HONEYMOON MURDER

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, 14 June 1910, Page 5

HONEYMOON MURDER

WOMAN'S BODY IN A BOX IN LAKE COMO. WHERE IS THE HUSBAND? By Teleeranh—Press Association—Oopyrlett ■ Rome, June 12. .Further important statements are made in connection with the tragedy at Como, where the body of Mrs. Crittenden Castle, an Am'erican dramatic artist, was found in a box in the lake. It is supposed that she was put into the box in a stunned condition, and died of asphyxia. It transpires that Mrs. Castle was recently divorced, and' was honeymooning in Italy with, her new husband, named Charlton Porter, son of a Washington judge. It is suggested that Porter has also been murdered. '..''■ The Italian police are; however, searching for ■ Porter, as they believe he had ill-treated hip wife. The woman's face and limbs show signs of a terrible struggle, after the box had been thrown into the lake. , ~,,.., ,„,),.:, The police suggest that', the murder is connected with mysterious discovery of the nude body of Stella Reid, a-Cali-fornian girl,-.which was recently found in the Bay of Naples, and which is supposed to have been thrown from a yacht.

FASCINATING WOMAN OF GREAT BEAUTY, SHE SHOT HER LAWYER. -* _■ -. LETTEBS OF MISSING' HUSBAND. • (Rec. June 13, 11.45 p.m.) . Rome, June 13. The mystery of the murdered woman and tho. missing husband, Charlton Porter, has caused a sensation throughout Italy.' . • In New York last August the deceased, Mrs. Charlton Porter, who was a fascinating woman of great beauty, shot and ■ wounded her lawyer in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The victim refused to prosecute. ; " ■ She was seventeen years older than Charlton Porter, who,is a youth weakly and consumptive, and incapable of murder. His letters to his wife suggest extreme jealousy, and his letters to Ispalatoff. incriminate the arrested Russian. .New York, June 13. The crime has caused a sensation in America.. . . '