THE ITALIAN MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 55, 14 June 1910, Page 5

THE ITALIAN MURDER.

FURTHER DETAILS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Rome, June 12. Mrs. Castle was recently divorced, and was on her honeymoon in Italy with her new husband, who was named Charlton Porter. He was a son of a 1 Washington judge, who suggests that Porter was also murdered by an Italia -i. The police, however, are searching for him, as they believe he ißtreateS Irs wife. Mrs. Castle's face and limbs bo-e sign? df a terrible struggle after she was thrown into the lake. | ' The police also suggest that the mur-' der is connected with the mysterious discovery of the nude body of Stella Reid, a Californian girl, recently found in the Bay of Naples, and suppose,! „j have been thrown overboard from a' yacht. SENSATION IN TWO COUNTRIES. A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT RECALLED. INCRIMINATING LETTERS. Received June 13 11.45 p.m. Rome, June 13. The Charlton Porter mvsterv has caused a sensation throughout Italy. At New York last August Mrs. Charlton Porter, who is a fascinating woman of great ibeauty, .shot and wounded her lawyer in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Her victim refused to prosecute. She is seventeen years older than Charlton Porter, who is a youth, weakly and consumptive and incapable of murder.

His letters to .his wife suggest extreme jealousy. His letters to IspalatofT incriminate the arrested 'Russian. The crime has caused a sensation in America.

Ispalatoff, a Russian, was arreted at Como, in Italy, on suspicion of mr.vder ing Mrs. Crittenden Castle, v-no is an lAlmerican. dramatic artist. \ box containing the body was founJ in Lake Como. She is supposed to hav> neen put into the box in a stunnH condition, and to have subsequently die I lrem asphyxia.