Show PORTER PO TE CHA CHARLTON L TON lEA LEARNS NS ITALIAN TO PlEAD CASE COMO Ital Italy March 28 Porter Porter Charlton Chariton the tho young American who killed Wiled his wife Mary Scott Charlton Chariton when they were spending spendin their honeymoon honey moon hero here in June 1910 has acquired a sufficient knowledge of Italian to avail himself of the privilege under the Italian law to be the first and the last lasto to o address addre s the jurors before whom he heis heis is 15 to be bo tried on the charge of murder Sympathy for tho the accused youth has been demonstrated freQuently during durms his detention in the Sa San Do Doriano ano jail since ince extradition from the United Unites States last Au August st While Whilo Charlton Chariton has been studying the lan language ua e of the tho country his lawyers have havo been working up public opinion in his bis favor The effect is apparent Visitors to the tho jail are man many and privileges have bave be boon on granted ranted to the prisoner b DV the director and keepers of tho jail His flis meals ar are served from the outside Good food and daily exercises in the court yard of the palace of justice havo have kept him himin himin himin in fine health It may be bo summer mid before belore the case is tried delays being due to extended ex ex- tended investigations undertaken by Rt siti ch Charlton iii ri s I lawyers ha have hare va been getting in touch with numerous witnesses in America Twenty of them have been subpoenaed and it is expected that several several sev sew eral maw mav appear personally before the court court- of ot assizes at Como Corno to fo to contribute their testimony as to the psychological condition of tho the accused While the tho caso case is now in tho the sense that it is the first time an American citizen has been extradited d and tri tried d in Italy Itah it does not differ greatly from the tho so so called crimes of passion so frequent fre frequent quent here liere terrible havo have Studying th the drama wo 0 become convinced and will I demonstrate fa say Charlton's la lawyers ers In a 0 sketch of the theories they will pursue that an obscure and In Inevitable fatality presides over o these awful crimes crimps which go ItO from love to death from the tle Idyll to tragedy b by which a a. human life Is suddenly 5 cut short b by the hand of a creature who loved lovd and who ho still passionate loves lo and who after attel the crime remains terrified weakened and stunned II by what ho he has done Incapable of believing belle that the blood was hed b by him Charlton of weak character Inexperienced Inexperienced overwhelmed by the artful attractions attractions of M lar 1 Mary iry Scott was captured by an almost pathological fascination had his conscience weakened and enslaved ed and became the easy tool of Incoherent and illogical excesses To prove proe this wo we p have added to the documents document of the trial the Interviews Intel i with lIh Dr Pro major In the royal navy who lio tra as 85 royal ro commissioner commis I aboard the steamer which Charlton Chariton from New ew York to Naples aple Dr after having studied Chari Charl- Charl ton tou for about two weeks week expressed the opinion that at the tIre time of ot the crime he ho was Val In a state of or moral Infancy Infancy- and therefore In a condition of or not realizing real- real izing the enormity of What hat he ha had done In the majority of or c acs these Crimes arouse tio pit pity not the severity c of the jurors Juror If the accused is acquitted the reason teason on will nih not h hp c found In t or ell distortion of ot the human of or ins Jun- but rather In the tho conviction coO of the Jurors that human should not Inflict further penalties lIP upon II the man before them who having ln made madr a victim of another Is himself the victim of an Inexorable fatoWe fate fato We aU prove before the court ef of assizes s that tho the Charlton Chariton drama Is due to an nn aberration which upset the thc normal mental faculties of the accused This will clearl clearly appear from the Interrogation tion of witnesses and our content contention all allwill will he be further supported b by the testimony I mon mony of Italian alienists |