AFTER LONG DELAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1774, 12 June 1913, Page 5

AFTER LONG DELAY.

LAKE COMO MURDER TRIAL TO 1 GO ON. By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright Washington, June 10. The Courts have ordered Porter Charlton to return to Italy to face a charge of murdering his wife at Lake Como, As long ago as. December, 1910, the State Department at Washington issued to the Italian Ambassador at Washington a warraht for tho arrest of Porter Charlton, but the involved procedure of tho United States'" judicial system was invoked by Charlton's counsel in connection with Habeas Corpus proceedings in tho New Jersey courts. Tho body of Charlton's wife was found, in 1910, in a trunk in Lake Como. Charlton, who,' after the murder, travelled from Europe to America under an assumed name, .was arrested in New York. Italy desired his extradition, but the matter, nas, from 'one cause or another, been held up till'tho present time. The man, .who is a son of Judge Charlton, counsel to tho Bureau of Insular- Affairs and the-War Department at Washington from 1905 'to Misalleged that the woman had ai). ungovernable temper, and that, during a drunken quarrel, he struck her with a mallet, with which he had been mending a couch. Horrified to find her dead,; he threw the body into <i trunk, and dragged it to tho pier at midnight and threw it in the lake. Charlton was several years younger than his wife. Bis friends set up the plea that at tho time of the'murder he was suffering from a "brain storm."