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vol. XXXVII. I>l?Tf • I^rt fIT'TVT'"? BY < I! 11l Kit
MCMBIBHa S'-, I IXlXjlli . OKI Kyiliiy 1O PER MONTH
LABOR FAILS TO
GAIN EXEMPTION
FROM TRUST LAW
Fight Is Lost in House to Give the
Unions Immunity from Anti-
Combine Prosecutions
STRONG PRESSURE IS USED
President Taft Exerts Influence
Against What He Terms
Class Legislation
H[A«aoclated Press!
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Labor or
ganizations have lost their fight to gain
exemption from prosecution under the
anti-trust and Interstate commerce
laws. '
Following a lively debate and by a
vote of 188 to 130, the house today
agreed to the senate action striking out
a provision in the sundry civil bill that
would have effected this immunity.
When the sundry civil bill was before
the house that body tacked on an
amendment by Mr. Hughes, Democrat,
of New Jersey, providing that no part
of the appropriation for the enforce
ment of the anti-trust laws .shall be
spent in the prosecution of any organ
ization or Individual for entering Into
tiny combination or agreement having
in view the increasing of wages, short
ening of hours or bettering the condi
tion of labor, or for any act done in
furtherance thereof not In Itself unlaw-
ful.
The senate struck out the amend
ment. The house then Instructed Its
conferees to stand by that provision,
and the senate conferees, resenting
such an ironclad Instruction, refused to
i oiisider the item.
Today Mr. Tawney, one of the house
conferees, moved that the house recede
from its position and concur with the
senate action. The motion stirred a
hornets' nest.
KNOCKOUT BLOW GIVEN
On the final vote which gave a knock
out blow to the. Hughes amendment
and left the way clear to easier agree
ment on the sundry civil bill the fol
lowing Republicans voted with uio
Democrats for the amendment:
Austin, Tennessee; Carey, Cooper,
I enroot, Nelson and Stafford, Wiscon
sin- Davis, Minnesota; Fish, New
Sjork; (iivnc, Massachusetts; Fort-lite
and Reynolds, Pennsylvania; Hubbard,
Kendall, Woods, Iowa; Hayes, Califor
nia; Kromiller, Maryland; Lundln,
Rodenberg, Wilson, Illinois; Murdock,
Kansap; Polndexter, Washington.
The Democrats who voted with the
Republicans were: Bartlett, Nevada;
Bherley, Kentucky; Page, North Car
glxteen present did not vote and sev
eral were paired.
Inning the debate, Mr. fawney said
he hoped the house would recede and
concur With the senate as to this
amendment, asserting that the amend
ment was offered for political bun
combe. He protested against congress
tying the hands of the government in
the enforcement of criminal law, and
paid "that the amendment worked a
dais discrimination that would insti
tute a policy that some day would
shake th« very foundation of this gov
erhment."
TAFT OrroSKS I'KOVISION
Mr. Hughes denied that his purpose
was political. H« said the charge of
demagogy wal easily imide anil that
in the ordinary acceptance of the term
,-i demagogue is a man who tries to
da after election that which he prom
ises to do before election.
Mr. Madison of Kansas denounced
the Hughes amendment us nn attempt
to write into tho law a legalization
of the secondary boycott.
The action of the house late today
in receding from its labor amendment
marked the successful termination of
an all day tight by President Taft
against what lie termed class legisla
tion <>f an Improper sort and appar
ently removed the last real obstacle in
the way of an adjournment of empress
Within the next few days.
president Taft bant every energy
toward the defeat of the house amend
ment exempting labor organizations
from the operation of the Shermaa
anti-trust, law. Ho threw his whn#F
Influence into the fight, sending for
scores of representatives and urging
them to defeat the provision. Mr.
Taft said if it cost him the support of
overy laboring man in the country ho
would not approve such a law.
The laboring man, he believed,
asked only equality before the law and
was entitled to no more.
SEARCH DRAIN PIPES
FOR MISSING DIAMOND
Womati Loses $400 Jewel in a
Long Beach Bath House
LONG BEACH, June 23.—A $400 dia
mond, one of $1800 worth of gems which
are owned by Mrs. Walter S. Williams
of North Broadway, Los Angeles, was
lost last evening- in the woman's de
partment of the Long Beach bath
house. Instead of checking the Jewels
at the office, Mrs. Williams gave them
to an attendant named Oral Hummer
to keep for her. The gems were In a
small pouch. In the hope of finding
the Jewels today all the drain pipes
at the bath house examined.
Hammer, who Is a youth of good
reputation, is not accused of taking the
sparkler, but It Is believed he Bhowed
the jewels to a woman, and *lie either
took the $400 stone or Hammer lost it.
Still another clew Is being followed,
which may prove that another person
secured the gem.
Mrs. Williams Is the wife of a Gold
neld mining man who is now on the
Los Angeles oil exchange.
MORGAN IN GOOD HEALTH
NEW TORK, June 38.i—J. Plerpont
Morgan eaine home today from Europe
looking the picture of health. The
banker has been abroad for seveial
months, and during 1 that period there
were numerous reports th«t h« was in
poor health.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST
laih Angeles and vicinity—Fair Friday ;
somewhat warmer; light south wind*. Maxi
mum temperature yesterday 70 degree*;
minimum 57 degree*.
LOS ANGELES
TV!warn from Rochester,. N. T., announces
arrest of Walter F. Brlscoe, wanted here
on a rhni-R* of obtaining money under
Call i pretenses. PAGE l
Methodist Mission In Fifth street will 01
Jirnte anniversary of conversion of C. V..
T3wect. . ■ PAGE 2
Embezzlement chnrge Is absurd, says pris
oner at city Jail. PAGE 2
Court makes Important ruling on bank law
in Williams case. PAGE 3 '
Moat contracts for supplying county hospi
tal show big Increase In meat prices.
PAG.E 3
K.ivnn Institute pupils perform difficult
parts as many applaud. PAGE 3
Peckham divorce suit denied by Judge:
wife given 1100 a month. PAGE 3
Diplomas are awarded at Polytechnic high
school. •,;.. PAGE 4
Judge Bordwell grants more Injunctions
against picketing metal strikers. PAGE 8
Convention league formed and will be In
corporated to boost city. PAGE 6 |
Bigamist Hughes sentenced to eighteen ;
months In penitentiary; says he will re- |
' wed wife when he leaves prison. PAGE 8
I Proposed ordinance barring youths under 21
from picture shows called asinine In
council committee. . PAGE 8
Committee completes arrangements for
Fourth of July celebration In various city
parks. PAGE 9
Graduating class at Normal school plants
Ivy In college grounds. PAGE 9
John Schmidt, Alaskan gold hunter, and
his wife finally meet, and she will return
with him to frozen north. PAGE 0
Iloyt Brown's sister acts as Ills attorney
when arraigned on burglary charge. PAGE 9
"The Pursuit of Pleasure," a painting
valued at $25,000, Is placed on exhibition ,
it Los Angeles. PAGE 9
Speakers at East Los Angeles meeting de
nounce lighting- companies. PAGE 13
Circulation of Lincoln-Roosevelt league pe
titions is begun. ' PAGE 13
Municipal league denounces Healy and
Houghton for vote on river bed . fran
chise. PAGE 13
Police charge Edgar Beavlsson with being
accomplice of Fred A. Fisher, alleged
trunk thief. , PAGE 14
Automobile files above Los Angeles at
tached to captive balloon. PAGE 16
Editorial and Letter Box. . PAGE 12
Clubs. PAGE 12
Marriage licenses, births, deaths. PAGE 14
Theaters. PAGE 4
News of the courts. PAGE 8
Municipal affairs. PAGE 8
Mining and oil fields. PAGE 6
Markets and financial. PAGE 7
Sports. . PAGES 10-11
Personals. PAGE 6
Politics. PAGE 13
City brevities. PAGE 13
Classified advertising. PAGES 14-15
Citrus fruit report.' PAGE 7
Shipping. PAGE «
Building permits. PAOB 6
Society and muslo. PAGE i
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Custom officials at San Diego think border
smuggling gang has been broken up. PAGE 2
Long Beach welcomes 3500 members of Pas
adena Sunday schools. PAGE 14
Committees are name.l for big celebration
of Fourth of July In Pasadena. PAGE 14
COAST (
Former Governor McGraw of Washington
dies. PAGE 1
H. A. Smith, chairman of Arizona Repub
lican territorial committee, will be can
didate for senator. PAGE ■ 2
Dutch traders killed by Moros on island
near Borneo. ■ PAGE 2
EASTERN
Labor loses fight in house to gain exemp
tion from prosecution under the anti-trust
laws. PAGE 1
Republicans on senatorial committee In
vestigating high cost of living blame In
creased prices to natural and Industrial
causes. ' PAGE 1
Federal Judge Land in if! Chicago dismiss,
Indictments against packers and orders
new grand Jury to draw indictments.
PAGE 1
Charlton, seized In Hnboken, N. J., con
fesses to murder of wife In Italy. PACE 1
Taft declares he has won all at first ses
sion of congress that 13 usually achieved
In full presidential term. PAGE 2
rim-hot and Oarfl"ld go to Sagamore Hill
to confer with Roosevelt. PAGE 2
Resolution setting aside $2,000,000 to save
Laguna dam offered by California legis
lators. > PAGE 2
School for witnesses bared by "Fish Graft"
grand Jury. PAGE 2
Milwaukee mayor pays nickel to street car
conductor to gain evidence In fight for
$72,000. * ■, PAGE 2
Insanity Is defense of slayer Charlton.
PAGE 3
MINING AND OIL •<?/
British syndicate buys third big tract, lo
cated in Coalinga Held. , PAGE 6
Oblspo gusher flows 30,000 barrels a day;
well proves territory to border of «vena
Vista lalie. PAGE 6
Consolidated Midway gets a gusher near
Lake View. [ t PAGE 6
KELLER FLAYS SHIPPING
RATES TO SAN JOAQUIN
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.—1n to
day's hearing before the state railwuy
commission of the proposed adjustment |
of rates between points in the San
Joaquln valley and San Francisco and
Los Angeles, J. A. Keller, traffic man
ager for Baker & Hamilton, occupied ]
the stand during the morning. He tes
tified that the cost of shipping from J
Los Angeles to San Joaqln valley points
was double the expense of freighting
from this city to the same place.
He was subjected to a sharp examin
ation by J. C. Newman, representing
the shippers of Stockton, who have en
tered the case as intervenors.
Testimony was given by W. 11.
Scott, assistant general manager of
the Southern Pacific railroad, during
the afternoon session, tending lo show
-that it costs three or four times as
much to operate trains over the Te
hachapt mountains than it does to send
them for a like distance through the
San Joaquln valley.
Scott was eross-exa'mined by Attor
ney Seth Mann, who led him over
many of the factors of the edst of
operation In railroad service in the
southern part of the state. It was
shown that Los Angles has a lower
rate to Bakersfleld, a distanae of 168
miles, than has San Francisco, which
Is 303 miles away from the oil center.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1910.
SENATORS TRY TO
EXPLAIN COST OF
LIVING INCREASE
G. 0. P. Probers Blame Natural
and Industrial Causes for
Raise in Prices
SEEK TO ABSOLVE THE TARIFF
Admit Wages Have Not Propor
i tionately Advanced—Demo
crats Will Report Later
[Associated Press]
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Republi
cans and Democrats do not agree as
to the cause for the increase in the
cost of living between 1900 and 1910.
The majority report of th<! special sen
ate committee which has been inves
tigating theae question! was submit
ted to the senate today by Senator
Lodge and the minority members of
the committee protested against the
character of the findings.
The minority was authorized to em
ploy an expert to go over the report
of the majority and prepare the minor
ity view! for submission to the senate.
The majority of the committee found
that of the many causes contributing
to the advance In prices the following
were most marked:
Increased demand for farm products
and food.
Shifting of population from food
producing to food-consuming occupa
tions and localities.
Immigration to food-consuming lo
calities. /
Reduced fertility of land resulting
in lower average production or In in
creased expenditures for fertilization.
Increased banking facilities in agri
cultural localities, which enabled farm
ers to hold their ciops and market
them to the best advantage. It was
found that this not only steadied prices
but had a tendency to Increase them.
Reduced supply convenient ta trans
portation facilities of such commodi
ties as timber.
Cold storage plants, which result In
preventing extreme fluctuations of
prices of certain commodities with the
seasons, but by enabling the whole
salers to buy and sell at the best pos
sible advantage, tend to advance
prices.
Increased cost of distribution.
Industrial combination.
Organization of producers or of
dealers. •'."■<
Advertising.
„ Increased . money ;. supply.
Overcapitalization.
Higher standard of living. ,
Bill ADVANCKS SHOWN
The groups show advances as fol
lows: ■-;-,:■■
Farm products 39.5, food, etc. 18.7,
timber and building materials 19.6,
miscellaneous commodities 14.7, cloths
and clothing 12.0, fuel and lighting 6.9,
house furnishing goods 5.3, metals and
Implements 3.6. -
A decline was shown for drugs and
chemicals amounting to 20.9 per cent.
Concerning retail prices, the report
shows that in the United States in the
spring of 1910 they were at the high
est points in New York in many years.
Compared to the spring of 1900, prices
for bacon were more than 10 cents
higher; ham 33 per cent; flour about 5
per cent higher; butter 45. per cent
higher: sugar 12 per cent higher, and
egg's 100 per cent higher.
A few articles, such as coffee and
tea, were about the same price as In
1900, but practically no articles of food
were lower than in 1900. Furniture was
about the same as in 1900. Earthen
ware was slightly > lower. Shoes and
clothing were considerably higher.
The committee reports the tariff was
no material factor in the raise in
prices.
"Wages have not advanced as rapid
ly as have prices," the report says,
"and practically all labor difficulties
that have been the subject of media
tion In the United States during the
last two or three years have had as
their basis the advanced ' cost of liv
ing. -..■.;
"Wages in the United States ad
vanced in about the same degree as
did prices until 1907."
BKAMKS HOUSEWIVES
Hours of labor In practically all
wage occupations are shown to have
been reduced. This reduction affected
the weekly earnings of employes for
the reason that the large majority of
wage earners are employed on the
piece basis, or at an hourly rate. From
1900 to 1907 full time. weekly earnings
advanced 17.6 per cent. There are no
figures for years subsequent to 1907.
The majority report- says there are
many industrial combinations that are
not trusts In the sense of being or
ganized to control prices in restraint
of ' trade, but by manufacturing ■or
j controlling a percentage of the output
I they are able to exercise some control
over prices.' ''
The committee report says:
"The prices' of many of the trust
products have not advanced as rapidly
as have other commodities. In some
cases where 'produced commodities
have advanced greatly the advance ap
pears to be due largely to other
causes, such as short supply."
It was found that labor unions had
not been a serious factor in contrib-
I uting toward advancing prices.
Advanced cost Is laid to no small
extent to Increased expense of distrib
! uting food by wholesalers and retail
ers. *
The committee found that the house
wives bought In small quantities and
on rush orders in a manner that greit
ly increased the expense of doing bus
iness. '• *;■_■' ' "
GOULD'S SON REPAIRS
DISABLED LOCOMOTIVE
PUEBLO, Colo., June 23.—The ex
perience gained by King-don Gould,
eldest son of George Gould, In the rail
road shops controlled by hl.s millionaire
father, stood him In good stead today
when the locomotive attached to the
Missouri Pacific train upon which he
wai traveling broke down a few miles
<■ ist of here. A message was sent to
Pueblo for another engine, but young
Gould pulled off his coat and repaired
the damage before the relief locomotive
arrived.
Mrs. Porter Charlton, Slain by Husband;
Ambassador Leishman and Lake Como
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ARRESTS BRISCOE
IN ROCHESTER, N. Y.
Wanted Here on Charge of Secur
ing Money Under False
Pretenses
Accused of obtaining $500 under
false pretenses from Walter Taylor,
president of the Llewellyn Iron works,
Walter F. Brlscoe, a prominent land
agent, oil promoter and caricaturist,
who disappeared from his home at
229 West Thirty-first street, June 17,
was arrested at Rochester, N. V., yes
terday as a fugitive from justice.
The news of the arrest of Briscoe
was received last night In a telegram
to Sheriff Hammel to the effect that
Brlscoe was under arrest and that
certified copies of- all papers in the
should be forwarded at once. Theso
papers will be prepared and an officer
will be sent east to bring back the
fugitive.
WENT TO POMONA
Briscoe left the city accompanied by
his wife. He evidently was aware of
the fact that a felony charge warrant
had been issued against him, say the
police, and decided to get as far as
possible from Los Angeles. He first
went to Pomona, detectives report, and
there purchased a ticket, under the
name of William Blake, to Rochester.
The detectives traced him to Pomona
and learned his destination. The of
ficers arranged with Sheriff Hammel
and the description of Briscoe was
telegraphed to the Rochester police.
When Briscoe and his wife alighted
from the train In Rochester, the man
was placed under arrest by Chief J.
M. Quigley, who was waiting for him.
The specific charge against Brlscoe
is obtaining money under false piv
tenses from Taylor. There are other
accusations against Briscoe and he
is alleged to have swindled various
persons out of more than $7000 by
means of a land scheme.
WHAT STANTON SAYS
Phil A. Stanton, Republican candi
date for the gubernatorial nomination,
denied yesterday a report that he
knew of the recent land deals of Bris
coe. Stant'on was In San Francisco
when Briscoe disappeared, and know
nothing of the matter until his return
yesterday. Concerning the land trans
actions in which Stanton figured while
Brtocoe was in business here, Stanton
said:
"I know absolutely nothing about
Brlscoe's disappearance. The last
time I had any dealings with the man
was on October 26, of last year, when
Briscoe sold land to me as an agent,
and on commission, just as any land
salesman or real estate agent would
do. He did no business for me after
that date, and since then I have not
seen him or heard anything about him.
I did not even know he had disap
peared until my attention was called to
the articles in the newspapers today."
HASKELL WINS POINT IN
OKLAHOMA CAPITAL FIGHT
GUTHRIE, Okla., June 23.—Federal
Judge Campbell late this afternoon dis
missed on Jurisdictional grounds the
action brought to enjoin Governor
Haakell and Secretary of State Cross
from removing the capital of the state
to Oklahoma City. ■ The court did not
pass directly on the validity of the
enabling act.
Guthrie now proposes to bring action
in the name of the United States to
enforce the provision of the enabling
act which located the temporary capi
tal at Guthrie until 1913.
NACO UNDER GUARD
NACO. Ariz., June 38.—The twenty
soldiers sent to Naco to guard the
Mexican customs house from attack
have been ordered back to Cananea.
Naco is under guard of rurales. Cana
nea officials maintain that there is no
cause for alarm.
AVIATOR FALLS 100 FEET
AT LONDON; MAY DIE
LONDON, June 23.—Capt. F. S. Cody,
aviutiir, while making a flight at Al
dershot today fell from a height of 100
feet and was seriously Injured.
His aeroplane was caught In a gust of
wind and becoming unmanageable
plunged to the ground. Cody was pin
ned beneath the wreckage.
Capt. Cody, an American by birth, la
employed by the English war depart
ment to teach its officers aeronautics.
FORMER GOV. M'GRAW
OF WASHINGTON DEAD
Succumbs at Seattle to Typhoid
Fever After an Illness of
Several Weeks
SEATTLE. June 23. —Former Gov
ernor John H. McGraw died at his
home here tonight, after an illness of
several weeks. Death was caused by
typhoid fever.
John Harte McGraw was born at
Badger Plantation, Penobscot county,
Maine, October 4, 1850. When he was
little more than 2 years old his father
was drowned, and when he was 14 he
left home because of a disagreement
with his stepfather. In 1876 he came
west, arriving in San Francisco In July,
and remaining there until December,
when he came north to Seattle. While
in San Francisco he worked a a horse
car driver.
For several months after his arrival
on Puget sound he was a clerk in a
local hotel, and finally purchased a
small establishment which he conduct
ed until 1879, when the building was
destroyed by fire. In quick suceeskm
he secured a position on the Seattle po
lice force, and was elected town mar
shal and wan made chief of police, and
in 1882 he wab elected sheriff of King
county. He was twice elected to suc
ceed himself.
In 1892 he was elected governor of
Washington, serving from 1893 to 1897.
At the expiration of his term he re
tired to private life, dividing his atten
tion between his law practice, banking
affairs and business interests in Alaska.
GOLDEN RULE CHIEF
CLEARED OF CHARGES
CLEVELAND, 0., June 23.—Chief of
Police Fred Kohler, known through
out the country as the "Golden Rule"
chief, and lauded by former President
Roosevelt us the nation's best police
executive, was acquitted today of
charges of gross immorality and hab
itual drunkenness by the civil service
commission, before whom he has been
on trial.
An hour after his acquittal he was
reinstated as chief of police by Mayor
Baebr, who had suspended him when
the charges were filed.
The trial lasted nearly two works
and about 200 witnesses were exam
ined. Early in the proceedings the
prosecution dropped thirteen of the or
iginal twenty-three counts on account
of lack of evidence.
In Its decision the commission ex
culpated Chief Kohler unreservedly.
BIG THEATER PURNED
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 24.—Fire
which started shortly after 1:30 o'clock
this morning destroyed the Cosy thea
ter, the ticket offices of the Southern
railway and several stores. The loss is
estimated at $50,000.
FERDINAND VISITS PARIS
PARIS, June 23.—King Ferdinand <>f
Bulgaria and Queen Eleanor arrived
here today and were received with full
military honors. The program for their
four days' visit is crowded with of
ficial functions and fetes.
CIV/ 1 I I/ 1 f'OPTTPW' DM IV 2c. ON TRAINS Be.
»>li>V^J^i-i V_/V_/L IIjO. SUNDAYS sc. ON TRAIN! lOe.
JUDGE DISMISSES
INDICTED PACKERS
Federal Judge Landis Orders New
Grand Jury to Draw New
Indictments
CHICAGO, June 23.—Judpre Landis
in the United States district court here
today sustained the demurrers of the
so-called beef trust to the indictment
charging a combination in restraint of
trade. A new grand Jury was ordered
to renew the investigation of the pack
ing companies.
The indictment drawn on evidence
secured by agents of the federal gov
ernment was against the National
Packing compa y and its ten sub
sidiary companies, charging violation
of the Sherman anti-trust law.
Smiles, handclaps and congratula
tions were exchanged when Judge Lan
dis announced that the indictment
would not stand, but the demonstra
tion came to a sudden end when the
court added:
"Call a special grand jury venire of
seventy-five men for July 14."
This body will be ordered to hear
testimony with a-view to finding valid
indictments against the packing com
panies.
The indictment quashed today failed
to show in the view of Judge Landis
that any offense had been committed
within the last three years. It did not
show that during this statutory pe
riod the defendants had been engaged
In Interstate commerce.
The general statement that the pack
ing companies engaged In a combina
tion in restraint of trade, the court
declared to be a mere conclusion.
Judge Landis said:
"The court is not clothed with au
thority to supply, entirely by infer
pnen, the complete omission of so fun
damental an element of the offense."
WANTED SOME ROMANCE,
SAYS GAYNOR OF WEDDING
New York Mayor Not Displeased
at Daughter's Marriage
NEW YORK, June 23.—When Mayor
Gaynor was asked today about the
marriage of his daughter Edith to
Henry K. Vlngut at Wilmington, Del.,
yesterday he smiled and said:
"Why, we never so much as sus
pected nich an event. We did not even
know of the encasement. My wife got
a dispatch at St. James and.l one in
Brooklyn last evening from young Vig
nut, saying they had been married and
were on the way back. All they had to
do was to let us know and we would
have given them a flue wedding, but I
suppose they wanted some romance.
Young Mrs. Swan, who went along
with them, did the very same thing
about a year ago and married a fine
fellow."
The mayor added that Mr. Vingut
was a neighbor of his and had known
and been known to the Gaynor family
for many years.
GRAND JURORS INDICT
FORMER BANK PRESIDENT
EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 23.—Cap
tain S. P. Gillette, a retired naval of
ficer, former president of the Citizens
National bank which was auspendtd
for two weeks in January, 1910, fol
lowing the discovery of many inse
cure loans, was arrested todaifon an
indictment charging violation of the
banking laws. The Indictment was re
turned by the federal grand Jury at
Indianapolis yesterday, Captain Gillett
gave $10,000 bond. He is 70 years old.
The losses of his bank were $272,
--000. The bank was immediately re
organized.
CENTS
CHARLTON, SEIZED,
CONFESSES BRUTAL
MURDER OF WIFE
Is Arrested in Hoboken, N. J., as
He Steps from Trans
atlantic Liner
SAYS ACTED IN FIT OF ANGER
Beat Woman on Head with Mai
let, Then Stuffed Her
in Trunk
[Associated Press]
NEW YORK, Jur*! 23.—The Lake
Como murder mystery is solved.
Porter Charlton, an American youth
of good family, sought by the police of
two continents, was arrested in Hobo
ken, N. J., shortly before noon today
as he stepped from the North German
Lloyd liner Princess Irene.
In less than an hour he had confessed
that in a tit of temper he beat his wife
into insensibility with a mallet, then
jammed her body Into a trunk and
sunk it in the water of the Italian lake.
She was Mary Scott Castle of San
Francisco, a woman sixteen years his
senior, divorced wife of Neville H.
Castle, a San Francisco lawyer, and
was a noted beauty.
Charlton Is 21 and a son of Judge
Paul Charlton, law officer of the bu
reau of insular affairs at Washington.
The boy married Mrs. Castle in Wil
mington, Del., last spring, over his
parents' protests. 11l mated and both
of erratic temperament, they sailed for
Italy for their honeymoon. Her body
was found In the lake by fishermen
June 10.
SIGNED CONFESSION
Fleeing from Italy under an assumed
name, almost penniless and shabby of
dress, Charlton on landing ran straight
Into the arms of Capt. Henry Harri
son Scott, 11. S. A., the murdered wom
an's brother. He was taken to polite
headquarters at Hoboken, where, after
a pitiable collapse so spasmodic that it
produced extreme nausea, he regained
his composure and unflinchingly signed
the confession. Tonight he is behind
bars in the Hoboken jail pending set
tlement of the complicated problem of
extradition brought about by his ar
rest.
Capt. Scott's foresight, directed so
accurately that it falls little short of a
premonition, resulted in young Charl
ton's arrest. Stationed at Fort Wright,
on Fishers island, off New London,
Conn., Capt. Scott obtained hurried
leave of absence at 1 o'clock this morn
ins and went to Hobokeu to scan the
passengers of incoming liners. Three
Hoboken detectives aided him.
Capt. Scott kept in almost constant
communication with United States Am
bassador J. C, Leishman, who took per
sonal charge of the investigation fol
lowing the discovery of the crime, and
received much valuable Information as
to all means of departure of which tho
murderer might avail himself.
He accompanied the prisoner to po
lice court, but did not hear the confes
sion that poured from the young man's
lips.
COLLAPSED AFTER ARREST
Charlton, whose collapse after arrest
seemed due to fear of Capt. Scott, re
fuswl to make a statement In the army
officer's presence, and the latter left
the room.
In his signed confession, Charlton
said that no one else than he had a
hand in tho death of his wife.
It was the old story of incompati
bility" and high tempers.
After Charlton had told his story In
a rambling- way. Chief of Police Hayes
condensed it into a typewritten state
ment, which he asked the prisoner to
sign.
It was written on regular court
blanks used for depositions. In filling:
out the form Charlton gave his ago a3
21, his birthplace as Omaha, his oc
cupation as "bank clerk," and his plaen
of residence as 204 West Fifty-fifth
street. New York. Then follows his
statement:
"My wife and I lived happily to
gether. She was the best woman in
the world to me, but she had an un
governable temper. So had I. We fre
quently quarreled over the most trivial
matters and, her language to me was
frequently so foul that I knew she
did not know the meaning of it.
' ACT FOLLOWED QUARREL
"The night I struck her she had
been quarreling with me. She was In
the worst temper I had ever seen her
in. I told her If she did not cease I
would leave her and put a stop to It.
She stopped for a little while and.
started again.
"I took a mallet which I had used
to rio household repairing and struck
her three times. I thought she was
dead. I put the body In a trunk, in
which I also threw the mallet.
"About 12 o'clock that night I moved
the trunk from the house, dragged it
to a small pier near the house anil
threw it overboard. I remained at
Malpraiso the next day and left the.
following night and went to Como,
and from there to Genoa, where I took
the steamer Irene three days later.
"The room where I killed her was
an outdoor sleeping apartment.
(Signed) "PORTER CHARLTON."
As he appended his signature, Charl
ton remarked, "there's a Russian, Is
polatoff. I see he has been under sus
picion in connection with this affair,
and I want to clear him. He was
the only man of intelligence In the.
neighborhood of our villa. The rest
of those who came to see us were
cattle."
EXONERATES SUSPECT
Here the prisoner took a pen and
added to his statement the following
postscript: *■>"'> i'J
"I have been Informed that C. K.
Ispolatoff has been Implicated, and I
wish to state that this gentleman is
absolutely guiltless. I have no defense
to make and don't wish to.
"PORTER CHARLTON."
"Don't you know that the autopsy
showed that your wife was not dead
when she was put in the trunk?" one
of the detectives asked the prisoner.
Again Charlton lost his self-control.
"Oh, my God, it could not be." he
cried. "She must have been dead."
The youth showed a curious desire to
protect the reputation of the woman ho ,'
(Continued on I'aga Thr.ej