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Show CHARLTON ISJSANE Alienists Class the Wife Murderer as a Menace to Society New York. Sept. 22. The report of ! the alienists who examined Porter Charlston, telf-confessed murdered of his wife a. Lake Conm, Paly, last June, has bren uindc public at Jersey City, where Charlton Is cou fined. Judge Blair, of the Hudson county court, declined yesterday to receive the report on the ground that lie had no jurisdiction as a committing court to consider such a plea. The alienists who examined the prisoner were Dr. Allan McLanc Hamilton. Ham-ilton. Dr. Kdward i. Fisher and Dr. W. J. Arklltz. They declare that Charlton Is "of depraved mental organization and Is a lcUm of what. I known to students of mental diseases as constitutional Inferiority." The alienists Investicated the personal per-sonal antecedents of the prisoner and fmuid that his grandfather wa a paranoiac, that a first cousin w.ts an epileptic and that a maternal uncle "was a man of stubborn and brutal nature and eccentrlr. Unmoral and vngaband tendencies " A younger brother accidontallv shot and killed a playmate, but showed no subsequent remorse, On one occasion oc-casion Charlton raised a chair to strike his mother and on another vented bis blind rage on a horse. "He wa. fanciful, wrote verse and was delicate and to a degree sentimental." senti-mental." the report finds. Almost from the time of his meeting meet-ing with his wife, the report states, Charlton underwent a chans "Ho became greatly detached, aloof, indifferent indif-ferent and at times Insolen. On th day of the murder It appears that Charlton kept his temper up to a certain cer-tain point, when suddTlv h seized a mallet. After the killing he immediately immed-iately laid down near the body and slept until the nx: morning. He does not sem to have been agitated or worried. Placing the corpse In an empty trunk, he slept most of the day in ihelr bedroom, near the trunk and afterward left ihe place. He made no I serious at temp to destroy the evidence evi-dence of his cinic. v: 13 attempts at conccr.Lng his identity were silly. nVhon Tust ieen r.i the Jail he was very emotional. His facial muscles were the sent of ierkv tremors and his net ions vrrrf exceedingly nervous. There were aKn coarser tremors of his hands and tongue Whn refer-: refer-: ence was made to the ded woman, 1 his fact- contracted In spasm, his eye-j eye-j balls being drawn upward so that only I the whites were obserxtd. There Is I no doubt that he has had balluciua- tory xlsions of the dead woman at various limes. j "He feels no rcmore or fear of tho i law. i.or does he seem to le sensible to the danger of his posl'-n. All hit discussions of I, are abstract and ho cannot be aroused to the helnousnesa of what be has done. "His physical condition reveals little lit-tle or nothing but hysterical stUrna'.a. I His color sense is constricted. His j deep reflexes are exaggerated. I "It Is our opinion that he is of un-l un-l sound mind and liable to attacks of impulsive violence and thnt his moral ' sense is pathologically depiavcd. The The murder of June 0 and his subsequent subse-quent behavior Indices us to t!;l ik I that he suffered from an ex'iamtive psycho--i$ due to excesses and In a ' way the explosion was preceded by I an aura. His lon sleep bv the ide f of the bed-, has impressed ?' b-aU ' one of us wi-b the idea ths' th act 1 was performed as the lesilt of an , epileptic fornv- yelure during wiiich I he wae tot responsible. "He should be laen to a 'hospital , for the Insane ?nd t'icr- kept in-I in-I defnitely. for b likely a'- auy time j to be a menace to society." t .. |