THE COMO MURDER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 3

THE COMO MURDER.

STATEMENT BY ACCUSED. BY TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. ROME. Sept. 13. Porter Charlton, an American who is charged with tho murder of his wife in Italy, tokl tho magistrate at Como that on his wife’s last day, after a series of quarrels and reconciliations, she attempted to strike him. Ho then struck her with a hammer several times on the nock. She tied and foil across the bed and died. He, realising that ho must get rid of the body, placed it in a box and threw it into tho lake.