LAKE COMO TRAGEDY
PORTER CHARLTON’S CONFESSION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 14,' 5.5 p.m.) ROME, September 14. Porter Charlton told the magestrate at Como that on the last day of his wife’s life, they had a series of quarrels and reconciliations. She attempted to strike him, and he struck her with a hammer several times on the neck. She fled, fell across her bed and died. Ho then, on realising that he must get rid of the body, placed it in a bos and threw it into Lake Como.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8525, 15 September 1913, Page 7
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89LAKE COMO TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8525, 15 September 1913, Page 7
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