as If his
tragedy of wife-sIaying OF nearly six
years ago were now the sensation of
the hour as young Porter Charlton
came down tfesgang plank Of the Ital-
Ian liner America when she docked at
Thirty-fourth street and the North
River shortly before O'Clock Tuesday
night
bonbard1nent OF camera flashlights.
A big crowd had fought its way in
eide the enclosed pier, and another
larger crowd strained at the heavy
chains thrown across the street en-
trance.
{ whichever wav-Cha1lton turned the
flashlights attacked him And when
finally with J. W. Johnston of the
Evesbern Electric Company a family
Friend, and two reporters, he fought
mis- way through the crowd to q taxi
CAB the bomb like explosions of the
hlandang1y until Charlton stood be-
Eilaered. half laughing half angry
hnd altogether astonlshed.
Ii aE thought it Wasss1l over, he said
6Afh5rssard, he gave a Description Of
his prison life IN Italy, of the period
Of his SOLITARY cDnfinenne1xt,'s p his trial
his noEen1enfs since his release rom
prison at Como. his subsequent actions
mn TO the time OF his sailing and some
zhing of q statement regarding his
hntpre plans
ssIn Ita1y, where the trial was held,
khere was, of course, considerable
public inbeFese at the time But after
Et11at was oyer and when stepped out
iof pris0n-tne great day of my final
eame-Ehere wasn't anybody out TO
hook Mt me- I assure you
eOh. yes the people knew through
out OF prison that day, but am happy
10 say that not even :. street urchfn
mad conceived OF me as a possible
nleaza-azld blood movie There was a
friend or two to crest me and take ms
TO little retreat near Como where
4 stayed nOr few days. gaining the
f7u sense OF realization of my free
id0m II takes a little Time. you
azn0ss
FROM June %. 1910, when he land
ed at Hcpoken in flight from Lake
Como, Italy, i'm which he had left his
vvffess body sunk in a, trunk until
Nov. 40, 1918. Charlton was iu1pris-
oned in America three years and one
n1onth awaiting ezfra4diti1n to the
place Of his crime in Como two years
and two months
that and the tragedy itself when he
was Eaz7nted by the middle aged wo1n-
an re ha,d nlaaied when she was ftt1e,
more than twenty, into a sudden out--
burst Of rage when he struck her on
the aeaDd Nfifh Il hammer and found
he had killed her ali this grim exper-
fence has left ChaE1fonss youth as
xound1rlgly unfouched- He st11I locks
like mere boy
m degree his short stature and
slim figure account for IT. Then there
1cacy OF feature and c1ear-skfnned
nearly beaxd1ess face 90 help along the
s1npmeasior You can look at this
zogng fellow t11f your eyes ache, try
ing to f1nd mark Of tragedy, and
the only G1gnzs you can find are three
fine wrinkles crossing his forehead
Ha was dressed IN q smart sack suit
az reddish brown that looked Ameri-
can but which he said he bought In
E1crAnce. a collar OF medium height
NTH little wings. a scarf OF yellow
Asnd brown. tan shoes and q short top
ret cnc1rafE back On his head, and car
r1ed q reddish brown stick hooked
kowers dds ram. You could have match
I'd mis- like at Harvard. Princeton or
Ea1es A steamer shawl, :. straw suit
kaaee and a big ITALIAN 1ether Wise
ade ND his luggage.
when ne was told that his F1Oren-
HAN sack suit looked all American, he
rfnned and said
4SzNe11, I wouldn't have had the
herve to come back home in what all
khe fellows are wearing in Italy these
tday-the dandfes, You knew. They
are all sporting Empire pants. Re-
member them In the old pfcturess
They come up almost under mans
arms and the upper part tits as tight
as corset kOnsv two American
newspaper men wearing them. No;
I'll Sparesn. IsWonsk tell their names"
After telling Of tfle7 voyage from
ezapIae and the fear Of submarines
while in the Mediterranean, Charlton
Expressed his gratitude for the lawyers
who defended him at his trial,
ssFfrst of all" he said, 81 would like
70 thank publicly former Judge John
ea1nnier1 OF Kew York. From the
First ne aided me wisely, and I SAxn
mfrafd with small compensation. He
practically prepared my defense ON
bglas side OF the water. He and his
wits visited me in Italy. He secured
the attendance of the alfenists whose
neDosatiOns as to my mental condition
beEc<e and after what happened went
hi the way TO make the charge
against uae that OF nnintertional hom-
1cfde-
.tOf course. I meter intended to kin
my wife, / was utterly herror-strick-
en- when I found what had done 1t
was fuF<5ae1 his good offices brought
TO my defense the eminent italian
lawyers who did SO much for me.
= Please print fh6lF names, not that 1T
gould perhaps benefit them any, but
the paper may come to their eyes, and
would like to show them have not
korgotten-I5BriSo Cattaneo, Frances
co AGfceIf-Is5eardf ami Alfredo Cata-
PIANO.
t'It is true, as the home newspapers
said, that I wspt when L wa$ taken
from the American jail to italy TO
face nay trial. I could not know
whether I would be understood,
was very nearly hopeless, But the