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Show LAKE COMQ MYSTERY SOLVED. Porter Charlton Confesses the Killing of His Bride. Now York. Tho Lake Como murder mystory is solvod. Porter Charlton, an American youth of good family, sought by tho pollco of two continents, conti-nents, was arrested In Hoboken, N. J., shortly boforo noon Thursday as ho stepped from tho North German-Lloyd Unor Prlnzess Irene. In less than an hour ho had confessed con-fessed that In a fit of tempor he beat his wife Into Insensibility with a mallet, mal-let, Jammed her body In a trunk and sunk It In tho waters of the Italian lako. She was Mary Scott Castle of San Francisco, u woman sixteen years his senior, divorced wife of Neville II. Castle, a Snh Francisco lawyer, and a beauty. |