Show MURDERER OF WIFE MAY ESCAPE TRIAL NEW EN W YORK June 24 Porter Charlton will never be tried for or murder in inthe inthe inthe the courts of New Now Jersey Whether he beat his wife on the head into insensibility with blows with a wooden mallet at Lake Como Italy and then the n stuffed her still living into a trunk and sank tho the trunk in the waters of o the th e lake is a matter outside the jurisdiction of the New Jersey courts On the other hand he will hot be bo released until tho the question of his sanity sani ty is determined This is assured by the Charlton family who announce announced d through ugh counsel tonight that if the tho youths mind proved dangerously unsound d they would take the initiative in having him committed to an institution ins The father Judge Paul Charlton had previously said that he believed beHoved Porter crazy The attitude of 01 the tho Now rew Jorsey Jersey courts court as all defined tonight by Prose Prole Prosecutor Prolocutor Pierre Canyon Garven of 01 Hudson county Is II this The Tho state ot of New Jersey Jene now holds Charlton merely on tho the complaint of ot the tho Italian consul as a fugitive from Cram Italy pending a n request for his hili extra extradition from the Italian department or of state through h the tho Italian minister to Secretary Knox If It extradition Is le not demanded there Is no action the tho courts of oC this state can take Whether the he federal courts can still step stop in Is la a matter outside out my province and on which the attorney general of oC the tho United State States Is more competent to pass opinion Go Free Thus Thull there thoro Is 18 a possibility that Charlton may walk valk from Jail a freo free freeman man without trial for tor the tho trond trend of ot tho the dispatches from frum rum Homo Home seems BeemS to Indi Indicate cate onte that the Italian government will wilt act in the tho matter manor with reluctance since to demand extradition to Italy Ital of ot otan an American subject who tw na has commit committed committed ted a crime within Italian Jurisdiction would imperil a cherished Italian precedent Explaining the attitude of ot the fam family family ily Ih It K Floyd IIo d Clarke tho the lawyer lawer re ye tamed by Judge Charlton said to nl ht The wish of ot tho the family is 18 to see Continued on P Two n MURDERER OF m WIFE MAY ESCAPE TRIAL Continued COD tinned From FrolD Page PaR One Oa strict justice done as between tho boy boythe boythe the facts and the tho public It If there thoro should bo no request for extradition and hence honce no prosecution under tho the laws of ot New Jersey will ask for a commission slon In lunacy to deter doter determine determine mine his Ills sons son sanity If It his son fon Is found Insane Innane he be will be committed toan to toan toan an Insane Institution If It he Is found sane well that Is ts a matter so far tar dl dS tant as yet et that 1 I prefer not to take It up now Alienist Retained Alienists retained by tho the family who examined young oun Charlton today are Charles LL L Dana professor of ot nervous diseases In the Cornell medical school Dr Edward B Fisher Dr Allen Alien McLean Mc lc LeAn Lenn Hamilton Ibm lit prominent In the Thaw trials and William J Anita city phy physician hy of Hoboken Charlton answered test questions from 10 until 3 S Ills attitude seemed eom d to be one of at total in indifference indifference difference On the conclusion of tho the examination Attorney Clarke speak eAk lag Ing for tor the party said that different conclusions had been b en reached reach and that thata a further examination would be made tomorrow Dr who visited Charlton Chariton in hU his cell this morning said before the afternoon conference there thero was no doubt In his mind that tho the boy was WM partially Insane but questions as ns to where whre Insanity bogan began and partial Insanity In Infinity sanity finity ended or a as to what specific form of ot Insanity Charlton had he ho avoided Captain Scott Scotts Opinion Captain Henry Harrison Scott U TJ 8 S HA SA A brother of murdered wife wife wito whoso whose persistency brought about rhe he boys capture Is positive that the prisoner Is l sane That boy h ho he says say Is III as all much In possession of ot his fuli full wits as I amIle am amIle Ile He Is the picture of ot and When they asked him yesterday So you are he caught up the tho slurring pronunciation tion Ion and mimicked It into a different shade of ot meaning Some Somo people may think me a charlatan he e parried Does Doos that sound like Insanity to your Charlton his brother Clarence and his father had an hours talk after the consultation of the alienists The two older men came away much depressed And refused d to talk tan for publication |