LAKE COMO MURDER.
CBAB.VEQX'S EXTRADITION. ' FRESH APPLICATION. NEW YORK, September 24. The Lake Como murder case has been revived by -the fresh extradition pro-1 ceedings that were instituted again3t i Porter..Charlton in Jersey. City to-day. The -charge which was preferred against-the-prisoner, and on which the Italian.authorities ask for "his extradition, is that of having murdered his wife. Mary Charlton, at Lake Como, in June last. •, The principal witness -examined today- was- Captain Scott } the murdered-.-wo-man's, brother-in-law. He was closely watched by the police, to prevent his making' any attack on the prisoner, ■whom, it will.be remembered, he tried to shoot, on the occasion of the latter's arrest. ... - • -.•-. ■-■ - The State refused to present the confession that Charlton made, after-his apprehension, on the' ground '.that jt would leave the way onenrto a J>lea of J insanity. . ■ .._." "-"■ " l.j,< j
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 231, 29 September 1910, Page 2
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136LAKE COMO MURDER. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 231, 29 September 1910, Page 2
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