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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1013.
HOSED
ID BEST HEARST.
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Lobbyist Declares He Obtained
Confidence of Democratic Lead
er in Campaign for Governor.
GAVE REPUBLICANS SECRET
Letter Was Forged to Give Him
Introduction to Up-State
Committeeman,
Charlton at Last in Italy's Grasp
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Wife Slayer Loses 3-Year Fight
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Now on Ocean on Way to Trial
Porter Charlton, young American, who killed beautiful wife
and is now on way to face trial in Italy.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Colonel
Martin M. Mulhall, self-confessed lob
byist of the National Association of
Manufacturers, testified before the
Garrett Lobby Investigating Commit
tee that his political lines crossed
those of William Randolph Hearst in
1906, and that he helped to defeat
Mr. Hearst for the New York Gover
norship.
Introduced by a letter forged upon
the letterhead of the Hearst cam
paign headquarters, Mulhall said
that he went into Congressman Falr-
i child’s district, the Twenty-fourth
New York, an upstate district, and
gained the confidence of a local cam-
. paign manager for Mr. Hearst.
Tells Plans to Republicans.
Learning from the latter the plans
[ of campaign in the district, Mulhall
! reported tnem to Fairchild, and Re
publican plans to checkmate them
and defeat their object were perfect-
i ed. Mulhall was employed for a
week on this work with the approval,
i he says, of Fairchild.
Mulhall told a few days ago how
he started to work for Senator For-
iaker in Ohio. He was prepared to
[make his report to Foraker when the
[llearst Standard Oil disclosure let-
| ters were first made public. Foraker
I admitted to the Senate committee
I that these letters defeated him for
[ re-election to th e Unied Staes Sen-
[ ate.
Unconcernedly, Mulhall told how he
I had taken his ‘‘fake letters” of intro-
t duction to Fairchild and got his in
structions for political detective
work. He met Mr .Hearst’s friends,
including a clergyman, at a hotel,
entertained them and worked his way
into their confidence. He ascertained
that the Republican district commit
tee chairman was not friendly to
Fairchild.
Letter Was Faked.
‘‘Whose signature did this fake let
ter of introduction bear?” asked Rep
resentative Stafford.
‘‘It was that of some member of the
Democratic State Committee.”
‘‘Who were you represented to be?"
‘‘I was supposed to be connected
with Mr. Hearst, and so represented
myself to Mr. Scott, the candidate, 1
think, opposing Fairchild.”
“It was your first meeting with
him, and you won his confidence to
the extent of getting from him his
campaign plans?” said Stafford.
‘‘Yes.”
“Who signed this fake letter?"
“The letter was given to me by
Marshall Cushing, and I can not say
who signed it. Mr. Cushing was a
very good letter writer. He told me
it was a fake letter. I knew that
Cushing was not connected with the
Hearst organization.”
Mr. Stafford—He was connected in
the way of using the letterhead of
the Hearst organization to good ef
fect.
“Mr. Cushing thought i f was a
smart political trick, and I guess that
was his system of working.” replied
Mulhall.
Scott Well Deceived.
"Mr. Scott’s confidence was so com
plete,” continued Mulhall, “that he
told me Mr. Hearst had sent him a
number of workers and quite an
amount of money, and I believe in
this letter rne latter stated that they
were ready to send at that time more
workers and more money.”
“Scott swallowed everything, hook,
line and all, as far a.s you repre
sented it,” commented Stafford.
"Yes.”
"Did Mr. Fairchild know all about
this arrangement?” asked Represen
tative Kline.
‘‘Yes, he knew about hte lettpr. and
I had Mr. Fairchild’s advice in pre
senting it. He has spoken to me
since about that clever piece of work.”
Trial of Divorce Suit Against
Former Alabama Supreme Court
Jurist Sensational.
MONTGOMERY. Au?. 16.—That
Mrs. Kate Gunter is crazy and a sub
ject for an insane asylum, was the
testimony offered by Mrs. Donald
Simple, who conducts a fashionable
fociety school for girls in New York,
in the divorce trial of her father.
Judge W. A. Gunter, here yesterday.
She said her stepmother, who filed the
original bill of complaint in the sen
sational case, told falsehoods and
that It was almost unenduarble to
live with her. Still, she said, she
stuck up for her as long as she was
her father’s wife, but when Mrs. Gun
ter filed the bill asking for a separa
tion from her aged husband all love
for the mother ceased.
The suit has now been In progress
for more than 50 days. Witness af
ter witness has been upon the stand
and some of them, especially the two
principals, have been grilled for a
whole day at a -time. Every effort
has been made here to suppress pub
licity of the case.
The Muit now in progress is for the
possession of the children, five of
whom have come from the union of
Feast on Collards
Instead of Cabbage
i Thomas County Convicts Revel in
Delicious “Greens”—Fresh
Corn as Dessert.
| THOM ASVILLE, Aug. 16—The
convicts in the camps of Thomas
County have had a change of diet
from the cabbage which was so much
enjoyed by them In the spring and
early summer, and have transferred
their allegiance to collard greens.
• The report made by the superin
tendent of the county farm this week
shows that for the month of July
1.250 head of these collards were fed
to the convicts of the various camps,
and as the average.darky is prover
bially fond of these greens they
doubtless enjoyed their meals. With
the collards were eaten 600 ears of
green corn and several bushels of
onions.
As vegetables are considered good
summertime diet they probably went
a long way toward preserving the
health of the convicts as all the
amps are reported In a healthy con
dition. •
‘Hoodoo Doctors'
Ply ‘Art’ in Cordele
Raid Farms for Cotton Root to Brew
Tea for Superstitious
Negroes.
CORDELE, Aug. 16 —“Hoodoo” or
"root” doctors, as they are commonly
known, seem to be getting in some
very effective work in Cordele, though
if their identity should become known
to the police the effect would very
probably not be pleasing to them. For
several nights these characters have
devastated patches of cotton in the
western part of the city, belonging to
negroes. For the purpose of making
cotton root tea, which is said to have
a healing effect in a good many cases,
they have pulled up row after row of
cotton by the roots, cutting off the
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Porter
Charlton, after three years’ fight
against extradition from America, is
in the clutches of the Italian Govern
ment and to-day is on the high seas,
bound for Italy and for trial on the
charge of killing his beautiful young
wife and sinking her body in Lake
I’omo in June, 1910.
In spite of the ordeal that faces
him, Charlton left New York as
cheerful as a schoolboy. Three years
in close confinement had repressed
his natural buoyancy, but the pros
pect of a sea voyage, even with a
trial for murder awaiting him at his
journey’s end, restored it to a consid
erable degree.
••I’ll be back for Christmas!” he
cried, waving a good-bye from the
liner as it puiled out. Ail the time
he has declared that he will be ac
quitted, in spite of the fact that he
confessed to killing his wife on their
honeymoon. Extenuating circum
stances, his friends declare, will have
their weight on the Italian jury.
Charlton’s quarters on the liner are
isolated, and he is not permitted to
mingle with the other passengers. He
travels third class, as the Italian
Government does not provide first-
class accommodations for prisoners.
Faces Living Death.
Unless the contention of his In
sanity can be proved, a living death
surely will be the fate or Porter
Chariton, a hideous confinement that
is far worse than death on the gal
lows.
Extenuating circumstances, it is
expected, can no be revealed of suf
ficient strength to obtain his acquit
tal, and unless his defense prove in-‘
sanity, he must go to prison. There
is no death sentence in Italy.
And imprisonment in Italy is a
dreadful punishment, feared far more
than the electric chair, the gallows,
or the garrote. It is invested with
mental torture of such degree that
few who live through it more than
a few years are soumi of mind.
Charlton is known to have a sen
sitive, nervous temperament. His be
havior toward his wife proves him
high-strung. To a person of nis
j sychologtcal make-up incarceration
under the Italian system would be
certainly destructive of mental bal
ance.
For the first ten years of a life
sentence the prisoner may be kept :n
utter darkness and in the strictest
solitude, with nothing to eat and drink
but plain bread and water. A few
weeks of this treatment generally
sufficient to reduce the most unemo
tional criminal to a state of nervous
collapse.
Insanity Practically Only Hope.
His attorneys hope to present in
the Italian courts the great mass of
evidence brought to bear in the
United States Supreme Court to prove
him insane. Justice Lurton. in the
opinion which declared that Charlton
must go back to Italy to stand trial,
admitted that the evidence to sub
stantiate tlie insanity plea was pre-
ponderous.
The opinion of the Supreme Coun
brought to an end the fhree years’
unsuccessful fight of Charlton and bis
family against extradition to Italv.
It was in June, 1910, that he killed
his wife, according to his own con
fession. After the crime he tied, but
was caught at Hoboken, N. J., when
the liner landed there. The brother
of the slain wife there met him, and
caused him to be placed under ar
rest.
The first night of his imprisonment
in New Jersey a confession was pro-
I duced, bearing his name, and general
ly supposed to be authentic.
“My wife and I lived happily to-
i gether. but she had an uncontroll i-
; ble temper,” read the confession. “So
i had I. On the night of the murder
j she had the worst outbreak of tem-
!per I ever saw.
“I told her to keep quiet or I would
i make her quiet. Then she had an
other outbreak. I took up a wooden
mallet, with which I had been re
pairing a table, and hit her on the
head and body two or three times.
At midnight I put the body in a trunk,
dragged it to a small pier near the
house, and threw it overboard.”
His wife was a beautiful young
woman, although eight years older
than he, who was only 21. The two
were on their honeymoon when the
murder occurred.
Mrs, Charlton was the divorced
wife of Neville H. Castle, a San
Francisco lawyer. Charlton is the
son of Paul Charlton, law adviser of
the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and
former President Taft's classmate at
Yale. He has stood by his son through
all the fight against extradition.
Extradition Fight Begins.
The fight began the day after the
confession appeared. It seemed at
first that the young man surely must,
go back to Italy to face trial, and
every legal step was taken against
it. His friends, led by his father,
took the position that he could not be
extradited, because Italy had always
refused, under the extradition treaty
of 1868, to return Italian subjects to
the United States to answer for
crimes committed here.
They lost this fight, when Italy
made a request for the prisoner. The
light was resumed, and Charlton’s fa
ther entered the insanity plea, in a
habeas corpus suit. Losing this in
the lower court, the father appealed
to the Supreme Court, in which,
about a month ago, the opinion of
Justice Lurton was handed down, to
the effect that Charlton was subject
to extradition.
Officers arrived in the United
States from Italy last week to take
Charlton back for trial. Conflicting
reports have been spread regarding
the young man’s health, certain phy
sicians contending that he is the vic
tim of pulmonary tuberculosis and
others that he is in perfect health.
Newspaper reports, written by men
who have seen him, say that he ap
pears healthy. He has been allowed
an unusual degree of freedom while
being held in the Hudson County jail,
beinfc permitted to take walks, auto
mobile drives and two hours of ex
ercise each day. Sometimes he was
taken to picture shows.
thirteen years.
The original bill and also the testi
mony offered by Mrs. Gunter is to
the effect that the respondent threat
ened to kill her and then commit sui
cide. She also said he was cruel to
her and that her life was in danger.
Judge Gunter, who is 77 years old,
was formerly on the Alabama Su*
lyeme Court bench and is prominent
in the State. His son. William Gun
ter, Jr., is Mayor of the city, and an
other son. Gaston Gunter, is Judge
of the criminal division of the City
Court. The latter, who is a former
Yale football star, was among the
witnesses cn the stand to-day.
SHUPTRINE TO HEAD
BIG POLITICAL CLUB
Cashier, Sentenced,
Making Hard Fight
J. H. Cason's Lawyers Determined to
Carry Case Through Highest
State Courts.
MOULTRIE, Aug. 16.—Arguments
in the motion for a new trial of J. H
Cason, now under five-year sentence
in the penitentiary for embezzling
nearly $8,000 from the Bank of Cres-
land, will be heard in Valdosta before
Judge Thomas on September 8.
Attorneys for the former bank cash
ier state they will leave nothing un
done to save their client and that
the case will be fought through all
the courts before it is concluded.
TAMPA. Aug. 16.—Guiseppe II-
luminato, an Italian who was shot
to death Tuesday night by two men
armed with shotguns, which they
threw away, is said to have been kill
ed because of improper relations with
another Italian’s w r ife. Judge Fernan
dez is said to be in ossession of evi
dence that convinces him this is the
fact, and has postponed the Coroner’s
inquest to Monday, when this woman
will be asked to take the stand.
NO WHISKY EXCEPT IN
HOMES IN FLORIDA TOWN
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 15.—The
city commissioners have passed
stringent ordinances regulating the
selling of liquor in this city. Pinellas
County having voted “dry” at the re
cent election. The ordinance is even
more stringent than the State Law. It
provides that liquor found anywhere
except in a private residence is
prima focie evidence that it is for
sale.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 16.—Although
the officials will not make public the
result of the election, it is learned
that Herman C. Shuptrine. Repre
sentative in the Legislature from
Chatham County, was elected presi
dent of the Cracker Progressive Club,
a political organization, last night.
Shuptrine has stated that he will ac
cept.
TERRELL FARMER FIRES
BULLET THROUGH HEAD
DAWSON, Aug.
well-to-do Terrell
brother-in-law of
mitted suicide at
near Dawson by
through the head,
to the causf*, but
money matters is
been responsible.
16.—P. C. Calley,
County farmer and
Jesse Msrcer, corn-
his country home
shooting himself
He left no note is
despondency over
believed to have
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ITALIAN SHOT TO DEATH
BY HIS C0NTRYMEN
FIGHT FDH LIFE
Savannah Medicos Lending Influ
ence to Secure Pardon for
Condemned Doctor.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 16.—Savannah
physicians are lending their aid to
ward securing the freedom of Dr. W.
J. McNaughton, who is in Jail here
under sentence of death for the mur
der of Fred Flanders in Emanuel
County three years ago.
At the request of the Rev. John S.
Wilder, pastor of the South Side Bap
tist Church, who has been a consist
ent friend of the condemned man,
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of the amount of arsenic poisoning
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They declare this amount of the poi
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which is now considering the case of
Dr. McNaughton, is perfectly willing
to grant him a commutation to life
imprisonment, but his friends are
striving lor a full pardon for him.
Dr. McNaughton may return to his
old home in Emanuel County and re
sume the practice of his profession if
the Prison Commission acts favora
bly upon his application for a par
don.
“I am an innocent man, and nat
urally expect to be given a full par
don,” he said. “All I hope is that the
facts were presented to the Prison
Commission properly. If they were, I
feel confident I will be liberated. I
have already been deprived of sev
eral years of my life, and I am pray
ing constantly that the great wrong
that has been done me may be right
ed as far as possible by the granting
of a full pardon.”
Timbermen Fight 3-Foot Shark Caught
Over Debt; 1 Dead At St, Simons Island
W. C. Stamper and G. R. Keen End
Dispute by Pistol Duel in Street
at Blakely.
BLAKELY, Aug. 16.—W. C. Stamp
er and G. R. Keen, two well-known
timbermen, had a pistol duel on th«
public square at 2:30 o'clock this aft
ernoon. as a result of which Keen is
dead with "five bullet holes in his
body.
Keen Is said to have shot at Stamp
er twice and missed him. Stamper
escaped unhurt, except a graze near
the left eye.
The trouble grew out of a dispute
over the division of the proceeds of a
debt due to both of them by a com
mon debtor.
Keen leaves a wife and several chil
dren.
Sam Levinne Lands Largest Catch of
Years in Waters Around
Brunswick.
BRUNSWICK, Aug. 16.—An eight-
foot shark hag been caught on St.
Simons Island by Sam Levinne, of
this city. Before the fish could be
landed it required a horse to pull it
ashore.
The young man had his line out
for a shark for more than an hour
when suddenly It was almost Jerked
from his hand. Several times he man
aged ro get the shark to th£ surface,
each time shooting it, and before it
was killed eight bullets had been
poured into its body.
The shark weighed more than 300
pounds, and was the largest caught
in these waters in ten years.
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